• Professor and Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Houston (January 2001 - present)
• Region Director, Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center (TMAC) - Gulf Coast Region, University of Houston (March 2001-present)

Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas (Registration No. 68174).

• Design and Implementation of Cellular Manufacturing Systems
• Process Planning and Shop Floor Control
• Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering
• Financial Engineering

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Design and Manufacturing Automation, September 2000 - September 2002.
• Senior Vice President at Large, Institute of Industrial Engineers, May 2000 - April 2003.
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Engineering Design and Automation, March 1994 - December 1998.
• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis, January 1995 - December 2002.
• Methodologies Area Editor, The Engineering Economist Journal, June 1990 - January 1995.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, December 1991 - present.
• Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Industrial Engineering, April 1993 - present.
• Member of the Editorial Board, Industrial Engineering Research Journal, November 1996 - present.
• Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, June 1994 - present.
• Series Editor, Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems, Chapman and Hall Publishing Company, London, England, July 1993 - June 1998.
• Series Editor, Engineering Design and Automation, John Wiley & Sons, April 1994 - December 2000.

• Fellow of Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
• Senior Member of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
• Senior Member of Robotics International of SME (RI/SME)
• Senior Member of Computer and Automated Systems Association of SME (CASA/SME)
• Senior Member of Machine Vision Association of SME (MVA/SME)
• Member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

• Wellington Award, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1993
• Listed in Who is Who in Engineering and Science, 1995
• Listed in Who is Who in World, 1998
• Listed in International Who is Who of Professionals, 1999
• Listed in Who is Who in America, 1999
• Member of Industrial Engineering Honor Society (ALPHA PI MU)
• Member of International Operations Research Honor Society (OMEGA RHO)
• Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award, May 1985
• The Mohawk Valley Engineer's Executive Council Award, sponsored by Robotics International of SME, February 1986
 

• Production Systems and Intelligent Manufacturing (Graduate)
• Advanced Engineering Design Economics (Graduate)
• Operations and Production Management (Undergraduate)
• Robots and Manufacturing Automation (Graduate)
• Material Flow Analysis (Graduate)
• Facility Location and Layout (Undergraduate)
• Engineering Design Economics (Graduate)
• Operations Research (Graduate)
• Computer-Aided Industrial Engineering (Undergraduate)
• Production and Inventory Management (Undergraduate)
• Engineering Economics (Undergraduate)
• Introduction to Industrial Engineering (Undergraduate)
• Introduction to Operations Research (Undergraduate)
• Simulation and Optimization (Undergraduate)
• Introduction to Robotics (Undergraduate)
• Application Projects (Undergraduate)

Articles in refereed Journals and Books
• A Cell Formation Problem Based on Alternative Routes During Machine Failure and Demand Changes@, with G. Jeon, H. R. Leep, and J. P. Wong, submitted to the International Journal of Production Research.


• Evaluating Safety for the Design of a Robotic Workcell Using Quality Function Deployment,@  with Y. N. Yang, K. Chuengsatiensup, and H. R. Leep. International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Vol.1., Nos. 2/3, pp.241-256 2000.
 
• A Manufacturing Cost Estimating System Using Activity-Based Costing@, with Y. N. Yang,  H. R. Leep, and J. P. Wong@, International Journal of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 6, No. 3&4, 223-243, 1999.
 
• A Simulation Based Technique for Forming Cellular Manufacturing Cell@, with A. K. Kamrani and H. R.Leep@, International Journal of Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 173-188, 1997.
 
• A Cellular manufacturing System Based on New Similarity Coefficient which Considers Alternative Routes during Machine Failure@, with G. Jeon and H. R. Leep, International Journal of Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 24-36, 1997.
 
• " Manufacturing Process Planning in Concurrent Design and Manufacturing", with J. Dong and H. R. Leep, International Journal of Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 83-93, 1996.
 
• Integrated Feature-Based Process Planning and Scheduling with an Object-Oriented Knowledge-Based Approach@, with J. Dong and H. R. Leep, International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol 3, No. 3, pp. 249-260, 1997.
 
• An Integrated Manufacturing Cost Estimating System@, with J.P. Wong, Y.N. Yang, and H.R. Leep, Engineering Design and Automation Journal, (accepted for publication).
 
