Director

Young B Moon

Young B Moon has been on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University since 1988. Moon serves as the Director of the Institute for Manufacturing Enterprises and the faculty coordinator for the SAP University Alliance program.

Moon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul Korea, a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. His doctoral research was carried out in the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems.

Moon is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) registered in the state of New York, a Certified Fellow in Production and Inventory Management (CFPIM), and a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE).

He teaches courses and conducts research in the areas of Enterprise Systems, Sustainable Manufacturing, Product Realization Processes and Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems, Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Engineering Education. He has had extensive interactions with industry and has published over 70 refereed journal and conference publications. He is on Editorial Board for several international journals.

Professor Moon has held visiting positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, Univerza na Primorskem, Univerzitet u Sarajevu, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Hewlett Packard (HP), and Windsor Manufacturing Company.