Research

Research Interests

  • System Simulation
  • Environmental Management Systems
  • Distance Education
  • Engineering Ethics and Research Ethics
  • Information Systems
  • Optimization
  • Manufacturing Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence/Expert Systems

Research Outcomes

A selection of my research outcomes, including sponsored projects, publications and presentations, and student research I have supervised. Open each panel to view the list.

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Funded Grants

Co-Principal Investigator. “Training Teachers to Promote NCLI within NCLB to Promote Environmental Education,” funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chicago, Illinois, 9/16/2008 to 2/15/2010. Other Co-PI: Sabiha Daudi, Department of Teaching and Learning at NIU.

Project Director, “An Online Tutorial on Effective Oral Presentations,” funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education (CIUE), Northern Illinois University, 4/1/2008 to 10/30/2008.

Project Director, "An Online Tutorial on Effective Writing Practices" funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education, Northern Illinois University, 4/1/2007 to 9/31/2007.

Project Director, "An Online Tutorial for Faculty for Promoting Academic Integrity," funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education's Project for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education Grant, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2006.

Project Director, "Promoting Academic Integrity Through an Online Module," funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education's Project for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education Grant, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 2005.

Project Director, "Promoting Responsible Peer-Review and Publishing Through Interactive e-learning Experience," funded by the Office of Research Integrity, Rockville, Maryland, 9/1/2005 to 12/31/2006.

Project Director, "Active Learning Online on Responsible Mentoring and Collaboration," funded by the Office of Research Integrity, Rockville, Maryland, 9/1/2004 to 12/31/2005.

Project Director, "Development of EMS, Pollution Prevention, and Energy Efficiency Strategies," funded by J&M Plating, Inc., Rockford, Illinois, 8/16/2004 to 12/15/2004.

Project Director, "Teaching Training on Web-Based Environmental Management Systems," funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chicago, Illinois, 9/1/2003 to 12/31/2004.

Project Director, "Online Decision Instruction for Data Integrity," funded by the Office of Research Integrity, Rockville, Maryland, 9/1/2003 to 11/30/2004.

Project Director, "Access-Ability through Accommodative Teaching and Technology: Conference on Addressing the Needs of Students with Disabilities," funded by the HECA (Higher Education Cooperative Agreement) Grant by the Illinois Board of Higher Education, Springfield, Illinois, 9/1/2001 to 8/31/2002.

Project Director, "An Integrated Approach to Educating a Diverse Population on Environmental Management Systems," funded by the National Science Foundation, 1/01/2001 to 7/1/2002 (Co-Principal Investigators: Harvey Smith-SSRI and Philip Carpenter-Geology and Geological Sciences).

Principal Investigator, "Development and Dissemination of Innovative Technologies for Instruction," funded by the HECA (Higher Education Cooperative Agreement) Grant by the Illinois Board of Higher Education, State of Illinois, Springfield, Illinois, 9/1999 to 8/2000.

Principal Investigator, "An Investigation of Live Instructional Techniques in Internet-Based Course Delivery," funded by the Office of Continuing Education, Northern Illinois University, 5/16/98 to 9/15/98.

Project Director, "Simulation Modeling and Analysis of the Packaging and Shipping Operations at Allegiance Healthcare Corporation," funded by the Allegiance Healthcare Corporation, Waukegan, IL, 10/15/97 to 5/15/98.

Project Director, "Internet-Based Education," funded by the College of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Northern Illinois University, 6/97 to 12/97.

Project Director, "Research Initiation, Curriculum Development, and Capital Equipment Grant," funded by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, software grant, 6/96 to 5/97 (Co-Principal Investigators - Dr. Hampton Liggett, and Dr. Saeid Motavalli).

Principal Investigator, "Simulation Modeling and Analysis of a Manufacturing Cell," funded by the Ideal Industries, Inc., DeKalb, Illinois, 8/95 to 10/95.

Principal Investigator, "Sterling Software Educational Grant," funded by Sterling Software of Atlanta, Georgia, 2/95 to 1/96.

Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator, "An Innovative Course on Elements of Manufacturing Systems for Non-Engineering Students," funded by the National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., 1/95 to 12/98. Dr. Mohamed I. Dessouky is the other Co-Principal Investigator.