• A Framework for Part Placement in a Rapid Prototyping Process@, with Y. N. Yang, G. Jeon, and H. R.Leep.  Chapter 11 in Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 325-345, 1999.
    
• A Study of Part Placement for rapid Prototyping Process @, with Y.N. Yang, H.R. Leep, and D.J. Chang.  Chapter 6 in Direct Engineering: Toward Intelligent Manufacturing, Chapman and Hall, London, England, 1998.
 
• A New Similarity Coefficient based on Alternative Routes During Machine Failure@, with G. Jeon, H. R. Leep, and A. K. Kamrani.  Chapter 2 in Group Technology & Cellular Manufacturing: Methodology & Applications, A. K. Kamrani (Editor), Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, London, England, pp. 25-54, 1998.
    
• "Irreducible: Analysis by Use of Fuzzy Linguistic Variables", with M. R. Wilhelm, The Journal of Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-16, 1996.
 
• AExpert System Automated Process Planning in Manufacturing@, with B. Nasser and H. R. Leep, Engineering Design and Automation, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 91-103, 1997.
 
• "Optimum Resource Planning for Flexible Manufacturing Cells under Resource and Demand Constraints", with A.K. Kamrani and H.R. Leep, Engineering Design and Automation Journal Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 121-136, 1995.
 
• "A New Approach for Network Topology Design", with A. Kumar, R. Pathak, and Y. Gupta, International Journal of Computers and Industrial Engineering Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 659- 670, 1995.

Books
• Economic Evaluation of Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Techniques and Case Studies, J. P. Lavelle, H. Liggett, and H. R. Parsaei (Editors), Gordon and Breach, Newark, N.J., 2001.
 
• Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Strategic Management and Implementation, J.Sarkis and H. R. Parsaei (Editors), Gordon and Breach, Newark, N.J. , 1999.
 
• Computer-Aided Process and Assembly Planning: Methods, Tools, and Technologies, J. M. Usher and H. R. Parsaei (Editors), Gordon and Breach, Newark, N.J., 2001.
 
• Simultaneous Engineering, J. M. Usher, U. Roy, and H. R. Parsaei (Editors), Gordon and Breach, Newark, N.J., 1999.
 
• Integrated Product and Process Development, J. M. Usher, U. Roy, and H. R. Parsaei (Editors),  John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y., 1998.
 
• Design and Implementation of Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, M. Jamshidi and H. R. Parsaei (Editors), Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
 
• Planning, Design, and Analysis of Cellular Manufacturing Systems, H. R. Parsaei, A. K. Kamrani, and D. H. Liles (Editors), Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995.
 
• Manufacturing Decision Support Systems, H. R. Parsaei, S. Kolli, and T. R. Hanley (Editors), Chapman and Hall, London, England, 1996.
 
• Concurrent Engineering: Contemporary Issues and Modern Design Tools, H. R. Parsaei and W. G. Sullivan (Editors), Chapman and Hall, London, England, 1993.
   
• Economic and Financial Justification of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, H. R. Parsaei, W. G. Sullivan and T. R. Hanley (Editors), Elsevier Sciences Publishers, Amsterdam, 1992.
 
• Economics of Advanced Manufacturing Systems, H. R. Parsaei and A. Mital (Editors), Chapman & Hall, 1992.
 
• Justification Methods for the Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Technologies, H. R. Parsaei, T. L. Ward, and W. Karwowski (Editors), Elsevier Sciences Publisher, Amsterdam, 1990.

Dissertations Directed
• A Methodology for Part Family Formation in Group Technology,@ Geonwook Jeon, Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, December 1999 (Co-Director, Dr. Herman R. Leep)
 
• A Integrated manufacturing Cost Estimating System@ Yung-Nien Yang, Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, May 1998 (Co-Director, Dr. Herman R. Leep)
 
• Development of an Activity-Driven, Object-Oriented Product Design Shell for Automated Design and Manufacturing,@ Dongke An, Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, May 1995
 
• "A Feature-based Computer Aided Process Planning," Jian Dong, Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, August, 1993.
 
• "An Aggregation Methodology for Life-Cycle Issues Within a Computer-Aided Design Framework to Support Concurrent Engineering," Hyeon Ho Jo, Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, May 1993.
 
• "A Methodology for Designing Manufacturing Cells in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Environments Using Group Technology," Ali Khosravi-Kamrani, Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, August 1991.