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Noel Artiles-León, Ph.D. Mayagüez PR 00681 Office tel. (787) 832-4040 ext. 2006; or (787) 265-3819 e-mail: noel_artiles@hotmail.com and n_artiles@rumac.uprm.edu
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| CAREER OBJECTIVE | Excel in an academic or consulting position concerning simulation, quality control, applied statistics, and manufacturing operations and requiring a combination of analytical ability, effective interpersonal skills, creativity, and flexibility. | |
| EDUCATION | Ph. D. Major:
Industrial Engineering. Minor: Statistics. May, 1989. Iowa State
University, Ames, Iowa. Overall grade point average: 3.96 of 4.00.
Master of Science. Industrial Engineering, Dec. 1985. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Overall grade point average: 3.93 of 4.00. Bachelor of Science. Civil Engineering, Dec. 1979. National University of Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua. Overall grade point average: 96 of 100. |
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| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | ||
| Jul. 1997 - Present | Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR. Responsibilities: Pursue and conduct externally funded research. Direct graduate-student thesis work. Teach and continually improve undergraduate and graduate courses in probability and statistics, quality control, experimental design, operations research, simulation, queueing theory, and reliability. | |
| Ago 1998 - May 1999 | Part time. Trainer and consultant in Manufacturing Simulation at Medtronic Inc., Villalba, PR. Responsibilities: Develop a manufacturing simulation model for the production of four products using ProModel. The goal of the simulation is to speed up the transfer process from the research and development facilities (Medtronic, Minneapolis) to the manufacturing facilities in PR. | |
| Sep. 1997 - Mar 1998 | Part time. Trainer and consultant in Statistics Aided Manufacturing at Hanes Menswear Inc. Ponce PR Responsibilities: Provide training on statistical methods to engineers and supervisors. Advise them on how to use these methods for process improvement. Provide training on how to use the statistical software package StatGraphics | |
| Sep. 1997 - Dec. 1997 | Part time. Trainer and consultant in Applied Industrial Statistics at Allergan Medical Optics. Añasco PR. Responsibilities: Provide training on statistical methods to engineers. Advise them on how to use these methods for process improvement. Provide extensive training on how to use the statistical software package Statistica. | |
| Summer 1997 | Visiting Professor. Industrial Engineering Department, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. | |
| Sep. 1994 - Mar. 1997 | Part time. Consultant in Applied Industrial Statistics at Carborundum Inc. Mayagüez PR. Responsibilities: Provide advise on how to improve precesses to increase yield. Provide training on statistical methods to engineers. Develop specifications and setup quality control systems. Plan and analyze statistical experiments. | |
| Jan. 1992 - Jun. 1997 | Acting Director (Dec. 1993 - Jan. 1995), Associate Director (Jan. 1992 - Nov. 1993), and Associate Professor (July 1992 - June 1997). Tenured in July 1994. Industrial Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR. | |
| Jan. 1989 - Dec. 1991 | Assistant Professor. Industrial Engineering Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR. | |
| Aug. 1984 - Dec. 1988 | Teaching
assistant. Industrial Engineering Department, Iowa State University.
Course instructor for IE312: Industrial Operations Research and IE209:
Industrial Computer Techniques; responsible for lecture, homework, and
exam preparation.
