Danny J Bee

Areas of Interest and Research

I have many research interests. I enjoy assisting manufacturing companies to improve their operations. I thoroughly enjoy getting involved in continuous quality improvement, particularly the aspects of lean manufacturing currently being implemented by many companies. I am currently not working directly with any one company due to the time commitments required for the work on my PhD. I am pursuing this degree through Michigan Technological University in Mechanical Engineering under the advisement of Dr. John Sutherland.

My MTU research is in the area of environmentally responsible design and manufacturing (ERDM), or industrial ecology, or sustainable development, or whatever new buzz phrase someone wants to call it. Bottom line: we need to design, use, and reuse products and materials so we do not deplete all of the available resources in the world. We need to quit filling up landfills with municipal solid waste (MSW), dumping this MSW in the ocean, or incinerating the MSW. We need to come up with ways of creating product multi-use and ultimately zero material waste. I'll get off my soapbox now!

Here are papers not related to my doctoral research that I have either authored or co-authored:

Summer Technology & Engineering Preview at Stout (STEPS) for Girls, Bee, D., Puck, B., and Heimdahl, P., Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2003.
Back to the Future Manufacturing Engineering at Stout, Bee, D., Proceedings of the 2001 ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001.

Please let me know if any of the links are not working properly. Thanks.

University of Wisconsin - Stout
P.O. Box 790
306 Fryklund Hall
Menomonie, WI 54751
715-232-5247
email: Danny J Bee

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