Faculty and Staff

Education

• Ph.D. - Purdue University, 1996
  Dissertation:  Capacity Reservation in a Cyclic Planning Environment 
• M.B.A. - University of Southern California, 1987
  Major:  Decision Systems
• B.S. - Arizona State University, 1982

Teaching and Research Interests

Teaching

Undergraduate courses:

• IT 332 Purchasing, Inventory and Warehouse Management
• IT 434 Global Transportation and Logistics  Management
• IT 442 Production Planning
• IT 450 Production Cost Analysis
• IT 104 Industrial Organization

Graduate courses:

• Project Management

• Global Supply Chain Management

• Analysis of Research in Industry and Technology

Research 

Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of inventory management, distribution, logistics, and supply chain management.  She has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses and has supervised graduate student projects, in these areas at the master’s level. Dr. Schmidt has worked with many Indiana companies to develop a Logistics training course, revise warehouse layouts, revise facility layouts, and other projects in the Logistics area.

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, 2004 – present
• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.  Aug 1999 – 2004.
• Assistant Professor and Department Head, Saint Joseph's College, Rensselaer, Indiana.  January 1996 - August 1999.
• Lecturer, Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.  January 1997 - August 1999.
• Graduate Instructor, School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. August 1991 - May 1995
• Manufacturing Systems Consultant, Ernst & Young, Irvine, California.  January 1988 - August 1990.
• Senior Applications Analyst, Northrop Electronics Division and Lockheed California Company, Hawthorne, California.  January 1983 - December 1987.

Awards and Honors

• 2002, Classes of 1944 and 1945 Teaching for Tomorrow Award, Purdue University

• 2002, Distinguished Graduate Faculty Service Award, School of Technology

• 2002, Induction into Epsilon Pi Tau, the International Honor Society for Professions in Technology

• 2000-2001, Outstanding Non-Tenured Faculty Award, Department of Industrial Technology

Scholarly Activities

Publications

1. Schmidt, E., Robertson, B. & Newton, K. The Lean Principles Necessary for Competitive Advantage.  Review of the Electronic and Industrial Distribution Industries.

2. Schmidt, E., Newton, K., & Robertson, B. Project Plan for Improving Inventory and Warehouse Management Using Five-S JIT Strategy.  Review of the Electronic and Industrial Distribution Industries, 2(2).

3. Newton, K., & Schmidt, E. (2003).  Technology supplies:  A case study. Review of the Electronic and Industrial Distribution Industries, 2(1), 82-91.

4. Schmidt, E., Newton, K., & Mancuso, M. (2003).  Inventory consolidation:  Setting initial stocking levels. Review of the Electronic and Industrial Distribution Industries, 2(1), 28-44.

5. Newton, K., and Schmidt, E. (in press).  Learning and growing:  Integrating technology undergraduates into the development of an industrial case study. Journal of Technology Studies.

6. Schmidt, E., Ward, J., Dada, M., & Adams, D. (2001). Using

7. cyclic planning to manage capacity at ALCOA. Interfaces, 31(3), 16-27.

8. Schmidt*, E., & Gallegos, A. (May 2001). Distance learning:

9. Issues and concerns of distance learners.  Journal of Industrial Technology, 17(2).

10. Gallegos, A., Schmidt*, E., & Newton*, K. (2002, January). Using a graduate student directed project to address changing e-commerce curriculum needs in supply chain management, CD-ROM. Proceedings of the Conference for Industry Education and Collaboration (CIEC) 2002 Conference, Sarasota, FL.

11. Schmidt, E. (2000, November). The impact of a simulated factory experience on student learning in an introductory manufacturing management course. Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute Annual National Conference, 250-252.

12. Schmidt, E., & Robertson, B. (2003, November).  Just in Time Manufacturing:  Past & Present.  Proceedings of the National Association of Industrial Technology, 151-159.

13. Newton*, K., and Schmidt*, E. (2003, February). A successful

14. partnership between an industrial trade association and education at Purdue University, CD-ROM. Electronic Proceedings of the Conference for Industry Education and Collaboration (CIEC) 2003 Conference, Tucson, AZ.

Chapter in a textbook

Stephens, M.P. (2004).  Productivity and reliability-based maintenance management. ISBN 0-13-096657-6.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall.Wrote complete chapter (Facility Maintenance Project Planning and Control), with graphs, charts, tables, and exercises on maintenance project management on the topics of successful project management, project manager roles and responsibilities, maintenance operations analysis, and project management tools and techniques, including PERT/CPM network methods (pp. 225-274).

Professional affiliations

• National Association of Industrial Technology
• Professional Association of Industrial Distributors
• Production and Operations Management Society