Dr. Ahad Ali
Assistant Professor
Office: Engineering Building - E37
Phone: (248) 204-2531
Email: aali@ltu.edu
Dr. Ahad Ali joined Lawrence Technological University in 2007 as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He earned B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Khulna (1994), Masters in Systems and Engineering Management from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2000) and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2003).
Prior to coming to LTU Dr. Ali worked with the University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez in Industrial Engineering as Assistant Professor. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Toledo from August 2004 to December 2005. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Centre, University of Windsor, Canada from April – August 2004. He was a faculty member (Lecturer) in Mechanical Engineering at the Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Khulna from 1995 - 1997.
Dr. Ali received Outstanding Professor Award, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, 2005-2006.
His areas of interest and expertise are manufacturing systems modeling, simulation and optimization, reliability, web-enabled monitoring, lean manufacturing, artificial intelligence, scheduling, logistics and supply chain management. He has got funding from United Technologies, Thermo King and Amgen Manufacturing. Dr. Ali has done a research project at the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor on designing a reconfigurable assembly line to accommodation different category Rockwell Automation power drive products including new products. He has done research projects on web-enabled e-maintenance platform to integrate the real time shop floor information with existing e-business systems and developed testbeds at Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Citation Custom Products, and GE Medical systems. He has done MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operation) lean supply chain project with Harley-Davidson Motor Company for optimal MRO inventory level. He has successfully completed a simulation project at the University of Windsor on automotive manufacturing assembly for the whole assembly plant to identify the performance including logistics for new location as well as existing plant. Dr. Ali has done research on intelligent modeling and management for internal supply chain management for hard disk drive (HDD) and printed circuit board (PCB) assembly systems and enhanced the system performances at Delphi Automotive Systems and National/Panasonic Electronics. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He regularly reviews papers for journals and conferences.
Dr. Ali is a member of several engineering societies: IIE, SME, IEEE, INFORMS. He is serving as an IIE Lean Division Director and leading IIE Lean Student Paper Competition. He has served in many technical committees: Program Committee - IIE/ASQ Lean/Quality Sept. 24 - 27, Atlanta, Publicity Chair - The IFIP TC8 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, October 14-16, 2007, Beijing, China, Technical Committee Member - Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation, IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, Program Committee, Local Organizing Committee & Cluster Chair (Industry-Research Interface) - INFORMS International Puerto Rico 2007, July 8-11, 2007, Conference Secretary - 5th International Conference on Managing Innovations in Manufacturing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 9-11, 2002, etc.
Personal Web Page: http://qbx6.ltu.edu/aali/