Louisiana Tech Faculty Information Page

Sule, Dr. Dileep R.

Professor of Industrial Engineering
Lauret Professor

Degrees

Contact Info

Text Books

• Manufacturing Facilities: Location, Planning and Design; PWS Publishing, Boston, a division of International Thomson Publishing; 1988
  2nd edition; 1994 Translated into Spanish as “Instalaciones de Manufactura”; Thomson Learning, 2000
• Industrial Scheduling; PWS Publishing, Boston, a division of International Thomson Publishing; 1997
• Logistics of Facility Location and Allocation; Marcel Dekker, New York; 2000

Recent Research Grants

• 6 months $18,000.00; CEnIT course development grant; 2003
• 3 year, $200,000; Naval Research carrier project; with Dr. Alley Butler; 2000
• 3 year, $300,000; DEPSCOR and Naval Research; with Dr. Alley Butler; 1999
• 2 year, $25,000; Guide Plant, Monroe, LA; 1993
• Other grants such as from Army Ammunition Plant, Thiokol and International Paper

Professional Experience

• Professor, Industrial Engineering; Louisiana Tech University; 1995 – present
• Professor and Coordinator, Industrial Engineering; Louisiana Tech University; 1986 – 1995
• Professor, Industrial Engineering; Louisiana Tech University; 1978 – 1986
• Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Computer Science; Louisiana Tech University; 1972 – 1978
• Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Computer Science; Louisiana Tech University; 1969 – 1972
• Teaching Assistant; Texas A&M University; 1967 – 1969; Research Assistant; Texas Transportation Institute; Summer 1967; Research Assistant; Texas A&M University; 1966 – 1968;
  

INDUSTRIAL CONSULTING

Bell-Foster Glass Container Corp; Inland Fisher Guide Plant; Law Office of Campbell, Campbell & Johnson; Law Office of James Lambert; Stowe Woodward; Expert Witness for GS Roofing; Century Printing; C-BART; International Paper Company; United Steel Workers Union; Columbia Chemicals; Thiokol, Inc.; Olinkraft, Inc.; Baker Brush Co.; Duraflake South, Inc.; Army Ammunition Plant; Delta Industries

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE

Designer; Mavor and Coulson Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland; Designed coal moving, conveyor and chain belts to customer specifications. Cooperated with team of 5 designers to design a Bucket Wheel Excavator; 1964 – 1966
Graduate Trainee; Mining Engineering Company, Worcester, England; General training in machine shop and assemblies of mining equipment; 1963 – 1964
Trainee; Mahindra & Mahindra, Bombay, India; General training on shop floor in car production; 1963