Research assistant. Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. Provided statistical assistance and support for researchers working for the Engineering Research Institute at I.S.U. Research assistant. Industrial Engineering Department, Iowa State University. Developed algorithm, computer program, and data base for assisting and improving the decision making process for scheduling and using the Banbury production system at Firestone plant, Des Moines, Iowa |
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| Jan. 1982 - Mar. 1983 | Assistant Director of Freshman Engineering, Engineering College, Central American University, Managua, Nicaragua. Responsibilities: Revise and improve engineering curriculum; seek external funding for new lab equipment; forecast enrollment; schedule courses. | |
| Jan. 1980 - Dec. 1981 | Assistant professor. Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua. Responsibilities: Teach courses in Statics and Strength of Materials and advise students. | |
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RESEARCH AND CONSULTING EXPERIENCE |
"Engineering Excellence Awards for Low-income Minority Students." CoPI. Project sponsored by NSF. The goals of this project are to enhance the educational opportunities for low-income, academically talented students through scholarships that will improve education, increase retention, improve professional development and motivate participating students to pursue graduate studies, and strengthen partnerships between UPRM and related employment sectors. Aug. 2000 - June 2002. | |
| "Development of a Test Technology Coverage Analysis Model." Project sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Aguadilla PR, Jun. 1999 - Dic. 2000. | ||
| "Simulation of New Production Lines for Products 6932, 6942, 6943, and 6945." Project sponsored by Medtronic Inc. Villalba PR, Aug. 1998 - May 1999. | ||
| "Process and Yield Improvement at Carborundum through SPC, DOE, and Education." Project sponsored by Carborundum Inc. Mayagüez PR. January 1995 - March 1997. | ||
| "Development of Multimedia Materials for Teaching Probability and Statistics to Engineering Students". Project funded by NSF through the Curriculum Assessment and Development Center at the Resource Center for Science and Engineering, San Juan PR. January 1996 - May 1997 | ||
| "Development of Practice-Based Materials for a Quality Control Course." Project funded by NSF through the Curriculum Assessment and Development Center at the Resource Center for Science and Engineering, San Juan PR. January - December 1995. | ||
| "Process Assessment and Improvement and Training in Statistics Aided Manufacturing at Carborundum." Project sponsored by Carborundum Inc. Mayagüez PR. September- December 1994. | ||
| "Development of a Simulation Game for Teaching Statistics to Engineering and Science Students." Project funded by NSF through the Curriculum Assessment and Development Center at the Resource Center for Science and Engineering, San Juan PR. February 1993. | ||
| "Development of an Effective Training Program in Design of Experiments Applied to Manufacturing." Project sponsored by Abbott Diagnostic Inc. Barceloneta, Puerto Rico. June 1991 - Oct. 1991 | ||
| "Assessment by Simulation of Sequencing Rules in a Surface Mount Assembly Line." Project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (Division of Operations Research and Production Systems) and Digital Equipment Corporation (Caribbean Operations). May 1990 - June 1991. | ||
| "The Systematic Analysis of a Process Development Project: The Case of Equipment Calibration for Surface Mount." Research project at Digital Equipment Corporation (San Germán, PR). June 1989 - May 1990. | ||
| AWARDS AND
RECOGNITIONS |
Plaque of Appreciation for collaborating and participating in the First Engineering-Technology Exchange sponsored by Abbott Health Products, Inc. Barceloneta, PR,.Dec. 1997 | |
| "Productivity Bonus (1994-1995)". Award given by the Academic Senate of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez to professors who excel in teaching and research. Sept. 1995. | ||
| "Robust Award" for contributing to the advancement of Robust Design and Quality Engineering. Rochester Institute of Technology. College of Engineering. Center for Quality and Applied Statistics. April 25-26, 1996. | ||
| Certificate of Appreciation for participation in ASQC's 49th Annual Quality Congress. Cincinnati, OH. May 1995. | ||
| Certificate of Recognition for valuable participation as a judge in the evaluation of scientific research works. PR Department of Education. San Germán PR. April 1996. | ||
| Certificate of Merit and Recognition for cooperation and support of the "Teacher Enhancement Program in Statistics". College of Business Administration, UPRM. Mayagüez PR. May 1994. | ||
| Certificate of Appreciation for participation in ASQC's 47th Annual Quality Congress. Boston MA. May 1993. | ||
| Certificate of Appreciation for support and participation in "National Quality Month 1992". October 1992. | ||
| Certificate of Recognition for prominent participation as a professor in continuous education. Centro de Recursos para Educación Continua a Industrias, Agricultura y Asociaciones Profesionales, UPRM. Mayagüez PR. April 1992 | ||
