Professor Robert Yearout - Biography and Contribution - Industrial Engineering

Bob Yearout, Ph.D.

Professor of Management
University of North Carolina, Ashville
yearout  atr unca.edu /  atr mgmt_unca


Dr. Yearout  received  the 1995-1996 Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship for Outstanding Research, the 1997-1998 Distinguished Teaching Award for the Social Sciences, the 1999-2000  UNC Asheville Distinguished Teacher of the Year, the First Annual University Service Council Award in 2002, the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006, and the 2006-2007 Annual University Research Council Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievement.  He has published one book and a significant number of articles in national and international peer reviewed journals.

He was on the editorial board of International Journal of Industrial Engineering Theory: Theory, Applications and Practice

His research interests are noise hazards, quality control, inventory control, engineering economics, learning and forgetting as it applies to progress curves, statistical techniques, industrial health and safety, and workstation lighting.


Education

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University
M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Kansas State University
M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California
B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Military Institute
Courses Taught

MGMT 179 - Terrorism Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
MGMT 364 - Supply Chain Management
MGMT 380 - Management Science
MGMT 381 - Quality Control
MGMT 460 - Production Operations Management
MGMT 464 - Project Management
MGMT 465 - Operations Research
MGMT 492 - Senior Design Project
MGMT 499 - Undergraduat Research



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Professor John J. Bartholdi, III Biography and Contribution

John Bartholdi is a Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is Director of Global Research at The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and holds the Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management.

He teaches courses in supply chain issues at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and in Georgia Tech's program of industry short courses.

Bartholdi's research centers on problems of warehousing and distribution.  He is co-author of the book Warehouse & Distribution Science. He is also a founder of the Wine Supply Chain Council
Bartholdi graduated in 1968 with a degree in mathematics from the University of Florida (Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors) and then served two tours of duty in Southeast Asia as a paratrooper in Beach Jumper Unit One of Naval Special Warfare. He returned to complete a Ph.D. in Operations Research, also at the University of Florida. In addition to his current position, he has served on the faculties of the University of Michigan, the Shanghai University for Science and Technology, and the National University of Singapore.

He won the 1999 Award for Technical Innovation by the Institute of Industrial Engineers and in 2005 was named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.
Bartholdi has been honored to hold additional appointments as Professor Extraordinary of Operations Research in the Department of Logistics, Universiteit Stellenbosch, South Africa, and as Academic Leader in Industrial Engineering at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico.

Interesting Research


Allocating space in the forward pick area of a distribution center, with S. Hackman, IIE Transactions (Special issue on facility logistics), 40(11):1046-1053
Design of efficient bin-numbering schemes for warehouses by J. Bartholdi and L. Platzman, Material Flow4:247-254.

Using Shapley value to allocate savings in a supply chain, with E. Kemahlioglu Ziya. In Supply Chain Optimization, eds. P. Pardalos and J. Geunes, Kluwer Optimization Series.
The best shape for a crossdock, with K. R. Gue. Transportation Science 38(2):235-244 (2004).
Reducing labor costs in an LTL cross-docking terminal, with K. R. Gue. A slightly revised version appeared in Operations Research 48(6):823-832 (2000).

Scheduling interviews at a job fair, with K. L. McCroan. A slightly revised version appeared in Operations Research 38(6):951-960 (1990).

Decentralized control of automated guided vehicles on a simple loop, with L. K. Platzman; IIE Transactions 21(1):76-81 (1989).


http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/John_Bartholdi/bio.html

http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/ie.html

Professor Hayriye Ayhan - Biography and Contribution

Dr. Ayhan is a professor in ISyE, Georgia Tech.

She received her Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering from Bosphorous University and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University (in Industrial Engineering) in 1995.

Her research interests include stochastic (Max,+) linear systems, performance analysis of queueing and production systems via series expansions, and Markov decision processes (with applications to admission control, inventory/production control).


Dr. Ayhan received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2000. She is a member of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and she is the secretary and the treasurer of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society.



http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=hs41

S. Andradottir , H. Ayhan, and D. G. Down , Optimal Assignment of Servers to Tasks when Collaboration is Inefficient, under review, [paper: paper ].
H. Eser Kirkizlar, S. Andradottir , and H. Ayhan, Service Quality versus Efficiency in Tandem Systems, under review , [paper: paper ].
H. Eser Kirkizlar, S. Andradottir , and H. Ayhan, Flexible Servers in Tandem Lines with Setups, under revision , [paper: paper ].
Bo Zhang and H. Ayhan, Optimal Admission Control for Tandem Queues with Loss, to appear, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control .
S. Andradottir , H. Ayhan, and D. G. Down , Design Principles for Flexible Systems, under review , [paper: paper ].
H. Eser Kirkizlar, S. Andradottir , and H. Ayhan, Flexible Servers in Understaffed Tandem Lines, to appear, POMS

Professor Turgay Ayer - Biography and Contribution

Turgay Ayer is an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey and his MS and PhD degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Dr. Ayer conducts research on stochastic modeling and optimization, with applications in medical decision making, health policy, healthcare operations, service operations, and public policy.


