Professional Activites

Over the years, Dr. Gupta has been involved in various professional activities. Following is a partial list of those activities:

• Editorial
  • Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Electronics Manufacturing on "Production, Planning and Scheduling in Electronics Manufacturing".
  • Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 4193 titled "Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing".
  • Editor, Special Issue of Computers and Industrial Engineering on "Operational Issues in Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing".
  • Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Electronics Manufacturing on "Environmental, Recycling and End of Life Issues in the Electronics Industry".
  • Senior Editor, Industrial Engineering Applications and Practice: Users' Encyclopedia .
  • Area Editor for Environmental Issues, Computers and Industrial Engineering.
  • Editorial Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Electronics and the Environment.
  • Editorial Board Member, IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing.
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Industrial Engineering.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Electronics Manufacturing.
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Product and Process Development (part of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing).

• Reviewer
  • Reviewer, Annals of Operations Research.
  • Reviewer, Computers and Industrial Engineering.
  • Reviewer, Computers and Mathematics with Applications.
  • Reviewer, Computers and Operations Research.
  • Reviewer, Encyclopedia of Production and Manufacturing Management.
  • Reviewer, Engineering Costs and Production Economics on Equipment Replacement Decisions.
  • Reviewer, European Journal of Operational Research.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment.
  • Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
  • Reviewer, IIE Transactions.
  • Reviewer, Industrial Engineering Encyclopedia.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Industrial Engineering.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Product and Process Development.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Production Economics.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Production Research.
  • Reviewer, International Journal of Quality Science.
  • Reviewer, Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
  • Reviewer, Journal of Electronics Manufacturing.
  • Reviewer, Journal of Engineering Sciences.
  • Reviewer, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
  • Reviewer, Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering.
  • Reviewer, Management Science.
  • Reviewer, Optimal Control: Applications and Methods.
  • Reviewer, Production Planning and Control.
  • Reviewer, John Wiley and Sons.
  • Reviewer, Richard D. Irwin.
  • Invited Member, Proposal Review Panel, National Science Foundation.
  • Invited Member, Associateship Program Review Panel, National Research Council.

• Organizer and/or Session Chairman
  • Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Conference on "Responsive Manufacturing" Gaziantep, Turkey, June 26-28, 2002.
  • Chairman of the International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Boston, Massachusetts, October 28-31, 2001.
  • Member of the International Program Committee of the International Seminar on Life Cycle Engineering (sponsored by CIRP), Varna, Bulgaria, June 21-23, 2001.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, Denver, Colorado, May 7-9, 2001.
  • Track Chair for Management Science and Operations Research of the 2001 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 21-23, 2001.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Material Flow, Machines and Devices in Industry, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, December 7-8, 2000.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Role of Engineering Towards Better Environment, Alexandria, Egypt, November 18-20, 2000.
  • Chairman of the International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Boston, Massachusetts, November 5-8, 2000.
  • Member of the Executive Organizer, International Symposium on Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, Boston, Massachusetts, November 5-8, 2000.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "ECM Design of Product and Processes" at the International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Boston, Massachusetts, November 5-8, 2000.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "Remanufacturing and Inventory Issues" at the International Conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Boston, Massachusetts, November 5-8, 2000.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment held in San Francisco, California, May 8-10, 2000.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "Responsible Manufacturing" at the Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing World Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 27-30, 2000.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing World Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 27-30, 2000.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "JIT Issues" at the 2000 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 22-24, 2000.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Symposium on Manufacturing and Robotics, Ottawa, Canada, August 5-7, 1999.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment held in Danvers, Massachusetts, May 11-13, 1999.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "Remanufacturing/Disassembly" at the International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 29-April 1, 1999.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "Statistical Approaches And Neural Networks" at the 1999 Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, March 24-26, 1999.
  • Chairman of a Technical Session at the International Seminar on Reuse, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 1-3, 1999.
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 1988 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment held in Oak Brook, Illinois during May 4-6, 1998.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "Product Development" at the International Conference of Production and Operations Management Society, Cape Town, South Africa, June 28-July 3, 1998.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "Inventory Management" at the International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, March 29-April 1, 1998.
  • Chairman of the Technical Session titled "Production Control" at the International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Chicago, Illinois, March 29-April 1, 1998.
  • Chairman of the Session entitled Mechanical Manufacturing at the International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1997.
  • Chairman of the Session entitled Decision Analysis at the International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1997.
  • Chairman of the technical session entitled "Layout and Assembly Research" at the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, March 1995.
  • Chairman of the technical session entitled "Rotational Parts" at the International Machine Design and Production Conference, Ankara, Turkey, September 1994.
  • Chairman of the technical session entitled "Project Management", The XXXII International Conference of The Institute of Management Sciences, Alaska, June 1994.
  • Discussant at the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 1994.
  • Chairman of the MRP Session at the TIMS/ORSA Meeting, Washington D.C., April 1988.
  • Panelist of the Session entitled "Computer Based Support for Classroom Experimental Simulation" at the SCSC 87 Meetings in Montreal, July 87.
  • Chairman of Technical Sessions at the NEAIDS Conference, Boston, April 1984.
  • Co-chairman of the Software Seminar, Boston, June 1984.
  • Moderated three Technical Sessions at the AIIE Annual Conference, New Orleans, May 1982.
  • Chairman of the AIIE Boston Chapter Book Award, Boston, 1981 and 1982.
  • Organized and participated in the 'Industrial Engineering Day', Boston, 1981, 1982, 1983.
  • Organized and lead a Workshop On Effective Teaching, Vermont, 1981.
  • Organized and participated in the Industrial Engineering Students' Night in collaboration with the AIIE Boston Chapter, Boston, 1980.
  • Chairman of the 1979 Region I AIIE Student Paper Competition Judging Committee.
  • Conference Chairman, AIIE Region I Student Conference, 1979.