Principal Investigator, "An Investigation of Deadlock Detection in Discrete Event Simulation," funded by the Graduate School, Northern Illinois University, 7/94 to 8/94.

Project Director, "Curriculum and Course Development Grant," funded by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, 5/94 to 6/95. This grant included two educational software products, IQS ISO9000 software and Platinum Manufacturing Information Systems Software, and a cash award for developing an undergraduate course on manufacturing design.

Principal Investigator, "Modeling and Analysis of AT&T's International Directory Assistance Service," funded by AT&T, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 6/94 to 10/94.

Co-Principal Investigator, "Process Flow Analysis and Just-in-Time Manufacturing Implementation," funded by Rockford Process Control and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through a HECA grant, 2/93 to 8/93. Dr. Mohamed Dessouky (Project Director) and Dr. Hampton Liggett were the other Co-Principal Investigators.

Principal Investigator, "An Activity Based Costing Interface to Manufacturing Simulation," funded by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, 9/92 through 8/93.

Co-principal Investigator, "Expert System Tool Evaluation and Selection Support," funded by Chrysler Motors, Detroit, Michigan, 2/86 through 7/86.

Co-principal Investigator, "Knowledge Based Support Environment for Production System Description," funded by Chrysler Motors, Detroit, Michigan, 3/87 through 12/87.

Co-principal Investigator, "Machine Fault Diagnosis Shell," funded by Chrysler Motors, Detroit, Michigan, 8/87 through 4/87.

Professional Development Grants

"Material Handling Teacher's Training Institute," awarded by the Material Handling Industry to attend the 5-day Material Handling Workshop to be held at Bozeman, Montana from July 15-21, 1995.

"New Learning in Material Handling," submitted Faculty Career Enhancement, Northern Illinois University, April 1995. Funded.

"Multimedia Instructional Design for Engineering Faculty" awarded by the Texas Tech University under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation from July 24-28, 1995, funded.

"TRW Travel Grant," awarded by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Dearborn, Michigan, $200 to attend the ABET Workshop on Accreditation of Manufacturing Programs, Fall 1993.

Participation in Other Funded Grants

Project Team Member -- "Strengthening Civil Society in Sri Lanka Through Building Advocacy Partnerships Among NGOs and Developing Local Leadership," funded by USAID ( U.S. Department of State ), 2005-2006, Principal Investigator: Jaya Gajanayake, International Training Office, Northern Illinois University.

Project Team Member -- "Capacity Building and Advocacy for Women's Participation in Grassroots Democracy in Sri Lanka," funded by USAID (U.S. Department of State), 2002-2004, Principal Investigator: Jaya Gajanayake, International Training Office, Northern Illinois University.

Project Partner -- "Partnership To Infuse Technology Into The Teacher Education Curriculum," proposal funded by the U.S. Department of Education, 2001-2002, Principal Investigator: Corenna Cummings, College of Education, Northern Illinois University.

Project Team Member -- "Bridge Management Expert System" project awarded to the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas by the Texas Department of Transportation. January 1991 to August 1991.

Project Team Member -- "Autonomous Undersea Vehicle" project awarded to the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas by the Navy. August 1987 to January 1988.

Project Manager -- "Robot Fault Diagnosis Shell" project awarded to the Department of Industrial Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas by the Chrysler Motors at Detroit, Michigan. June 1986 to March 1987.

Project Team Member -- "Assessment of existing expert system development environments and their suitability for implementing manufacturing applications," funded by the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio.

Expert Consultant -- "Rockford Scientific Literacy Initiative," arranged by Prof. Jule Scarborough of the Department of Technology during June 10-14, 1996.

Papers

 “Addressing Academic Integrity in Education and Innovation,” paper published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Management and Education Innovation, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2018 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Jason Rhode).

