Full Name
Erick Jones
Professional Title
President
Company
ISCEA International Standards Board (IISB)
Speaker Biography
Dr. Erick C. Jones, Sr. is the President of the ISCEA International Standards Board IISB) and a member of the executive committee for over 15 years. He is also a business partner with Tompkins Ventures. As a former Dean of a College of Engineering, a Senior Science Advisor the U.S. Department of State on America’s Supply Chains, and an Endowed Professor, he is committed to ventures that support AI, RFID and technologies and education that support a sustainable world through supply chains. He proudly represents his field of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering and is a Fellow of IISE and AAAS, and also a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Houston. His background is a balance between industry, government and academia at the strategic level. His insights on how the three areas can be invested in, managed, and aligned strategically to provide bottom line results to organizations through measurable outcomes.
In addition to his leadership and board affiliations in industry. Jones has served as administrative and faculty roles at several Universities and federal agencies. He started as tenured faculty and Center Director of a NSF Industry university cooperative research center at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. He was later recruited to the University of Texas Arlington on the Texas STARS program. Where he held the George and Elizabeth Pickett Endowed Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering and served as the Deputy Director of the SAVANT Center and Director of RAID LABS. After details at NSF and the US Department of State, Dr. Jones detailed as Dean of Engineering at the Nevada”s flagship University in Reno where he facilitated the largest gift in school history for Aerospace engineering.
His government service includes federal service at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Engineering and Education Directorates on GRFP and GRIP now called INTERN and the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) as one of a few rotators to serve in multiple NSF Directorates.
Academically, Dr. Jones has received over $10M in funding for academic research projects from NASA, NSF, and DOT. Dr. Jones’ is internationally recognized in RFID, Quality, Six Sigma and Manufacturing Technologies. He has advised 34 Masters Students and 17 Ph.D.s students, published 4 textbooks and more than 100 journal and conferences papers.
He graduated from Texas A&M University with a Masters and PhD from the University of Houston with most of his secondary education obtained while concurrently working in industry.
In addition to his leadership and board affiliations in industry. Jones has served as administrative and faculty roles at several Universities and federal agencies. He started as tenured faculty and Center Director of a NSF Industry university cooperative research center at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. He was later recruited to the University of Texas Arlington on the Texas STARS program. Where he held the George and Elizabeth Pickett Endowed Professor of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering and served as the Deputy Director of the SAVANT Center and Director of RAID LABS. After details at NSF and the US Department of State, Dr. Jones detailed as Dean of Engineering at the Nevada”s flagship University in Reno where he facilitated the largest gift in school history for Aerospace engineering.
His government service includes federal service at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Engineering and Education Directorates on GRFP and GRIP now called INTERN and the Engineering Research Centers (ERC) as one of a few rotators to serve in multiple NSF Directorates.
Academically, Dr. Jones has received over $10M in funding for academic research projects from NASA, NSF, and DOT. Dr. Jones’ is internationally recognized in RFID, Quality, Six Sigma and Manufacturing Technologies. He has advised 34 Masters Students and 17 Ph.D.s students, published 4 textbooks and more than 100 journal and conferences papers.
He graduated from Texas A&M University with a Masters and PhD from the University of Houston with most of his secondary education obtained while concurrently working in industry.
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