Teaching

Courses Taught

• IE 453 Energy Systems Planning
  Historical trends of energy supply and demand; alternative energy resources and related technologies. Global climate change, security, reliability and economic issues in energy operations and planning problems. Energy demand and supply forecasting, energy modeling under uncertainty, intermittency and role of storage, grid operations and reliability, smart grid, and generation expansion planning. Case studies and problem solving techniques and methods applied in the pursuit of improved decision making in energy systems.
  
  

• IE 536 Modeling and Optimization of Energy Systems
  Theoretical, computational, and applied aspects of the fundamental problems in energy systems. Investment planning for power systems. Design of decentralized energy prosumer networks. Energy markets. Optimal commitment problems. Dealing with uncertainty in power systems. Data-analytics for power systems.
  
  

• IE 102 A Process Outlook for Industrial Engineering
  Familiarize the IE freshmen with the profession by introducing the basic notion of process. Design of processes and process improvements. Notions of performance evaluation. Processes, performance and their relations to decision making. Mathematical representation of the decision making. Demonstration using simple examples from daily life as well as more complicated examples from industry.
  
  

• IE 271 Operations Analysis and Design
  Introduction to industrial engineering. Analysis of product and process design together with material selection. Concepts and functions in the design, improvement, and analysis of man - machine systems mainly in the context of a manufacturing environment. Time study, work measurement, material handling systems, and layout design. A term project on simulating manufacturing systems. Laboratory use of traditional manufacturing processes and CAD software.
  
  

• IE 477 - IE 478 Systems Design
  Project based synthesis of the techniques and methodologies of operations research and industrial engineering covered in other courses. Concerned with the design of complex systems and may involve modeling and analysis of manufacturing and service systems based on demand, resource, capacity, location, computer integration, and information requirements. Communication, organizational, and team skills of the students. Role of life-long learning in professional development and technical collaboration.