Don B. Chaffin, (Symposium Director) The R.G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (NAE member)

Seth Bonder, Founder and CEO (retired) of Vector Research Incorporated, President of the Bonder Group (NAE member)

Lawrence Burns, Vice-president of Research and Development and Strategic Planning (retired), General Motors Corporation

Richard DeVor, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Dornfeld, W.C. Hall Professor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Stephen R. Forrest, The W.G. Dow Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Physics, Vice-president of Research, University of Michigan (NAE member)

Thom Hodgson, Distinguished University Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University (NAE member)

Wallace Hopp, The Herrick Professor of Manufacturing, Ross School of Business and Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan

S. Jack Hu, The G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Operations Engineering, Senior Associate Academic Dean in the College of Engineering, The University of Michigan

Richard Jarman, President and CEO, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences

Yoram Koren, The Paul G. Goebel Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems at the University of Michigan (NAE member)

David Maddox, General, US Army (retired), Consultant

Sharon L. Nunes, Vice-president, Big Green Innovations, IBM Corporation

Stephen M. Pollock, The Herrick Professor (Emeritus) of Manufacturing, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (NAE member)

Herm Reininga, Senior Vice-president of Operations (retired), Rockwell Collins

James M. Tien, Distinguished Professor and Dean, College of Engineering, University of Miami (NAE member)

Galip Ulsoy, The William Clay Ford Professor of Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan (NAE member)

Candace Yano, Professor and past-chair, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley

Louis Martin-Vega, Professor and Dean, College of Engineering, North Carolina State University