RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

• I. Costea, TheManufacturingMSEMDepartmentbelievesinmanufacturing!!!, SME Informer, July 2008.
• I. Costea and S. Egli, Why and How Distance Learning in Manufacturing Systems?” Proceedings, 3rd International e_CEL3 online Symposium, June 2008.
• I. Costea, “On-line Teaching versus traditional teaching: advantages, disadvantages – the inevitable,” Proceedings, 3rd International e_CEL3 online Symposium, June 2008.

PARTICIPATION AT PROFESSIONL CONFERENCES

• • Designed and presented poster/kiosk "Manufacturing is Beautiful" at CSUN Faculty Retreat, January 12-13, 2009.
  • Member in International Program Committee, reviewer of technical papers, and organizer and president of a Round Table on Distance Learning for the International Conference of Automatic CIFA’2008, Bucuresti, Romania, Sept 3-5, 2008.
  • Moderator of three technical sessions 3rd International e_CEL3 Symposium - Effects of life-long learning on the work market and the competitiveness of organizations, June 2008 – On line Symposium.
  • Editorial Board Consultant of the Science Bulletin, Technical Construction University, Bucuresti, Romania, 2007-present.
  • Organized and Chaired the Round Table: New Challenges in Education: Continuing learning, Distance learning, e-Learning and Others, International ARA Conference, University "Spiru Haret," Brasov, Romania, 31 July - 5 August, 2007.
  • Juror for the Manufacturing Challenge Student Competition, SME – WESTEC, 2004, 2005, & 2006
  • Chair of Sessions Track: "Manufacturing Management – Risk Management," SME – WESTEC 2006
  • Chair of DiversityTrack, SME – WESTEC, 2005
  • SME STUDENT CHAPTER, Informer, February 2005
  • Chair of technical sessions: “Risk Management for Manufacturers” and “Controlling Costs and Managing Risks,"SME – WESTEC 2005
  • Organizer and Moderator of Round Table “Graduate Manufacturing Programs in the US,” ARA (American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences), 2005 –  Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
  • International Program Committee member, ACIDA – ICMI’2005 International Conference on Machine Intelligence
  • Committee Member of the Symposium: Discrete Events in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems and Chair of two technical sessions “Discrete Events Systems” & “Improving PLC programs dependability using formal methods,” CESA’ 2003 IMACS Multi-conference: Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, IEEE – Systems, Man and Cybernetics, July 9-11, Lille (France)
  • MICAD – the French International CAD/CAM Conference & Exhibit, 1998-2001- International Program Committee Member
  • Reviewer for Prentice Hall, 2001

    Professional development activities in the last five years

    • Active participation at SME WESTEC manufacturing trade show and conference [2004-present]
    • Numerous industry visits to understand the current manufacturing environment [2001-present]
    • Learn Java for 3D visualization for design and manufacturing [2006/2007]

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• • • Numerous industry visits to understand the current manufacturing environment [2001-present]
    • Learn Java for 3D visualization for design and manufacturing [2006/2007]

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Learn Java for 3D visualization for design and manufacturing [2006/2007]

Visited the Manufacturing Labs of University of Arizona,Tempe, June 2008.

• Invited speaker at Polytechnic Institute, Romania, September 2008.
• Invited speaker at several Universities in France, August – September 2008.
• Reviewer of technical paper for CIFA'08 International Conference: "New Models of Operations for Systems Manufacturing"
  
• Judge for the "Manufacturing Challeng" Competition, SME WESTEC, 2005-2007.