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But the dissolution of the men left in the coming in 
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like to give you a little bit of background about 
myself

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sometimes it's good to know something about 
your professor as you progress through a course 
in future sessions I will be sharing some of my 

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real world experiences with you to help you 
understand topics

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that it started

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who is richter's all began with my name I do 
prefer left and center Richard and my last name 

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is pronounced the jurors as in New Jersey just 
leave off the EY

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I was born and raised in Chicago Illinois some 
people have told me that they can recognize this 
from my accent

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I grew up in the northwest side issue callable the 
community called Albany Park and went to 

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hibbard elementary Von Steuben middle school 
and Roosevelt high school

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in my youth I was always interested in sports and 
outdoors in high school I was on the swim team 
and tennis team in college I became a very good 

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ping pong player in high school my greatest 
interest was in mathematics and recall always 
been a good student and in high school I 

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graduated in nearly the top of my classes I was a 
hard worker and worked every summer to 
starting at about the age 13 my goal was to get a 

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good education and do well in life at about 8 to 10 
high have this dream

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to get a college education my parents were not 
wealthy so I knew that in order to get an 
education I would have to work hard and save my 

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money my dream came true during my senior in 
high school when I was accepted to Illinois 
institute of technology and graduated from IIT with 

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a B.S. in industrial engineering I paid for this 
education with my own hard earned money

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in order to have a good life I knew I would be 
working in business while an undergraduate 
student I develop his second goal of getting an 

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MBA I started my MBA while I was an 
undergraduate student and IITI continued it at the 
University of Northern Iowa and eventually I 

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receive my MBA from Saint Andrews university I 
never thought of going any further educationally 

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however when I was in my mid thirties my wife 
convinced me to pursue a PHB

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I was accepted into the peace the program at 
Ohio State but after changing jobs from myself in 
the peach the program at the University of Iowa I 

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finish my PH be there in industrial engineering 
might P2 D dissertation end of the new method of 
analyzing process alternatives relative to my work 

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experience I have spent about half my life working 
in industry and half my life teaching

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I sometimes wonder where did this all began well 
it was with teaching at about age 13 I was hired 
as a swim instructor teaching of maybe 5 to 10 

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year old how does win during the summer I did 
this for a couple years

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after the age of 16 each summer I found 
employment at different companies including the 
playboy distribution center where my father was 

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the warehouse Manager Michael machine a 
company that manufactured machines that would 
scream in a wholly old steel

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and continental can which produced wax paper 
cups when I was a sophomore in high school my 
mother took an interest in many kinds of arts and 

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crafts I took an interest in candle making thinking 
that I might be will sell enough campbell's to pay 
my way through college so I started my own 

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panel making business and bidders for about five 
years and made enough money to pay for my 

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college having a candle making business not only 
provided funds for college but it also gave me a

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good perspective of how businesses operate 
when I was going into my junior year of college 
and ITI decided to sign up for that allowed 

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program thinking that would be good to get some 
real business experience before graduation I 
remember the day that the collapse supervisor 

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had a 90 call the interoffice and told me that john 
Deere and water Lila one of the interview me

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I knew nothing about farming tractors and Iowa 
but the pay was very good eye when on the 
interview and got the job it was great

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dramatic four semesters of the pullout student 
with your eyes spent time in every department in 
the shop and foundry and worked in about 1/2 

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dozen engineering department right before 
graduation the john Deere component works 
made me an offer I could not refuse they said 

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Rick as a pool of students who have worked in 
nearly every engineering department which one 
do you want to work in full time I said 

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manufacturing research and development they 
replied with what is your second choice

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most people in manufacturing on and B haven't 
least 10 years of experience I said my second 
choice would be plant layout a couple weeks 

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went by and Michael lab supervisor came back 
and said Rick guess what I'd spoke with the 
manager of manufacturing on B and he wants to 

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hire you in this drop I worked as a product 
manager investigating new Manufacturing 
Equipment one of my projects involved the 

