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Dr. Don Liles

Dr. Don Liles

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Professor
Graduate Advisor for M.S. Engineering Management and M.S. Systems Engineering

Office: Woolf Hall, 325 H
Email: dliles@uta.edu

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Education
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, UT Arlington, 1978
M.S. Industrial Engineering, UT Arlington, 1974
B.S. Industrial Engineering, UT Arlington, 1970

Experience
2012-Present Professor, IMSE Department, The University of Texas at Arlington
1998-2012 Professor and Chair, IMSE Department, The University of Texas at Arlington
1989-1998 Associate Director, Automation and Robotics Research Institute, The University of Texas at Arlington
1979-Present Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor, IMSE Department, The University of Texas at Arlington

Research Interests

  • Enterprise Engineering

Professional Activities

  • Executive Council Member of the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center
  • Member of the National Board of Alpha Pi Mu, the National Honor Society for Industrial Engineering

Selected Publications

  • Md B. Sarder, D.H. Liles, S. N. Imrhan, K.J. Rogers, and Nebeel Mandhawe, "Line Balancing for Apparel Manufacturing Using COMSOAL," Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications & Practice, Nagoya, Japan, October 24 - 27, 2006.
  • Md B. Sarder, Don Liles, and Abu S.M. Masud, "User-Interface for Solving MOLP Problems," Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications & Practice, Nagoya, Japan, October 24 - 27, 2006.
  • Md B. Sarder, Don H. Liles, and Jamie Rogers, "Functional Integration of Manufacturing Enterprises," Proceedings of the Annual Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology Conference (PICMET), Istanbul, Turkey, July 9 - 13, 2006.
  • Md B. Sarder, John Priest, Don H. Liles, and Young-moon Leem, "Activity Modeling Of Product And Process Design Using IDEF0," Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, June 20 - 23, 2006.
  • MD B. Sarder, Sheik N. Imrhan, J. Rogers, Don Liles, and Edmund Prater, "Assessment of functional outsourcing for some us industry," Proceedings of the Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Orlando, Florida, May 20 - 24, 2006.
  • MD B. Sarder, Sheik N. Imrhan, J. Rogers, Don Liles, and Edmund Prater, "Assessment of functional outsourcing for some us industry," Proceedings of the Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Orlando, Florida, May 20 - 24, 2006.
  • Md B. Sarder and Don H. Liles, "EII - A Quantitative Measure of Functional Integration for Manufacturing Enterprise," Proceedings of the Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Orlando, Florida, May 20 - 24, 2006.
  • Md B. Sarder, Don H. Liles and John Priest, "Mapping Design Activities Across Product Development Life Cycle," Proceedings of the Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Orlando, Florida, May 20 - 24, 2006.
  • Md B. Sarder and Don H. Liles, "Design Ontology Modeling Using IDEF5," Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, Boston, Massachusetts, April 28 - May 1, 2006.
  • MD B. Sarder, Jamie Rogers, and Don H. Liles, "Role of Logistics in Mass Customization," Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, Boston, Massachusetts, April 28 - May 1, 2006.
  • Rajagopalan.S, Yellepeddi.S and Liles, D.H., "Development of Reverse Supply Chain Performance Measures," Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Clearwater, FL, Dec. 4 - 7.
  • Yellepeddi.S, Rajagopalan.S and Liles, D.H., "A Balanced Scorecard Approach for an Effective Reverse Supply Chain in Electronics Industry," Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Clearwater, FL, Dec. 4 - 7.
  • Md B. Sarder & Don H. Liles, "The Use of Ontologies for product & process design in Manufacturing Enterprises," Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theory, Applications & Practice, Clearwater, Florida, December 4 - 7, 2005.
  • MD B. Sarder and Don H. Liles, "Methodology development of ontology of product & process design for enterprise modeling," Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS), Miami, Florida, May 24 - 28, 2005.
  • MD B. Sarder, Don Liles and M. Yousuf Ali, "Design & Implementation of production line in apparel manufacturing industry," Proceedings of the Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Atlanta, Georgia, May 14 - 18, 2005.
  • Whitman, L. E., D. Liles, B. L. Huff, and K. J. Rogers, "A Manufacturing Reference Model for the Enterprise Engineer," Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis, 2001, Vol. 4, pp 1-14.
  • Presley, A. and D. Liles, "A Holon Based Process Modeling Methodology," International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 2001, 21(5/6), pp565-581.
  • Presley, A., J. Sarkis, and D. Liles, "A Soft Systems Methodology Approach for Product and Process Innovation," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 2000, 47(3), pp379-392.
  • Presley, A. and D. Liles, "R&D Validation Planning: A Methodology to Link Technical Validations to Benefits Measurement," R&D Management, 2000, 30(1), pp55-65.
  • Presley, A., J. Sarkis, D. Liles, and W. Barnett, "Engineering the Virtual Enterprise," International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, 2000, 13(2), pp145-162.