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Andrew, Rich William , Ph.D. (Penn State) Associate Professor of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management
Research Interests: Apllied and theoretical aspects of financial management relating to domestic and international hospitality and non-commercial housing, feeding, and tourism; applications of management science theory to the same areas
Office Address: 201H Mateer Building
Fax: 814-863-4257
Office Phone: 814-863-0272
E-mail:wpa@psu.edu

 

Antle, Charles , Ph.D. (Oklahoma State) Professor Emeritus of Statistics
Research Interests: Mathematical Programming, Applied Decision Theory, Bayesian Models
Office Address: 325 Joab L. Thomas Building
Fax: 814-863-7114
Office Phone: 814-865-3631
E-mail:cea@psu.edu

 

Antonios Armaou, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles) Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Process Dynamics and Control; Computational Modeling and Applied Mathematics; Process Design and Analysis
Office Address: 170 Fenske Laboratory
Phone: (814) 865-5316
Fax: (814) 865-7846
Email: armaou@engr.psu.edu



Arnold, Steven F. , Ph.D. (Stanford) Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: Decision Theory, Multivariate Analysis, Repeated Measures
Office Address: 326 Joab L. Thomas Building
Fax: 814-863-7114
Office Phone: 814-865-3557
E-mail: sfa@psu.edu



Barton, Russell , Ph.D. (Cornell) Professor of Management Science
Research Interests: Engineering Optimization, Design of Experiments, Simulation Optimization
Office Address: 406 Business Building
Fax: 814-865-7064
Office Phone: 814-863-7289
E-mail: rrb2@psu.edu



Byrne, Christopher C., Ph.D. (Penn State) Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Research Associate
Research Interests: Game Theory
Office Address: 463 ARL Building
Fax:
Office Phone:
814-863-4343
E-mail:ccb102@psu.edu



Castillo, Enrique del, Ph. D. (Arizona State) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests:
Statistical and Time Series Process Control, Experimental Optimization and Response Surface Methods.
Office Address:
357 Leonhard Building
Fax:
814-863-4748
Office Phone:
814-863-6408
E-mail:
exd13@psu.edu

 

Cavalier, Tom M. , Ph.D. (Virginia Tech) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Mathematical Programming, Applied Optimization, Location Problems, Network Optimization
Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Office Phone: 814-863-2371
E-mail:tmc7@psu.edu



Chandra, M. Jeya , Ph.D. (Syracuse) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Statistical Quality Control, Applied Stochastic Processes, Inventory Control
Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Office Phone: 814-863-2358
E-mail: mjc3@psu.edu



Chatterjee, Kalyan , D.B.A. (Harvard) Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Economics
Research Interests: Game Theory, Decision Theory, Industrial Organization
Office Address: 504 Kern Building
Fax: 814-863-2381
Office Phone: 814-865-6050
E-mail: k1c@psu.edu



Coulson, N. Edward , Ph.D. (U. Cal., San Diego) Professor of Economics
Research Interests:
Office Address:
508 Kern Graduate Building
Fax:
Office Phone:
814-863-0625
E-mail: fyj@psu.edu



Enscore, E. Emory , Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Production Control with Focus on Scheduling, Plant Layout, Material Handling, Maintenance
Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Office Phone: 814-863-2353
E-mail: eee1@psu.edu



Ertekin, Turgay , Ph.D. (Penn State) Trimble Chair & Professor of Energy & Geo-Env Engineering
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow Dynamics in Porous Media, Well Test Areas, Coalbed Methane Degasification, Enhanced Oil Recovery
Office Address: 115 Hosler Building
Fax: 814-863-1875
Office Phone: 814-865-6082
E-mail:eur@psu.edu



Findeis, Jill L. , Ph.D. (Washington State) Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
Research Interests: Agricultural Household Models, Economic Development/Trade, Labor
Office Address: 112 E Armsby Building
Fax: 814-865-3746
Office Phone: 814-863-8246
E-mail:fa2@psu.edu



