Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of inventory management, distribution, logistics, and supply chain management. She has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate-level courses and has supervised graduate student projects, in these areas at the master's level. Dr. Schmidt has worked with many Indiana companies to develop a Logistics training course, revise warehouse layouts, revise facility layouts, and other projects in the Logistics area. Abstract Feedback from our

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... ustry partners has made it clear that the education received by the Industrial Technology and Industrial Distribution students with hand-on experience will have an advantage when they enter the working world. Combining course lectures and materials with problem-based evaluations of case studies and hands-on activities simulating real-world logistics and manufacturing decisions provides students with an enhanced ability to foresee and respond to industry problems when they arise.