Ph.D. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Minor in Mathematics.
 M.Sc. Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
 B.S. Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey
Minor in Mathematics.


Recent Research

 Q. Chen, T. Ayer, AC Rose, LJ Nastoupil, CR Flowers (2014), “Comparing the Cost
Effectiveness of Rituximab Maintenance and Radio-immunotherapy Consolidation Therapy
Following First-line Chemo-Immunochemotherapies for Follicular Lymphoma,” under review.

C. Zeng, T. Ayer, C. C. White III, V. Roshan Joseph, J. DeShane (2014) “Optimizing
Cryoprecipitate Collection Schedules,” under review.


1. DA Goldstein, Q. Chen, T. Ayer, D. Howard, J. Lipscomb, RD Harvey, B El-Rayes, CR Flowers
(2014), “Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Pharmacokinetically Guided 5-Fluorouracil therapy in
FOLFOX chemotherapy for metastatic colorectal cancer,” in press, Clinical Colorectal Cancer1
.

http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=tayer3


http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~tayer3/CV_Ayer.pdf

Professor Jane Chumley Ammons - Biography and Contribution - Industrial Engineering

Jane Ammons serves as the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair and Professor for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Her areas of expertise include supply chain engineering with a special interest in developing closed loop, environmentally sustainable systems. Dr. Ammons received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to her academic experience, Dr. Ammons has worked as a plant engineer for an industrial manufacturer and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Georgia.


Dr. Ammons has served as the President of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).


Publications

Investigation of electronic assembly design alternatives through production modeling of life cycle impacts, costs, and yield

Stuart, J.A. ; Dept. of Ind. Welding & Syst. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA ; Turbini, L.J. ; Ammons, J.C.

There are a number of different product and process design choices for electronics assemblies. Decision tools to aid in the selection of a product and process design have been limited to qualitative methodologies. In addition, trade-offs between environmental impacts, yield, and reliability have not been analyzed. In this paper, electronic assembly product and process design alternatives are investigated using a quantitative methodology with life cycle considerations for environmental impacts. These impacts include energy usage, material consumption, waste generation, process yield, and product reliability.

Published in: Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, Part C, IEEE Transactions on  (Volume:20 ,  Issue: 4 ), 1997

Component allocation to balance workload in printed circuit card assembly systems

J. C. AMMONS, M. CARLYLEb, L. CRANMERc, G. DEPUYd, K. ELLISe, L. F. MCGINNISa, C. A. TOVEYa & H. XUf
pages 265-275, IIE Transactions, Volume 29, Issue 4, 1997

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http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/Jane_Ammons/

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Professor Sigrun Andradottir - Biography and Contribution - Industrial Engineering

Sigrun Andradottir is a Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Iceland in 1986, an M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University in 1990. She joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1990, and later moved to Georgia Tech in 1995.


Her research interests are in simulation, applied probability, and stochastic optimization.


Email: sa "atr" gatech.edu

Interesting Recent Research Papers

Design Principles for Flexible Systems (with Hayriye Ayhan and Douglas G. Down). Production and Operations Management, 2013 (volume 22, issue 5), 1144-1156.

Optimal Assignment of Servers to Tasks when Collaboration is Inefficient (with Hayriye Ayhan and Douglas G. Down). Queueing Systems, 2013 (volume 75, issue 1), 79-110.

An Averaging Framework for Simulation Optimization with Applications to Simulated Annealing (with Andrei A. Prudius). Naval Research Logistics, 2012 (volume 59, issue 6), 411-429.

Flexible Servers in Tandem Lines with Setups (with Hayriye Ayhan and H. Eser Kirkizlar). Queueing Systems, 2012 (volume 70, issue 2), 165-186.

Flexible Servers in Understaffed Tandem Lines (with H. Eser Kirkizlar and Hayriye Ayhan). Production and Operations Management, 2012 (volume 21, issue 4), 761-777.




http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=sa43

http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/Sigrun_Andradottir/

Professor Christos Alexopoulos - Biography and Contribution - Industrial Engineering

Professor Alexopoulos' research interests center on applied probability, statistics, and optimizations of stochastics systems. His recent work involves problems related to the optimal design of telecommunications and transportation networks.

