2006 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 2006 doctoral dissertation proposal award competition winner and finalists 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. 

 

2006 Finalists

The 2006 dissertation proposal award winner was announced at the Fifth Annual Florida Supply Chain Conference, February 25-26, 2006, in Gainesville, Florida.

 

First Prize:

  • Qi Fu, Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, “Procurement Risk Management using Options and the Spot Market”; Advisors: Chung-Yee Lee and Chung-Piaw Teo.

 

Additional Finalists:

  • Mehmet Ferhat Candas, Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Graduate Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, “Integrated Logistics Network Design and Inventory Management in Service Parts Logistics”; Advisor: Erhan Kutanoğlu.
  • Selda Taskin, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama, “Supply Chain Disruption Planning with Bayesian Information Updating and Extreme Value Demand Distribution”; Advisor: Emmett J. Lodree, Jr.
  • Ben D. Van Roo, School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “A Model for Designing Multi-echelon Inventory Networks with Finite Capacity”; Advisor: James A. Rappold.
  • Navneet Vidyarthi, Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada, “Supply Chain Network Design with Response Time Consideration: Models and Solution Methods”; Advisors: Samir Elhedhli and Elizabeth Jewkes.

 

 

Ben Van Roo, Mehmet Ferhat Candas, Selda Taskin, Qi Fu, Navneet Vidyarthi