Dr. A. Ravi Ravindran
Professor of Industrial Engineering, Chair-Enterprise Integration Consortium
352 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-7840 / Fax: 814-863-4745
E-mail: aravi@psu.edu
Profile
Dr. Ravindran teaches courses in the area of Operations Research at the undergraduate level. At the graduate level, he teaches courses in multicriteria decision making, and supply chain engineering. He has received 11 teaching awards in Industrial Engineering. His research interests include supply chain modeling, portfolio optimization/finanancial engineering, goal programming, interactive methods for multiple criteria optimization, applications of mathematical programming to health planning, quality control, transportation networks, hazardous waste disposal, and system reliability. He has obtained funding from NSF, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Transportation, and several corporations. He has been a consultant to AT&T, General Motors, General Electric, IBM, Kimberly Clark and Crayola companies.
Education
Ph.D. , Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California-Berkely,1969.
M.S. , Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California-Berkely, 1966.
B.S. , Electrical Engineering, Birla Inst. of Tech. and Science-Pilani, 1965.
Honors and Awards
Fulbright Scholar Award, 2003.
Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award, for significant contributions to the IE profession, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2001.
Franz Edelman Finalist Award for Management Science Achievement, sponsored by The Institute of Management Sciences, 1988.
Institute of Industrial Engineers Fellow Award, 1987.
Research Interests
Risk Management in Global Supply Chains
Asset Allocation Models and Portfolio Optimization (Financial Engineering)
Supply Chain Optimization Models
Multi criteria optimization methods and applications
OR Models for Service Systems
Memberships
Institute of Industrial Engineers, FELLOW
Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences
American Society for Engineering Education
Selected Publications
"Intelligent Search Methods for Nonlinear Goal Programming" (with G.Kuriger), Information Systems and OR Journal, V.43, No.2, May 2005.
"A Goal Programming Application for Army Officer Accession Planning"(with H.M.Henry), Information Systems and OR Journal, V. 43, No.2, May 2005.
"A Bi-criteria Model for Inventory Aggregation Using Risk Pooling", (with S. Gaur), Computers and IE Journal, Vol. 51, No.3, 482-501, Nov. 2006
ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS (with G. V. Reklaitis and K. M. Ragsdell), John Wiley and Sons, Inc, Second Edition, 2006.
"Vendor Selection in Outsourcing" (With Vijay Wadhwa), Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 34, No. 12, 3725-3737, 2007.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE HANDBOOK, (Editor), CRC Press, 2008.
"A 3-Phase Multi Criteria Method for Supplier Selection" (with Mendoza and Santiago), Intl. J. of Industrial Engineering, 15(2), 195-210, 2008.
"Multi Criteria Optimization Models for Supplier Selection", (with V. Wadhwa), in HANDBOOK OF MILITARY INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, Badiru and Thomas (Eds.), Chapter 4, CRC Press, 2009.
OPERATIONS RESEARCH APPLICATIONS (Editor), CRC Press 2009
OPERATIONS RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES (Editor), CRC Press 2009