Merwan Mehta

Dr. Merwan Mehta , Ph.D., is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). A professor in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, he has taught Engineering Economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels since 2004. Prior to joining academia, he spent more than twenty years in the manufacturing industry as a partner in two businesses, vice president, project director, manager, industrial...See more

Dr. Merwan Mehta , Ph.D., is a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE) and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB). A professor in the College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, he has taught Engineering Economics at the undergraduate and graduate levels since 2004. Prior to joining academia, he spent more than twenty years in the manufacturing industry as a partner in two businesses, vice president, project director, manager, industrial and manufacturing engineer, and machine tool design engineer. Dr. Mehta conducts workshops internationally for Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt certifications, total productive maintenance (TPM), value stream mapping (VSM), geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), and design of experiments (DOE). He also serves as an examiner for the Missouri Quality Award based on the Baldrige Criteria. His research interests include enhancing manufacturing and business processes, using Lean principles and the theory of constraints, and the pursuit of quality and variation control through Six Sigma and DOE. See less