Industrial Engineering Non-Traditional Applications in International Settings

Bopaya Bidanda is currently the Ernest Roth Professor and Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on manufacturing systems, reverse engineering, product development, and project management. He has published five books and more than a hundred papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has received numerous distinctions including the 2012 John Imhoff Award for Global Excellence in Industrial Engineering, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES ) 2012 Award for Global Excellence in Engineering Education, the 2013 Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award, and the 2014 Chancellors Distinguished Public Service Award.İhsan Sabuncuoğluis the founding Rector of Abdullah Gul University. He earned his BS and MS in industrial engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He earned his PhD in industrial engineering from Wichita State University in 1990. His research interests are in real-time scheduling, simulation optimization, and applications of quantitative methods to cancer-related health-care problems. In addition to publishing more than a hundred papers in international journals and conference proceedings, Dr. Sabuncuoğlu has edited two books. He is also on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals. Bahar Y. Karais an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University. Dr. Kara earned an MS and a PhD from the Bilkent University Industrial Engineering Department, and she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Canada. Dr. Kara was elected as an associate member of Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2012. She has been acting as a reviewer for the top research journals within her field. Her current research interests include distribution logistics, humanitarian logistics, hub location and hub network design, and hazardous material logistics.

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"The value of this book lies in applying industrial principles and tools of IE to nontraditional areas. The chapters are presented like research articles. So, the book can be used for both teaching and research. More specifically it is an asset for research led teaching in the field of industrial engineering."—Arun Elias, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand