Purush Damodaran, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
DeKalb, IL 60115
Phone:(815) 753 - 6748; Email:pdamodaran@niu.edu


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Research
This page concisely summarizes all the sponsored research activities of Dr. Purush Damodaran. A brief description of various activities (both on-going and completed) for each sponsored project is listed. The graduate students who worked on these research projects are highlighted in red.

Modeling planned and unplanned crew movement at Royal Caribbean (1/09 - 8/09)
FIU - Team: Purush Damodaran, Marco Zuniga, Jaime Perez
RCC - Team: Richard Brearley, Bertha Arteta

  1. Simulation models to simulate planned crew member movements.
  2. Mixed-integer linear formulations to optimize planned crew member movements.
  3. Simulation-Optimization models for planned and unplanned crew member movements.
Workforce planning and scheduling for Royal Caribbean Cruises (6/08 - 12/08)
FIU - Team: Purush Damodaran, Marco Zuniga
RCC - Team: Richard Brearley, Bertha Arteta

  1. No-show factor analysis through statistical tests, regression models to predict no-shows for different vessels and job codes.

University-Industry Graduate Research Assistantships for developing analytical models to estimate performance measures and optimize resource allocation in a complex server manufacturing, (1/08 - 12/09)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Maria Hulett

Queuing network approximations for server assembly facilities, job failures, parallel processing, circulation, Markovian and General distributions.

A decision support system for the train schedule design problem (7/07 - 10/08)
FIU - Team: Purush Damodaran, Yuan Sheu, Siddharth Mestry
IS - Team: Ravi Ahuja, Krishna Jha

  1. Meet-pass planning, algorithms, heuristics, ...
Integrating hump yard operations with railroad blocking (10/07 - 10/08)
FIU - Team: Purush Damodaran, Michael Gatto
IS - Team: Ravi Ahuja, Krishna Jha

Modeling and simulation of lean manufacturing systems (1/06 - 8/06)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Maria Schneider
  1. Simulation optimization of server manufacturing facilities
  2. Optimizing drilling holes in hyper BGA lines
  3. Simulation for hyper BGA lines
Improving manufacturing systems performance through simulation & modeling (09/05 - 08/06)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari and Sreekanth Ramakrishnan
  1. Discrete event simulation software evaluation
  2. Simulation optimization for server facility in Poughkeepsie, NY
  3. Training material on Simulation
  4. Facilities layout, order picking, crib management system

Improving the effectiveness of the salesforce (09/04 - 01/05)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari and Gikku J. George

Mathematical formulation, TSP (optimum routes), minimum cost capacitated flow models (account managers itinerary)

Improved product slotting (01/04 - 07/04)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari and Sumit Koli

Rectangular warehouse, poduct slotting, transportation (regular slots) & bin-packing formulation (hand stacked slots), order picking, regular aisles and VNA

Research in lead free manufacturing (05/03 - 10/04)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari and Girish Wable

Lead-free assembly, process guidelines for lead-free, cook book for lead-free, wave soldering

Manufacturing systems research in automotive electronics assembly (05/05 - 08/06)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Aric Johnson, Niranjan Kulkarni, Albin Antony, Raguram Karuturi, and Neal Hirani
  1. DOE for ECA, TCM & HPS line process improvements, yield analysis, Simulation models
  2. layout, IP tests, hold issues, failure analysis, ...
Manufacturing systems research in automotive electronics assembly (08/04 - 08/05)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Ashok Thiagarajan and Sujeet Vaidya
  1. Placement optimization, programming GSM & Fuji machines, wirebonders, ECA issues, M-TSP formulations, heuristics for feeder assignment problem
  2. IP tests, bubble issues, failure analysis
Facilities planning and process engineering in automotive electronics assembly (05/04 - 05/05)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Tom Sparks and Shane Lewis

Facility layout design, machine qualification and characterization, performance improvement of screw drive cell, DOE, process capability indices

Factory information system for automotive electronics assembly (08/02 - 08/03)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Sarah S. Lam, Hari Srihari, Aniruddha Deshpande

Real time quality monitoring system, Real time production monitoring system

Lead free electronics manufacturing (01/06 - 08/06)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Gurudutt Chennagiri

Print ball system, 01005 assembly considerations Supplier qualification

Lead free electronics manufacturing (11/05 - 08/06)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Sandeep Sajjala

0201 assembly - stencil evaluation, pad design, DOE Supplier qualification

Lead free electronics manufacturing (01/04 - 06/05)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Deepak Manjunath

Lead free BGA rework, lead free pastes and SMT equipment evaluation, process development for lead free builds supplier qualification

Research in lead free assembly (05/03 - 01/04)
Team: Purush Damodaran, Hari Srihari, Satyanarayan Iyer

Lead free paste evaluation, process optimization