“Considerations for Institutional Instructional Technology Decision-Making,” paper published in the Proceedings of the of the International Conference on Information and Education Technology, Osaka, Japan, January 2018 (Jason Rhode and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“From Framework to Practice: Selecting Technology Tools for Instructional Integration,” paper published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Education Technology, Tokyo, Japan, January 2017 (Jason Rhode and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Preparing Faculty to Teach Online: Recommendations for Developing Self-Paced Training,” paper published in the International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Vol. 6, No, 5, May 2016 (Jason Rhode and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Measuring Digital Professional Development: Analytics for the Use of Web and Social Media,” paper published in the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Vol. 7, Issue 1, March 2015, 19-31 (Jason Rhode, Stephanie Richter, Peter Gowen and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Preparing Faculty for Teaching a MOOC: Recommendations from Research and Experience,” paper published in the International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Vol. 4, No. 5, October 2014, 411-415 (Stephanie Richter and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Little Things I Learned (About Teaching) on the Way to the Classroom,” paper published in the proceedings of the Belgrade International Conference on Education, October 2014 held in Belgrade, Serbia (Murali Krishnamurthi and Stephanie Richter).

“A Consultations Tracking Database System for Improving Faculty Development Consultation Services,” paper published in To Improve the Academy, Volume 32, December 2013, 199-214 (Jason Rhode and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Charting Your Course: Visualization Techniques to Enhance Teaching”, paper published in the proceedings of the International Academic Conference on Education, Teaching and E-Learning (IAC-ETeL), October 2013 held in Prague, Czech Republic (Murali Krishnamurthi and Stephanie Richter).

“Promoting STEM Education through Mobile Teaching and Learning”, paper published in the proceedings of the IADIS International Conference – Mobile Learning 2013 held in Lisbon, Portgual, March 2013 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Stephanie Richter).

“Creating Value in Engineering Education through a Master’s Level Graduate Seminar Course,” paper published in the proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education North Central Section Regional Conference, April 2013 held in Columbus, Ohio (Murali Krishnamurthi).

“A Framework for Transforming Faculty Development to Promote Mobile Teaching and Learning”, paper published in the proceedings of The Asian Conference on Education 2012 held in Osaka, Japan, October 2012, 326-336 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Stephanie Richter)

“Integrating Lean Concepts to Improve Faculty Development Organizations”, paper published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Development held in Bangkok, Thailand, July 2012 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Purushothaman Damodaran).

“A Comparison of Simulation and Metamodeling Approaches for Production Rate Determination,” paper published in International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, Vol. 3, No.3/4, 2011 (Shanthi Muthuswamy and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Enhancing Engineering Students’ Writing Skills by Improving Their Reading Skills,” paper published in the proceedings of the 8th Global Colloquium on Engineering Education held in Budapest, Hungary in October 2009 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Scaffolding techniques for improving engineering students’ writing skills”, paper published in the proceeding of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Conference held in Austin, Texas in June 2009 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Genetic algorithms to minimize makespan of a capacitated batch processing machine,” paper published in Journal of Management, Engineering and Integration, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008, 71-76 (Purushothaman Damodaran, Siddarth Mestry and Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Lower bounds for hierarchical Chinese postman problem, published in International Journal of Industrial Engineering – Theory, Applications & Practice, 15(1), 36-44, 2008 (Purushothaman Damodaran, Murali Krishnamurthi, and K. Srihari).

“Internationalizing Industrial Engineering Courses and Curricula,” paper published in the proceedings of the 6th Global Colloquium on Engineering Education sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education held in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2007 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Institutional Transformation to Support Inclusive Teaching Initiatives,” book chapter published in “Teaching Inclusively," edited by Matthew Ouellett for New Forum Press, 2005, pp. 258-271 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

"Promoting Academic Integrity Through an Online Module," paper published in the Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Conference held in Chicago, IL in June 2006 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

"Online multimedia module on responsible conduct in research data management" paper published in the Proceedings of the Ed-Media 2005 World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Montreal, Canada on July 1, 2005 (Dan Cabrera, Murali Krishnamurthi, and Jason Rhode).

"Experiences in Teaching Engineering Courses through the Internet", paper published in the Proceedings of the ASEE IL-IN Regional Conference on April 2, 2005 at NIU, DeKalb, IL (Murali Krishnamurthi).

"A Continuous Simulation Methodology for Dynamic Planning of Snow Removal" submitted to SCS Transactions, June 2003 (Purushothaman Damodaran and Murali Krishnamurthi).

