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Dr. Neal McCollom

Dr. Neal McCollom

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Adjunct Faculty

Office: Woolf Hall, 420 V
Email:nnmc@uta.edu

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Education
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1981
M.S. Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, 1974
B.S. Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, 1973

Experience
2008 - Present Sustainment Engineer, Lockheed Martin Fellow
2002 - 2008 Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Integrator for F-35 Autonomic Logistics Global Sustainment
1996 - 2002 IS&T Manager for development and support of Knowledge Management applications and CAD / CAE Engineering Design processes and tools
1992 - 1996 Lead Engineer, F-22 Support Data
1983 - 1992 Project Manager, Knowledge Based Systems
1981 - 1983 Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Missouri – Columbia

Professional Activities

  • Adjunct Faculty Member, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (current)
  • Member, Industrial Advisory Board, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (current)
  • Chair, Industrial Advisory Board, Industrial Engineering & Management, Oklahoma State Univ. / Interact with Students and Faculty. Assist the department in preparing for the ABET accreditation
  • Industrial Fellow, Automation and Robotics Research Institute / provided internal programmatic review and relevance assessment to the aerospace industry
  • Company Representative, Program for Automation in Manufacturing, Texas A&M University. Provided input and project requirements for student/company cooperative projects
  • Member, Alpha Pi Mu, Industrial Engineering Honor Society
  • Registered Professional Engineer, Texas #44109
  • Member, Institute of Industrial Engineers

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • "The Human Elements of IDEF," with T. Cullinane, P. Duran, and D. Thornhill, Proceedings, 1990 IDEF User's Group Conference, May, 1990.
  • "New Programming Style Cuts Systems Life Cycle Costs," with L. T. Blank, Journal of Cost Management for the Manufacturing Industry, Fall, 1990.
  • "Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing," Keynote Speaker for the 7th Annual Oklahoma Conference on Artificial Intelligence, November, 1993.
  • "The Integration of Requirements into an Engineering Design Session Using Knowledge Based Systems," Proceedings, 1999 Software Technology Conference, May, 1999.
  • "Prognostics and Health Management - A Data-Driven Approach to Supporting the F-35 Lightning II", with Ed Brown, Erin Moore, and Andy Hess, Proceedings, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2007.
  • "Prognostics and Health Management – the Key to Supportability and Affordability on the JSF" Invited presentation in the Product Lifecycle Management track at the 2007 SAE AeroTech Congress & Exhibition, September, 2007.
  • "JSF PHM Overview" Accepted Paper to the IEEE PHM08, The International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management, October, 2008.
  • "Design for Sustainment" Accepted Presentation to the 2008 Lockheed Martin Mission Critical Enterprise Systems Symposium, October, 2008.