Fong, Duncan K. H. , Ph.D. (Purdue) Professor of Marketing
Research Interests: Bayesian Analysis, Marketing Research, Forecasting, and Inventory
Office Address: 456 Business Building
Fax: 814-863-2381
Office Phone: 814-863-3541
E-mail: i2v@psu.edu



Freimer, Mike, Ph.D. (Cornell) Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Research Interests: Simulation and applications, perturbation analysis, stochastic modeling
Office Address:
460 Business Building
Fax: 814-863-2381
Office Phone:
814-865-5234
E-mail: mbf10@psu.edu

 

Friesz, Terry L., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University 1978) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interest: network science, supply chains, logistics, and freight systems, combined industrial location, production, and distribution,auctions, real options, and pricing of services, electronic commerce and models of the Internet
Office Address: 305 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Phone: 814-863-2445
E-mail: tfriesz@psu.edu



Gordon, Richard L. , Ph.D. (MIT) Professor Emeritus of Mineral Economics
Research Interests: Application of Operations Research to Mineral Market Problems
Office Address: 2217 Energy-Engineering Science Building
Fax: 814-863-7433
Office Phone: 814-865-0631
E-mail:rlg3@psu.edu

 

Guide, Daniel, Ph.D. (The University of Georgia) Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Research Interests: Development and control of closed-loop supply chains, time-based models for commercial product returns, remanufacturing and producer responsibility legislation.
Office Address: 464 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-6103
Fax: 814-863-7067
E-mail: dguide@psu.edu

 

Hallberg, Milton C., Ph.D. (Iowa State) Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics
Research Interests: Agricultural Marketing/Policy
Office Address: 103 Armsby Building
Fax: 814-865-3746
Office Phone: 814-865-5461
E-mail: mch@psu.edu

 

Harmonsky, Catherine M. , Ph.D. (Purdue) Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Manufacturing Systems Analysis, Simulation, Scheduling, Real-Time Production Control
Office Address: 304 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Office Phone: 814-865-2107
E-mail:c1h@psu.edu



Harrison, Terry P. , Ph.D. (Tennessee) Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Research Interests: Large Scale Production Planning and Distribution, Supply Chain Modeling, Coordination and Design, Multi criteria Optimization, Management of Natural Resources
Office Address: 459 Business Building
Fax: 814-863-2381
Office Phone: 814-863-3357
E-mail: tharrison@psu.edu



Hayya, Jack C. , Ph.D. (UCLA) Professor Emeritus, Management Science
Office Address: 441 Business Building
Fax: 814-863-7069
Office Phone: 814-865-1866
E-mail: jch@psu.edu



Heinemann, Paul H. , Ph.D. (Florida) Professor of Agricultural Engineering
Research Interests: Optimization of Agricultural Production and Processing Systems, Application of Artificial Intelligence to Agricultural Processing and Production
Office Address: 220 Agricultural Engineering Building
Fax: 814-863-1031
Office Phone: 814-865-2633
E-mail: hzh@psu.edu

 

Huang, Zan, Ph.D. (University of Arizona) Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Research Interests: Information systems, e-commerce, network theory, recommender Systems
Office Address: 419 Business Building
Office Phone: (814) 863-1940
E-mail: zanhuang@psu.edu

 

Joshi, Sanjay, Ph.D. (Purdue University) Professor of Industrial Engineer
Research Interests: Control of Manufacturing Systems, Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Geometric Problems in Design & Manufacturing, Process Planning, Rapid Prototyping and Tooling
Office: 303 Leonhard Building
Phone: (814) 865-2108 Fax:
Fax: (814) 863-4745
E-mail: sjoshi@psu.edu

 

Katok, Elena, Ph.D. (Penn State University) Associate Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Research Interests: Applied operations management/management science, Decision making and decision support systems, Market Design.
Office Address: 465 Business Building
Office Phone: 814-863-2180
E-mail: ekatok@psu.edu

