Don A. Grundel
Ph.D. Graduate: 2005
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida
| Address: |
AAC/ENA |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 | ||