The Manufacturing Education Resource Center has published a series of 12 instructional units created by Reza Maleki, NDSU associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering. The instructional units cover materials related to facility design, including plant layout, material handling, warehousing and distribution.

The resource center is a service of the National Center for Manufacturing Education in Dearborn, Mich., which is funded by the National Science Foundation under the Advanced Technological Education program.