 

Kesidis, George, Ph.D. (U.C. Berkeley, 1992) Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering
Research Interest: Communication networks, effective bandwidths and traffic modeling
Office Address: 338J IST Building
Phone: (814) 865-9190
FAX: (814) 865-7065
E-mail: kesidis@engr.psu.edu

 

Kleindorfer, George B., Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon) Professor Emeritus of Quantitative Business Analysis
Research Interests: Computer simulation techniques, Control theory, Philosophy of science
Office Address: 303 Beam Building
Fax: 814-863-2381
Office Phone: 814-863-3571
E-mail: gbk@psu.edu

 

Kumara, Soundar, Ph.D., (Purdue University), Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Intelligent Systems, Sensor Data Fusion, Process Data Monitoring and Diagnostics, Applied Chaos Theory and Logistics
Office Address: 363 Leonhard Building
Fax: (814) 863-4745
Office Phone: (814) 863-2359
Email: skumara@psu.edu

 

Lambert, Joseph M., Ph.D. (Purdue) Associate Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Research Interests: Fuzzy Decision Models, Simulation, Numerical Methods
Office Address: 332G Information Science and Technology Building
Fax: 814-865-6426
Office Phone: 814-865-3528
E-mail: j9l@psu.edu

 

Lilien, Gary L. , D.E.S. (Columbia) Distinguished Research Professor of Management Science
Research Interests: Marketing Models, Bargaining/Bidding
Office Address: 484 Business Building
Fax: 814-863-0413
Office Phone: 814-863-2782
E-mail: g5l@psu.edu

 

Lin, Dennis, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) University Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management
Research Interests: Industrial Statistics, Design of Experiment, Response Surface Methodology, Quality Assurance & Six-Sigma, Statistical Data Mining, BIG (Business, Industrial & Government) Statistics
Office: 483 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-0377
Fax: 814-863-7067
E-mail: dkl5@psu.edu

 

Lowe, Timothy, Ph.D., (Northwestern University), Smeal Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Research Interests: Operations Management, Facility Location/Design, Logistics, Mathematical Programming: Theory and Applications
Office Address: 480 Business Building
Office Phone: (814) 865-1206
E-mail: tjl12@psu.edu

 

Maranas, Costas , Ph.D. (Princeton) Professor of Chemical Engineering
Research Interests: Molecular and Product Design, Supply Chain Optimization, Optimization Theory and Algorithms
Office Address: 112A Fenske Laboratory
Fax: 814-865-7846
Office Phone: 814-863-9958
E-mail: costas@psu.edu

 

McCool, John I., Ph.D. (Temple) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Reliability, Tribology, Measurement and Analysis of Rough Surfaces, Production Performance, Gaging, Signal Processing
Office Address: Penn State Great Valley
Fax:
Office Phone:
610-648-3255
E-mail: mpt@psu.edu

 

McDill, Marc Eric, Ph.D(Virginia Tech), Associate Professor of Forest Resource Management
Research Interests: Forest management planning, operations research, timber supply, geographic information systems, property taxes, forest values and valuation, forest management under uncertainty, growth and yield modeling, regional development.
Office Address: 214B Ferguson Building
Fax:
Office Phone: 814-865-1602
E-mail: mem14@psu.edu

 

Myers, Wayne L., Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Professor of Forest Biometrics and Assistant Director for Graduate Studies, School of Forest Resources
Research Interests: Forest fire management, Forest resource biometrics, Forest inventory. Forest management.
Office: 109 Land & Water Research Bldg.
Phone: (814) 863-0002 or (814) 865-4427
Fax: (814) 865-3378
E-mail: wlm@psu.edu

 

