An Assessment And Continuous Improvement Model For Engineering Technology Programs

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Engineering, MS in Engineering Mechanics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Alok is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Virginia, a certified manufacturing engineer and has certification in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. His publications are in the areas of Lean Manufacturing, Process Automation and improvement, Advanced Manufacturing Processes, CAD/CAM, and Robotics. His current research interests are in the area of process optimization and Lean implementation models for job shop and designed to build environments. Alok Verma has co-edited the proceedings of the International Conference on CAD/CAM & Robotics for which he was the general chairman and is currently general chair for ICAM-2006. He is serving as the associate editors for the International Journal of Agile Manufacturing (IJAM) and International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems (IJAMS). Dr. Verma has developed and delivered training program in Lean Enterprise & Design for Manufacturing for Northrop Grumman Newport News, STIHL and several other companies in U.S. He has developed simulation based training programs for shipbuilding and repair industry under a grant from the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP). He is well known internationally and has been invited to deliver keynote addresses at several national and international conferences on Lean/Agile manufacturing. He is active in ASME, ASEE and SME.

Continuous Improvement in the IMSE Program of Kuwait University

“…Christoforou andYigit (2008), Al-Nashash et al (2009), Abu-Jdayil and Al-Attar (2010), Aqlan, Al-Araidah, Al-Hawari (2010), Abdulaal et al (2011), Harmanani (2016, Nath and Agrawal (2020), and Ahmad and Qahmash (2020). It should be emphasized that a realistic model for assessment and continuous improvement must be dynamic and be able to evolve as learning and improvements take place, Crossman and Verma (2006).…”