Positions

• Education Generation

  Owner, 2022 - Current

  Lecturer, Business Analytics

  Tippie College of Business, 1/2017 - 7/2022

• Professor, Decision Sciences

  St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, 08/2003 - 12/2016

• Adjunct Professor, Industrial Engineering, Management Sciences

  The University of Iowa, IA, 1/2002 - 12/2016

• Professor, Industrial Engineering

  St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, 1/1993 - 8/2003

• Manager, Engineering, Controls, and Information Systems

  Komar Industries, Groveport, OH, 1/1991 - 12/1992

• Network and Applications Support, Corporate Financial Services

  Deere & Company, Moline, IL, 1/1990 - 12/1991

• Adjunct Professor, College of Business

  St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, 1/1988 - 12/1991

• Manager, Computer Network Operations

  Deere & Company Technical Center, Moline, IL, 1/1988 - 12/1990

• Vice President

  Software Generation Incorporated (SGI), 01/1983 - 12/2016

• Manufacturing Engineer, Manufacturing R&D

  Deere & Company Administrative Center, Moline, IL, 1/1980 - 12/1988

• Project Manager, Manufacturing R&D

  John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works, Waterloo, IA, 1/1978 - 12/1980

• Co-op Engineering Student

  John Deere Waterloo Tractor Works, Waterloo, IA, 1/1976 - 12/1978

Education

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, The University of Iowa, 1997

• MBA, St. Ambrose University, 1984

• BS in Industrial Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1978

Professional Memberships

• Quality Matters, International, 2022

• Moodle Users Association, International, 2017

• American Society for Engineering Education, 1997

• Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1993

• Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers, 1975

Selected Awards & Honors

• Quality Matters Certified Peer Reviewer (PRC), Quality Matters, 2022

• Quality Matters "Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR)" Certificate, Quality Matters, 2022

• Camtasia Certified, TechSmith, 2021

• MBA8150 - Business Analytics QM Certified, Quality Matters, 2019

• Best in Track, “Time Warping Education: A Business Statistics Example,” Sloan-C 10th Annual Blended Learning Conference and Workshop, 2013

• Integrated Manufacturing Predoctoral Fellowship, United States Department of Energy, 1995

• Canvas Community Level 11 Helper, Instructure, 2017 - 2021

• Particularly Helpful Moodler Award, Moodle.org, 2013 - 2022

• IE Outstanding Adjunct Professor Award, The University of Iowa, 2005

Selected Publications

• (Eds.) (2005). Experiences in Designing a Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Course. Portland, OR: ASEE Annual Conference.

• Jerz, R. (2001). Combining the Resource Consumption Model (RCM) and the Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES) to Analyze Product Design. Rimini: Symposium on Materials and Process Selection, Euromat.

• Jerz, R. (1998). A Resource Consumption Model (RCM) For Process Design. Maui, Hawaii: 2nd International Conference on Engineering Design and Automation Proceedings.

• Jerz, R. (1998). Utilizing Modern Computer Development Tools In Implementing The Resource Consumption Model for Process Design (RCM). Banff: Industrial Engineering Research Conference '98 Proceedings.

• Jerz, R. (1997). A Resource Consumption Model (RCM) for Process Design. Dissertation. Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa.

Selected Presentations

• Jerz, R. (2020, July) Quality Matters Certification using Moodle. Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2020 (Helena, MT), Helena, Montana.

• Jerz, R. (2019, November) How to Install a "Personal" Moodle on Your PC or Mac. Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2019 (Helena, MT) and GlobalMoot, Barcelona, Spain.

• Jerz, R. (2019, November) Using Calculated Multichoice Questions. Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2019 (Helena, MT) and GlobalMoot 2019, Barcelona, Spain.

• Jerz, R. (2019, November) Integrating Moodle with Tableau and MS PowerBi for Visual Course Analytics. Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2019, Helena, Montana.

• Jerz, R. (2018, July) Managing Course Content Using a “Personal Repository.” Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2018 and GlobalMoot 2019, Barcelona, Spain.

• Jerz, R. (2018, July) A Day in the Life of an Online Instructor. Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2018, Helena, Montana.

• Jerz, R. (2018, June) Using Tableau with Moodle for Visual Analytics. Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2019 (Helena) and GlobalMoot, Barcelona, Spain.

• Jerz, R. (2017, July) Making Boost do MORE. Conference Presentation presented at MountainMoot 2017 (Helena) and MoodleMoot U.S., New Orleans, Louisiana.

• Jerz, R. (2016, July) Customizing MORE to Improve Your Moodle’s Appearance. Conference Presentation presented at MoodleMoot US 2016, Los Angeles, California.

• Jerz, R. (2016, July) Expanding your MoodleCloud Storage to Fill the “Entire Sky”. Conference Presentation presented at MoodleMoot US 2016, Los Angeles, California.