Operations Management

The Operations Management Program covers a broad range of topics including, but not limited to: supply chain management; logistics; inventory management; optimal control; scheduling; manufacturing under uncertainty; interface of manufacturing with information systems and marketing; quality management; and other interdisciplinary aspects of business operations. Faculty research interests range from quantitative modeling to empirical studies using tools from operations research, mathematical programming, optimal control theory, stochastic processes, simulation, statistics and econometrics. 

Several faculty members serve on advisory and editorial boards of major academic journals and have chaired at premier conferences in operations management and management services. Research by operations management faculty is widely published in leading journals, including:

• Management Science

• Operations Research

• Mathematics of Operations Research

• Production and Operations Management

• European Journal of Operational Research

• International Journal of Production Research

• Naval Research Logistics

• Journal of Scheduling

• Mathematics and Operations Research

• IIE Transactions

• IEEE journals

Operations management concentration admission and degree requirements