Don A. Grundel

Ph.D. Graduate: 2005
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida

Address:

AAC/ENA
101 W Eglin Blvd, Ste 383
Eglin AFB, FL 32542

Phone: (850) 882-2959
Fax: (850) 882-9049
E-mail: grundel@eglin.af.mil 
Current Position: Supervisory Operations Research
   
EDUCATION
  1986 BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida
  1994 Masters Business Administration, University of West Florida
  2001 Masters Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
  2004 PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida
     
TEACHING
  ESI 4567C Matrix and Numerical Methods in Systems Engineering (4 Cr)
     
LICENSE  
  Professional Engineer, Florida, 1991
     
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  Combinatorial optimization
Nonlinear and global optimization
     
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  1986 - 1993

Design and construction engineer for Eglin AFB FL.  In this capacity, I was responsible for design and construction of facilities and other base infrastructure.  Projects ranged from small renovations to major projects in excess of $50 million.

  1993 - 1996 Executive officer to the cheif scientist at Eglin AFB.
  1996 - 1997 Threat analyst for Intelligence at Eglin AFB.  Primarily responsible for armor and anti-armor.  In addition, worked extensively on threat system modeling.
  1997 - 1999 Contract development and implementation for large service contracts at Eglin AFB.
  1999 - 2001 Air Armament strategic planning.  Involved in preparing plans for air armament out to 20 years.
  2001 - 2002 Full-Time student at Graduate Engineering and Research Center while still employed by Eglin AFB.
  2003 - 2005 Senior research engineer for the Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB.
  2005 - present Supervisory operations researcher for the Engineering Analysis Directorate, Eglin AFB.
     
PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS
  Pardalos, P., Yatsenko, V., and Grundel, D., Nonlinear Dynamic of Sea Clutters and Detection of Small Targets, chapter in Recent Developments in Cooperative Control and Optimization, Sergiy Butenko, Robert Murphey, and Panos Pardalos, eds., 2003.
   
  Grundel, D., Okafor, A., and Pardalos, P., A Best Target Strategy: Strategy for Unmanned Systems in the Uncertain Battlespace, Proceedings of 2nd AIAA "Unmanned Unlimited" Systems, Technologies, and Operations, September 2003.
   
  Grundel, D., and Pardalos, P., Test Problem Generator for the Multidimensional Assignment Problem, Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2003. 
   
  Grundel, D., Oliveira, C., Pardalos, P., and Pasiliao, E., Asymptotic Results for Random Multidimensional Assignment Problems, Computational Optimization and Applications, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2005.
   
  Grundel, D., Oliveira, C., and Pardalos, P., Asymptotic Properties of Random Multidimensional Assignment Problems, Journal of Optimization and Theory and Applications, Vol. 122, No. 3, 2004.
   
  Grundel, D., Reformulation of the Weapon-Target Assignment Problem as a Multidimensional Assignment Problem, INFORMS October 2003.
   
  A. Chinchuluun, D. Grundel, and P. Pardalos, “Searching for a Moving Target: Optimal Path Planning,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, March 2005.
   
  D. Grundel, “Constrained Search for a Moving Target,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, May 2005.
   
  D. Grundel, P. Krokhmal, C. Oliveira, and P. Pardalos, “On the Number of Local Minima for the Multidimensional Assignment Problem,” submitted to Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2005
   
  D. Grundel, P. Krokhmal, C. Oliveira, and P. Pardalos, “On the Average Case Behavior of the Multidimensional Assignment Problem,” Pacific Journal of Optimization, V 1, No. 1, 2005
   
  P. Krokhmal, D. Grundel, P. Pardalos, “Asymptotic Behavior of the Expected Optimal Value of the Multidimensional Assignment Problem,” accepted by Mathematical Programming, Series B, 2005
   
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
  INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
  ASME, American Society for Mechanical Engineers
AMS, American Mathematical Society
Military Applications Society