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Dr. Ryan Underdown |
Education
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.
M.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.
B.S. Industrial Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington.
Areas Of Expertise
- Six Sigma – DMAIC approach
- Lean Manufacturing – cell design and batch size optimization
- Total quality management - work teams and facilitation
- Engineering management - supervisors as coaches and leadership
- Enterprise Engineering - enterprise analysis, design and improvement
- Process improvement - both continuous improvement and radical change
- Problem solving - scientific and team methods
- Planning - strategic and tactical
- Facilitation - work teams, executive teams and training
Illustrative Papers/Presentations
Underdown, Ryan, “How To Endure The Recession With Fewer Resources”, Industrial Management, May/June 2009.
Underdown, Ryan, “Planning In Uncertain Economic Times”, Industrial Management, March/April 2009.
Anindyo, R., Marquez, A. and Underdown, R, “Optimization of Facility Layout Design Using Heuristic Techniques”, Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Miami, FL, May 2009.
Aung, K. and Underdown, R., “Teaching Engineering to High School Students in a Summer Camp”, Proceedings of the 2009 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, Waco, TX, March 2009.
Underdown, Ryan, “Improving and Designing Processes with Processes Maps”, APICS International Conference and Expo, Kansas City, Missouri, August 2008.
Underdown, Ryan, “Lessons Learned From a Two-Semester Senior Design Capstone Course Sequence”, Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Nashville, TN, May 2007.
Mondello, Peter M. and Underdown, Ryan, “Instrumentation Spurious Trips due to Piping Radiography”, Proceedings of the ISA Symposium, 2007.
Singh, Manpreet, and Underdown, Ryan, “Characterization of Shape Memory Polymers” Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Solutions Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 2005.
Underdown, Ryan and Yalamanchili, Bhaskar, "Systematic Approaches to Technology Decisions in the Steel Industry", Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, May 2004.
Underdown, Ryan, “Towards a Methodology to Determine Contamination Sources for Copper In Potable Water”, Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Portland, OR, May 2003.
Current Research
Product placement in retail layouts
Professional Engineering Registration
Texas – since 2008
Service
Track Chair – Engineering Management Solutions – Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference, Miami, FL., 2009
Honors and Awards
President of the Society of Engineering and Management Systems (2009)
Faculty SWEetheart – Society of Women Engineers (2004)
