DIPAK CHAUDHURI     

  Visiting Associate Professor

  Tulane University

A. B. Freeman School of Business

# 7 McAlister Drive

New Orleans, LA 70118.

Phone: (504) 865 5041                                                               

Fax: (504) 865 6751

Email:  dipak.chaudhuri@tulane.edu 

 EDUCATION:

Ph.D., (Industrial Engineering and Management), Indian Institute of Technology, 1979.

M.Tech., (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research) Indian Institute of Technology, 1970.

BS (Mechanical Engineering), The University of Calcutta, 1968.                                    

Areas of Specializations:

Operations Research, Work Design, Production and Service Operations Management, Materials Management, Quality and Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Management, Supply Chain Management.  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Teaching:

Visiting Associate Professor, A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, since January 2000.

Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1984 - 1994.

Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, the University of New South Wales, Australia, 1990.

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1981 - 1984.

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1973 - 1981.

  Lecturer, Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1971 - 1973.

Adjunct Professor, Anna University, 1982 - 1990.

Industrial:

Assistant Executive Engineer (Industrial Engineering), BHEL, India, 1970 – 71.

Junior Industrial Engineer, TISCO, India, 1970.

Other:

 Research Scientist, Techno Economics Division, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, May 1994 - January 2000.

 Administration:

Chairman, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I. I. T. Madras, 1991 – 94.

AWARDS:

*        National Scholarship, Government of India, 1962 – 68.

*        Netherlands Government Fellowship, 1975.

*        Asian Productivity Organization Fellowship, Japan, 1985.

PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Papers:

Papers in Seminars/Conferences

Technical Reports :

*      Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse in Kuwait

*      Reliability and Availability Assessment of a Reverse Osmosis Plant

*        Economic Feasibility of a Conference Center in Kuwait

*        Techno-Economic Feasibility of a Superplasticizer Plant

 Ph.D. THESIS SUPERVISED:

 MS Theses and BS Projects guided: 

    Number of Students Supervised: 100

Areas of Theses/Projects:

Quality Control; Job Shop Scheduling; Stochastic Inventory Control; O. R. Applications in Service Sector; Systems Reliability Optimization; Maintenance Planning; Network Scheduling; Aggregate Production Planning; Forecasting; Design of MRP System; Man Power Planning; Computerized Facilities Planning; Evaluation & Analysis of Productivity.

TEACHING INTEREST:

         Production and Service Operations Management

         Quantitative Methods and Model Building in Business

         Business Statistics

         Operations Research

         Supply Chain Management

         Production and Materials Management

         Plant Layout and Materials Handling

         Total Quality Management

         Statistical Quality Control

         Manufacturing Management

         Reliability Engineering

         Maintenance Management

         Project Management

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

*        Life Fellow of Institution of Engineers, India.

*        Life Fellow of Indian Institution of Plant Engineers.

*        Member and First Council Member of Asia Pacific Society of Industrial Automation.

*        Senior Member of Institute of Industrial Engineers, USA.

*        Life Member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering.

*        Life Member of Indian Association for Quality and Reliability.

*        Member of Indian Institution of Materials Management.

*        Member of International Society of Reliability Engineers.

 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

 Short-Term Courses (In Company Programs):

*       ‘Maintenance, Reliability & Replacement Models’ for the Officers of Oil & Natural Gas Commission, India, at I I T Madras, May 4 - 8, 1992.

*       ‘Condition Based Maintenance and Plant Reliability’ for the Executives of M/S Straw Products India Ltd., Rayagada, Orissa, February 28 - 29, 1992.

*       ‘Project Management’ for the Officers of the Director General of Ordinance Factories, organized by the Computers Maintenance Corporation, Madras, December 30, 1991 - January 4, 1992.

*        ‘Reliability and its Role in Industries’ for the officers of the BHP and other industries in Australia, organized by the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Automation, University of Wollongong, N S W, Australia, 17 October 1990.

*       ‘Reliability and Condition Monitoring Applied to Plant Maintenance’ for the Participants from various industries in Australia, organized by the Institute for Manufacturing Management and Technology, University of New South Wales, Australia, 5 October 1990.

*       ‘Project Management’ for the Senior Officers of Hyderabad Industries Limited, Hyderabad, July 1989.

*       ‘Materials Handling and Warehousing’ for the Senior Managers of Bharat Earth Movers Limited, May 1989.

*       ‘Operations Management and Productivity Improvement’ for the Senior Managers of S P I C, Madras, April 1989.

*       ‘Organizations and Management Principles’ for the Officers of the Voluntary Organizations to train handicapped people at R R T C, Madras, 1988 & 1989.

*       ‘Project Management’ for the Officers of Voluntary Organizations to train handicapped people at R R T C Madras, May 1988.

