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FACULTY RESEARCH / CONCENTRATIONS

The Stewart School offers great breadth and depth in terms of faculty interest areas and concentrations which, in turn, produces substantial flexibility for graduate students in terms of course offerings and importantly, research opportunities that support their respective degree choices. This is captured by the links below.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing research and education in ISyE focuses on the design and control of systems required to support the flow of material through manufacturing processes, including facility configuration, material handling systems, shop floor control systems, material planning and control systems, and the associated information infrastructures. Some of the current activities involving manufacturing faculty and their students include modeling and virtual prototyping of manufacturing and logistics systems, design of flexible control systems, deadlock avoidance in flexible systems, design of environmentally conscious systems, process planning and shop floor control, dynamic pricing and leadtime quotation, factory dynamics analysis, order release strategies, system-based performance assessment, and distributed modeling. Many of these activities and projects are heavily funded through a broad range of industry sponsors including ones interested in semiconductor fabrication, electronics assembly, pharmaceutical production, automotive assembly, and warehousing.

Faculty and students working in manufacturing also conduct research that addresses planning and control issues for enterprise planning and e-commerce. With generous funding from the Keck Foundation, the manufacturing faculty has established the Virtual Factory Laboratory which is a metaphor for the integration of a variety of software, modeling tools and methodologies to support solutions to a range of problems in the manufacturing domain. This modeling and analysis takes many forms in many different types of problems -- everything from equipment selection and configuration, to layout, to control system design and operating policy selection. For specific educational program requirements and recommendations link to: Master of Science in Industrial Engineering (first track) or for Ph.D. students, Supply Chain Engineering.