Dušan N. Šormaz, PhD

Dušan N. Šormaz, PhD Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Ohio University Athens, Ohio, USA

Dr. Dušan N. Šormaz is a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Ohio University, Athens, USA. Dr. Dušan N. Šormaz’s principal research interests are in Lean manufacturing, Simulation, Additive Manufacturing, Process planning, and application of knowledge based systems in manufacturing. He teaches Lean manufacturing, Simulation and Computer Integrated Manufacturing courses at Ohio University. His student team received the 1^st place among 220 teams from 11 countries in the Global simulation competition sponsored by Simio company held in May 2017. His graduate student team was a runner up in NIST/ASME RAMP competition held at ASME MSEC Conference in June 2017.

He has worked on research projects sponsored by NIST, Delphi Automotive, GE, MVESC, and major oil companies in the areas of manufacturing process planning, cost estimation, bus scheduling, and corrosion modeling and prediction software.

He has published his research (over 100 refereed papers) in refereed journals, the four book chapters and at international conferences. He also delivered several keynotes and workshops at the research conferences. He serves as a reviewer for several international journals, he co-edited proceedings of Group Technology/ Cellular Manufacturing World Symposium 2003 and he was a guest editor of the special issue of International Journal of Production Research in 2008. He is the general chair of the Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing conference FAIM2018 which was organized by the Russ College in June 2018 in Columbus, OH.

Dr. Šormaz has received the IISE Lean Division’s Lean Teaching Award in 2018. He was finalist for Presidential Teacher Award at Ohio University in 2017, and received multiple annual Marvin E. and Ann D. White Teaching Award and Marvin E. and Ann D. White Research Awards at Ohio University. He was a holder of Fulbright scholarship for graduate studies in the USA in early 1990-ties.

Dr. Šormaz received his Ph.D. degree in industrial and systems engineering and MSc. in computer science from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, and MSc in industrial engineering and BS. in mechanical engineering from University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. He is member of IISE, senior member of SME, member of ASEE  and member of Alpha Pi Mu – industrial engineering honor society.