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application of industrial robots I found it a good 
application

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and this became the first robot application at the 
Waterloo component works industrial robot 
technology was new and I was told that the john 

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Deere and administrative center in Moline Illinois 
money to hire somebody to work with this 
technology exclusively I interviewed for the job 

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and got it and basically became an internal 
consultant to call john Deere factories for 
industrial robots

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eventually the department and was working in at 
the administrative center was moved to the john 
Deere technical center I continued working with 

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industrial robot technology and also that involve 
some other interesting technologies industrial 
vision Systems Computer Networks Computer 

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aided prices planning systems and automated 
inspection systems the management at the 
technical center so my interest in computer 

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based technologies and my ability to work well 
with people

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and ask me to be in charge of their computer 
operations this was an exciting time personal 
computers minicomputers and mainframe 

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computers were being integrated into networking 
solutions I was in this position for a couple years 
my last job with john Deere was in the finance 

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department at the administrative center they 
didn't help installing a Computer Network for 
Financial Services and they needed are people 

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trained to use it effectively technology by itself is 
not good unless you get your

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voice to use it I remember in my interview with 
the chief financial officer him saying to me right 
down the hall I have some great computer 

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scientist who really know computers but none of 
them have an MBA you do and therefore I'd like to 
hire you into my department sometimes you may 

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wonder if your education will really ever help 
without my MBA I would not have gotten this 
promotion

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the 1980s were tough years for john Deere 
agriculture was very slow no one was getting 
hired nor promoted and raises were small I 

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decided to leave john Deere and work for a small 
manufacturing company in Columbus Ohio

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this job turn out to be a bad move so I decided to 
look for another job and I found myself a leading 
industry to th for Saint Andrews university

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and one mention also that in about 1985 im 
friends started a business called saw for 
generation specializing in developing and using 

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sports software initially we hope that this would 
become a big business but is if proven to remain 
a small side interest to both me and my partner 

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foresaw for generation I did all the computer 
programming and learned a lot about databases 
and how to program in SQL

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my college teaching work experience began with 
seen Ambrose I actually taught as an adjunct or 
part time instructor while I was still working for 

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john Deere I enjoyed teaching and thought that 
someday I might wanna do this full time while I 
was looking for a new job in Columbus Ohio I 

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made a connection with Saint Andrews university 
and they offered me a fulltime teaching position in 
industrial engineering I am now approaching 

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nearly 20 years of teaching at Saint Ambrose 
about half of these years have been

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teaching courses in engineering including 
engineering graphics and computer aided design 
problem solving with microcomputers 

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manufacturing processes and computer 
integrated manufacturing the latter half of my 
years at sea members have been teaching 

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operations management and business statistics 
in the college of business I have also had the 
pleasure of teaching as a part time professor 

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intermittently at the University of Iowa I have 
taught manufacturing processes and design for 
many

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thing for the college of engineering

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and more recently operations management for 
the college of business as I reflect upon all of my 
work experience both in industry and in academia 

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I think my common theme has always been my 
interest in using technology to improve operations 
my professional interest continue to include 

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Manufacturing Technologies and more specifically 
process of valuation and selection Computer 

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Technologies and for T king various teaching 
technologies

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you can get additional information about my 
interest and see some of these technologies on 
my website I have lived the first part of my life in 

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Chicago Illinois and the latter part of my life in the 
quad cities which includes rock island Bettendorf 
Davenport and Moline I've lived in Columbus Ohio 

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for a year and 1/2 and I currently live and have 
been living in a Clara I love for about 10 years I 
designed and built the house that I'm living in 

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acting as a general contractor I am very happily 
married have two children of my own and two 
step

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older and I'm very fortunate to have a great family

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some of my personal activities and interest 
include tennis skiing travel spending time with my 

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family and are working on home improvement 
projects

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and I commend the case for taking your time to 
spend a few moments with me and I hope you 
have enjoyed what I have shared with you if you 

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ever deny help her have any questions please let 
me know them MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM