Douglas Brauer has over 30 years of global expertise in facilitating solutions to maximize organizational leadership, sustainability, profitability, and return-on-investment encompassing both and higher education. His scope of global strategic leadership activities involving education, engineering, and manufacturing operations has engaged organizations globally in the Americas, Europe, Africa, India, and the Pacific Rim. He has taught higher education undergraduate and graduate courses in finance, organizational leadership, mathematics, and manufacturing technology. His private business activities include founding Design Assurance Sciences in 1990 and MudTurtle Industries, LLC, in 2016. Degrees include: Ph.D., Education & Human Resource Studies, Colorado State University; M.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago; and B.S., Industrial Technology, Illinois State University. Additionally, he is currently the Dean of Engineering & Industry at the Florida State College at Jacksonville. John Cesarone has engaged in an engineering consulting practice since 1998. His research interests and areas of expertise include Intelligent Manufacturing, focusing on the following: a) Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Technologies, b) Simulation and Functional Modeling Methodologies, c) Optimization Using Operations Research Techniques, d) Automation and Robotics, and e) Distance Learning. Degrees include: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University; M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; and B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. He has taught industrial engineering courses for the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, and is currently a Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering for the Illinois Institute of Technology.
