Lawrence E. Whitman is an Associate Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oklahoma State University. His Ph.D. is from The University of Texas at Arlington and is in Industrial Engineering. He also has over 10 years experience in the aerospace industry in the areas of factory automation and CAD. His research interests are in enterprise engineering, supply chain management, and lean manufacturing.

He is a member of the International Federation for Automated Control Technical Committee (TC) 5.3 on Enterprise Integration and Networking. He is the chair of the Working Group Enterprise Models Repository. He is on the organizing committee of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing held in Saint-Etienne, France.

Dr. Whitman is also involved in the area of technology literacy presenting engineering and technology concepts to people of all ages and skills. He has developed, along with faculty from other engineering disciplines, a course entitled, “Engineering for Non-Engineers.”