Nembhard, Harriet Black, Ph.D. (University of Michigan) Associate Professor and Bashore Career Professor
Research Interests: Design and implementation of concepts and methods of quality, productivity, and system improvement for manufacturing organizations
Office Address: 212 Leonhard Building
Fax: (814) 863-4745
Office Phone: (814) 865-4210
Email: hbnembhard@psu.edu

 

Passmore, David ,Ph.D., Professor of Workforce Education and Development
Research Interests: Input-output Analysis
Office Address:
315 Keller Building
Fax: 814-863-7532
Office Phone: 814-863-2583
E-mail:DPassmore@psu.edu

 

Prabhu, Vittaldas V, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Control Theory, Manufacturing, Operations Research
Office: 0310 LEONHARD BUILDING
Phone: 814-863-3212
E-mail: Vxp7@Psu.Edu

 

Ramani, Raja V., Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor Emeritus, Mining Engineering
Research Interests: Simulation, Mathematical Programming, Statistics
Office Address: 204 Deike Building
Fax: 814-863-3248
Office Phone: 814-863-1621
E-mail: rvr@psu.edu

 

Rangaswamy, Arvind, Ph.D. (Northwestern University) Anchel Professor of Marketing, Research Director eBusiness Research Center
Research Interests: e-Marketing/e-Business, Marketing Engineering, Marketing Decision Models
Office: 481 Business Building
Phone: 814-865-1907
Fax: 814-865-3015
E-mail: arvindr@psu.edu

 

Ravindran, A. "Ravi" , Ph.D. (Berkeley) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Applied Operations Research, Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Goal Programming, Engineering Optimization, Supply Chain Optimization
Office Address: 310 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Office Phone: 814-865-7601
E-mail:axr32@psu.edu

 

Ray, Charles David, Ph.D., (Texas A&M), Assistant Professor of Wood Products Operations
Research Interests: Wood products operations management; operations research; process control, simulation, and optimization; statistical quality control; relationships of wood, moisture, product properties, and environmental emissions; artificial intelligence; non-destructive evaluation of wood products; lean manufacturing; quality management systems.
Office Address: 312 Forest Resources Lab
Office Phone: 814-865-0679
E-mail: cdr14@psu.edu

 

http://www.engr.psu.edu/ce/Divisions/Hydro/Reed/dr.reed.gifReed, Patrick M. Ph.D. (University of Illinois), Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Research Interests: Water resources systems analysis, prediction under uncertainty multi-objective optimization, evolutionary computation, high performance computing, scientific visualization

Office Address: 231M Sackett Building

Fax: 814-863-7304

Office Phone: 814-863-2940

Email: preed@engr.psu.edu

 

Rothwell, William J. , Ph.D. Professor of Workforce Education and Development
Research Interest:
Office Address:
315 Keller Building
Fax: 814-863-7532
Office Phone: 814-863-2581
E-mail: wjr9@psu.edu

 

Saunders, Michael ,Ph.D. (Georgia) Professor of Entomology
Research Interests: Ecology, Artificial Intelligence, Pest Management of Arthpods
Office Address: 514 Agricultural Sci & Ind Building
Fax:
Office Phone: 814-863-2979
E-mail: mcs5@psu.edu

 

Shankar, Venky N., Ph.D. (University of Washington), Associate Professor of Civil Engineering

Research Interests: Econometric analysis of transportation systems, modeling of travel demand, safety, infrastructure

and interactions with the environment

Office Address: 226 C Sacket  Building                                                                             

Fax: 814-863-7304
Office Phone: 814-865-9434                                                                                              

E-mail: shankarv@engr.psu.edu

 

Shortle, James S. , Ph.D. (Iowa State) Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
Research Interests: Environmental Policy Analysis, Use of Mathematical Programming Models to Simulate Policy Impact on Firms and Markets
Office Address: 112 A Armsby Building
Fax: 814-865-3746
Office Phone: 814-865-7657
E-mail: jss15@psu.edu

 

