Research

Research Interests

More than 80 publications and paper presentations. Many of these were fully refereed. Others were refereed abstracts and five were invited papers or presentations at national or regional conferences.
Served as principal investigator on numerous grants or contracts that generated total extramural funding of more than $1,000,000.
Continued research and publication while holding administrative positions as Department Chairman or higher since 1978.
Encourage faculty to establish and maintain research programs in order to enhance their academic careers, enhance their teaching, and support their graduate students. Several former graduate students have gone on to department chair and dean positions at major universities. Two of my first three faculty hires have chaired IE Departments at Major Universities (Simen Pulat – Oklahoma, Tayfur Altiok – Rutgers)

Consistently receive course ratings between 8 and 10 on a scale of 1-10 for courses I teach.
Experience in teaching a wide variety of courses including at the undergraduate level: Engineering Economy, Quality Control, Probability and Statistics, Industrial and Product Safety, and several Operations Research courses. Experience at the graduate level includes: Advanced Engineering Economics, Advanced Scheduling Theory, Statistical Design of Experiments, and others.
Developed and taught more than ten short courses for industry including: “Statistical Process Quality Control” which was sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). This course was taught to practicing engineers 3 or 4 times a year from 1984 to 1993. It was also taught in-house at Dow Chemical, E.I. DuPont, ExxonMobil, and more than 25 other major corporations.

CO-Principal Investigator, “AIS-data based Assessment of Utilization and Traffic Delay in Deep-drafted Waterway Channel”, September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2025, with Xing Wu as PI, and student Golnoosh Toosi, (CAPM), $33,933.
Principal Investigator, “A simulation approach to evaluate current port operations and optimize future operations through effective port asset management during construction and operations”, Jan. 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023, with Alberto Marquez and support letter from Larry Kelley, Director Port of Port Arthur. It is funded by the Center for Advances in Port Management (CAPM) $21,733.
CO-Principal Investigator, Resilience of Sabine Neches Waterway: Capacity Restoration and Flow Analysis for Deer Draft Waterways, January 1, 2023 – August 31, 2023, with Xing Wu as PI, and students Golnoosh Toosi and Shish with a letter of support from Tim White, Area chief engineer Port Arthur office of U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE), (CAPM and CfR), $28,956.