Engineering Systems Management and Decision Making Group

Optimization Activities at
University of Maryland, College Park
(Engineering and Applied Mathematics Disciplines)

Statement of Purpose


Working group of engineering, applied mathematics, and business school professors who share a common interest in developing models and algorithms for decision-making purposes. Shown below are descriptions of the specific faculty, related courses that they teach, as well as useful links.

INFORMS, SIAM, ASCE, ASME , ITE, IAEE, IEEE

Faculty Webpages and Research Areas
bullet Prof. Raymond A. Adomaitis
Affiliations: Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
Research Areas: Simulation methods for chemical processes, with applications primarily in semiconductor manufacturing
bullet Prof. Shapour Azarm
Affiliations: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Multi-objective optimization, multi-disciplinary design optimization, multi-attribute decision making
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Prof. Gregory B. Baecher
Affiliations: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering 
Research Areas: Geoenvironmental Engineering, Reliability and Risk Analysis, Environmental History

 

bullet Prof. Roberto Celi
Affiliations: Dept. of Aerospace Engineering 
Research Areas: Multidisciplinary design optimization (helicopter aeroelasticity, handling qualities)
bullet Prof. Steven A. Gabriel
Affiliations: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Project Management Program), Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Interdisciplinary Program
Research Areas: Equilibrium problems (variational inequality problem/nonlinear complementarity problem), nonlinear programming, multi-objective optimization, stochastic programming, decision modeling in project management
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Prof. Ali Haghani
Affiliations: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Program)
Research Areas: Transportation network design and optimization, network analysis and location modeling, applications of operations research techniques to public and private sector decision making problems, Intelligent Transportation Systems; transportation systems analysis; network analysis, optimization and control; logistics and carrier operations; computer applications; and simulation modeling.
bullet Prof. Jeffrey Herrmann
Affiliations: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Joint Appointment with the Institute for Systems Research
Research Areas: Design and control of manufacturing systems; integration of product design and manufacturing system design; decision-making systems in product development
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Prof. Hani S. Mahmassani
Affiliations: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Program)
Research Areas: Dynamic Traffic System Management, Network Modeling and Optimization, Dynamics of User Behavior and Telematics
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Prof. Elise Miller-Hooks
Affiliations: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Program)
Research Areas: Transportation
bullet Prof. Dianne O'Leary
Affiliations: Dept. of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation Interdisciplinary Program, Advanced Computer Studies
Research Areas: Linear and nonlinear programming, unconstrained optimization, and solving the linear algebra problems that arise in these algorithms
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Prof. Paul M. Schonfeld
Affiliations: Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Program)
Research Areas: Transportation Engineering
bullet Prof. André Tits
Affiliations:  Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research
Research Areas: Nonlinear programming, optimization-based design, numerical methods in controls, robust control

 

Courses 
  Course Number Instructor When Taught Course Information
Linear Programming        
  BMGT830 A. Assaad    
Nonlinear Programming        
 

ENCE 724/BMGT 832

 Gabriel Spring 05, 07  
  ENME 610 Azarm Fall 03  
  AMSC 607/CMSC 878o O'Leary    
  ENAE 681 Celi Spring 02  
Decision Analysis        
  ENCE 627
 Baecher
 Fall 03
  
  ENME 808X
 Herrmann
 Fall 03
  
  ENCE 688M
 Mahmassani Fall 04
  
  BMGT 887
      
Multiobjective LP
        
  ENCE 723/AMSC 698s
 Gabriel
 Fall 04,06

  
  ENCE 688M
 Mahmassani
 Fall 04, 06  
Probabilistic Optimization        
  ENCE 725
 Gabriel
 Fall 2005, 2007
  
Advanced LP
        
  BMGT 836
 Tits
    
Market, Spatial, & Traffic Equilibrium Models
        
  ENCE 722
Gabriel
 Fall 03, Spring 06, 08
  
Probabilistic Methods
        
  BMGT 834
 Fu    
  BMGT 835
 Fu    
Integer Programming
        
  BMGT 833
 Raghavan, Ball, Chen
    
  ENME 625 (w/multiobj discrete)
 Azarm
 Fall 04  
Transportation Network
       
  ENCE 677
   Fall 04
  
  ENCE 688 T
 Miller-Hooks
 Fall 04
  
Network Methods
        
  BMGT 831
 Golden
    

 

 
 

Links
bullet Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
bullet Optimization Network Homepage
bullet Mathematical Programming Society
bullet SIAM Special Interest Group on Optimization
bullet SIAM Special Interest Group on Control and Systems Theory
bullet IEEE Control Systems Society
bullet Global Optimization Site
bullet NEOS Optimization Server