Doctoral Students

These are some of our current PhD students involved in various areas of teaching and research.

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Ilgin Poyraz Acar
	Email Address:	ilgin.acar@wmich.edu
	Research Areas:	Operations Research, Modeling, Optimization, Scheduling, Staff Scheduling

Supreeta G. Amin
	Email Address:	supreeta.amin@wmich.edu
	Research Areas:	Ergonomic training development, biomechanical analysis, ergonomic evaluations, work measurement, and safety
	Teaching Responsibilities:	IME 2050, IME 3050, IME 4420, IME 6420

Bryan W. Booker
	Email Address:	bookerbw@yahoo.com
	Research Areas:	Engineering Management
	Dissertation Title:	Closing the Job Specification and Incumbent Person-Job Gapsby Customizing Job Descriptions

Raj Kamalapurkar
	Email Address:	d2kamala@wmich.edu
	Research Areas:	Inventory Optimization in the Supply Chains, Supply Chain Coordination, Simulation Modeling, Maintenance Management
	Teaching Responsibilities:	IME 3260

Erik Kostandyan
	Email Address:	erik.kostandyan@wmich.edu
	Research Areas:	Industrial Systems Simulation, Reliability Engineering, Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis

Ananda M Paudel
	Email Address:	ananda.m.paudel@wmich.edu
	Research Areas:	Nano-Assembly, Computer Aided Design, Operations research, Supply chain Optimization

Jai Thomas
	Email Address:	jai.thomas@wmich.edu
	Research Areas:	Optimization, Simulation and Computer Aided Design
	Teaching Responsibilities:	IME 1440, IME 2460, IME 3460, IME 3480, IME 4460
	Dissertation Title:	Approximating a Torsional Stiffness Curve using a Feedforward Neural Network for Brake Hose Shape Prediction [Abstract]