faculty
Dr. Ardeshir Lohrasbi
Associate Professor, Business Administration
Ph.D. 1979, Operations Management, Union Graduate School
Courses:
- BUS 322 - Production and Operations Management,
- BUS 440 - Production Planning and Quality Control,
- BUS 450 - Project Management
Dr. Lohrasbi has published papers in the areas of production, inventory, operations management and computer applications. He has served as the Track Chair of Production and Operations Management section for the Midwest Business Administration Association, Decision Science Institute, and Operations Research/The Institute of Management Science. His current research is in the area of service management and its effect in industry and society, factories of the future, management information systems, and measuring and improving productivity, cost and benefit analysis in the manufacturing and service sectors.
On-Going research includes Six Sigma: leading improvement in the Service Sectors, Development and Implementation of Benchmarking for Industry, Improving Large Hospital Emergency Department Operations through Application of Queuing Theory: Project being conducted at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield Illinois, Crisis Management, Total Quality Management (TQM) and Global Operations Management, Implementation of Computer Technology in Service Management.
Refereed Publications and Presentations:
- Identifying and Improving Factors which Contribute to Productivity
in a Small Firm” Midwest Business Administration MBA International 43rd Annual Meeting Chicago, Illinois, March 2007 Published in Operations Management and Entrepreneurship Association 2007 Proceeding with Hamid Aminzadeh, Rahbaran, Tehran.
- A Foundation study for Improving Operations and Productivity in the service Sector”, The Journal of American Academy of Business Cambridge Volume 9 Number 2 September 2006.
- Product Lifecycle Unit Pricing from R&D and product development to Project Termination” with Ronal Spahr at Decision Science Institute (DSI) at the National Meeting in San Francisco Nov.2005 published in proceeding.
- Improving Emergency Department Operations through Application of Queuing Theory”, with Charles D. Callahan American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Proceedings 2005.
- MBA Student Perspective on Online Degree Courses: An Empirical Analysis,” with Michael Small. 2003. International Journal of E-Learning (IJEL).
E-mail: lohrasbi.ardeshir@uis.edu
Web: http://people.uis.edu/alohr1/
Phone: (217) 206-6977
Office: UHB 4038