Shu, Jun Ph.D. (Berkeley) Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Research Interests: Game Theory and Economics of networks, networking and system engineering, logistics, transportation and database, robotics and manufacturing
Office Address: 462 Business Building
Fax: 814-863-7067
Office Phone: 814-865-7019
E-mail: junshu@psu.edu

 

Simpson, Timothy, W. ,Ph.D. (Georgia Tech) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering Design and Optimization, Product Family, and Product Platform Design and Mass Customization
Office: 329 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Office Phone: 814-863-7136
E-mail: tws8@psu.edu

 

Stefanou, Spiro E. , Ph.D. (California, Davis) Professor of Agricultural Economics
Research Interests: Dynamic Theory of Economic Adjustment, Efficiency and Productivity Measurement, and Innovation Models
Office Address: 208 C Armsby Building
Fax: 814-865-3746
Office Phone: 814-863-8635
E-mail: ttc@psu.edu

 

Thomas, Douglas, Ph.D. (Georgia Tech) Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Research Interests: eCommerce Implications for Supply Chain Management, Warehousing and Fulfillment, Supply Chain Strategy
Office Address: 463 Business Building
Fax:
Office Phone: 814-863-7203
E-mail: dthomas@psu.edu

 

Vaserstein, Leonid N. , Ph.D. (Moscow State) Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests: Classical Groups, Operations Research
Office Address: 205 McAllister Building
Fax:
814-865-3735
Office Phone:
814-865-0584
E-mail:
vstein@math.psu.edu

 

Ventura, Jose A. , Ph.D. (Florida) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests: Nonlinear Network Optimization, Computational Geometry Applied to Vision Inspection, Scheduling
Office Address: 356 Leonhard Building
Fax: 814-863-4745
Office Phone: 814-863-3841
E-mail: jav1@psu.edu

 

Wagener, Thorsten., Ph.D. (Imperial College, London) , Assistant Professor of  Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Modeling and analysis of environmental systems, model identification and diagnostic evaluation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis, predictions in ungauged basins, data assimilation, integrated assessment, impacts of land-use and climate change

Office Address: 226 B  Sacket  Building
Fax: 814-863-7304
Office Phone:
814-865-5673
E-mail: thorsten@engr.psu.edu

 

Walker, Paul N. , Ph.D. (Massachussets) Professor of Agricultural Engineering
Research Interests: Modeling biological Systems Including Plant Tissue Control, Greenhouses and Grain Drying
Office Address: 223 Agricultural Engineering Building
Fax: 814-863-1031
Office Phone: 814-865-4582
E-mail: pnw@psu.edu

 

Weaver, Robert D., Ph.D. (Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977), Professor of Agricultural Economics
Research Interest: microeconomic and econometric analysis of public policy targeted at the performance of agricultural production and marketing systems.
Office Address: 207D Armsby Building
Phone: 814-863-8632
FAX: 814-865-3746
E-mail: r2w@psu.edu

 

Wysk, Richard A., Ph.D. (Purdue University) Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interest: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computer Automated Manufacturing, Computer Aided Process Planning, Concurrent Engineering.
Office: 207 Hammond Building
Phone: (814) 863 - 1001
E-mail: rwysk@psu.edu

 

Xu, Susan H. , Ph.D. (Rensselaer Polytechnic) Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems
Research Interests: Stochastic Scheduling, Stochastic Optimization, Control of Queues, Inventory Systems
Office Address: 478 Business Building
Fax: 814-863-7067
Office Phone: 814-863-0531
E-mail: shx@psu.edu

 

Yao, Tao, Ph.D. (Stanford University), Assistant Professor of Industrial and Management Engineering
Research Interests: Decision making under uncertainty, real options, management of technology and information systems, manufacturing and service operations. Stochastic models, optimization, game theory
Office Address: 349 Leonhard Building
Office Phone: (814)865-8040
E-mail: taoyao@psu.edu