Full Tenured Professor, PhD
Phone:  973-642-4984
Email:  ranky@njit.edu
Website:  http://www.cimwareukandusa.com/
Dept:  Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Room:   2519, Guttenberg Information Technologies Center
Hours:   Please refer to my course syllabi

Combined Course Syllabi and Welcome Letters:

IE655,  IE203,  IT420,  CIS683

Education

Dr.Techn./Ph.D., Technical University of Budapest, Hungary; Chartered Professional Engineer (CEng. and EurIng.) by the Engineering Council (United Kingdom) and FEANI (Europe).

 
Areas of Research

Integrated product and process design and advanced manufacturing/assembly/test systems. Interactive multimedia and virtual reality simulation. Medical engineering instrumentation design, manufacturing, assembly, implementation, and test

Current Research Interests

Dr. Ranky's research includes the modelling, system analysis, system design, integration, validation, test and implementation of highly parallel, integrated product and process design and manufacturing systems in an international consortium of automobile manufacturers and academic research partners. He also is conducting interactive multimedia and virtual reality simulation within an industry/manufacturing based international research and development consortium. In addition, Dr. Ranky is engaged in medical engineering instrumentation design as part of another international research and development consortium.

Selected Publications

P.G. Ranky, "Engineering Multimedia for Design and Manufacturing Engineering Education," European Journal of Engineering Education, 1996, (in press).

P.H. Ashton and P.G. Ranky, "The Methodology and the Research Toolset for Analysing and Implementing Parallel Engineering Processes at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars," USA/Japan FA Conference, Boston, IEEE, 1996.

P.G. Ranky, "Concurrent/Simultaneous Engineering: Methods, Tools and Case Studies": multimedia package:  book, data disk; P.G. Ranky and M.F Ranky, CE multimedia CD-ROM; P.G. Ranky, A. Parker, G. Edgar, G. Harrington, J. Corlett, and others, 20 modular research and development videos for multimedia CE resource library, CIMware, 1995, 1996.

K.L Ho, and P.G. Ranky, "An Object Oriented and Flexible Material Handling System," Assembly Automation, 15(3), MCB University Press, 15-20, 1995.

P.G. Ranky, "Flexible Manufacturing Cells & Systems in CIM Multimedia Package," book, data disk; P.G. Ranky and M.F. Ranky, FMS multimedia CD-ROM; P.G. Ranky, R. Truman, L. Pratt, J. Corlett, and others, 29 modular research and development videos for a multimedia FMS resource library, CIMware, 1994, 1995.