Also Population Health Sciences operations research, stochastic optimization, medical decision making, Markov decision proceses, stochastic programming, simulation, scheduling, health-care applications.
Also Engineering Physics security in the supply chains for food and agricultural products -- critical infrastructure protection -- security -- technological hazards -- risk analysis -- decision analysis -- operations research
Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis
Also Biomedical Engineering, Population Health Sciences human factors and ergonomics -- job and organizational design -- quality and productivity improvement -- technological and organizational change -- human factors and system engineering in healthcare and patient safety -- human factors and organizational issues in computer security
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
Design and manufacturing with an emphasis on multistage production systems convertibility, scalability, and diagnosability, ramp-up time, and variation reductions; integration of statistical and evolutionary computational methods with engineering models for system diagnosability and self-healing analysis; sensing systems/networks in manufacturing; and reconfigurable/reusable assembly systems; Lean Healtcare.
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program
Also Computer Sciences Numerical Optimization: Integer programming and Stochastic programming -- High Performance and Grid Computing -- Applications in Logistics, Finance, and Health-Care
Integer programming - linear and nonlinear -- Stochastic optimization, especially optimization with risk constraints -- Applications in logistics, revenue management, production scheduling, and energy
Lund, John - Professor, Department Chairperson, School for Workers, Outreach and E-learning Extension
Trust in Technology -- Human Computer Interaction -- Technology Integration -- Human Factors and Ergonomics -- Macroergonomics -- Patient Safety
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
Also Computer Sciences techniques and applications of computer systems performance analysis -- scalable information infrastructure -- on-demand data delivery -- streaming media servers -- quantifying system security -- parallel architectures -- distributed systems
Modeling and analysis of the variation propagation and other in-process sensing data in complex manufacturing processes. -- In-process quality and productivity improvement: diagnosis of complicated manufacturing processes using sensor fusion, feature extraction, and pattern recognition based on engineering field knowledge. -- Fast calibration and active compensation for manufacturing systems: active real-time control of manufacturing processes, integration of statistical process control with automatic process control.
Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program
Also Chemical and Biological Engineering Scheduling and production planning -- Supply chain management -- Pharmaceutical research and development -- Mixed-integer Programming -- Optimization methods for process synthesis
Also Statistics Interface between efficient data collection and flexible data modeling -- Data collection issues in machine learning and data mining -- Design, modeling and analysis of computer models -- Design of experiments and algebraic statistics -- Optimization under uncertainty -- Statistics in IT, modern engineering and services
Dynamic behavior of machine tool drive systems -- Position control for automatic welding -- Noise generation/noise control in product design -- Machine tool structure control dynamics -- Dynamic loads in gears -- Environmental noise control -- Digital computer control of machines and processes -- Mini-computer and micro-processor systems design -- Guidance systems for industrial robots -- Robotics for space application -- Environmental control of humidity
Also Computer Sciences Variational analysis and optimization -- Methods to support decision under uncertainty -- Quantitative methods in managerial economics
human factors and ergonomics -- occupational safety -- job-related stress -- work organization design and management -- job design
Steudel, Harold J. - Emerson Electric Professor in Total Quality Emeritus
Development of statistical modeling, analysis and management techniques for the design and improvement of manufacturing systems such areas as the design, evaluation and management of continuous flow/cellular manufacturing systems for just-in-time (JIT) operations. -- Design and implementation of quality management systems in health care and manufacturing organizations including medical devices.
Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program