Department of Industrial E ngineering

1. Department of Industrial Engineering Engineering Welcome Center 1157 Bell Engineering Center University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701 Tel: (479) 575-7780 Email: engrinfo@uark.edu Web: http://www.engr.uark.edu/bmeg/

2. Nebil Buyurgan Ph.D.Associate Professor Application Areas • Surveillance plans for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) • On-time resource delivery during disaster relief operations • Mobile device adoption in U.S. homecare industry Research Focus • Resource allocation and deployment in military contingency logistic networks • Goods and manpower procurement strategies in disaster relief and humanitarian logistics • Technological innovations in healthcare

3. Justin R Chimka, Ph.D.Associate Professor • Research Focus • Applied Regression Analysis • Statistical Quality Control • Application Areas • Biotechnology • Education • Transportation Diverse contexts including General Aviation Operations & DNA Microarrays Microarray picture from genome.gov

4. EARNEST W. FANT, Ph.D., P.E.Associate Professor Application Areas • Vision Guided Robotic Work Cells • Integrated Multiple Robots Work Cells • Machine Vision/Smart Camera Inspection • Automated Gauging • Automated Material Transport • Automated Palletizing/Warehousing • Automated Manufacturing of Renewable Energy • Components • Optimal Placement of Renewable Energy Systems Manufacturing Automation Lab Renewable Energy Lab Research Focus • Industrial Robotics • Industrial Machine Vision • Renewable Energy (Solar, Wind, Tidal) • Material Handling • Logistics • Operations Research

5. Steve Johnson, Ph.D., P.E., CPEProfessor Application Areas • Transportation Safety • Industrial Ergonomics • In-vehicle Information Systems • Collision Avoidance Systems Additional Information Research Focus • Ergonomics

6. Russell D. Meller, Ph.D.Hefley Professor of logistics and entrepreneurship Application Areas • Retailers (like Walmart, Sam’s Club, Dillard’s, Target, Walgreens) • Manufacturers (like P&G, SC Johnson, Tyson Foods, Medline Industries) • Transportation Service Providers (like J.B. Hunt, FedEx Freight, ABF) Warehouse Layout Design Research Focus • Facility Logistics: • engineering design of logistics facilities • analytical performance models of logistics facilities components • Logistics System Design: • distribution system design • location of logistics facilities • supply chain network evaluation • Material Flow Systems: • analytical performance models • computerized decision-support tools

7. Russell D. Meller, Ph.D.Hefley Professor of logistics and entrepreneurship Application Areas • Supply, Manufacture and Distribution Networks • Transportation Systems • Logistics Asset Design and Management • Logistics Business Model and Market Development Physical Internet Research at the University of Arkansas Research Focus • Physical Internet: • open global logistics system • physical, digital and operational interconnectivity • encapsulation, interfaces and protocols • result: an efficient and sustainable logistics web that solves the Logistics Sustainability Grand Challenge • Physical Internet Initiative: • worldwide thought leadership • partnering with industry • mathematical optimization and simulation models • result: moving the Physical Internet vision from concept to reality

8. Ashlea Bennett Milburn, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Application Areas (cont.) • Developing decision support models to enable better use of home health resources: • nurse routing and scheduling • assignment of nurses to service regions • allocation of remote monitoring systems • Developing quantitative methods to identify and explain variations in access, quality, and efficiency in home health services and providers • Characterizing the home health care supply chain and quantifying time home health nurses spend on supply chain duties Haiti earthquake, day 8: food/water request locations from social media Home health nurses, supply chain duties Planned relief routes “Food water needed for group of 30 people (15 children). The address is #7 Marin 878 with the Blue Gate…” -Ushahidi, Haiti dataset, 02/01/2010 Research Focus Applying operations research tools and techniques to problems encountered in healthcare systems and other public sectors; primarily home health care and disaster management Application Areas • Incorporating information taken from social media and other Web 2.0 technologies in disaster relief planning: • vehicle routing decisions • facility location decisions

