Jeh-Nan Pan, Chinese, American statistician, engineer, professor. Member American Society for Quality Control (CQE & CRE awards 1981, 86). Dr. Jeh-Nan Pan is currently a Professor of Statistics at College of Management, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). Professor Pan’s expertise is in the fields of quality management and industrial statistics. He has served as a Vice Dean, NCKU and been elected as a fellow of Chinese Society for Quality.
Background
Pan, Jeh-Nan was born on February, 1954 in Dachen, Zehjiang, People's Republic of China. Son of Shan-Ming and Ying-Mei (Hsein) Pan. He received his B.S. degree from Taiwan; M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from U.S.A. He was previously on the staff of USC and California State University in U.S.A. and has more than ten years of industrial experience, started with a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer and then promoted to Chief Statistician at Leach Corporation and Statistical Process Control Program Manager at Teledyne Inc. in Los Angeles, U.S.A. He has authored two textbooks: “Quality Management: Principles and Practice” and “Proactive Quality Assurance” (in Chinese) and coauthored (with Dr. William Kolarik) a textbook “Creating Quality” (McGraw Hill Inc.) He has published 76 papers in both domestic and renowned SCI/SSCI international journalssuch as: IEEE Transaction on Reliability, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega-The International Journal of Management Science, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Quality Engineering, International Journal of Production Research, etc.
Education
Bachelor of Science, National Kaohshing Normal University, Taiwan, 1976. Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, Texas Tech University, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering and Statistics, Texas Tech University, 1984.
Career
Mathematics teacher Da-De High School, Taichung, Republic of China, 1976-1978. Industrial engineer American Pharmaseal Corporation, San Marcos, California, 1980-1981, Roberts Consolidated Industries, City of Industry, 1981-1983. Part-time instructor Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1983-1984.
Statistician, senior engineer relay division Leach Corporation, Los Angeles, 1985-1989, chief statistician, 1989-1991. SPC program manager Teledyne Controls, since 1991. Adjunct associate professor California State University, Northridge, 1985-1986, Dominguez Hills, since 1988, University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1986-1987.
Consultant in field. Professor and Former Vice Dean, National Cheng Kung University, 1992-present
Achievements
Membership
Member American Society for Quality Control (awards 1981, 86), Operations Research Society of America, National Management Association, Institute Industrial Engineers.
Personality
Professor Jeh-Nan Pan is not only an excellent teacher and researcher in his field of industrial engineering, but also a great administrator to successfully promote the College of management at NCKU into aninternational AACSB accredation.
Quotes from others about the person
From Professor Hubert Chen, University of Gorgia:
Professor Jeh-Nan Pan is not only an excellent teacher and researcher in his field of industrial engineering, but also a great administrator to successfully promote the College of management at NCKU into aninternational AACSB accredation.
Connections
Married Sherrie Tsai Pan, June 9, 1984. Children: Carol Kaiting, Karen.
Research and Teaching Excellence; and Best paper awards,
Taiwan
He has received several distinguished awards including three (3) Research and Teaching Excellence awards from NCKU, four (4) best paper awards from Chinese Society for Quality (CSQ).
He has received several distinguished awards including three (3) Research and Teaching Excellence awards from NCKU, four (4) best paper awards from Chinese Society for Quality (CSQ).