Atul Agarwal

Specialties:

Cellular manufacturing
Lean Manufacturing
Manufacturing systems specialist
Quality control
Statistical applications in business processes

Description:

Dr. Atul Agarwal, associate professor of Production Operations ManagementPh.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington in Business, with expertise in lean operations, quality control, performance issues, and production systems.
Agarwal finds Kettering students driven, mature, and career-minded, with a "razor-focus" approach to career, and the exposure to the best practices in industry that sets Kettering students apart from students at other universities. He enjoys the closer interaction with students that results from Kettering's small class size. teaching graduate courses through the Distance Learning program.
At the beginning of every term Agarwal tells his students how to pronounce his first name. He tells them to say "tool" with an "A" so it's "Atool." A couple of years later he met a student in a store and the student forgot about "tool" in his name and asked, "Aren't you Mr. Hammer?" Since then, he has stopped introducing himself this way.
He would tell prospective students that Kettering is "the best value for your time and money."
Hidden talents and outside interests: Agarwal isn't all business, all the time. Though he avidly tracks Wall Street activity, he also enjoys reading and writing poetry and literature, playing tennis, and traveling both the United States and abroad.