Muditha Senanayake

Dr. Senanayake lead the AMM department as the Department Chair with about 430 undergraduate and graduate students and about 25 faculty and staff.

Dr.  Senanayake's areas of teaching include product development, production, supply chain management, operations management, enterprise resource planning, quality management, and research methods. He holds professional qualifications as a chartered textile technologist.

His research interests include mass customization and personalization considering the aspects of technology integration and development, mixed mass production and customization apparel manufacturing, purchase activated manufacturing, small quantity manufacturing and re-shoring, challenges and barriers for customization and personalization.

Further, he has conducted manufacturing research and development of tools to assist in the manufacturing decision-making process. He is an expert in apparel product development, production, and quality management and has extensive executive industry experience in operations and R&D in the United States and overseas.

He has served in committees related to AAFA, TI, AATCC, and ITAA and is a member of several professional organizations including the Textile Institute, ITAA, AATCC, and MCPC group at MIT.  He has published his research in referred journals, has written book chapters on product development and technology integration for managing complexity, has written trade publications, and is a regular research presenter at national and international professional conferences such as ITAA, TI, AATCC and MCPC. He is a journal article reviewer for CTRJ and JFMM and has reviewed book chapters. He has received a number of internal and external grants and is an active grant proposal writer for improving teaching with modern digital technologies and interactive computer simulations.  

• AMM 1010: Fashion Industry
• AMM 2000/4000 Special Topics/Independent Studies
• AMM 3920: Apparel Operations management 
• AMM 2800//L: Apparel Product Analysis and Lab
• AMM 3810/L: Apparel Production I and Lab
• AMM 4420: Internship
• AMM 443A: Apparel Market Analysis and Reporting
• AMM 4530: Apparel Sourcing and Supply Chain Management
• AMM 4630/A: Senior Research project
• AMM 4810/L: Advanced Apparel Production and Lab
• AMM 4920L: Apparel Product Development Simulation and Activity (Capstone Course)
• IAM 5520: International Textile and Apparel Sourcing

Book Chapters

• Apparel Technology Integration and Development for Purchase Activated Manufacturing (2016). Book Title: Managing Complexity - Proceedings of the 8th World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation (MCPC 2015), Montreal, Canada, October 20th-22th, 2015. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics (ISBN 978-3-319-29058-4). [Edited by: Bellemare, J, Carrier, S., and Piller, F.]  http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319290560]

• Product development in the apparel industry (2015) Book title: Garment manufacturing technology, Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles #168, UK. (Edited by: R Nayak and R Padhye, RMIT University, Australia)

Referred Journal Manuscripts/Full Papers/Extended Abstracts

•  Min, S., Lyu, S. & Senanayake, M. (2020). “Teaching 3D Virtual Prototyping Program, TUKA 3D, in a Classroom: Students’ Reflection and Learning Outcomes. 2020 ITAA Annual virtual conference, Nov, 2020.
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• Lyu, S.,, Senanayake, M., and S. Huynh. (2019). “ Innovative Teaching for Real-World Capstone Experience in Apparel Production. 2019 Annual Conference, ITAA. Las Vegas, Nevada.

• Senanayake, M. M. Raheja A. & Zhang, Yuhan. (2018). Automated body measurement extraction: A single camera approach. International Journal of Clothing Science & Technology.

• Che, Jianging, and Senanayake, Muditha. (2017).  A Statistical Analysis for Correlation Approach to Compensate the Measured CIELAB Colorimetric Data for Temperature Alterations. Journal of Color Research and Application.

• Che, Jianging, and Senanayake, Muditha. (2016).  The dependency of color measurement on surface temperature of textile, ceramic, plastic, paint, and print materials. 2017 AATCC International Conference, March 28-30, Wilmington. NC.

• Senanayake, Muditha. (2016). Interactive Computer Simulation Tool to Improve Cutting Room Decision Making. 2017 AATCC International Conference, March 28-30, Wilmington. NC.

• Che, Jiangning, Rong, Li, and Senanayake, Muditha. (2016). A Comparative Study on the Dependency of Color Measurement on Surface Temperature, Journal of Coloration Technology, 132(2): 144-152.

• Che, Jiangning, and Senanayake, Muditha. (2015). An Analysis of the Thermochromism Properties of Colored Composite materials. Proceedings of the CAD RETEC 2015 Conference, Oct 4-6, Indianapolis, Indiana

• Senanayake, Muditha, Kilduff, Peter, Grier, Bill. (2015). Apparel Technology Integration and Development for Purchase Activated Manufacturing. Proceedings of the 8^th World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation: Managing Complexity, Oct 21-23, Canada