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Ricki G. Ingalls, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Site Director of the Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution (CELDi) in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. He has developed a graduate program in Supply Chain Engineering where he teaches Supply Chain Strategy and Supply Chain Modeling. Dr. Ingalls joined Oklahoma State in 2000 after 16 years in industry with Compaq, SEMATECH, General Electric and Motorola. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from East Texas Baptist College (1982), a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University (1984) and a Ph.D. in Management Science from the University of Texas at Austin (1999).

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Mario Cornejo is a Ph.D student in Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. Mario got his M.S. in Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma State University in 2005; then he worked at DELL implementing Six Sigma methodology where he got certified as a DELL-Green Belt and an ASQ-Black Belt. Before joining the master program, Mario worked for four years at an aircraft repair station of an airline company in inventory control and production planning areas. He also holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Centroamericana, in San Salvador.

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Chinnatat Methapatara is Master's Candidate in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University, OSU. He is currently working as a Research Assistant on the Design for Supply Chain project. Prior to joining OSU he worked as a Research Assistant and a Systems Engineer. In 2005 he received his Bachelor's Degree from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology North Bangkok in the field of Electrical Engineering.

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Peerapol Sittivijan received his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and Master’s degree in Transportation Engineering in Mahidol University and Asian Institute of Technology respectively. He has also worked as a transportation planner and analyst where he performed transportation modeling and traffic analysis. Peerapol is a Master's student in Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma State University working on a project entitled Freight Movement Model Development for Oklahoma and Product Design for Supply Chain, where he develops a model to forecast freight flow patterns in the U.S., especially focusing on the area in the state of Oklahoma.

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Kim LaScola Needy is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Wichita State University. Prior to her academic appointment, she accumulated nine years of industrial experience while working at PPG Industries and The Boeing Company. Her research interests include engineering economic analysis, engineering management, integrated resource management, and sustainable engineering. Dr. Needy is a member of ASEE, ASEM, APICS, IIE, and SWE. She is a licensed P.E. in Kansas.

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Bryan A. Norman is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his MS and BS in Industrial Engineering at the University of Oklahoma and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Dr. Norman's primary research interests include logistics and the application of operations research models to production and logistics. His particular areas of emphasis include scheduling, facility layout and design, and the application of RFID for inventory and asset management. He is a member of ASEE, IIE, and INFORMS.

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Brady Hunsaker is a software engineer at Google. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from Harvard University, his M.S. in Operations Research and his Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh for four years prior to starting his current position in January 2008. His interests include linear and combinatorial optimization as well as computational aspects of operations research.

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Erin Claypool is a doctoral student of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked for two years at MEDRAD, Inc, as a Manufacturing Engineer.

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Nuri Mehmet Gokhan is a recent Ph.D. graduate of Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University and his Industrial Engineering M.S. from the Sabanci University. His primary research interests include supply chain planning, product design, operations research, and sustainable engineering.

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Scott J. Mason is an Associate Professor and the Associate Department Head of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas, as well as the Chair of Industrial Engineering Graduate Studies. He received his BSME and MSE degrees from The University of Texas at Austin and his PhD in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University. Dr. Mason has published over 60 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. His research and teaching interests include production planning, control, and scheduling (with emphasis in microelectronics manufacturing environments) and large-scale systems modeling, optimization, and algorithms (with emphasis in network and transportation logistics). He is a member of INFORMS and a senior member of the Institute for Industrial Engineers.

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