Education
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Ph.D., North Carolina A&T State University,
Industrial Engineering, 2004
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Dissertation Topic: “Improving Productivity
in a Hub Sortation Facility through Enhanced Planning and
Scheduling”
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M.S., Mississippi State University, Industrial
Engineering, 1995
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B.S., Jackson State University, Industrial
Technology, 1990
Teaching and Research Interests
Teaching
Undergraduate courses:
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IT 114 Problem-Solving in Manufacturing
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IT 381 Total Productive Maintenance
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IT 451 Production Cost Analysis
Research
Applied Operations Research, Production Planning
and Scheduling, Facility Layout and Material Handling, System
Modeling and Simulation
Professional Experience
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Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial
Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 8/2004 – present
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Graduate Research Assistant, Department
of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University,
Greensboro, NC, 6/2003 – 7/2004
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Graduate Instructor, Department of Industrial
Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro,
NC, 9/2002 – 5/2003
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Production Manager, Glass Bead Production
Plant, Cataphote, Inc., Jackson, MS, 1/1998 – 12/1999
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Industrial Engineer, Building Wire and
Power Cable Plant, Southwire Company, Starkville, MS, 6/1995–12/1997
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of
Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS,
6/1992–5/1994
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Production Operator, Offshore Exploration
and Production Division, Shell Oil Company, New Orleans,
LA, 8/1990–5/1992
Awards and Honors
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Registered Engineer-In-Training (Mississippi)
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Certified in Production and Inventory
Management (CPIM)
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Alpha Pi Mu National Industrial Engineering
Honor Society
Scholarly Activities
Publications
Refereed Conference Proceedings
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Stanfield, P., McWilliams, D., Sarin, S.,
Barnes, E., and Lin, E., “Object Models of Supply Chains
for Optimization, Simulation, and Control,” Proceedings
of the 2001 Conference on Industry, Engineering,
and Management Systems. Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 2001.
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McWilliams, D. and Stanfield, P., “Minimizing
Makespan in a Hub Sortation Operation,” Proceedings
of the 2003 Conference on Industry, Engineering,
and Management Systems. Cocoa Beach, Florida, March 2003.
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McWilliams, D., Stanfield, P., “A
Framework for Minimizing the Completion Time of a Hub Sortation
Operation,” 2003 Industrial Engineering Research
Conference, Portland, Oregon, May 2003.
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McWilliams, D., Stanfield, P., “A
Simulation Optimization Approach to Solve the Hub Scheduling
Problem with Unequal Batch Size Trailers,” 2004
Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Houston,
Texas, May 2000
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McWilliams, D., Stanfield, P., Geiger,
C., “Simulation Optimization Applied to the Hub Scheduling
Problem,” submitted to Computers and Industrial
Engineering.
Professional affiliations
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Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
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National Association of Industrial Technology
(NAIT)
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The Institute for Operations Research
and Management Science (INFORMS)
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American Production and Inventory Control
Society (APICS)
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