*       ‘Decision Making - a Scientific Process’ for the Officers of the Export Inspection Agency at Madras, September 1986.

*       ‘Operations Research’ and ‘Production Planning and Materials Management’ for the Officers of the Fertilizer Industries, Madras, 1984.

*        ‘Project Management’ for the officers of the Central Public Works Department, Madras, 1982 and 1987.

*       ‘Reliability and Maintenance’ for the Practicing Executives in the Management Education Program conducted by the Madras Management Association, 1981.

*       ‘Inventory Control’ offered at the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineers, Durgapur, 1978.

*       ‘Pre-Determined Elemental Time Standards’ for the H A L Officers, at I I T Kharagpur, 1976 and 1978.

*       ‘Value Engineering’ for the Officers of Durgapur Steel Plant, Durgapur, 1977 and to the Officers of Rourkella Steel Plant, Rourkella, 1977.

  Short Term Programs (In Institutes):

*       ‘Quality Assurance Management’ at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, for the Research Scientists and Practicing Executives from Industries in Kuwait, January 6 - 10, 1996.

*        (i) Integrated Management Systems, Possible Conflicts, Symbiosis and Synergy among different users,     (ii) Decision under Uncertainty, (iii) Game Theory: Two Person, Many Persons; Pay-off Matrix; Impact of Negotiating Techniques, offered to the participants of the Training Course on “Management and Conservation of Non-living Marine Resources: Technology, Economics and Sustainability” for the participants from International Ocean Institute, I I T Madras, 12th September  - 21st October 1993; and 17th August - 18th September 1992.

*        ‘Selection of Optimal Maintenance Strategies’ for the Participants of Maintenance Management Programs at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, May 11 - 22, 1992.

*       ‘Production Planning and Materials Management’ for the participants of the Short-Term program on Entrepreneurship, Madras, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1989.

*       ‘Management Techniques for Maintenance’ for the participants of the Short-Term program on Port and Beach Engineering Program, Madras, 1984.

*       ‘Maintenance Management’ offered at the Anna University of Technology, Madras, 1982, 1988 and 1989.

*       ‘Management Functions and Management by Objective’ offered at the National Productivity Council, Madras, 1983.

*       ‘Reliability Engineering’ offered at the National Productivity Council, Madras, 1982, and 1983.

*       ‘Design of Experiments’ for the participants of the Q I P program on Quality at the Central Polytechnic, Madras, 1982.

*       ‘Productivity through Reliability’ offered at the Indian Association for Quality and Reliability, Madras, 1982.

*       ‘Selection of Tools and Processes’ offered at the National Productivity Council, Madras, 1981.

*       ‘Reliability’ for the participants of the Q I P program on “Quality Assurance and Engineering Inspection” at I I T Kharagpur, 1980.

*       ‘Dynamic and Non-Linear Programming’ offered at the Railway Officers Training Institute, Jamalpur, 1978.

*       ‘Materials Management’ offered at the Institution of Engineers, Bhubaneswar, 1976.

*       ‘Work Study’ and ‘Reliability and Maintenance’ for the participants of the Q I P program on Industrial Management at I I T, Kharagpur, 1975 and at I I T, Madras, 1973.

*       ‘Production Management and Industrial Engineering’ offered during the Training Program for the H A L Management Trainees at I I T, Madras, 1981 - 87 and 1971 - 73.

*       ‘Optimization’ offered at the National Productivity Council, Madras, 1973.

 INDUSTRIAL CONSULTANCY:

*       ‘Strategies for Quality Assurance and Long Life for Industrial Products’, Confederation of Indian Industries, Madras, 1993.

*       ‘Condition Based Maintenance for Improved Plant Reliability’, M/S Straw Products India Ltd., Rayagada, Orissa, 1993.

*       ‘Improvement in Quality, Productivity and Efficiency’, Bharat Metal Box, Madras, 1991.

*       ‘Estimation of Reliability of Electronic Teleprinter’, Hindustan Teleprinter Limited, Madras, 1990.

*       ‘Resource Optimization for Multiple Housing Projects’, Central Public Works Department, Madras, 1988.

*       ‘Estimation of Reliability of Alternators’, M/S Kirloskar Electric Company Limited, Bangalore, 1985.

*       ‘Fixation of Optimum Ordering Quantity and Buffer Stocks for Maintenance Spares’, Indian Oxygen Ltd., Calcutta, 1984.

*       ‘Quality Assurance through Multi Stage Inspection’ Metal Box, Kharagpur, 1980.

*       ‘Setting of Motion Time Standards for Short Cycle Duration Jobs’, H A L Lucknow, 1978.

