She teaches courses in Materials Science, Manufacturing Processes, and Metallurgy. Prior to working in education, she spent four years at General Motors as a Reliability and Test Engineer. Her efforts included quality, reliability, and cost reduction studies and the comparison of duty cycles to analyze the effectiveness of in-house simulated transmission testing vs. actual vehicle testing. At IUPUI, Jamie’s most recent area of applied research centers around the adaptation and implementation of Lean Six Sigma processes from the manufacturing industry into the hospital healthcare environment and the development of discrete event simulation models for operations within healthcare systems.