The Institute consists of a core team of IEMS individuals who facilitate the planning and prioritization of program activities, and enable and coordinate the network of partners and stakeholders who participate in Institute research and programs. Overall, the Institute is the combination of collaborative faculty, staff, partners, and students who collectively are conducting research or building service products at any given time.
The intent is to conduct research and service work across the many disciplines that make up quality management and engineering, and to allow distinct colleges and departments to continue to do their own disciplinary work. The Institute is not intended to usurp any existing or forthcoming research in any single existing department or college.
Executive Director
Dr. Ahmad Elshennawy
Ahmad K. Elshennawy is Professor and Executive Director of the UCF Quality Institute in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Dr. Elshennawy combines over 30 years of international experience with exemplary academic record in the areas of quality management and strategic improvement, as a researcher, academician and a consultant in the United States and different parts of the world.
Dr. Elshennawy received a BS and MS degrees in Production Engineering from Alexandria University and M.Eng. & Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University. His teaching and research areas of expertise include Quality and Reliability Engineering, Quality Systems and Management, Six Sigma Quality/Lean Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, Lean Service, and Business and process Performance Improvement and Management.
Elshennawy is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Senior Member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and a Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) and is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Dr. Elshennawy has served on the Editorial Review Board of Quality Press of the American Society for Quality and currently serves on the Editorial Board of Quality Progress and is a Senior Editor for the Journal of management and Engineering Integration.
Industry and Academia Mentors and Associates | Advisory Board
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Research Collaborators
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Current Students
- Ashley Vezina-Johnson
- Quality by Design in Pharmaceutical Industry
- Quintcey Smith
- Critical Success and Challenges for lean six sigma
- Chirag Merchant
- Industry 5.0 Principles in Healthcare
- Mehrnoosh Saeyan
- Customer 5.0
- Christopher Bock
- Digital Twin Application for Maintenance Operations
- Faisal Cheema
- Quality 5.0 and Stem Frameworks
Alumni — Partial List
- Dr. Johnson Olaitan
- Quality 5.0 Frameworks
- Dr. Thomas Jones
- Quality 4.0 and Analytics
- Dr. Blaine Lorimer
- Statistical Process Control
- Dr. Bandar Alzahrani
- Quality 4.0 Challenges and Implementation in International Education Programs
- Dr. Anis Nizamuddin
- Managing Functional Project Operations in a Multi-Project Manufacturing Environments
- Dr. Ryan Rust
- Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages
- Dr. Corey Gellis
- Assessment of Leadership Styles and Lean Six Sigma Effectiveness
- Dr. Sandra Furterer
- Chair, Department of Engineering Management, Systems & Technology, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Jodie Giambarberee
- Quality Analyst at Advent Health, Orlando, Florida, USA
- Dr. Hani Aburas
- Former Mayor, Jeddah, and Professor, King Abdul Aziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Adam Maamoun
- Quality Assurance Engineering Manager, Intelligence & Security, BAE Systems, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA
- Dr. Haitham Bahaitham
- Associate Dean, King AbdulAziz University, Sabbegh, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Murad Andejany
- Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Jeddah and Chief Executive Officer at Investment Fund, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Abdulrahman Albar
- Assistant Professor at Jazan University & Development and Consultant in Private Sector, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Ana Fereras
- Senior Program Officer, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
- Dr. Mohammed Alomairy
- Executive General Manager of Business Excellence at Alinma Bank Saudi Arabia