The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
 
Laboratory for Quality Engineering
and System Transitions (QUEST)
 
 

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Dr. Harriet Black Nembhard
Associate Professor and Bashore Career Professor
Director, QUEST Lab

212 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-4210
Fax: 814-863-4745
Email: hbnembhard@psu.edu

 
   
   
   
   
   
 

Current Research Assistants

 
 


Wenny Chandra
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Area: Statistical Process Control
Email: wxc202@psu.edu

Chumpol Yuangyai
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Area: Design of Experiments
Email: cuy113@psu.edu

 

Current Collaborators

 
   

 


Dr. James H. Adair
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University

Dr. Mary Frecker
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University

Dr. Julie Simmons Ivy
Assistant Professor, Ross School of Business, Univesity of Michigan

Dr. Sanjay Joshi
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Penn State University

Dr. Seong H. Kim
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University

Dr. David A. Nembhard
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Penn State University

Dr. Julie Ann (Stuart) Williams
Associate Professor, Department of Management and MIS, Univesity of West Florida

 

Former Students

 
 

Dr. Ming-Shu (Daniel) Kao
Ph.D., December 2001, Industrial Engineering, UW-Madison. Dissertation Title: "A Unified Framework for Statistical Process Control of a Dynamic-Stochastic System in Manufacturing Transitions." Current affiliation: 3M, Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Rene Valverde-Ventura
Ph.D., December 2002, Industrial Engineering, UW-Madison, December 2002. Dissertation Title: "Using Experimental Design and Statistical Control to Advance a Framework for Process Improvement in Manufacturing." Current affiliation: Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN

Dr. Mehmet Aktan
Ph.D., May 2003, Industrial Engineering, UW-Madison. Dissertation Title: "Real Options Valuation of Flexibility in Manufacturing and Quality." Current affiliation: Ataturk University, Turkey

Kim Baron
M.S., May 2006, Industrial Engineering, Penn State. Thesis Title: "Modeling and Uncertainty in Breast Cancer Decision Making."

Pannapa Changpetch
M.S., May 2006, Industrial Engineering, Penn State. Thesis Title: "Periodic Cuscore charts to Detect Step Shifts in Autocorrelated Processes."

Dr. Navin Acharya
Ph.D. December 2006, Industrial Engineering, Penn State. Dissertation Title: "Missing Observations and Restrictions on Randomization in Nanomanufacturing Experimentation."

Dr. Shuohui Chen
Ph.D. December 2006, Industrial Engineering, Penn State. Dissertation Title: "The Cuscore and High-Dimensional Control Charts for Statistical Monitoring of Autocorrelated Process Data." Current affiliation: Discover, Chicago, IL