Daniel Edgard Karkle

Teaching Assistant Professor

Contact information

2083 Rathbone Hall

dkarkle@k-state.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Kansas State University, 2011
  • Graduate Certificate, Applied Statistics, Kansas State University, 2011
  • Graduate Certificate, Accounting and Finance, UFPR - Brazil, 2007
  • B.Sc., Civil Production Engineering, UFPR - Brazil, 2005

Professional experience

Daniel Karkle received his bachelor’s degree in civil production engineering from the Federal University of Technology – Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil, in 2005. He received a graduate certificate in applied statistics and his doctorate in industrial engineering from Kansas State University in 2011. Karkle joined the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at K-State as a professor of practice in November 2022. Since then, Karkle has been teaching graduate and undergraduate classes on the topics of advanced production management and inventory control, as well as an interdisciplinary senior design course.

Before joining K-State, Karkle had a diversified professional experience. Given his background and experience, his areas of expertise involve project management and risk-based decision-making under uncertainty for large and mega industrial capital projects, human factors in highway safety and operations management.

Karkle has 10 years of experience at Independent Project Analysis, Inc. as a consultant, researcher and client engagement leader. During his career at IPA, he advised several Fortune 500 companies in capital decision-making and continuous improvement processes for project systems. Karkle independently evaluated and was involved in critical decisions of more than 70 complex capital projects, including 20 mega projects, for clients of several industrial sectors (oil and gas, mining and minerals, chemicals, human nutrition, and infrastructure) in over eight different countries. He also conducted several internal research studies while at IPA.

Additionally, Karkle has six months of experience as a senior manager in the capital projects division of the financial advisory business unit of Deloitte Brazil. There, Karkle helped to structure a business area for the application of statistical and artificial intelligence methods to support capital project decision-making processes. At Deloitte, Karkle also led a team of consultants structuring a work process and applying the process to support capital allocation in portfolio management involving thousands of small projects for a large mining company in Brazil.

Karkle has one year experience in production planning and management at a local industry for the construction sector in Curitiba-PR, Brazil, and four years of experience in the Brazilian Army, with two as Second Lieutenant of Artillery.

Academic highlights

Karkle’s doctoral dissertation was devoted to human factors in highway safety, specifically the safety effectiveness, noise effects and lateral positional effects of installing centerline rumble strips in Kansas. As a result of his dissertation, Karkle has published five research papers in peer reviewed journals and in conference proceedings.