Liles has spent his academic career at the University of Texas at Arlington, starting in 1979 as assistant professor and later associate professor. From 1989 to 1998 he was also associate director at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute. From 1998 to 2012 he was professor of industrial engineering, and chair of the IMSE Department at the University of Texas at Arlington.[3]
Liles has been executive council member of the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, and member of the National Honor Society for Industrial Engineering.[3]
Publications
Liles authored and co-authored several books and articles.[4] Books:
With Somerville, Rob; Hulsey, Gary (1990). "Machine vision-based control of the abrasive waterjet process". Dearborn, Mich.: Society of Manufacturing Engineers. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
With Kamrani, Ali K.; Parsaei, H. R. (1995). "Planning, design, and analysis of cellular manufacturing systems". Amsterdam ; New York: Elsevier. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Articles, a selection:
With Ayoub, M. M.; Selan, Joseph L. (1983). "An ergonomics approach for the design of manual materials-handling tasks". Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 25 (5): 507–515. doi:10.1177/001872088302500505. PMID6667940. S2CID31662533.
With Johnson, Mary E.; Meade, Laura (1995). "Enterprise engineering: a discipline?". Society for Enterprise Engineering Conference Proceedings. 6. CiteSeerX10.1.1.196.4337.
^Giaglis, George M. (2001). "A taxonomy of business process modeling and information systems modeling techniques". International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems. 13 (2): 209–228. doi:10.1023/A:1011139719773. S2CID16726428.