Ed Pines

You can contact me at:
Department of Industrial Engineering
Box 30001/MSC 4230
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
(575) 646-2730, FAX: (575) 646-2976, e-mail: epines@nmsu.edu
On campus: Foreman Engineering Complex(ECIII), Room 201

I'm Associate Professor and Academic Department Head of Industrial Engineering as well as Director of Distance Education Programs for the College of Engineering. I joined the NMSU faculty in January 1994 after completing my PhD. Since then, I've has taught courses in quality, reliability, manufacturing, ergonomics, and classical industrial engineering. Several of my graduate classes are regularly offered on video (live and web formats) to NMSU Off-Campus students. I am chief adviser of NMSU's Tau Beta Pi chapter and adviser of our Alpha Pi Mu chapter. Currently, I am working on an engineering entrepreneurship program for College of Engineering students.

Teaching

Fall 2010

IE 110 IE Orientation
IE 316 Methods Engineering and Work Measurement
IE 382 Business for Engineers
IE 523 Advanced Engineering Economy
IE 563 Topics in Engineering Administration


Spring 2011

IE 480/ME 426/ME427 Senior Design


Some Information You May or May Not Be Interested In:

Education:

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 1994
M.E., The Pennsylvania State University, 1982
B.S. with Honor, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1979

Industry:

I have over ten years of industrial experience in engineering and management in the aerospace and electronics industries. As an industrial engineer, I worked in methods engineering, work measurement, facilities design, inventory and concurrent engineering design. I have managed software (MRP II and process planning systems) and new system implementation efforts in a variety of settings. These highly varied industry adventures along with a dry sense of humor pervade my classes. I'm an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer.

Research Interests:

Quality and continuous improvement
Large-scale systems
Engineering and public policy


Of Philosophical Interest....

Quality never goes out of style! (a servicemark of Levi Stauss & Co)

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)

A promise made is a debt unpaid. (Robert W. Service: The Cremation of Sam McGee)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves fight in vain, thought Smiley; but Schiller had forgotten the bureaucrats. (John Le Carre: Smiley's People)

Don't panic. (Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

To give people with little money a chance to get the best education there is--that is true revolution. (Garrison Keillor, Homegrown Democrat)

Sell your computer. Buy a guitar. (as seen on a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers t-shirt)

Reading That's Worth It List:

Listed below are some books that students taking my courses will hear about:

David Billington The Innovators

Robert Caro The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Stephen L. Carter (integrity)

Eugene S. Ferguson Engineering and the Mind's Eye

Samuel Florman has published several books on engineers and engineering.

John Gall Systemantics

Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Henry Petroski has published several books on engineers and engineering.

Peter Rice An Engineer Imagines

Walter G. Vincenti What Engineers Know and How They Know It

Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano

Robert Penn Warren All The King's Men


Recreational Reading?

Some of the authors I enjoy reading include:

Fiction:
Kate Atkinson, Raymond Chandler, Alan Furst, Dashiell Hammett, James Herriott, John Irving, Susan Isaacs, Wayne Johnston, Randall Jarrell, John Le Carre, John Mortimer, Patrick O'Brian, Richard Russo, Rex Stout, Edith Wharton, P.G.Wodehouse

Non-Fiction:
Russell Baker, Daniel Boorstin, Art Buchwald, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Molly Ivins, David McCullough, John McPhee, Richard Reeves

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Last modified 18 December 2009 Ed Pines