Chad Laux

Purdue University | Purdue · Department of Computer and Information Technology (IT)

Purpose Teaching effectiveness is essential to student learning, engagement and success. This study aims to identify the perceived teaching effectiveness attributes from the student’s perspective through a pilot study. Design/methodology/approach A comprehensive literature review identified 6 demographic and 25 teaching effectiveness characteristi...

Sex trafficking is the fastest‐growing organized criminal activity. Trafficking organizations are driven by profit and provide a service due to existing demand. We examined the feasibility of applying risk assessment methods to understand the problem of sex trafficking from a systems perspective. Focusing on Indiana, we recruited and trained subjec...

The production of row crops in the Midwestern (Indiana) region of the US has been facing environmental and economic sustainability issues. There has been an increase in trend for the application of fertilizers (nitrogen & phosphorus), farm machinery fuel costs and decreasing labor productivity leading to non-optimized usage of farm inputs. Literatu...

Purpose This study aims to identify critical online teaching effectiveness factors from instructors’ perspectives and experiences during COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach This study used a qualitative phenomenology approach. In addition, the research used a snowball sample to identify faculty in the engineering and engineering technology field...

Evidence suggests a large proportion of profitable U.S. firms have low effective tax rates (i.e., an ETR between 0 and 10%). Despite widespread interest in how firms avoid paying taxes, we do not know how most firms attain low ETRs and whether they are primarily benefiting from benign or aggressive tax positions. Using a research design that explic...

Digital twin plays a crucial role in mitigating supply chain disruptions and building future supply chains with resilience capabilities. This research paper utilized qualitative interviews and qualitative survey to examine the impact of supply chain digital twin in enabling supply chain resilience and develop a roadmap for digital twin adoption. Th...

The purpose of this research is to explore the potential impact of Lean Six Sigma practices on supply chain resilience proposing a conceptual framework. A content analysis method was used to identify themes from the interview data conducted with (n = 21) participants who are involved within the healthcare sector. The first-order coding of interview...

Purpose The article intended to excavate the Lean Six Sigma (LSS) deployment challenges, Critical Success Factors (CSF), tools and techniques, and managerial implications in an Indian healthcare setting. Design/methodology/approach The article illustrates a case study established using Action Research (AR) approach. Further, the case study is base...

1. Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore lean leadership within Lean Six Sigma (LSS). The objective of this paper was to explore how LSS program success might be improved by focusing Black Belt efforts on mentoring Green Belts with a servant leadership model. The importance of Green Belt projects is typically overlooked in the literature...

Purpose-Six Sigma is based upon quality improvement by finding the root cause and refining processes to the precision of process outcomes. The purpose of this research was to conduct a systematic literature review (SLR) to explore the Six Sigma techniques and information technology (IT) management concepts to identify the IT management principle's...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how Lean Six Sigma (LSS) may help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 within health care environments. The goals of this study were to understand the current knowledge of LSS and COVID-19 through a systematic review of the current literature, identify the gap in the current knowledge of LSS in COVID-...

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) is a powerful process excellence methodology for making critical business processes more efficient and effective by reducing waste and variation, which results in enhanced customer satisfaction, improved productivity, and reduced operational costs. While the success stories speak for themselves, at the same time research eviden...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use a practical case study approach to demonstrate the power to use lean Six Sigma (LSS) to improve service process in a higher education institution (HEI). The paper also illustrated the barriers and challenges met and lessons learnt for the LSS adoption in this HEI. Design/methodology/approach Prior to the...

Purpose: This article builds on previous studies that explored the research patterns over 15 years, to consider the current status of the integration of Lean and Six Sigma. More specifically, this research addresses whether Lean and Six Sigma are stronger together and explores the reasons why Lean researchers and practitioners may be less likely to...

After China entered the WTO, a growing number of Chinese companies have started to employ Six Sigma Management to improve the quality of their products aimed building a Six Sigma Organization. This case study sought to understand the application of a design for Six Sigma methodology (DMADV) for training employees in quality tools in a total quality...

Assessment of organizational Agility creates a problem due to inexact boundaries by which Agility is defined, and the variation depending on type of enterprise. This paper proposes how Six Sigma DMAIC approach may be utilized to address this gap. The agility assessment framework curve developed for information development systems used in this resea...