"Assessing Multicultural Initiatives in Higher Education", published in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2003, pp. 263-277.

"An Integrated Approach to Educating a Diverse Population on Environmental Management Systems," published in the proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, June 2002, Montreal, Canada (Murali Krishnamurthi, Harvey Smith, and Philip Carpenter).

"Enhancing Student-Teacher Interactions in Internet-Based Courses," published in the proceedings of the 2000 American Society for Engineering Education Conference, June 18-21, 2000, St. Louis, Mo (Murali Krishnamurthi).

"A Modified Postman Tour Heuristic for Efficient Snow Removal Planning," published in the proceedings of the 1998 Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Banff, Canada, May 8-9, 1998.

"Integrating Ethics into Modeling Courses in Engineering," published in the proceedings of the 1998 American Society for Engineering Education Conference held in Seattle, Washington, June 28-July 1, 1998.

"A Microeconomic Modeling Methodology for Production Quantity Determination," published in International Journal of Production Research, v 36, no. 6, June 1998, (Steven F. Srebranig and Murali Krishnamurthi)

"A Deadlock Detection Interface to a Commercial Simulation Language," published in Computers and Industrial Engineering, v 34, no. 4, September 1998, (Murali Krishnamurthi and Sanjeev Thallikar).

"Addressing Multicultural Issues in the Manufacturing Curricula," published in the Proceedings of the 1997 ASEE Conference held in Milwaukee, WI, June 14-18, 1997 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

"Educating Non-Engineering Students on Manufacturing Concepts Through Innovative Techniques," published in Selected Papers and Awards from the Eighth National Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, May 1997.

"Innovative Techniques for Increasing the Participation of Women and Minority Students in Engineering," published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education held in Chicago, IL during August 13-15, 1997 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

"A Generalized Costing Interface to Manufacturing Simulation," published in " Manufacturing Decision Support Systems," edited by Hamid R. Parsaei for Chapman and Hall Publishers, 1997, pp. 1-19, (Murali Krishnamurthi, R. Jasyashankar, and Don T. Phillips).

"An Innovative Approach to Educating Students on Manufacturing," published in the Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Conference to be held at Washington, D.C., June 23-25, 1996 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Mohamed Dessouky).

"An Innovative Course on Elements of Manufacturing Systems for Non-Engineering Students," published in the Proceedings of the 1996 ASEE Conference to be held at Washington, D.C., June 23-25, 1996 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Mohamed Dessouky).

"An Activity Based Costing Interface to Manufacturing Simulation," Transactions of NAMRI/SME, May 1994, Vol. XXII, pp. 357-363, (Murali Krishnamurthi, R. Jayashankar, and Don T. Phillips).

"A Framework for Machine Fault Diagnosis," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 67-84, January 1992 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Don T. Phillips).

"Quality Monitoring of a Continuous Flow Process," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 251-260, 1991 (John R. English, Murali Krishnamurthi, and Tep Sastri).

"Feedback Approach to Quality Monitoring of a Manufacturing Process," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vo. 17, Nos 1-4, 1989, pp. 303-310 (John R. English, Murali Krishnamurthi, and Tep Sastri).

"Modeling a Markovian Process by Neural Network," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 17, Nos. 1-4, 1989, pp. 464-468 (Tep Sastri, John R. English, and Murali Krishnamurthi).

"Knowledge Acquisition in a Machine Fault Diagnosis Shell," ACM SIGART Special Issue on Knowledge Acquisition, Spring 1989, pp. 84-92 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Alvin J. Underbrink, Jr.).

"Knowledge Acquisition in a Machine Fault Diagnosis Shell," published in Knowledge Acquisition: Current Trends and Practices, K. McGraw and C. Westphal, Eds., Ellis Horwood Publishers, October 1990, pp. 124-136 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Alvin J. Underbrink, Jr.).

"Manufacturing as a Key to Motivate First-Year Students," published in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on First Year Experience, York, England, July 1995 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Mohamed I. Dessouky).

"Motivating students through Manufacturing Education," published in the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computers in Industrial Engineering, held in Shanghai, China, November 1995, (Murali Krishnamurthi and Mohamed Dessouky).

