Industrial Engineering

Bopaya Bidanda is currently the Ernest Roth Professor and Chairman of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on manufacturing systems, reverse engineering, product development, and project management. He has published five books and more than a hundred papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has received numerous distinctions including the 2012 John Imhoff Award for Global Excellence in Industrial Engineering, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES ) 2012 Award for Global Excellence in Engineering Education, the 2013 Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award, and the 2014 Chancellors Distinguished Public Service Award.Ihsan Sabuncuoglu is the founding Rector of Abdullah Gul University. He earned his BS and MS in industrial engineering from the Middle East Technical University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. He earned his PhD in industrial engineering from Wichita State University in 1990. His research interests are in real-time scheduling, simulation optimization, and applications of quantitative methods to cancer-related health-care problems. In addition to publishing more than a hundred papers in international journals and conference proceedings, Dr. Sabuncuoglu has edited two books. He is also on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals.Bahar Y. Kara is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University. Dr. Kara earned an MS and a PhD from the Bilkent University Industrial Engineering Department, and she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University in Canada. Dr. Kara was elected as an associate member of Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2012. She has been acting as a reviewer for the top research journals within her field. Her current research interests include distribution logistics, humanitarian logistics, hub lo

"The editors have done a great job of covering a very broad area of research with their selection of topics. The selection includes traditional topics, such as a review of the state of the art in location selection models, as well as contemporary ones, such as logistics in the face of global warming, models in healthcare, and disaster management applications. The topics...are relevant and interesting, well written, technically sound, and constitute significant contributions to the area of logistics. The topics collectively emphasize the importance of simultaneous consideration of multiple aspects of logistics problems together (e.g., tactical and operational, distribution and inventory, here-and-how, and wait-and-see decisions), which is a major and relatively recent trend that researchers as well as practitioners should be aware of. The book communicates this important message. Each one of several application-oriented chapters could easily be used as case studies in graduate-level applied operations research or in a logistics course." -Suleyman Karabuk, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA "Interesting applications of Operations Research in diverse areas, some new (such as arctic transportation and relief logistics), some traditional. ... Most of the articles highlight the application area and develop the methodology to address the problem." -Assoc. Professor Rajesh Piplani, Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore "Industrial engineering, born and evolved in the United States, has spent the last three decades growing beyond its original borders into nontraditional applications worldwide. With that, IIE Senior Vice President, International Bopaya Bidanda, Ihsan Sabuncuoglu, and Bahar Y. Kara have joined together to document that growth and edit the three-volume set Industrial Engineering: Management, Tools, and Applications, which consists of Industrial Engineering: Non-Traditional Applications in International Settings, Industrial Engineering Applications in Emerging Countries, and Global Logistics Management. The volumes present international case studies and applications that illustrate industrial engineering in emerging countries." -Industrial Engineer, April 2015

• About 700 papers have already been submitted to the International Industrial Engineering Conference (see www.iicistanbul.org). The editors will choose 60 of these papers that fit best with the theme of the books from the submitted conference papers. Authors will be given six weeks to re-submit the paper in the form of a book chapter in a form that will be useful to a reader for use as a case study or innovative application that is set internationally.