
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