Sandra Furterer, Ph.D.

Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems

University of Central Florida           

 

Dr. Furterer will tell us how the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS) Department at the University of Central Florida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculum within a Total Quality Improvement course that helps to tie the community to engineering education.  

 

About the Speaker   

Dr. Sandy Furterer is the Assistant Chair and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of Central Florida .  Her teaching and research interests are in quality engineering, engineering management, engineering education, and change management. She has a Bachelor and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Ohio State ,  an MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati , and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida .

 

Prior to returning to study for her Ph.D. in 2002, Dr. Furterer was a management consultant specializing in implementing Lean and Quality principles and tools in both “white collar” and manufacturing processes.

 

She was a Manager of Industrial Engineering for Mead Data Central (now Lexis Nexis), facilitating improvements in data fabrication and information systems development processes.  She also performed information systems analysis for AT&T.

 

Dr. Furterer is an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSBB) and a certified Quality Engineer (CQE), as well as a Girl Scout troop leader.