Purpose: Organizations are more dynamic, competitive and uncertain than in the past; therefore, they must be highly flexible in order to provide an agile condition for responsiveness to customer changes. This paper aims to explain how being Agile can improve the Six-Sigma methodology and explore how Agile and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) principles work to...

Purpose: Organizations are more dynamic, competitive and uncertain than in the past; therefore, they must be highly flexible in order to provide an agile condition for responsiveness to customer changes. This paper aims to explain how being Agile can improve the Six-Sigma methodology and explore how Agile and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) principles work to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate whether a Lean Six Sigma (LSS) leadership model could be effectively utilized to resolve efficiency and effective issues like rising costs, quality of education, graduation and retention rates encountered in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the modern era. Design/methodology/approa...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for utilizing Six Sigma (SS) principles and Big Data analytics at a US public university for the improvement of student success. This research utilizes findings from the Gallup index to identify performance factors of higher education. The goal is to offer a reimagined SS DMAIC methodolog...

Availability of nutritious, safe food, and guaranteed resources for a hou sehold to acquire food at all times results in food security. Availability of food at affordable price remains the greater challenge. Currently, the Indian government runs the Public Distribution System to provide commodity subsidies to households. Various government and priv...

I employ a combination of structural equation modeling, social network analysis, and ethnographic research methods to study the design and implementation of technologies for social and economic development. Theoretical perspectives I draw most on include communities of practice, social construction of technology, actor-network theory, technology ac...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to utilize critical success factors (CSF) and identify items Green Belt (GB) practitioners note as barriers to completion of Six Sigma (SS) projects in a major manufacturer setting. Design/methodology/approach – The design of this paper is a descriptive study of a single location of a global manufacturer’s in...

To help meet the production gap of a growing population, the agricultural industry is incorporating new quality management practices to improve operational efficiency. In the agricultural supply chain, operations management within the grain handling industry represents an important area for quality management improvement to meet the growing needs f...

We report on the design and implementation of COREPDS (centralized online real-time electronic public distribution system) a large-scale Information and communications technology (ICT) intervention in the distribution supply chain of the PDS in Chhattisgarh, India. Applying the Capability Approach (CA) framework, we explain how the material agency...

Due to recent changes in environmental regulations and the increasing cost of raw materials and commodities, managing product returns has received wide spread attention from both practitioners and academicians. This document investigates the fundamental concepts behind the development of an integrated reverse logistics system. In order to develop a...

The Six Sigma methodology has a comprehensive impact on initiating and influencing creativity and innovation efficiently. The authors' describe Six Sigma methodology suggesting that it not only initiates creativity and innovation, but it is also an efficient tool for creativity and innovation to take place. Various intangible barriers to creativity...

Engagement with industry professionals is important to meeting Engineering Technology curriculum goals. Bringing industry representatives (guest speakers) to engage in the classroom, involving students with professional chapters involved in Lean, student field trips and incorporation of a virtual plant tour is based upon a classroom model that inco...

Due to the events of 9/11, the US Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 (the Act) requires that all companies involved in the food and feed industry to self register with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and maintain records and information for food traceability purposes. Farmers Cooperative, (FC) of Io...

The use of biotechnology in food and agricultural applications has increased greatly during the past decade and is considered by many to be a controversial topic. Drawing upon a previous national study, a new survey was conducted of U.S. and international college students at a large, land-grant, Research University to determine factors that may aff...

A fundamental lack of research into the performance capabilities of the various sensors available to OGP SmartScope measurement system operators makes for a steep learning curve and increased difficulty in selecting the right sensor for the job. This research compared three typical sensors (video, touch probe, laser probe) and established a compara...

Due to globalization and recent trends, Lean manufacturing is an important area of competency for Industrial Technology students. As demographics of students change, the method of delivering curriculum changes as well. The development of a Lean manufacturing course to an on-line, asynchronous method from a traditional face-to-face method is discuss...

As engineering tolerances approach the submicron range and customer demands for statistically verified quality levels increase, Accumold, a highly specialized, high-tech manufacturer of injection molded lead-frame and small- and micro-scale plastic parts, has realized a critical need for an improved measurement system. Many measurement technologies...