Weihang Zhu is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Lamar University, USA since 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University (2003), USA and his M.S. (2000) and B.S. (1997) in Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University, China. His research interests include Engineering Education, Computer haptics, CAD/CAM, high performance computing, meta-heuristics, multi-axis NC surface machining. He can be reached via email at humorstar@yahoo.com.
Alberto Marquez is an associate professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at Lamar University. His previous academic appointment was Department Chair of Industrial Engineering at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City.
His research interests include modeling for decision making and optimization, with applications to supply chain, heuristic algorithm development, effective modeling and training for decision making. His publications encompass the developing of decision support systems for supply chain design; manufacturing, transportation and warehousing optimization, manufacturing capacity modeling and forecasting, simulation, scheduling, inventory policy, and process design and optimization.
He got his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University in 1999 with a Fulbright-Conacyt scholarship.
Julia Hyunjeong Yoo is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Professional Pedagogy and Program Coordinator of Academic Partnerships Program at Lamar University. Dr. Yoo received her doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She also earned her M.A. degree in Program Evaluation at the same institution. She is a former elementary school teacher and has given numerous presentations at national, international, and regional conferences.
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