 Dr. Dan Shunk
Professor of Industrial Engineering,
Arizona State University
Dan Shunk is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Shunk received his B.S.I.E., his M.S.I.E. and his Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1971, 1972 and 1976, respectively.
From 1975 to 1979, he served as the Captain and Co-Founder of the ICAM Program for the United States Air Force. From there, he moved to the Rockwell Corporation where he served as a manager in Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems. In 1980, he moved on to International Harvester where he served as a manager in the Planning and GT division. From 1981 until 1984, Shunk served as the Vice President and General Manager of the GCA Corporation. He has served as a consultant for Motorola, the United States Army, Digital Equipment Corporation, SUN Microsystems, Transcript Communications, Level One Communications, Intel, Oracle and Avnet.
Shunk came from industry to ASU in 1984 as an associate professor of industrial engineering. From 1984 to 1994, he served as the CIM Systems Research Center Director. He is currently serving as the Avnet Chair of Supply Network Integration.
His principal research interests are in material/information/knowledge supply network integration, computer integrated manufacturing, electronic commerce progression, time compression, cultural acceptance of change and enterprise integration.
Shunk is a current member of the U.S. Alternate to Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Organization, a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a senior charter member of the Computer Aided Systems Association. He is also a member of the Alpha Pi Mu and Tau Beta Pi honor societies. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Agility, Global Competition and the International Journal of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing.
|
