2005 Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Award in Supply Chain Optimization

 

Sponsored by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida

Supply Chain And Logistics Engineering (SCALE) Center

 

 

Award Summary

The Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering (SCALE) Center at the University of Florida is pleased to announce the 2005 doctoral dissertation proposal award competition winners in the area of Supply Chain Optimization.  The purpose of this competition is to promote leading edge research in the application of optimization techniques in the areas of supply chain and logistics management, and to create a forum for the timely dissemination of innovative research to industry and academia through the SCALE Center’s annual Supply Chain Optimization Conference and online technical report series. 

 

2005 Finalists

The 2005 dissertation proposal award winners were announced at the Fourth Annual Florida Supply Chain Conference, February 25-27, 2005, in Cocoa Beach, Florida.

 

First Prize:

  • Vishv Jeet, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Program, The University of Texas at Austin, “Logistics Network Design with Inventory Stocking, Time-based Service Allocation and Part Commonality”; Advisor: Erhan Kutanoğlu.

 

Second Prize:

  • Ke Fu, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “Effective Inventory/Production Management in an Assemble-To-Order System”; Advisor: Chung-Yee Lee.

 

Additional Finalists:

  • Fatih Mutlu, Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University, “The Transporter's Impact on Channel Coordination and Contractual Agreements”; Advisor: Sıla Çetinkaya.
  • Wenbin Wei, The Department of Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University, “Information Sharing in a Supply Chain – Markov Decision Process with Restricted Observation”; Advisors: R.E. King, T.J. Hodgson.
  • Keenan Yoho, School of Business, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, “On the Value of Stable Production Cycles and Advanced Demand Information in Multi-Echelon Supply Chains”; Advisor: J.A. Rappold.

 

Edwin Romeijn, Fatih Mutlu, Vishv Jeet, Keenan Yoho, Wenbin Wei