| Recipient of the "Bancroft Statistics Award (1989)." Award established to honor Dr. T. A. Bancroft and presented annually to the most outstanding Ph.. D. Candidate with a joint major or declared minor in statistics by the Statistical Laboratory, I.S.U. | ||
| Recipient of the "Teaching Excellence Award (1988)." Award is presented annually by the Graduate College, I.S.U. | ||
| Recipient of the "Outstanding Graduate Student Award (1986)." Award is presented annually by the Industrial Engineering Department, I.S.U. | ||
| PUBLICATIONS | "Constructing Confidence Regions for Multiple-Response Problems Using Bootstrapping" Proceedings of Group Technology / Cellular Manufacturing World Symposium - Year 2000. San Juan, PR. March 2000. | |
| "Factors for Range Control Charts when the Underlying Distribution is Weibull," Proceedings of the 1999 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'99) Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1999. | ||
| "Confidence Intervals for Cpk when the Underlying Distribution is Weibull", Proceedings of the 1998 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'98) Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1998. | ||
| "Diseño de Experimentos en la Industria", 4to Simposio de Ingeniería Industrial, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana, August 1997. | ||
| "Optimization of Carborundum's Gas Igniter Furnacing Process using Experimental Design," 21st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Juan PR, March 1997. | ||
| "Improvement of Igniters' Quality Characteristics using Experimental Design," 21st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Juan PR, March 1997. | ||
| "A Pragmatic Approach to Multiple-Response Problems Using Loss Functions" Quality Engineering. Vol 9 No 2. December 1996. | ||
| "Assessment of Igniters' Electrical Characteristics through Experimental Design" Transactions of the 1996 R.I.T.'s Annual Quality Engineering by Design Symposium. April, 1996 | ||
| "Statistical Optimal Design of Control Charts with Supplementary Stopping Rules." IIE Transactions. Vol. 28, No. 3, March 1996. | ||
| "Improving Fabric Finishing Through Experimental Design." Transactions of the 49th Annual Quality Congress. May 1995 | ||
| "Analysis of Queueing Systems with Unknown Parameters." Transactions of the 1995 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'95) Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1995. | ||
| "Simple Formulas for Statistically Designing Control Charts with Supplementary Stopping Rules." Quality Engineering, Vol 7, No. 4, 1995. | ||
| "Using Simulations for Teaching Experimental Design to Engineering Students," Primer Simposio sobre Multinedios Interactivos: Aplicaciones Educativas, San Juan PR, May 1994. | ||
| "Computer Simulations for Teaching Experimental Design," VII Congress of Computer Sciences and its Applications, Ponce PR, April 1994. | ||
| "Average Run Length Properties for Joint and R Charts." Proceedings of the 1994 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'94) Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1994. | ||
| "A Simulation Game For Teaching DOE to Engineers." American Statistical Association 1994 Winter Conference. Atlanta, Georgia. January 1994. | ||
| "Development of a Computer Game for Teaching Statistics to Engineering Students." XIV Congreso Panamericano de Ingeniería Mecánica, Eléctrica y Ramas Afines. San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 1993. | ||
| "Reducing Label Nonconformances by DOE and Logistic Regression." Transactions of the 47th Annual Quality Congress". Boston MA. May 1993. | ||
| "Optimization of Average-Run-Length Properties of Control Charts Using Recurrent Events." Transactions of the 15th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering. Cocoa Beach, FL. March 1993. | ||
| "Analysis of Industrial Experiments with a Binary Response." Second Caribbean Quality Congress. San Juan PR. October 1992. | ||
| "ARL Curves for Joint and S Charts with Supplementary Stopping Rules." TIMS/ORSA Conference. Orlando FL. April 1992. | ||
| "Quality Function Deployment in a Medical Services Environment." TIMS/ORSA Conference. Orlando FL. April 1992. | ||
| "Assessment by Simulation of Simple Sequencing Rules in a Surface Mount Assembly Line. Part Two." National Science Foundation Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference. Atlanta GA. January 1992. | ||
| "Process Quality Improvement Through Design of Experiments at an Electronic Manufacturing Firm." ORSA/TIMS Conference. Anaheim CA. November 1991. | ||
| "Statistical Optimal Design of Control Charts with Supplementary Stopping Rules." TIMS/ORSA Conference. Nashville, TN. May 1990. | ||
| "Assessment by Simulation of Simple Sequencing Rules in a Surface Mount Assembly Line. Part One." National Science Foundation Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference. Austin TX. January 1991. | ||
| "Statistical Optimal Design of Shewhart Control Charts with Supplementary Stopping Rules." Ph.. D. Dissertation, Iowa State University, 1989. | ||
| "Sensitivity Analysis in Linear Goal Programming." Masters Thesis, Iowa State University, 1985. | ||
| SEMINARS
AND WORKSHOPS
OFFERED |
"Review of Probability, Statistics, and Quality Control for the IE Professional Examination." Industrial Engineering Department. Mayagüez, PR. September 1998 | |
