Highlights
Students help company boost productivity Five industrial engineering students took on a project for Unilever Foodsolutions of Milwaukee, which produces dressings and sauces. Unilever processes up to 108 different products per month, and after each product is bottled, the line must be shut down and cleaned. This non-productive down time totaled 110 hours per month. The students eliminated more than 16 hours of non-productive change-over time per month by reorganizing the production schedule. Read more about the project at www.msoe.edu/me/ie. Ryan Bruha, Unilever reliability and innovation specialist, welcomed a team of industrial engineering students to Unilever. Left to right: Bruha, Benjamin Wheeldon, Mason Josie, Alex Gerdmann, Theresa Wenszell, Jesse Broaddrick, MSOE lecturer Sara Janke.
On the Move New Faculty Physics and Chemistry Grzegorz Janiak, Lecturer Mechanical Engineering Petar Milkovic, Adjunct Assistant Professor
New Staff Center for BioMolecular Modeling Jessica Velguth, Project Coordinator Facilities Aimee Langley, Custodian Project Lead The Way Mary Ellen Aspenson, Affiliate Administrator Public Safety Russell Bozicevich, Patrol Officer Mark Szalcinski II, Dispatcher
Dr. Cynthia Barnicki
Dr. Dragomir Marinkovich
Dr. Joseph Musto
Dr. Charles Tritt
New program directors have been named: Dr. Cynthia Barnicki, engineering Dr. Dragomir Marinkovich, mechanical engineering technology Dr. Joseph Musto, mechanical engineering Dr. Charles Tritt, biomedical engineering (interim) The following associate professors have been promoted to professors: Dr. Subha Kumpaty, Mechanical Engineering Department, joined the MSOE faculty in 1997. He holds a Doctor of Ministry in biblical exegesis and counseling from Tyndale Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in engineering
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Seated: Dr. Bass Abushakra; standing, left to right: Dr. Carma Stahnke, Dr. Douglas Stahl, Dr. Stephen Williams, Dr. Subha Kumpaty.
science (mechanical) from the University of Mississippi. He is the 2006 Karl Werwath Engineering research Award recipient. Dr. Douglas Stahl has taught in the Architectural engineering and Building Construction Department since 1996. He holds a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from UW-Madison. Stahl is the 2000 Karl Werwath Engineering Research Award recipient and the 2009 Oscar Werwath Distinguished Teacher Award winner. Dr. Stephen Williams, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, is the electrical engineering program director and joined the faculty at MSOE in 2002. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. The following assistant professors have been promoted to associate professors: Dr. Bass Abushakra, Architectural Engineering and Building Construction Department, joined the MSOE faculty in 2002 and has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University. Dr. Carma Stahnke, General Studies Department, joined the MSOE faculty in 2000. She has a Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.