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College Industry Council on Material Handling Education

IERC Panel

This page presents a recap of a panel discussion on Facility Design / Material Handling Education, which was held at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference in Phoenix, AZ on May 23, 1999.

The session was organized and chaired by Alice Smith and Bryan Norman from the University of Pittsburgh.  Participants included Yavuz Bozer (U. of Michigan), Sunderesh Heragu (RPI), Quarterman Lee (Strategos, Inc.), Brett Peters (Texas A&M), and John Usher (U. of Louisville).

Listed below are a sample of course materials that have been used by the different academic participants.  You are free to use this material to develop, modify, and improve courses, or other educational efforts, in facility design and material handling.   In return, we ask that you email any additional or modified course material to Brett Peters for inclusion on this web site.  In this way, the site will grow and continue to provide an up-to-date set of comprehensive information.

Yavuz Bozer - University of Michigan

Sunderesh Heragu - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Brett Peters - Texas A&M University

John Usher - University of Louisville

Additional Contributions

Virgilio Machado - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (New University of Lisbon)