Current graduate students

Abstract

Production planning problems and its variants are widely studied in operations management and optimization literature. One variation that has not garnered much attention is the presence of multiple production families in a coordinated and capacitated lot-sizing setting. While its single-family counterpart has been the subject of many advances in formulations and solution techniques, the latest published research on multiple family problems was over 25 years ago (Erenguc and Mercan, 1990; Mercan and Erenguc, 1993).

Area of Research:

Information Systems

Committee Chair:

Stan Potapenko, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Examining Committee:

Stanko Dimitrov, Management Sciences (supervisor)

Fatih Erenay, Management Sciences

James Bookbinder, Management Sciences

Liping Fu, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Area of Research

Management of Technology

Committee Chair

Sagar Naik, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Examining Committee

Frank Safayeni, Management Sciences

Elizabeth Jewkes, Management Sciences

Robert Duimering, Management Sciences

Nada Basir, Conrad Centre - CBET
 

The University wide competition starts with our department-level heat. We want Management Sciences to be well represented on the university stage!

The 3MT is a university-wide competition for research-based master’s thesis and doctoral students.  Competitors will have 1 slide and 3 minutes to explain their research to a non-specialist audience.

This year we will be running our own department-level heat on February 27, 2018 at 2:00 pm in CPH 4335 with prizes and a winner moving on to the university-wide competition.

In recent years, long wait times for healthcare services have become a challenge in most healthcare delivery systems in Canada.

Existing leadership theories tend to explain that leaders induce others to follow as a function of one or more of the following:

i) A specific set of traits possessed by the leader (e.g., charisma);

ii) Different types of behaviours the leader exhibits depending on the situation (e.g., a focus on tasks or a focus on relationships);

iii) Specifics relating to the structure and dynamics of the leader-follower relationship (e.g., economic, social, or psychological exchange, or a 'customized' focus on the 'follower').

Supervisor(s):

Fatih Erenay, Management Sciences

Osman Yalin Ozaltin (remote), Management Sciences

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