"Deadlock Detection and Resolution in Simulation Models," Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 1994 (Murali Krishnamurthi, Amar Basavatia, and Sanjeev Thallikar).

"Domain Based On-Line Simulation for Real-Time Decision Support," Proceedings of the 1993 Winter Simulation Conference, December 1993, Los Angeles, CA (Murali Krishnamurthi and Suresh Vasudevan).

"A Two-Phased Approach to Diagnosis of Manufacturing Processes," Proceedings of the 2nd Industrial Engineering Research Conference, January 1993, Los Angeles, CA (Murali Krishnamurthi, John English, and Don Taylor).

"A Prototype Expert System for Fastener Selection," Proceedings of the 1987 ESD/SMI Expert Systems Conference, Dearborn, Michigan, June 1987 (Murali Krishnamurthi, Alvin Underbrink, Martha S. Wells, and Richard J. Mayer).

"Machine Fault Diagnosis: Combining Deep and Shallow Modeling Approaches for Practical Extensible Applications," Proceedings of the 1986 SME Ultratech Conference, Long Beach, California, September 1986 (Murali Krishnamurthi, Richard J. Mayer, and Patricia G. Friel).

"An Assessment of AI/ES Development Languages, Tools, and Environments for Manufacturing Applications," Proceedings of the 1986 SME Ultratech Conference, Long Beach, California, September 1986 (Richard J. Mayer, Patricia G. Friel, and Murali Krishnamurthi).

"Robot Fault Diagnosis Using Deep and Shallow Modeling Approaches," Proceedings of the ROBEXS '86 Conference on Robotics and Expert Systems, Houston, Texas, June 1986 (Murali Krishnamurthi, Richard J. Mayer, and Patricia G. Friel).

"Integrating Expert Systems into Engineering Environments," Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE AI Workstation & Systems Technology Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey, March 1986 (Murali Krishnamurthi, Richard J. Mayer and Patricia G. Friel).

"Two Approaches to the Implementation of a Distributed Simulation System," Proceedings of the 1985 Winter Simulation Conference, San Francisco, California, December 1985 (Murali Krishnamurthi, Usha Chandrasekaran, and Sallie Sheppard).

"Three Mechanisms for Distributing Simulation," Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the NSF Production Research & Technology Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, May 1985 (Sallie Sheppard, Robert E. Young, Usha Chandrasekaran, Murali Krishnamurthi, and Dana L. Wyatt).

"A Multitasking Implementation of System Simulation: The Emulation of an Asynchronous Parallel Processor Using a Single Processor," Proceedings of the 1984 Winter Simulation Conference, Dallas, Texas, November 1984 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Robert E. Young).

Online Modules Published

Effective Presentation Skills Tutorial,” published at www.niu.edu/presentations, October 2017, partially funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education grant and Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, NIU (Murali Krishnamurthi, Jason Rhode, and Dan Cabrera).

An Online Tutorial on Effective Writing Practices,” published at www.niu.edu/writingtutorial, October 2007, partially funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education grant and Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, NIU (Murali Krishnamurthi, Olga Urban and Doris Macdonald).

Faculty Tutorial on Promoting Academic Integrity”, published at http://www.niu.edu/ai/faculty, September 2006, funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education grant and Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, NIU (Murali Krishnamurthi and Jason Rhode).

Peer Review Quick Guide: Detecting Common Mistakes and Considering Dilemmas in Research Peer Review,” published at http://www.niu.edu/rcrportal/peerreview, September 2006, funded by the Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (Murali Krishnamurthi, Dan Cabrera and Jason Rhode).

Responsible Authorship Quick Guide: Detecting Common Mistakes and Considering Dilemmas in Research Publication,” published at http://www.niu.edu/rcrportal/publication/, September 2006, funded by the Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (Murali Krishnamurthi, Dan Cabrera and Jason Rhode).

Academic Integrity Tutorial”, published at http://www.niu.edu/ai/students, December 2005, funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education grant and Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, NIU. This tutorial is being used by students at NIU and outside institutions (Murali Krishnamurthi and Jason Rhode).

