| Background |
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B. Accreditation Summary
Appendix IC. Faculty Vitae
Sarah M. Ryan
Associate Professor
Degrees
B.S. Systems Engineering, University of Virginia, 1983
M.S.E. Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 1984
Ph.D. Operations Research (Industrial & Operations Engineering), University of Michigan, 1988
Service
IMSE Recruitment & Retention Committee, 1999 — 2000.
Related Experience
2 years as Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
4 years as Assistant Professor of Industrial & Management Systems Engineering, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
0.5 year on technical staff, Eastman Chemical Company
Consulting, Patents
Consultant for Eastman Chemical Company, 1992; Homart Development Company, 1984-87.
Professional Registration: none
Principal Publications
McAllister, C. D. and S. M. Ryan (1999). Relative Risk Characteristics of Rolling Horizon Hedging Heuristics for Capacity Expansion. Forthcoming in The Engineering Economist.
Ryan, S. M., B. Baynat and F. F. Choobineh (2000). Determining Inventory Levels in a CONWIP Controlled Job Shop. IIE Transactions 32, 105-114.
Ryan, S. M. (1998). Forecast Frequency in Rolling Horizon Hedging Heuristics for Capacity Expansion. European Journal of Operational Research 109(3), 550-558.
Ryan, S. M. (1997). A Renewal Reward Approximation for the Variance of Electric Power Production Costs. IIE Transactions 29(6), 435-440.
Ryan, S. M. and M. Mazumdar (1992). Chronological Influences on the Distribution of Power System Production Costs. Operations Research 40, S284-S292.
Ryan, S. M., J. Bean and R. L. Smith (1992). A Tie-Breaking Rule for Discrete Infinite Horizon Optimization. Operations Research 40, S117-S126.
Ryan, S. M. and M. Mazumdar (1990). Effect of Frequency and Duration of Generating Unit Outages on Distribution of System Production Costs. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 5, 191-197.
Ryan, S. M. and J. Bean (1989). Degeneracy in Infinite Horizon Optimization. Mathematical Programming 43, 305-316.
Bean, J., C. Noon, S. M. Ryan and G. Salton (1988). Selecting Tenants in a Shopping Mall. Interfaces 18(2), 1-9.
Professional Societies
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
Institute of Industrial Engineers
American Society for Engineering Education
Honors and Awards
College of Engineering and Technology Faculty Teaching Award (assistant professor level), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1997.
Invited to 4th Annual Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (one of 83 engineers nationwide), 1998.
Invited to Third German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (one of 30 U.S. engineers), 2000.
Member of Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Pi Mu
Service
Chair of Special Interest Group on Stochastic Processes, Institute of Industrial Engineers Operations Research Division, 1998 — present: organized two sessions for IERC99.
INFORMS invited session organizer
Spring National Meeting, Cincinnati, May, 1999.
Fall National Meeting, Philadelphia, November, 1999.
Referee for IIE Transactions, National Science Foundation (DMII Program in Production Systems, Program in Applied Mathematics), Proceedings of the 6th Industrial Engineering Research Conference.
Professional Development
Project LEA/RN, Iowa State University, 1999 — 2000.
Peer Review of Teaching Project, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1996-1998.
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