Publications

• A new method to solve weighted minimax single facility location problem with Euclidean distance, with Anuj Davalbhakta: Accepted and in print; International Journal of Industrial Engineering.
• A CDS based two-phase algorithm for group scheduling with group dependent setup times, with Advait Damle: Cellular Manufacturing Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2003.
• A two-stage heuristic method for balancing mixed model assembly lines with parallel work stations, with Neil Kanitkar: IIE Annual Research Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2003.
• Heuristic to minimize makespan in an assembly job shop where machines process multiple parts and jobs use parts from multiple machines, with Amol Damle and Shivraj Jadhav; Proceedings: IIE Annual Research Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2002
• A new heuristic for placing absolute p-center on a general graph, with Advait Damle, Proceedings: IIE Annual Research Conference, Orlando, FL, May 2002
• Fuzzy logic application in data acquisition, with Tory Watkins; Proceedings: ASME 2001 Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information, Pittsburgh, 2001
• Evaluation of Fault Tree using Fuzzy Logic Analysis, with Tory Watkins; Proceedings: IIE Annual Research Conference, Dallas, TX, May 2001
• Plant Layout Designer: Software for Plant Layout Development with Narsimhan Pallapalayam; Proceedings: IIE Annual Research Conference, Dallas, TX, May 2001
• Facility Planning, Invited presentation; V International Conference on Manufacturing Systems, Queretaro, Mexico
• , Sept 2000
• Job Shop Scheduling with Parallel Processors; Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Phoenix, AZ, May 1999
• A Framework for training workers in Contemporary Manufacturing Environments; International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol 12, No 4, 1999
• Preventive Maintenance Scheduling in single machine problem; Proceedings: International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, New Orleans, LA, March 1999
• Heuristic procedure for Makespan minimization in Hybrid Flow Shop; Journal of Computer and Industrial Engineering, 1998
• Scheduling Robots in confined work area for an Electronic Assembly Operation; IIE Annual Conference, Banff, 1998
• Heuristic Procedure for Makespan minimization in Job Shops with Multiple Identical Processors; Proceedings: 22^nd ICC & IE Conference, Cairo, Egypt
• , 1997
• Heuristic method to alleviate the bottleneck stage and minimize the Makespan of a Hybrid Flow Shop with Penny Adams; Presented at IIE Research Conference, 1997
• Distributor’s Pallet Loading problem; International Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol 1, 1994
• Heuristic to minimize Throughput time on a NC machine; International Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol 1, 1994
• Heuristic method for Single Machine Scheduling Problem; International Journal of Industrial Engineering, Vol 1, 1994
• Integrated Decision Models for Concurrent Engineering with Kannan Venkatesh, Srinivasaraghavan Rajagopalan and Dulio Furtado; Proceedings: Fourth International Conference on Technology, Mar 1994
• Engineering Project Team Formation: A Similarity Coefficient Approach with Srinivisaraghavan Rajagopalan; Proceedings: Fourth International Conference on Management of Technology, Mar 1994
• Assessment, Transfer and Management of Technology in Healthcare with Kenneth H. Gardner; Proceedings: Fourth International Conference on Management of Technology, Mar 1994
• Job Sequencing to minimize Tool Changeovers in Flexible Manufacturing; International Journal of Production Planning and Control, Vol 4, No 1, 1993
• Optional Robot Path Determination using Linear Programming with Shukla and Furtado; Proceedings: 14^th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1992
• A Heuristic Procedure for Component Scheduling in Printed Circuit Pack Sequencer; International Journal of Production Research, Vol 30, No 5, 1992
• Manpower Assignment Strategies in Serial Lines with Limited Personnel: Evaluation of Pull-Push rules with Wayne Norris; Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1992
• A Present Value Approach to determine Optimum Project Duration with Bruce Chow; Engineering Economist, Vol 37, No 2, 1992
• Batch Scheduling for Limited Capacity Fixed Period Process problem with Sanjay Saxena; Production Planning and Control, Vol 3, No 1, 1992
• Computerized Facility Layout Design with Reza Ziai; Proceedings: Computers and Industrial Engineering Conference, 1991
• Machine Capacity Planning in Group Technology; International Journal of Production Research, Vol 29, No 9, 1991
• A generalized Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) simulation with Kerry Figiel; Proceedings: Winter Simulation Conference, New Orleans, 1990

Scientific and Professional Society Membership

American Institute of Industrial Engineers; Senior Member

Honor Society Membership

Honors

• Associate Editor; Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Associate Editor; International Journal of Industrial Engineering
• Reviewer; IIE Transactions, IJPR, IJIE, IJPPC, Manufacturing Systems and other journals
• Outstanding Professional Achievement Award; Shreveport Council for Scientists and Engineers, 1981
• Engineering Award for Publication; Louisiana Tech Engineering Foundation; 1972, 1978, 1979, 1981
• Distinguished Engineering Service Award; Louisiana Tech Engineering Foundation; 1976
• Outstanding Professor Award; Frost Foundation; 1971
• American Men and Women in Science

Recent Activities

• Consulting Editor; Journal of Industrial Engineering; 1993 – present
• Associate Editor, Journal of Manufacturing Engineering Systems  1995- present
• Member of National Defense &Engineering Graduate Fellowship Review Panel 1998- present