THOMAS ALLEN LACKSONEN

Dept. of Operations and Management

College of Management

Areas of interest

Student projects

Courses taught

Research and consulting

Recent publications

Hobbies

Areas of interest

o Global facilities design
o Facilities layout, including dynamic layout, detailed layout
o Warehousing and logistics systems design
o Automated management science models on spreadsheets
o Simulation-based training systems

Student design projects

Global facilities design projects - students take a case study problem and then complete detailed facility design and implementation plans to install the facility in Turkey. The projects are done jointly with students from Turkey. Recent projects were on the re-design of the Kifas Ortopedik wheelchair factory in Turkey. Other universities are welcome to join in these projects.

Co-advisor for Middle East Technical University Industrial Engineering student group project, Distribution System Design For Eti Corporation, which won first place at the Turkish national Operations Research/Industrial Engineering conference, June 2004.

Courses taught

o Undergraduate Courses at University of Wisconsin-Stout

• INMGT-200 Production/Operations Management
• INMGT-300 Engineering Economics (web-based course)
• INMGT-335 Lean Manufacturing Systems Design
• INMGT-350 Facilities Planning
• INMGT-422 Quality Engineering
• INMGT-450 Maintenance Management

o Graduate Courses at University of Wisconsin-Stout

• INMGT-735 Field Problems in Industrial Management
• INMGT-700 Organizational Research Methods
• INMGT-710 Seminar in Industrial Operations
• INMGT-740 Introduction to Decision Theory

o Courses at other universities

• Computer Methods for Industrial Engineers
• Engineering Statistics I and II
• Production and Inventory Control
• Work Design
• Operations Research
• Systems Simulation I and II
• Systems Design I and II, capstone courses

Research and consulting projects

In addition to the projects below, I have five years experience as an industrial engineer at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY and Whirlpool Corporation in Clyde, OH.

o Inventory Reduction and Warehouse Re-design, Nestles'
o Dispatching Software Recommendation, Mission Aviation Fellowship
o Dynamic Engineering Economy Practice (DEEP) Program Development, Oxford Press
o Re-layout Project Scheduling Software Development, UW-Stout
o Centralized Stockroom Analysis, Hunt-Wesson Swiss Miss
o An Improved Machine Grouping Algorithm, Cimtechnologies Corp.
o Stochastic Decision Analysis, NASA

Recent publications

o An International Facility Design Project, Frontiers in Engineering Education Conference, 2008.
o Optimal Scope of Work for International Integrated Systems, Material Handling Research Colloquium, 2004.
o A Global Manufacturing Systems Design Project Partnership, ASEE/World Federation of Engineering Organizations International Colloquium, 2003.
o Global Material Handling Systems Design, Material Handling Research Colloquium, 2002.
o Automated Problem Generators for Asynchronous Learning, American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2001.
o Empirical Comparison of Search Algorithms for Discrete Event Simulation, Computers and Industrial Engr., 40, 1, 2001.
o An Iterative Layout Design Process, Industrial Engineering Research Conference, 2000.
o Project Scheduling Algorithms for Relayout Projects, IIE Transactions, 30, 1, 1998.
o Preprocessing for Static and Dynamic Facility Layout Problems, Intl. Journ. of Production Research, 35, 4, 1997.
o Static and Dynamic Layout Problems with Varying Areas, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 45, 1, 1994.
o Quadratic Assignment Algorithms for the Dynamic Layout Problem," Intl. Journ. of Production Research, 31, 3, 1993.

Hobbies

o Bicycling, triathlon, adventure race participant
o Cross-country skiing, American Birkebeiner participant
o Referee coordinator, Red Cedar Soccer
o Governing Board member, Menomonie Alliance Church
o Rooting for the Cleveland Indians