Research Mentoring,” published at http://www.niu.edu/rcrportal/mfront.html, December 2005, funded by the Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (Murali Krishnamurthi, Dan Cabrera and Jason Rhode).

Collaborative Research,” published at http://www.niu.edu/rcrportal/cfront.html, December 2005, funded by the Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (Murali Krishnamurthi, Dan Cabrera and Jason Rhode).

Environmental Management Systems for Everyone,” published at http://www.niu.edu/ems, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, June 2005, (Murali Krishnamurthi).

Data Management,” published at http://www.niu.edu/rcrportal/dfront.html, December 2004, funded by the Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, (Murali Krishnamurthi, Dan Cabrera, Jason Rhode, and Dawn Karlovsky).

Online Tutorial on Effective Presentation Techniques,” partially funded by the Committee for the Improvement of Undergraduate Education grant and Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, NIU and currently under development (Murali Krishnamurthi, Olga Urban and Janet Giesen).

Conference Presentations and Workshops Offered

“Promoting Integrity in Interdisciplinary Research,” keynote presentation delivered at the 2nd Word Summit on Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology at Indianapolis, Indiana in October 2019.

“Enhancing Engineering Education through Open Educational Resources,” presented at the 2019 International Conference on Recent Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICRIET) at Amsterdam, Netherlands in May 2019.

“Promoting Affordable Higher Education through Open Educational Resources,” keynote presentation delivered at the 2019 International Conference on Management and Education Innovation at London, England in March 2019.

“Emerging Trends in Higher Education Research and Innovation”, keynote presentation delivered at the 2018 International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation at Bangkok, Thailand in October 2018.

“Increasing Teaching Efficiency Using Lean Concepts,” paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Teaching, Education and Learning held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in May 2018.

“Preparing and Supporting Faculty on Teaching with Technology,” keynote presentation delivered at the 2016 International Conference on Information and Education Technology, January 4-6, 2016, Los Angeles, CA (Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Evaluating Real Change Using Effective Course Assessment,” presented at the 2007 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference held at Sydney, Australia, July, 2007 (Murali Krishnamurthi).

“Promoting research mentoring and collaboration through Flash-based role simulation,” presented at the Ed-Media World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 2007 (Dan Cabrera, Murali Krishnamurthi, and Jason Rhode).

“Promoting Responsible Conduct of Research through Online Quick Guides,” presented at the Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, April 2007 (Dan Cabrera, Murali Krishnamurthi, and Jason Rhode).

"Faculty Development's Role in Enhancing Diverse Faculty Recruitment and Retention," presented at the 2005 POD Conference in Milwaukee, WI in November 2005.

"Environmental Management Systems," 5-hour workshop offered to educators on July 15 and 22, 2004 at Northern Illinois University.

"Assessing Faculty Development in Higher Education," presented at the Pacific Assessment Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2004 (Murali Krishnamurthi and Brenda Hodges).

"Comprehensive Assessment of Faculty Development at a Higher Education Institution," presented at the 15th International Assessing Quality in Higher Education Conference held in Cape Town, South Africa, July 2003.

"Assessing the Quality of Multicultural Initiatives in a Four-Year Institution," presented at the 14 th International Assessing Quality in Higher Education Conference held in Vienna, Austria, July 2002.

"Faculty Development as a Gateway for Research Mentoring," presented at the POD Conference held in St. Louis, MO in October 2001.

"Multicultural and Pedagogical Transformation Through Faculty Development: Some Workshop Models," presented at the POD Conference held in St. Louis, MO in October 2001 (Matt Ouellett, Christine Stanley, Murali Krishnamurthi and Suzy Sprenger).

"Accommodating Teaching and Development for Student and Faculty Success," presented at the 2000 Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Conference at Vancouver, B.C., November 2000, (Murali Krishnamurthi and Nancy Long - Communicative Disorders).

"Multicultural Teaching in Industrial Engineering," published in the Faculty Bulletin, Northern Illinois University, Volume 60, No. 3, January 1997, pp. 21-26.

"A Parallel Processor for System Simulation: The Design Rationale and Simulation Language Processing Characteristics Suitable for Parallel Processing Applications," Presented at the IIE Spring Conference, Chicago, Illinois, May 1984 (Robert E. Young and Murali Krishnamurthi).

