Richard J. Titus

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Richard TitusVisiting Professor Management DepartmentCollege of Business and Economics Lehigh Valley University

Graduated from Lehigh University, BS Industrial Engineering, 1981.Hired by Ingersoll-Rand as a Program Member for the Management Training Program in 1981.Following completion of the Management Training Program, was assigned to first supervisory position as Supervisor of Process Planning, Manufacturing Methods and Time Study.

In 1984 was selected to participate as part of the 1st class in a Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MSE) Program as Lehigh University.This was a full-time Master of Science Degree program that was funded by IBM.Lehigh and four (4) other universities were selected by IBM to start this program.Following the completion of the MS MSE degree, was assigned as the Supervisor of Manufacturing Systems.The manufacturing systems group functioned as a development group investigating, developing and implementing the appropriate software and hardware to support large scale manufacturing.This provided the 1st opportunity to work with Oracle.
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Beginning as a Visiting Professor in the Management Department of Lehigh University's College of Business and Economics in August 2000, Mr. Titus has taught and Manufacturing Operations and Organizational Behavior course.Additionally Mr. Titus is teaching a Graduate Course in Transportation and Logistics while he works on completing his dissertation leading to a Doctorate in Engineering focusing on supply chain management.

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The class has been totally revamped by Richard Titus '81, 86G, an adjunct lecturer with the College of Business and Economics.Titus's hands-on radio project helps students learn how to perform in a team environment and gives them a perspective of the critical aspects of operation.The students use several of the six sigma quality tools, a scientific problem solving program, to help identify problems and generate improvements to the radio kit.In order to have a clear-cut view of what needs to be accomplished, a process map is created to help identify defects and rework steps.Other quality tools such as Pareto charts and cause and effect diagrams are applied to aid in the understanding of various problems they encounter."The emphasis is on the interactive experience and seeing it visually," said Titus."The project requires a team effort to pull off the interactive experience."With every team member having different skills to bring to the table, the radio project helps students to problem solve by using everyone's ideas in order to improve the final project.If the team doesn't work together efficiently, the radio doesn't produce music.In addition, hands-on training helps students to easily detect the weaknesses and correct them.
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Titus uses other projects such as assembling Knex car kits to help simulate "just in time inventory", further enhancing the hand-on experience in the classroom, and his students feel that these projects make a difference in what they learn.

Richard J. Titus, Jr. MSMSE, CPIM, Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Richard has more the 20 years of experience in the application of quality improvement methods and Six Sigma in manufacturing and technology domains. He has lead a wide range of projects for Ingersoll-Rand and has consulted and provided training to Siemens and other major industrial companies.

He is an Adjunct Instructor at Lehigh University where he created and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Manufacturing Operations, Organizational Behavior, Logistics, and Transportation. Richard is currently a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering at Penn State University.

Richard J. Titus, Jr. MSMSE, CPIM, Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Richard has more the 20 years of experience in the application of quality improvement methods and Six Sigma in manufacturing and technology domains. He has lead a wide range of projects for Ingersoll-Rand and has consulted and provided training to Siemens and other major industrial companies.

He is an Adjunct Instructor at Lehigh University where he created and taught graduate and undergraduate courses on Manufacturing Operations, Organizational Behavior, Logistics, and Transportation. Richard is currently a PhD candidate in Industrial Engineering at Penn State University.