| "An Introduction to Industrial Experimentation", First Engineering-Technology Exchange sponsored by Abbott Health Products, Inc. Barceloneta, PR,.Dec. 1997 | ||
| "Mejoramiento de Procesos usando Control Estadístico de Calidad y Diseño de Experimentos", Six-day intensive course offered to engineers and management, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, July 1997. | ||
| Workshop on Experimental Design Applied to Manufacturing at the 21st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Juan PR, March 1997. | ||
| "Training in Statistics Aided Manufacturing." Six-day intensive course offered to engineers and management of Ayerst-Wyeth Pharmaceutical. Guayama PR, November - December 1996. | ||
| "Review of Probability, Statistics, Experimental Design, and Quality Control for the IE Professional Examination." Industrial Engineering Department. San Juan, PR. September 1996. | ||
| "Review of Probability, Statistics, Experimental Design, and Quality Control for the IE Professional Examination." C.I.A.P.R. Mayagüez, PR. July 1996. | ||
| "Iniciativa Sistemática para la Excelencia Educativa en Ciencias y Matemáticas." Centro de Recursos para Ciencias e Ingeniería. Four-week workshop offered to high school teachers. San Germán, PR. July 1994. | ||
| "Quality and Productivity." One day seminar offered to all personnel of Perkin-Elmer Caribbean Corporation. Guanajibo Industrial Park. September 1993. | ||
| "The Cost of Nonconformance." One day seminar offered to top management of Bristol-Myers (at Mayaguez) through the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. June 1992. | ||
| "Statistical Process Control in Manufacturing Industries." Four-day work shop offered through the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. March 1992. | ||
| "Introduction to Statistical Quality Control." Two-day seminar sponsored by IIE Western Puerto Rico Chapter 236. Mayagüez, PR. May 1991. | ||
| "Quality Costs and Reliability." One-day seminar sponsored by ASQC. Cayey, PR. March 1991. | ||
| "Quality Planning and Quality Control." Four-day seminar presented to StorageTek engineers. Ponce, PR. February 1991. | ||
| "Statistical Experimental Design for Engineers." Five-day seminar presented jointly with David González, MSIE. Sponsored by IIE, Western Puerto Rico Chapter 236. Mayagüez, PR. September 1990. | ||
| "Reliability and Maintainability." One-day seminar presented to AVON engineers. Sponsored by AVON and ASQC. Aguadilla, PR. April 1990. | ||
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SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED |
INFORMS Conference. San Antonio, Texas, November 2000. | |
| Group Technology / Cellular Manufacturing World Symposium - Year 2000. San Juan, PR. March 2000. | ||
| NSF-CoHemis Workshop "Interdisciplinary Training Program in Ethics for Business, Science, and Engineering." Maricao, PR. December 10 to 13, 1999. | ||
| "Introduction to the Witness Simulation Language". A five-day course offered by The Lanner Group. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, August 1999. | ||
| The 1999 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'99) Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1999. | ||
| NSF-CoHemis Workshop "Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program in Ethics for Business, Science, and Engineering in the Puerto Rican Context." Guánica, PR. December 14 to 19, 1998 | ||
| NSF Workshop "Collaboratives to Integrate Research and Education (CIRE)." Atlanta, December 10 and 11, 1998. | ||
| The 1998 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'98) Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1998. | ||
| "Outcome Assessment Workshop" by Gloria M. Rogers. UPR-Mayagüez. January 1998 | ||
| 21st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Juan PR, March 1997. | ||
| "Technology Instruction for the 21st Century". A summer workshop sponsored by NSF at the Queensborough Community College, New York, NY. June 1996 | ||
| "Effective Teaching: A Workshop" by Richard M. Fedder and Rebecca Brent. Mayagüez, PR, January, 1996 | ||
| "49th Annual Quality Congress" Cincinnati, May 1995 | ||
| "1995 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'95)", Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1995. | ||
| "Seminar on C Language" Three-day seminar offered by the College of Engineering, UPRM. Mayagüez PR. June 1994. | ||
| "Primer Simposio sobre Multinedios Interactivos: Aplicaciones Educativas", San Juan PR, May 1994. | ||
| "VII Congress of Computer Sciences and its Applications", Ponce PR, April 1994. | ||
| "1994 Annual International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS'94)", Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 1994. | ||
| "The American Statistical Association 1994 Winter Conference". Atlanta, Georgia. January 1994. | ||
| "XIV Congreso Panamericano de Ingeniería Mecánica, Eléctrica y Ramas Afines", San Juan, Puerto Rico. October 1993. | ||
| "47th Annual Quality Congress". Boston MA. May 1993. | ||
| "15th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering". Cocoa Beach, FL. March 1993. | ||
| "Second Caribbean Quality Congress". San Juan PR. October 1992. | ||
| "TIMS/ORSA Conference". Orlando FL. April 1992. | ||
| "Liderato Estructural" A Two-day workshop offered by the "Program for Excellence in Government". Mayagüez PR. February 1992. | ||
