TOPICS/Call for Papers

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT: Organization, planning, coordination, and control of operations; corporate objectives; managerial decision making; human relations; and product development

QUALITY MANAGEMENT: Management philosophy, Product quality and care of customers, management leadership, teamwork, constant improvement and innovation, and the influence of human performance in product quality and inspection

ENGINEERING ECONOMY: Comparison of alternatives in engineering programs; economic factors in selecting and replacing machinery, equipment, and structure

STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL: Statistical methods as applied to quality assurance, data analysis and hypothesis testing, and coverage of statistical process control (variable and attribute control charts), process capability analysis, and acceptance sampling

OPERATIONS RESEARCH

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT:  Forecasting, inventory control, production planning, scheduling, quality control and the relationships between manufacturing and other functions of the firm

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS:

COMPUTER SIMULATION OF OPERATING SYSTEMS: Computer simulation applied to queuing networks, inventory and production control, and material handling systems

ENGINEERING AND THE LAW: Background of the law, contract law, patent law, trade secrets, employment contracts, product liability law, and other legal issues of interest to engineers

MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING: Manufacturing systems techniques with special emphasis on cost estimating, automation, group technology, expert systems, flexible assembly, cellular manufacturing, and other related special topics

ERGOMONICS: Human factors, product and equipment design, capabilities and limitations of the human sensory-motor system, design of displays, interaction between individual groups and machine systems

ENERGY MANAGEMENT: Energy reduction in electrical and thermal systems; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems; methods of initiating and managing an effective conservation program

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS: Design and analysis, regression analysis, robust design, and Taguschi's methods

QUALITY SYSTEMS AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Process and quality tools such as SPC, Gage R & R, ISO9000, 6 Sigma, Benchmarking and the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award

FACILITY PLANNING: Techniques for facility location, design, and planning, materials handling, warehousing, computer-aided designs, and maintenance considerations

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: CPM, PERT, Gantt Charting, and Precedence Diagramming, organizational and behavioral issues

MANAGEMENT

COMPUTING

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY