We try to focus on students with good analytical skills and a very strong background in operations management. We are very selective in the way we choose our students. When they finish here, they know what it means to be a successful academician. I n operations and manufacturing management, research focuses on real-world problems faced by managers in manufacturing and service corporations. You develop mathematical models that help analyze these problems and provide insight into complex scenarios.
Faculty members have in common a strong engineering background.
They investigate a broad spectrum of research interests, including strategic and tactical themes. They deal with classic issues, such as production planning and inventory control, scheduling, assembly-line design, facility layout, warehousing and material handling, location problems, logistics, and inspection and maintenance policies. The group focuses its research efforts on operations and manufacturing management using quantitative models and analysis. Thus, the issues this group deals with are linked to real-life problems in industry and services. A great deal of collaboration in teaching and research exists among the faculty in the group and the PhD students.