Email: christos atr isye.gatech.edu


Interesting Research Papers of Prof. Christos Alexopoulos


Bai, L., Alexopoulos, C., Ferguson, M., and Tsui, K-L. A simple and robust batch-ordering inventory policy under incomplete demand knowledge, Computers and Industrial Engineering, appeared online, April 24, 2012 (www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360835212000629).

Alexopoulos, A., Goldsman, D., Fontanesi, J., Kopald, D., and Wilson, J. R. Modeling patient arrivals in community clinics, Omega, vol. 36, no. 1, 33-43, 2008.

Kim, S.-H., Alexopoulos, C., Tsui, K.-L., and Wilson, J. R. A distribution-free tabular CUSUM chart for autocorrelated data, IIE Transactions, vol. 39, pp. 317-330, 2007.

Fontanesi, J., Alexopoulos, C., Goldsman, D., Sawyer, M., De Guire M., Kopald, D., and Holcomb, K. Non-punctual patients: Planning for variability in appointment arrival times, Journal of Medical Practice Management, vol. 18, pp. 14-18, 2002.

Alexopoulos, C. and Griffin, P. G. Path planning for a mobile robot, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, vol. 22, pp. 318-322, 1992.






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http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/Christos/

Professor Shabbir Ahmed - Biography and Contribution - Industrial Engineering

November 2014

Dr. Shabbir Ahmed is a Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. His research interests are in optimization, specifically stochastic and integer programming.

Email: sahmed  atr isye.gatech.edu  (atr = @)

Interesting Research Papers of Prof Shabbir Ahmed

A cutting and scheduling problem in float glass manufacturing
B Na, S Ahmed, G Nemhauser, J Sokol
Journal of Scheduling 17 (1), 95-107, 2014

Optimization of automated float glass lines
B Na, S Ahmed, G Nemhauser, J Sokol
International Journal of Production Economics 145 (2), 561-572, 2013

Supply chain design under uncertainty using sample average approximation and dual decomposition
P Schütz, A Tomasgard, S Ahmed
European Journal of Operational Research 199 (2), 409-419, 2009

The value of multistage stochastic programming in capacity planning under uncertainty
K Huang, S Ahmed
Operations research 57 (4), 893-904, 2009


Coherent risk measures in inventory problems
S Ahmed, U Çakmak, A Shapiro
European Journal of Operational Research 182 (1), 226-238, 2007

A stochastic programming approach for supply chain network design under uncertainty
T Santoso, S Ahmed, M Goetschalckx, A Shapiro
European Journal of Operational Research 167 (1), 96-115, 2005


Robust process planning under uncertainty
S Ahmed, NV Sahinidis
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 37 (5), 1883-1892, 1998


http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=sa94

http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/people/faculty/Shabbir_Ahmed/

Lean Product Development - Engineering - Bibliography

Lean Product Development Point of View to Current Challenges of Engineering Change Management in Traditional Manufacturing Industries
Katrine Mahlamäki1 , Mikael Ström2 , Taneli Eisto1 , Venlakaisa Hölttä1
1Helsinki University of Technology,P.O.Box 9210, 02015 TKK, Finland
http://www.ami-communities.eu/pub/bscw.cgi/d494273/37_MahlamakiICE09_final.pdf


Lean Engineering - Best Practice in the Automotive Industry
Lean engineering practice at Tenneco
Working Paper n°6, Projet Lean Entreprise
Dr. Patrick Garcia, Tenneco Inc., Germany
Dr. John Drogosz, Optiprise-University of Michigan
http://www.lean.enst.fr/wiki/pub/Lean/LesPublications/LeanEngineeringWorkingPaper.pdf

Lean Manufacturing - Production - Research Papers and Thesis

Exploring organizational translation A case study of changes toward Lean Production
Jostein Langstrand
February 2012

Department of Management and Engineering
Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden

The thesis is based on a longitudinal case study that has focused on the
introduction of the management concept Lean in a large Swedish
manufacturing company. The study has been performed in two phases. In
the first phase, a series of retrospective interviews have been performed with
employees at all hierarchical levels within the company. The second phase
of the study has been based on a prospective approach. This phase has
comprised a combination of interviews, observations and document studies,
with focus on a pilot project within the company. The study was performed
between 2007 and 2011 and covers events between 2003 and 2011.
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:503206/FULLTEXT03