Bruce Robinson

Interim Department Head
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Iowa State
Research Interests:
Modeling of environmental and water and wastewater systems, aqueous chemistry, physico-chemical treatment, and environmental risk assessment

Alberto Garcia-Diaz

Professor
Ph.D., PE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests:
Operations Research, Transportation and Logistics, Bridge and Pavement Management Systems, Network Analysis, Statistical Design of Experiments, Facilities Planning

Rapinder Sawhney

Associate Professor
Associate Department Head
Director of Graduate Program
Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests:
Manufacturing Planning and Control Systems, Lean Production Systems, Simulation Modeling

Charles H. Aikens, P.E.

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests:
Industrial Statistics, Quality Control, Maintenance Management

Robert E. Ford

Lecturer
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests:
Human-machine Interface, Industrial Ergonomics

Xueping Li

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Arizona State
Research Interests:
Information Assurance, Quality of Service, Scheduling, Applied Statistics, Web Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Simulation, Supply Chain Management

Xiaoyan Zhu

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Texas A & M
Research Interests:
integer programming with application to large-scale problems in logistics and supply chain management, and reliability optimization in system design using importance measures

Yuanshun Dai

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., National University of Singapore
Research Interests:
Grid Computing, Reliability, Autonomic Computing, High-performance Computing, Network Security

Joseph Wilck

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Penn State
Research Interests:
Logistics and supply chain management

Haitao Liao

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers
Research Interests:
Applied Statistics, Accelerated Life Testing and Degradation Testing, Design of Testing Plans, Robust Reliability Design, Maintenance Models, and Applied Optimization

Gregory A. Sedrick

Dean for Academic Affairs
Professor, Industrial and Information Engineering/
Engineering Management
Chief Information Officer
University of Tn Space Institute
Tullahoma, TN 37388-9700

George W. Garrison

Professor

Denise F. Jackson, P.E.

Associate Professor, Engineering Management
University of TN Space Institute
1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN 37830

Adedeji B. Badiru, P.E.

Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Central Florida
Research Interests:
Industrial Development Projects, Expert Systems, Economic Analysis, Quality and Productivity Improvements, Computer Applications

Auroop R. Ganguly

Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., MIT
Research Interests:
Applied statistics, data mining and nonlinear dynamics in domains ranging from hydrology, climate and transportation to demand forecasting, supply chain and national or homeland security

Way Kuo

Distinguished Professor
President of Hong Kong City Univ.
Ph.D., Kansas State
Research Interests:
Modeling, Evaluating, and Estimating Reliability of Modern Systems

Lee Martin

Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests:
Technology entrepreneurship, Techonomics, Teleoperation in human factors and remote control, Virtualization

Olufemi A. Omitaomu

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Research Scientist in ORNL
Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests:
Streaming and real-time data mining, Optimization techniques in data mining, Network modeling and analysis, Disaster risk analysis in space and time.

P. David Halstead

Director, Biomechanics Lab
Research Interests:
Impact Biomechanics, Sports Biomechanics, Head Injury Prevention, Risk Management, Product Design

Edward Mel Cook

Ass. Director, Biomechanics Lab
Research Interests:
Sports Head Injuries, Data Acquisition, Helmet Test Apparatus

James A. Bontadelli

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Ohio State
Research Interests:
Engineering Economic Analysis, Maintenance and Reliability

Wayne Claycombe, P.E.

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., VPI
Research Interests:
Facilities Design, Project Management

John C. Hungerford

Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Ohio State
Research Interests:
Human Factors Engineering, Safety Design of Experiments, Forensics, Vision Highway Safety

Kenneth E. Kirby

Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Tennessee
Research Interests:
Manufacturing Systems, Lean Production, Facilities Design, Applied Statistics