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Dan
L. Shunk
Technology Programs Director
Arizona State University
Dr. Shunk has over 20 years of experience in industrial
engineering and has been recognized in the semiconductor,
electronics, and automotive communities for his innovative
approaches to product development and productivity
improvement. An Associate Professor of
industrial engineering at Arizona State University,
he is pursuing research into global new product development,
model-based enterprises, and global supply chain. His
latest book is Integrated Process Design and Development,
an Irwin publication.
For the last three years Dr. Shunk has been working
with major electronics companies as the principal
investigator on a $1.5 million DARPA project developing
a strategy and achieving a reduction of their times
and costs by 20% to 80%. The publication
of the lessons learned from this research won the
best paper award from the Agility and Global Competition
Journal. Recently Dr. Shunk has traveled to Europe,
Latin America, and Asia to present his global product
development and supply chain integration methodologies
to semiconductor, electronics, and automotive audiences.
Dr. Shunk is the former Director of the CIM Systems
Research Center, which in 1990 won the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers LEAD Award as the best CIM
research center in the world. He was cofounder
of the US Air Force Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing
(ICAM) program, where he launched such industry standards
as IDEF and IGES. Previous positions include
manager of industrial engineering at Rockwell, manager
of manufacturing systems at International Harvester,
and VP-GM of the Integrated Systems Division of GCA
Corporation.
Dr. Shunk helped Motorola conceive Motorola University
and has served on their faculty since 1984. He
is on the editorial board of the Agility and Global
Competition Journal and the International Journal
of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing. He
is an active member of the International Federation
of Information Processors (IFIP) Committee 5.3 on
CIM and is a senior member of SME and IIE.
Awards won by Dr. Shunk include the 1996 SME International
Award for Education, the 1991 I&MSE Faculty of
the Year award, the 1989 SME Region VII Educator of
the Year award, and the 1982 SME Outstanding Young
Engineer award. He has served on the Board
of Advisors of CASA of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers, the Board of Directors of the Association
for Manufacturing Excellence, and the Manufacturing
Studies Board of the National Research Council. Recently
he participated in the creation of the Next Generation
Manufacturing Project.
Education
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University,
Indiana
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