• Professional Society Membership
  • Senior Member - Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
  • Member - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • Member - Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)
  • Member - American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
  • Member - Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
  • Member - American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)

• Honors and Awards
  • Recipient of Outstanding Research Award.
  • Recipient of Outstanding Industrial Engineering Professor Award (in recognition of Teaching Excellence).
  • Ranked among the top five of all candidates in the 1970 BEEE graduating class.
  • Awarded First Division with Honors in BEEE.
  • Awarded Honors in M.B.A
  • Listed in American Men and Women of Science.
  • Listed in Biography International.
  • Listed in Biography of the Year.
  • Listed in Community Leaders of the World.
  • Listed in Dictionary of International Biography.
  • Listed in International Book of Honor.
  • Listed in International Who's Who in Engineering.
  • Listed in International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement.
  • Listed in Men of Achievement.
  • Listed in Notable Americans.
  • Listed in Personalities of America.
  • Listed in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges.
  • Listed in Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology.
  • Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
  • Listed in Who's Who in the East.
  • Elected and promoted to Full Member status in the Operations Research Society of America
  • Elected to Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering National Honor Society)
  • Elected to Delta Mu Delta (Business Administration National Honor Society)
  • Elected to Phi Beta Delta (Honor Society for International Scholars)
  • Elected to Phi Kappa Phi (All Academic Disciplines National Honor Society)
  • Elected to Sigma Xi (Scientific Research National Honor Society)
  • Elected to Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society)

• Other Professional Activities
  • Participated in the NSF Sponsored two day workshop on "Manufacturing Logistics", Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, May 1997.
  • Participated in the week long workshop at the Automatic Data Collection Educator's Institute, Athens, Ohio, July 1994.
  • Participated in the week long workshop at the Material Handling Summer Institute, Troy, New York, August 1993.
  • Participated in the NSF Sponsored four day program on "Concurrent Engineering and Design for Manufacture", Lowell, Massachusetts, July 1991.
  • Participated in a day long workshop on Manu-Plan, A Manufacturing Modeling Workshop, March 1989.
  • Participated in a week long Summer Institute on Multiprotection Design, Emmitsburg, Maryland, July 1985.
  • Participated in a three day workshop on Financial Management, June 1985.
  • Participated in a week long Summer Institute on Multiprotection Design, Emmitsburg, Maryland, July 1984.
  • Participated in a three day workshop on Microcomputers, Waltham, October, 1982.
  • Participated in the AIIE Faculty Advisors Workshop, New Orleans, May 1982.
  • Participated in a two day workshop entitled "Robotics and Automation - What's New", Orlando, Florida, March 1982.
  • Participated in a two day Federal Tax Forum, Waltham, Sept. 1981.
  • Participated in a week long Computer Simulation Language SLAM Workshop, Lafayette, Indiana, July 1981.
  • Participated in the Colloquium on the Training of Teaching Assistants, Boston, 1981.
  • Participated in the Effective Teaching Institute sponsored by Educational Research and Methods Division of ASEE, Burlington, 1981.
  • Participated in the five day workshop on Proposal Writing, Boston, 1980.
  • Participated in Effective Teacher Workshop, Boston, 1979.