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Northern Illinois University

Industrial & Systems Engineering

Faculty & Staff Directory

Omar Ghrayeb

Department Chair and Associate Professor
Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 2000
Facilities planning, production planning and control, manufacturing systems, supply chain, soft computing technology
Tel: 815-753-5660
E-mail: ghrayeb@ceet.niu.edu

Ehsan Asoudegi

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., West Virginia University, 1987
Director of Ergonomics & Measurement and Control Laboratories Human Factors & Industrial ergonomics, Work Measurement & Time Study, Design of Experiment, Quality Control
Tel: 815-753-9973
E-mail: asoudegi@ceet.niu.edu

Gary Chen

Associate Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999
Concurrent engineering and management, project team management, health care systems, production systems, computer-integrated manufacturing
Tel: 815-753-1221
E-mail: gchen@ceet.niu.edu

Purushothaman Damodaran

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2002
Large-scale optimization (deteministic and stochastic mixed-integer linear programming, network flow optimization, meta-heuristics), Scheduling, Simulation (discrete-even and continuous), Logistics, electronics manufacturing (lead-free assembly, lean manufacturing, six sigma).
Tel: 815-753-6748
E-mail: pdamodaran@niu.edu
Web site: http://www.niu.edu/~pdamodaran

Sukgon Kim

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2007
Supply Chain Management, Capacity Planning, Production planning and scheduling, Semiconductor manufacturing systems, Combinatorial and Heuristic optimization, Healthcare Systems
Tel: 815-753-8890
E-mail: skim11@niu.edu

Murali Krishnamurthi

Professor, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1988
Director of Faculty Development & Instructional Design Center
Manufacturing Systems, System Simulation, Information System
Tel: 815-753-8571 and 815-753-6502
E-mail: murali@ceet.niu.edu
Web site: http://www.niu.edu/~mkrishna/

Richard L. Marcellus

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983
Operations Research, Performance Analysis of Quality Control System, Design in Engineering Education
Tel: 815-753-9971
E-mail: marcellus@ceet.niu.edu

Reinaldo J. Moraga

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Central FL, 2002
Meta-heuristics, Optimization and Simulation, Supply Chain Management and Operations Management
Tel: 815-753-8048
E-mail: moraga@ceet.niu.edu

Joseph Bittorf

Adjunct Instructor
M.S., Northern Illinois University, 2005
Operations Engineering, Plant Management, Strategic Planning, Lean Manufacturing, Product Development, Foreign Sourcing Economics, Organization and Development
Tel: 815-753-9972
E-mail: jbittorf@niu.edu