AC 2009-23: HANDS-ON SIMULATION TO DEMONSTRATE KEY METRICS FOR CONTROL OF ANY PROCESS UTILIZING LEAN AND SIX SIGMA PRINCIPLES Merwan Mehta, East Carolina University Merwan Mehta, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at East Carolina University in the Technology Systems Department in Greenville, NC. Prior to joining academics, he has over twenty years of experience in business and industry working as an industrial engineer, machine tool design engineer, manufacturing engineer, manager, project manager, project director, vice-president and consultant. His present research interests are enhancing manufacturing and business processes through lean principles and theory of constraints, and the pursuit of quality and variation control through six-sigma. Merwan has conducted 2-day post conference value stream mapping workshops for the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) for their Lean Management Conference since 2001 at various companies all over the US. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and is a member of the National Association for Industrial Technology (NAIT), and the American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE). He is an ASQ Certified Six-Sigma Black Belt and a SME Certified Manufacturing Engineer. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Page 14.665.1