Home Education Teaching Publications Graduate Students Miscellaneous Research Grants Miscellaneous Professional Societies SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Senior Member) IIE - Institute of Industrial Engineering (Senior Member) ASEE - American Society of Engineering Education ESW - Engineers for a Sustainable World Awards to students Fidelity Investments Prize. 2008 RIT Innovation Festival. (Awarded to SERG: James Barnum, Alicia Tejada, Carlos Briceno, Alvaro Rojas, Hemanth Bharadwaj, Mariela Rodriguez, Manaal Eisa, Megan Murat and Pamela Tham) First place award. 2005 EPA-P3 National competition. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Academy of Engineering. (Awarded to Emma Fulton, Topher Wood, Carlos Plaz, Otman ElAllam, Jonathan Steiner, and Natalya Privorotskaya) Third place. 2004 National Material Handling Competition. The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). (Awarded to Jason Kistner, Sarah Ballard, Joshua Dennie, and Emily Johnson). (more) Honorable mention. 2005 National Material Handling Competition. The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). (Awarded to David Blonski, Sean Carmody, Matthew Klosner, and Sagar Sheth). (more) Honorable mention. 2006 National Material Handling Competition. The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). (Awarded to James Letts, Nicolette McGeorge, Jessica Stalker, and Greg Tauer). (more) Second Place. 2008 National Material Handling Competition. The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). (Awarded to Lindsay Powers, Joshua Monsees, Leonardo Gala and Andrew Lawlor). (more) Third Place. 2009 National Material Handling Competition. The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). (Awarded to José Gabriel Rodríguez, Rodrigo Velarde Gonzalez, Huseyin Zorba and Desirae Gilbert). Service External service College Industry Council in Material Handling Education. Material Handling Industry of America. Academic board member (2008-2012). Journal of Manufacturing Systems (Reviewer) Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Development (Reviewer) National Science Foundation (Panelist) Computers and Industrial Engineering (Reviewer) Bioresources Journal (Reviewer) Internal service College of Engineering Tenure Committee. (2008-2011) RIT Long Range Planning Standing Committee. (Co-Chair, 2007-2010) Toyota Production Systems Lab. (2006-present) Teaching Assessment Committee - ad-hoc. (2007-2008) Faculty Search committes (2002, 2007 (chair), 2009 Endowed Professor (chair)) Engineering for a Sustainable World student chapter. Co-advisor. (2005-present) RIT Teaching and Learning Center. Member of the advisory board. (2002-present) RIT Strategic Planning. Global Dimensions Taskforce. (2003-2004) College of Engineering Honors Committee (2002-2004) Coordinator. ISE Seminar Series (2001-2003) Coordinator. International Summer Program in Manufacturing (2001, 2002, 2008) Brinkman Machine Tools Lab (Co-Director 2001-2003, Director 2003-2004) Masters of Science in Sustainable Engineering. Development team. (2006-2007) Minor program in Sustainable Product Design. Development team. (2005-2006) Other First Prize Award. 2009 IIE Curriculum Innovation Competition (with Brian Thorn). Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT) by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering since 1998. Rochester's Emerging Latino Leaders. 2006 New Faces in Engineering. National Engineering Week. 2003 West Raleigh Rotary Club Outstanding International Student Award. 1999. Inducted to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. 1997. Registered Engineer in Venezuela since 1993. Founding Chair. SME Student Chapter U-216. North Carolina State University. 1998 Fundacion Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho. Excellence Fellowship. 1995-1996 Press (students, research groups and ISE Department) ABC Newscast - Local TV. Raleigh, NC. (2000) Democrat and Chronicle - Newspaper. Rochester, NY. (2002) CBS Newscast (WROC 8) - Local TV. Rochester, NY. (2005) (quicktime) Democrat and Chronicle "RIT Cooking with Sunshine" - Newspaper. Rochester, NY. (June 20th, 2005) Industrial Engineer "Sustaining the Sun". March issue. (contributor: former student Emma Fulton). Vol 38. No(3). Page 40. - IIE Magazine. (2006) The Reporter "Choosing Charities over Chasers: it wasn't about the tequila after all" by Monica Donovan. April issue. pp:18-21 - RIT Magazine. (2006) Prism Magazine "Earth, Wind and Science" by Corinna Wu. Summer issue - ASEE Magazine. (2008) Industrial Engineer "Inside Minds" by Candi S. Cross. April issue. Vol 40. No(4). pp:24-29 - IIE Magazine. (2008)