*       ‘Validation of Time Standards for Repetitive Assembly Jobs’, H A L Hyderabad, 1976.

 FUNDED PROJECTS at I. I. T. MADRAS:

*       ‘Reliability Engineering’, under the New Plan Scheme in the areas of Emerging Technology, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 1988 - 1991. Project Fund: Rs. 1.00 million.

*       ‘Modernization of Ergonomics and Psychology Laboratory’, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 1989 - 1991. Project Fund: Rs. 0.50 million.

*       ‘Preparation of Training Manuals on Application of Operations Research in Industries, Human Resource Management, and Forecasting and other Quantitative Models in Production Planning and Control’, Indian Society for Technical Education, 1990 - 1991. Project Fund: Rs. 45,000.00.

*       ‘Modernization of Reliability Engineering Laboratory’, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, 1992-1994. Project Fund: Rs. 1.00 million.

 PROJECTS COMPLETED at KISR:

*       ‘Reliability and Risk Assessment of Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants’. Project Fund: KD 78,100 (US$ 257,730.00).

*       ‘Reliability and Availability Assessment of MSF Plants in Kuwait’. Project Fund: KD 62,700 (US$ 206,910.00).

*       ‘Study of Techno Economic Feasibility of a Plant for Production of Super-Plasticizer’. Project Fund: KD 20,700 (US$ 68,310.00).

 Project Proposals submitted to Funding Agencies in Kuwait:

*        Minimization of Total Travel Time of Vehicles and Total Costs of Distribution of Products between Warehouse and Demand Centers. Project Fund: KD 25,700 (US$ 84,810.00).

*        Estimation of Reliability of the Control Unit of an Automated Reverse Osmosis Plant. Project Fund: KD 14,800 (US$ 48,840.00).

*        Study of Techno Economic Feasibility of Establishing a Regional Institute for Sciences and Applied Studies and Training in Preventive Fields. Project Fund: KD 26,000 (US$ 85,800.00).

*        Inventory Control of Spare Parts of a Continuously Operated System. Project Fund: KD 61,040 (US$ 201,432.00)

 Project Proposals initiated at KISR:

 *        Design of a Maintenance Plan for Petroleum Refineries in Kuwait.

*        Design of a Decision Support System for Production Planning in Canned Food Industries.

*        Quality Assurance for Aluminium Products.

*        Optimization of Operation Parameters of Dual Power Plants in Kuwait.

*        Techno Economic Feasibility of Starting New Divisions/Activities of Metal Pipe Industries.

 REFEREE FOR THE JOURNALS:

*        Industrial Engineering Journal, India

*        Reliability Engineering and System Safety, USA

*        I I E Transaction, USA

*        IEEE Transactions on Reliability, USA

*        Microelectronics and Reliability, UK

*        Computers and Industrial Engineering, USA

*        Udyog Pragati, India.

 Membership of Academic and Administrative Committees at K I S R:

*        Technical Review Committee and Management Review Committee for Project Proposals, 1994 - 1999.

*        Technical Committee during to draft ‘Strategic Plan for the period 1995 - 2000’ for Techno Economics Division, 1995.

*        Scientific Review Committee of Techno Economics Division, 1996 - 1997.

*        Inter Divisional Promotion Committee, 1996.

*        Review Committee for the selection of Research Scientists and Research Assistants for Techno Economics Division, 1994 - 1999.

 Membership of Academic Committees at I I T, Madras:

*        Head of Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, July 1991 - April 1994.

*        Senate (the Highest Academic Body at IIT Madras), January 1984 - May 1994.

*        Board of Academic Courses, 1990 - 1992.

*        Chairman of Graduate and Under Graduate Class Committees, 1981 - 1994.

*        In-charge of Industrial Engineering, Ergonomics and Reliability Engineering Laboratories, 1985 - 1994.

*        Seminar Assessment Committee for recruitment of candidates for the Faculty Posts such as Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Lecturer and Senior Scientific Officers, 1984 - 1994.

*        Vice Chairman of the Undergraduate Admission Committee, 1989 - 1990.

*        Adviser of Foreign Students and Weaker Section Students, 1987 - 1989.

 Membership of Special Committees Outside I I T Madras:

*        National Advisory Committee on Establishment of Schools for Entrepreneurship Development in Educational Institutions, 1985 - 1990.

*        Selection Committee for the Posts of Professor, Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the Anna University, Madras, 1991.

*        Board of Academic Studies, Cochin University, 1990 - 1994.

*        Selection Committee for the Posts of Professor, Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the Regional Engineering College, Calicut, Kerala, 1990.

*        Chairman of the Review Committee of Master of Business Administration Program at the Anna University, Madras, 1985.

*        Expert Committee to review the Post Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering at the National Productivity Council, Madras, 1984.

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