Professional Activities

• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)- Senior Member
  
• Operations Research Society of America (ORSA )- Past Member
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science- Past Member
  
• Society for Technical Communication- Past Member
  
• American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)- Charter Member
  
• Alpha Pi Mu- Member
  
• Sigma Xi- Member
  
• Omicron Delta Kappa- Member
  
• South Florida Manufacturers Productivity Council- Advisory Member
  
• International Biographical Association- Annual Fellow
  
• Elected Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering (refereed)- April 1986-Present
  
• Member of the University of Miami Graduate Faculty
  
• Secondary Appointment with the Department of Management, Business School, University of Miami
  
• University of Miami Institute for Studies in Quality (UMSIQ)
  
• Fellow- The World Academy of Productivity Science
  
• Member- Iron Arrow (the highest honor at the University of Miami)
  
• Editor(of refereed papers), 1st Int. Conference on Productivity Research, February 4-6, 1987.
  
• Editor(of refereed papers), 2nd Int. Conference on Productivity Research, February 22-24, 1989
  
• Editor(of refereed papers), 3rd to 8th Int. Conferences on Productivity & Quality Research, 1991,1993,1995,1997,1998 and 1999 respectively.
  
• Author, Productivity Engineering and Management (567 pages), McGraw-Hill, New York, 1984,1985,1990,1994 (First book of its kind on the subject).
  
• Founded and Chaired the First Int. Conference on Productivity Research, Feb. 4-6,1987
  
• Invited Scientific Committee Member and Keynote Speaker, 4th Cairo International Conference on Mechanical Design and Production, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 27-29, 1988 (Travel & Accommodation Grant from USAID)
  
• Chaired the 2nd Int. Conference on Productivity Research, Feb 22-24, 1989
  
• Invited Keynote Speaker, National Conference on Productivity Measurement & Analysis, Malaysia, July 4-5, 1989(Travel & Accommodation Grant from NPC, Malaysia)
  
• 9-Week Training in the UM Quality Institute’s Seminars by Drs. Kano & Gitlow., Sept.–Nov.,1989
  
• Invited Keynote Speaker, 3rd Conference of the Productivity of the Americas, April 16-18,1989 (Travel & Accommodation Grant from INTECAP,Guatemala)
  
• Invited Keynote Speaker, Seminar on Total Productivity & Quality of the Americas, April 16-18, 1989( Travel & Accommodation Grant from IESC,Guatemala), March 26-27, 1990
  
• Chaired the 3rd Int.Conf. on Productivity & Quality Research, Miami, Feb 22-24,1991
  
• Invited Speaker, Seminar on "Total Productivity Management," Cambridge University, UK, Oct.1992
  
• Invited Keynote Speaker, The Human Approach to Technology & Productivity, France,(Travel & Accommodation Granted from ECOLE POLYTECNIC, France, Oct. 1991)
  
• Chaired the 4th Int. Conference on Productivity & Quality Research, Feb.9-12, 1993
  
• Chaired the 5th Int. Conference on Productivity & Quality Research, Miami, Feb.1995
  
• Founding President, The Int. Society for Productivity & Quality Research(ISPQR),1993-95
  
• Elected Chairman of the Int. Society for Productivity & Quality Research(ISPQR),1995-Present
  
• Co-Chaired the 6th Int. Conference on Productivity & Quality Research, Houston,1997.
  
• Invitee, NSF-sponsored 3-week workshop on Ethics Teaching in Engineering Profession, IIT, Chicago,Oct., 1997
  
• Invited Speaker, Seminar on "Total Productivity Management," University of Vaasa, Finland, Nov. 1997
  
• Invited Keynote Speaker, "A Non-Traditional Approach to Quality Management," The Finnish Society for Quality, Nov. 1997
  
• Co-chaired the 7th Int. Conference on Productivity & Quality Research, Miami, 1998.
  
• Authored, Total Productivity Management (432 pages), St. Lucie Press, 1998
  
• Co-chaired the 8th Int. Conference on Productivity & Quality Research, Finland, 1999.
  
• Co-chaired the 9th Int. Conference on Productivity & Quality Research, Israel, 2000.