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I currently work as an Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering at Texas A&M International University. I got my Ph.D. in Engineering Management in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University in August, 2012. I received an M.E. degree in Systems Engineering from the same department in May, 2009. I received a B.S. degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the department of Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at the Hashemite University, in Zarqa, Jordan, in 2007.

My research interest are focused on Engineering management and systems engineering applications in healthcare, manufacturing, operations management, business, and other industries; modeling and simulation of complex systems; distributed networked operations.

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Rafic A. Bachnak is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Penn State Harrisburg. Previously, Dr. Bachnak was on the faculty of Texas A&M International University, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Northwestern State University, and Franklin University. Dr. Bachnak received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University. His experience includes several fellowships with NASA and the US Navy Laboratories and employment with Koch Industries. Dr. Bachnak is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, a senior member of IEEE and ISA, and a member of ASEE.

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Dr. Rohitha Goonatilake, professor of mathematics, received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Kent State University, in Kent, OH in Fall 1997, three masters in the areas of applied mathematics, mathematics, and actuarial sciences, and a bachelor’s in mathematics/science. He joined TAMIU in the Summer of 1999 and has completed 14+ years of service for TAMIU. He and his team was recently awarded a $1.2 million NSF award to promote mathematics education in the area of need in Laredo through providing scholarships to juniors and seniors at TAMIU to prepare talented, skillful, and highly qualified teachers to teach immediately after graduation. Dr. Goonatilake was a recipient of the Scholar of the Year Award in 2006 and the University Honors Faculty of the Year in 2013. He was a PI for more than three program-funded grants and Co-PI for more than 10 different program grants since joining TAMIU. He has a very active research agenda that involves network anomaly detection, probability, disease prevalence, and microeconomics. He was extensively involved with many STEM activities throughout years for local high school and middle school students, outreach efforts with local high schools, and other community involvements for many years through enrichment workshops and summer opportunities for the local community.

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Dr. Runchang Lin received Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.A. in Statistics from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, and M.S. in Computational Mathematics and B.S. in Mathematics from Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX. Dr. Lin’s research interest is in Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics. He has published more than 20 articles in numerical analysis and education in peer reviewed journals.

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Dr. Pablo Biswas received Ph.D. and M.S. in in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX. Dr. Biswas’s research interest is in supply chain management, inventory control, lean production systems, and information systems.

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Sofía Carolina Maldonado is a graduate student at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), currently completing a M.S. in Information Systems. She obtained her B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the same University in Fall 2011. Sofía was a Distinguished Student Scholar and Student Respondent at the Fall 2011 Commencement Ceremony. Throughout her TAMIU education, she has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Vice-President and Treasurer of the Society of Engineering at TAMIU. In addition, Sofía was a Research Assistant for the project “Topography of an Object: Detection and Display (Software and Hardware)” and was Project Manager of the Engineering Senior Project Design entitled “New Classroom Propulsion Demonstrator.” She is presently a Special Program Aid at the Department of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics at TAMIU.

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