9. Heather Nachtmann, Ph.D.Associate Professor Application Areas • Maritime transportation • Rural transportation networks • Transportation security and resilience • Healthcare logistics • Inventory control and management Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center Photo Courtesy of MBTC 3024 Photo Courtesy of AHTD Photo Courtesy of MBTC 1102 Research Focus • Transportation systems engineering • Logistics modeling • Economic decision analysis • Engineering pedagogy

10. Kim LaScola Needy, Ph.D., P.E., CFPIM, PEMDepartment Head and 21st Century Professor Application Areas • Impact of green building construction and its improvements in worker productivity, health & safety, maintenance costs and energy savings with a focus on healthcare facilities, public and commercial buildings. • Quality management in the capital facilities delivery industry • Assessing and mitigating risk in the design for supply chain (DFSC) problem Additional Information Castcon Stone Production Facility, Saxonburg, PA. Economic Analysis with Sensitivity Research Focus • Sustainable Engineering • Engineering Management • Engineering Economic Analysis • Integrated Resource Management Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

11. Edward A. Pohl, Ph.D.Associate Professor Application Areas • Homeland Security • Military Operations Research • Healthcare Logistics • Project and Engineering Management • Supply Chain Risk Additional Information Research Focus • Stochastic Modeling • Reliability and Quality • Decision and Risk Analysis • Engineering Optimization • Systems Engineering

12. Chase Rainwater, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Application Areas • Security and defense • Law enforcement allocation to reduce drug trafficking • Fortification of national infrastructure components • Patient scheduling at proton therapy cancer treatment facilities • Analysis of information flow in social networks • Passenger rail transportation planning Additional Information Research Focus • Decomposition-based algorithm approaches to exploit advancements in parallel computing • Integration of optimization and constraint programming • Dynamic network interdiction • Large-scale heuristic design • Reliability analysis and optimization

13. Ronald Rardin, Ph.D.John and Mary Lib White Distinguished Professor Application Areas • Supply chain and materials flow aspects of healthcare delivery • Global information standards for healthcare products and locations • Optimization of radiation therapy for cancer • Energy generation and distribution planning Additional Information Research Focus • Large-scale optimization modeling and algorithms • Health systems engineering

14. Sarah Root, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Application Areas • Transportation and Logistics Systems • Freight Mixing • Collaborative Logistics • TL and LTL Transportation Relay Network Design for TL Carriers Collaborative Logistics Planning Research Focus • Mathematical Modeling • Large Scale Optimization • Composite Variable Modeling • Integer Programming • Network Design

15. Central Depot (CD) East 4 5 Depot (ED) West Depot (WD) 2 3 1 Base (B) Manuel D. Rossetti, Ph.D., P.E.Professor Application Areas • Healthcare systems • Manufacturing systems • Distribution systems • Military and spare part management Simulating and optimizing supply networks Planning the evacuation of critical commercial or public areas. Research Focus • Multi-echelon inventory optimization • Forecasting methods for spare part management • Simulation modeling and analysis • Large scale evacuation modeling • Computing methods for large scale simulations • Network modeling and optimization

16. Kelly Sullivan, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Application Areas • Defense and Homeland Security • Supply Chain Management • Transportation and Logistics • Sports Mathematical Programming Research Focus • Mathematical Programming • Integer Programming and Polyhedral Theory • Network Optimization • Large-scale optimization

17. Kelly Sullivan, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Application Areas • Allocation of scarce maintenance resources for a production system • Mitigation of risk due to natural disasters and uncertain data in transportation systems • Design of systems robust against terrorist attack Nuclear Smuggling Interdiction Research Focus • Network Interdiction • System Fortification and Infrastructure Hardening • Robust Optimization • Optimization Under Uncertainty

18. Shengfan Zhang, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Application Areas • Medical decision making related to the detection, treatment and prevention of chronic diseases • Health care delivery • Other service environments with uncertainty Health Care Engineering Mortality probabilities Estimation Pink line: Breast cancer mortality Black line: Other cause mortality Y-axis: Mortality probability X-axis: Months since diagnosis Markov representation for breast cancer development Research Focus • Mathematical modeling of stochastic systems • Decision analysis under conditions of uncertainty • Statistical modeling and data mining for complex systems