Name:          Betsha Tizazu Abreham

Position:         Production Systems Engineering Holder

Office:            building 

Email:             Betsha.Tizazu@bdu.edu.et

Phone:             +251983076350

Education:      

• Ph.D., in industrial Management, at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
• M.Sc., in industrial Engineering (Production Engineering and Management) , at Bahir Dar Technology Institute, Bahir Dar University 

Courses:          

• Production and Operation Management, Food Supply Chain Management, Green Supply Chain Management, Production costing and control, Advanced Facility Design, and Ergonomics and work-study 

Research:       

Professional Experience:      

• Assistant Professor - November 2020 to date

Giving lectures, preparing course materials, doing research, advising students, and participating in community service activities

• Lecturer - October 2013 to September 2016

Giving lectures, preparing course materials, doing research, advising students, and participating in community service activities

Research Interests:  

• Human-centered innovation, Human-Robot Collaboration (cobots), Human Motion Analysis and Simulation, Human Machine Interaction
• Ergonomic Design Evaluation, Occupational Biomechanics
• Virtual Reality, User Experience, Usability study
• Optimization of Industrial Systems
• Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance 
• Sustainable supply chain management
• Productivity improvement 

Publications:  

• Kinematics of direct reaching in head-mounted and stereoscopic widescreen virtual environments
• Effects of displays on a direct reaching task: A comparative study of head mounted display and stereoscopic widescreen display
• Exocentric Distance Judgment and Accuracy of Head-Mounted and Stereoscopic Widescreen Displays in Frontal Planes
• Anthropometric data of Bahir Dar city adult men for Clothing Design
• Developing Anthropometric Standards for Ethiopian Clothing Design

Conference:   

• Retaining Talent in Ethiopia's Booming Textile Indus-try: Key Drivers and Proposed Strategies” at EAI ICAST 2024 - 12th EAI International Conference on Advancements of Science and Technology, November 1-3, 2024, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
• Factor Affecting Inventory Management System of Ethiopian Apparel Manufacturing Industries” at EAI ICAST 2024 - 12th EAI International Conference on Advancements of Science and Technology, November 1-3, 2024,  Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
• Retaining A study of Barrier of Total Productive Maintenances Implantation (BTPMI) using Integrated Approach of Fuzzified Interpretive Structural Modeling (FISM) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM): A case-specific Review” at EAI ICAST 2024 - 12th EAI International Conference on Advancements of Science and Technology, November 1-3, 2024, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
• Keynote speaker entitled with “Ergonomics role amidst COVID 19: student perspective” at ERGOCAMP V 20, August 14 2020, University of Brawijaya, Indonesia.

A Comparative Study of Interaction Performance in Head Mounted Display and Stereoscopic Wide Screen Display at Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Society conference, December 3-6, 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.