K.S. Krishnamoorthi, Ph.D., is a professor of industrial engineering in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology Department of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He has a BE degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Madras, India, an MA in statistics and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Buffalo. He teaches statistics and quality engineering, among other industrial engineering subjects, and conducts research in the area of quality costs, process capability indices, and statistical thinking. He has provided consultation to several small and large corporations in process and product quality improvement using statistical tools. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality. Satish Bukkapatnam, Ph.D., is a Rockwell International professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research addresses the harnessing of high-resolution nonlinear dynamic information, especially from wireless MEMS sensors, to improve the monitoring and prognostics, mainly of ultraprecision and nanomanufacturing processes and machines, and cardiorespiratory processes. He has been recognized with Oklahoma State University Regents distinguished research, Halliburton outstanding college of engineering faculty, IISE Boeing technical innovation, IISE Eldin outstanding young industrial engineer, and SME Dougherty outstanding young manufacturing engineer awards. He currently serves as the editor of the IISE Transactions, Design and Manufacturing Focused Issue. He received a BTech degree from S.V. University, Tirupati, India, and master's and Ph.D., degrees from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. V. Ram Krishnamoorthi, is an attending internist at the University of Chicago Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. He obtained an A.B. degree in economics from Princeton University and his M.D. and M.P.H. from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He is involved in health services research and quality improvement initiatives at the U of C Hospitals and is interested in problems of quality and access to affordable health care at the national level. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