| "National Science Foundation Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference". Atlanta GA. January 1992. | ||
| "ORSA/TIMS Conference". Anaheim CA. November 1991. | ||
| "TIMS/ORSA Conference". Nashville, TN. May 1991. | ||
| "National Science Foundation Design and Manufacturing Systems Grantees Conference". Austin TX. January 1991. | ||
| PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS | Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
American Society For Quality (ASQ). American Statistical Society (ASA) |
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| OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES | Reviewer for The International Journal of Modeling and Simulation. First published in 1981, this journal covers all aspects of modeling, simulation, languages, software, hardware, methodology, numerical and graphical methods, virtual reality, statistical techniques, tutorials, surveys, and applications. It also includes book reviews, conference notices, call for papers, and new publications. | |
| Reviewer for the Journal of Industrial Engineering Design. The purpose of this journal is to provide a place for undergraduate students to publish summaries of their capstone design project and to provide a forum where faculty involved with such projects can share their experiences. | ||
| President of the Accreditation Board for the B.S. in Engineering Program at the Caribbean University. Board members are selected by the Council of Higher Education of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to provide professional advice about program approval to Licensing and Accreditation Office. January 1996 - July 1997. | ||
| Member of the Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management (IJOQM). The IJOQM publishes high-quality original research articles dealing with all aspects of operations and quantitative management: international issues, practical experience, and pedagogical aspects. | ||
| Referee for "Computers & Industrial Engineering. An International Journal." This journal is aimed at computerized industrial engineering applications, methodology for developing viable computer solutions to industrial engineering problems, as well as the implementation of different industrial engineering techniques on computers. | ||
| Referee for "Technometrics", a Journal of Statistics for the Physical, Chemical, and Engineering Sciences published by ASQC and ASA. | ||
| Reviewer for the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems. | ||
| Member of the Accreditation Board for the Master in Management Engineering Program at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. Board members are selected by the Council of Higher Education of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to provide professional advice about program approval to Licensing and Accreditation Office. January 1992 to February 1993. | ||
| Panelist responsible for formally reviewing unsolicited proposals submitted to the Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems of NSF and for providing expert advice about award decisions to program directors. January 1992. | ||
| MASTER'S THESIS DIRECTED | Prediction Regions for Experiments with Multiple Responses using Bootstraping. Narcisa Meza (Dec. 1998) | |
| Average-Run-Length Properties of Control Charts for Proportions with Supplementary Stopping Rules. Johana Quiñones (May 1998) | ||
| Simulation of a Manufacturing Facility for Capacity Improvement. Ricardo Pérez (May 1998) | ||
| Development of Multimedia Materials for Teaching Probability and Statistics. Joseph Sefair (Dec. 1997) | ||
| Analysis and Design of Multivariate Sampling Plans. María García-Sandoval (Dec. 1997) | ||
| Development of Multimedia Materials for Teaching Statistical Quality Control. Eliana Valenzuela (Dec. 1997) | ||
| Solving Multiple-Response Problems Using Loss Functions. Rafael Niebles (Dec. 1997) | ||
| Usage Optimization of Cutting Diamonds at Carborundum. Alicia Tijerino-Verdugo (Sep 1996) | ||
| Quality Improvement by Simulation at the Emergency Room of Perea Hospital. Nilda M. Ríos-Vélez (May 1996). | ||
| Development of a Simulation Game to Assist in the Teaching of Statistics to Engineers. José A. Castro-Figueroa (July 1995). | ||
| Robust Design of Multistage Poisson Queueing Systems. Rick Serrano (February 1995). | ||
| Application of Experimental Design to Improve the Yield of an Igniter Manufacturing Process. Javier Rodríguez (December 1994) | ||
| Application of Experimental Design in Fabrics Finishing. Carolina A. Domenech-La-Paix (May 1994). | ||
| ARL for Shewhart Control Charts with Supplementary Stopping Rules and Simple Regression. Mercedes Ferrer (July 1993). | ||
| Computation of Average Run Length Using Recurrent Events. Roberto Pérez-Matos (May 1992). | ||
| Assessment by Simulation of Sequencing Rules in an Assembly Line. José Colón (May 1992). | ||
| Quality Function Deployment in a Medical Service Environment. María Medina (August 1991). | ||
| Determination of ARLs for Joint and S Control Charts. Cecil Regalado (June 1991). | ||
| COURSES TAUGHT |
Undergraduates courses: Probability and Statistics for Engineers Deterministic Models in Operations Research |
Graduate courses: Network Flows and Graphs Introduction to Queueing Theory |
| REFERENCES | Available upon request. | |
