Feburuary 23, 2006
RESUME
Thomas Mitchell Kisko, Retired
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, Florida
PERSONAL DATA
Retirement Address: 2041 NW 17th St., Crystal River, FL 34428
Phone : 352/257-9474 (mobile); 800/987-3312 (home) Date and Place of Birth : September 15, 1948, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. CitizenEDUCATION
1973 University of Florida M.E. Industrial Engineering
EMPLOYMENT
6/80 - 6/01 Retired (6/01),
Associate in ISE (7/86 - 6/01),
1/79 - 6/80 Visiting Instructor,
10/77 - 9/81 Director,
Regular courses taught:
Industrial Applications of Microprocessors SUM80,SUM83,SUM85,S90,S92,S93
Computer Programming for Engineers (COP 3212) a large FORTRAN and then C++
service course, enrollment has exceeded 400, supervised F86,S87,SUM94;
Advanced Industrial Applications of Microprocessors (ESI 6162) S92
Special topics courses taught:
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
4/98-6/01 "Mid-infrared Imager for the GEMINI 8-M Telescopes,"
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, .30 to .68 FTE
as project manager and software engineer, C.Telesco co-principal
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Current interest are computer applications in industrial engineering, intelligent control of machines, robotics, and software engineering. Recent research includes software develoment of astronomical instrument control, development of network models of evacuation, development of robotic work cells, robotic assembly of electronic devices, and group technology in assembly.
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS
Registered Professional Engineer, Florida # PE 0035555
CONSULTING ACTIVITIES
9/81 - present Consultant, Shands Teaching Hospital, Gainesville, FL
SOFTWARE DEVELOPED
Tom Kisko was the primary implementor of the following:
JEI - The Java Engineering Interface for T-ReCS, the infrared imager
and spectrograph for the Gemini South telescope
DENTSIM - a dental practice simulation model
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
"GatirCam: the Gemini mid-infrared imager," Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 3354, International Society of Optical Engineering, Kona, Hawaii, March 25-25, 1998 (with C.Telesco, et al.).
"Generic Class Web Page," The Ninth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, April 15-18, 1998.
"The Course Planning Program," The Ninth International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, Florida, April 15-18, 1998.
"Automatic Generation of Response Curve Drawings of Simulation Results," Simulators IX, Simulation Series, Vol. 24, No. 4, Society for Computer Simulation, 1992 (with D. Williams).
"A Tutorial on Modeling Emergency Evacuation," Proceedings of the 1992 International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference, Society for Computer Simulation, Orlando, Florida, April 6-9, 1992 (with S. Tufekci).
"REMS : A Regional Evacuation Modeling System," Proceedings of the 1992 International Emergency Management and Engineering Conference, Society for Computer Simulation, Orlando, Florida, April 6-9, 1992 (with S. Tufekci).
"Regional Evacuation Modeling System (REMS): A Decision Support System for Emergency Area Evacuations," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 21, Nos 1-4, pp. 89-93, 1991 (with S. Tufekci).
"Design of a Regional Evacuation Decision Support System: Integrating Simulation and Optimization," Proceedings, Society for Computer Simulation Conference on Emergency Management and Engineering Conference, Anaheim, California, January 23-25, 1991 (with S. Tufekci).
"A Linear Programming Formulation for Regional Evacuation Problems," Research Report no. 90-10, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, December, 1990.
"Extensions to the Engineering Economy Expression Evaluator," Research Report no. 89-4, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, May, 1989, also presented at the CORS/TIMS/ORSA Joint National Meeting, May 8-10, 1989, Vancouver, Canada
"A Case Study of the Implementation of a Vision System in a Robotic Assembly Application," Robotics and Factories of the Future '87, Proceedings of the Second International Conference, San Diego, CA, July 28-31, 1987, Springer-Verlag, 1988 (with E. Muth).
"Case Study: Demonstration of the Final Assembly of a Personal Computer by Robot," accepted for publication in Industrial Engineering, (with E.J. Muth).
"A Low Cost MIDI Out Interface," accepted for publication in Keyboard.
"Design Considerations for a Cushion Cluster Gripping Mechanism," Special Report to IBM, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, April, 1987.
"An Engineering Economy Expression Analyzer," Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 1-4, 1987, also presented at the IIE 9th Annual Conference for Computers and Industrial Engineering, Atlanta, Ga., March 1987.
"A Syntax for Linear Programming that Computers and People Can Understand," Technical Report Number 86-13, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida, also presented at the October 1986 Miami ORSA/TIMS meeting.
"Redesign of a Personal Computer for Automated Assembly," Proceedings of the IIE International Electronics Assembly Conference, Boston, Mass., September, 1986 (with E. Muth)
"Multiple-Stage Assembly of Personal Computers in Robotic Workcells with Vision Support," Proceedings of the IIE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, CA, April, 1986, (with E. Muth).
"Using a Pocket Computer as a Time Study Data Collection Tool," Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol 11 nos 1-4, 1986, also published in Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Orlando, Florida, March, 1986.
"Using A Radio Shack Model 100 as a Real-time Equipment Monitoring and Recording Device," Computers and Industrial Engineering, vol 11 nos 1-4, 1986, also published in Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Orlando, Florida, March, 1986.
"EVACNET+: A Computer Program to Determine Optimal Building Evacuation Plans," Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 9, Nos. 1 & 2, May/July, 1985, (with R. Francis).
"General Purpose Coordinate Transformations in AML," Proceedings, International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Automation, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1985.
"EVACNET+: A Network Model of Building Evacuation," Computer Simulation in Emergency Planning, Simulation Series, Vol. 11 No. 2, Society for Computer Simulation, 1983, (with R. Francis).
"The Use of Computers in Industrial Engineering Education at the University of Florida,", Proceedings, ASEE 1983 Southern Section Meeting, American Society for Engineering Education, 1983.
"Microprocessor Education in Industrial and Systems Engineering,", IEEE Transactions on Education, Special issue on Microprocessor Education, 1980, (with B. Capehart, J. Dean, D. Swift, and D. Dailor).
"The Use of Physical Models in the Application of Microprocessors," presented at the Third National Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, October, 1980 (presentation only).
"An Automated Method of Creating Piecewise Linear Cumulative Probability Distributions," Proceedings of the 1976 Winter Simulation Conference, December, 1976.
"Dental Practice Analysis Using Computer Simulation," Journal of Dental Education, November, 1976, (with K. Kilpatrick and R. Mackenzie).
"GPSS/SIMSCRIPT - The Dominant Simulation Languages," Record of Proceedings, Eighth Annual Simulation Symposium, March, 1975, (with I. Kay and D. Van Houweling).
"A Manpower Analysis of Private Practice Dentistry Through Simulation," Record of Proceedings, Seventh Annual Simulation Symposium, March, 1974, (with K. Kilpatrick and R. Mackenzie). (Best paper award. Also published in Simuletter, Volume 5, Number 3.)