Muhammad Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Engineering Management
Eastern Michigan University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Ahmed joined Eastern Michigan University in the Fall of 2008. Before joining Eastern he worked for nine years for Wayne State University (WSU) as a research associate. Dr. Ahmed holds a PhD from WSU in the area of Industrial Engineering. He also holds BE (Mechanical), MS (Mechanical) and MS (Manufacturing) degrees. Dr. Ahmed has 20 years of teaching experience and has taught courses in Engineering Management, Business Information System and Mechanical, Manufacturing, and Industrial Engineering. Since 1998 he has been working on online learning management systems and has worked on all major Learning Management Systems. Dr. Ahmed has been the Co-Principal Investigator on three major NIST´s APT grants to WSU from 1995 – 2002 and has served as the subject matter expert for NSF Greenfield Coalition, from 2002 – 2007. Dr. Ahmed has worked with GM, Chrysler and Ford as a consultant in development of new product design, process improvement and knowledge management. On a personal note, Dr. Ahmed enjoys playing cricket and producing short movies.
Research Interest
Knowledge Management. Business Process Management, Decision Support Systems, PLM, ERP, VSA, Product Development, Process Improvement, Online Learning, and Engineering Education
Publications
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Keegan, B., Ahmed, M. A., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2010, August). Dark gold: Statistical properties of clandestine networks in massively multiplayer online games. In Social Computing (SocialCom), 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on (pp. 201-208). IEEE.
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Sadaf, F., Saleem, R., Ahmed, M., & Ahmad, S. I. (2006). Healing potential of cream containing extract of Sphaeranthus indicus on dermal wounds in Guinea pigs. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 107(2), 161-163.
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Ahmed, M. A., & Alam, M. S. (2004). U.S. Patent No. 6,704,772. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