"A Causal Reasoning Based Machine Fault Diagnosis Development Shell," Presented at the Joint National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, October 1987 (Murali Krishnamurthi, Alvin Underbrink Jr., and William Forsythe).

Thesis and Graduate Projects Supervised

"Domain-Based On-Line Simulation for Real-Time Systems," M.S. Thesis, Suresh Vasudevan, Northern Illinois University, Spring 1993 (Director).

"A Generalized Cost Analysis System for Manufacturing Simulation," M.S. Thesis, R. Jayashankar, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1993 (Director).

"Modeling and Analysis of AT&T's International Directory Assistance Process," M.S. Graduate Project, Iqbal Sait, Northern Illinois University, Fall 1994 (Director).

"A Deadlock Detection Interface to a Commercial Simulation Language," M.S. Graduate Project, Sanjeev Thallikar, Northern Illinois University, Spring 1995 (Director).

"An Investigation of Deadlock Detection in Discrete-Event Simulation," Amar Basavatia, M.S. Thesis, Northern Illinois University, May 1995 (Director).

"A study for the Johnson Controls, Inc., Automotive Systems Group in Sycamore, Illinois to Determine the Impact of Production Changes to a Seat Assembly Operation," Leonidas Pretelt-Kieswetter, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, December 1995 (Co-Directors - Murali Krishnamurthi and Hampton Liggett).

"Using Microeconomics to Model Manufacturing," Steven F. Srebranig, M.S. Thesis, Northern Illinois University, May 1996 (Director).

"A Simulation Study of Caterpillar's Hardfinish Area," Paul Pulikkan, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, May 1996 (Director).

"Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Lead Time for Complex Scenarios," John Naduvathusseril, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, December 1997 (Director).

"A Generic Framework for Dynamic Planning for Snow Removal," Purushothaman Damodaran, M.S. Thesis, Northern Illinois University, December 1997 (Director).

"Analysis of Mail Opening Process With Emphasis on Improving Opening Production Rates," Trudy Hennessy, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, May 1998 (Director).

"A Comparison of Simulation and Metamodeling Approaches for Production Rate Determination," Shanthi Muthuswamy, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, August 1998 (Director).

"Modeling and Analysis of Shipping and Packaging Operations at Allegiance Healthcare," Jayasarathy Mohanarajulu, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, December 1998. (Director)

"An Investigation of the Design, Development, and Implementation of a Dynamic Information System," Di Wang, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, May 1999 (Director).

"An Optimal Decision-Making Environment for a Natural Gas Distribution System," Badrinath Jayaraman, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, August 2003 (Director).

"Development of the Quality Improvement System for floor machines using Six Sigma tools and techniques," Sudhir Chivakula, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, August 2005 (Director).

"Development of Environmental Management System (EMS), Pollution Prevention, and Energy Efficiency Strategies," Arun K. Madasu, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, August 2005 (Director).

"Design of Heating System for a Smart Home", Samuel Ratnasigamani, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, Fall 2005 (Director).

"Design and Development of Employment Application Tracking System for Human Resource Services at NIU," Subha Mohan, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, Spring 2006 (Director).

"DeKalb County Youth Service Bureau Client Tracking Information System," Mahesh Vavilala, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, Fall 2006 (Director).

Forecasting Model and Inventory Management for Greenleee-Textron,” Atulya Bhimarasetty, M.S. Graduate Project, Northern Illinois University, Fall 2007 (Co-Director).

Information System Testing Techniques,” Ratnaprasad Palagudu, Master’s Paper, Northern Illinois University, Fall 2007 (Director).

A Simulation Template Framework to Evaluate Customers’ Check-in Experience,” Rajeswari Bhojan, Master’s Thesis, Northern Illinois University, Spring 2010 (Director).

Classification, Implementation and Investigation of ERP Systems,” Khalid Hussain Mohammed, Master’s Paper, Northern Illinois University, Spring 2010 (Director).

Contact

Murali Krishnamurthi, Ph.D.
Email: mkrishna@niu.edu 
Office: Engineering Building 244