Dan
L. Shunk
Industrial Engineering Professor
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State
University
Dr. Shunk has over 30 years of experience in industrial
engineering and has been recognized in the semiconductor,
electronics, and automotive communities for his innovative
approaches to product development and productivity
improvement. A professor of industrial
engineering at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
at Arizona State University, he is pursuing research
into global new product development, model-based enterprises,
and the global supply chain. His latest
book is Integrated Process Design and Development.
For the past three years, Dr. Shunk has been working
with major electronics companies as the principal
investigator on a $1.5M DARPA project developing a
strategy and achieving a reduction of their times
and costs by 20% to 80%. The publication
of the lessons learned from this research won the
Best Paper award from the Agility and Global Competition
Journal. Dr. Shunk has traveled to Europe,
Latin America, and Asia to present his global product
development and supply chain integration methodologies
to semiconductor, electronics, and automotive audiences.
Dr. Shunk is the former director of the Center for
Intelligent Machines (CIM) Systems Research Center,
which in 1990 won the Society of Manufacturing Engineers
LEAD Award as the best CIM research center in the
world. He was cofounder of the US Air Force
Integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing (ICAM) program,
where he launched such industry standards as IDEF
and IGES. Previous positions include manager
of industrial engineering at Rockwell, manager of
manufacturing systems at International Harvester,
and vice president and general manager of the Integrated
Systems Division of GCA Corporation.
Dr. Shunk helped Motorola conceive Motorola University
and has served on their faculty since 1984. He
is on the editorial board of the Agility and Global
Competition Journal and the International Journal
of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing. He
is an active member of the International Federation
of Information Processors (IFIP) Committee 5.3 on
CIM and is a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing
Engineers (SME) and Institute of Industrial Engineers
(IIE). He has served as a consultant to
the United States Army, Motorola, Digital Equipment
Corporation, SUN Microsystems, Transcript Communications,
Level One Communications, Intel, Oracle, and Avnet.
Awards won by Dr. Shunk include the 1996 SME International
Award for Education, the 1991 I&MSE Faculty of the
Year award, the 1989 SME Region VII Educator of the
Year award, and the 1982 SME Outstanding Young Engineer
award. He has served on the board of advisors
of CASA of the SME, the board of directors of the
Association for Manufacturing Excellence, and the
Manufacturing Studies board of the National Research
Council. In addition, he participated in
the creation of the Next Generation Manufacturing
Project.
Education
Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University,
Indiana
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana
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