2009-2010 Bulletin – PDF - SEAS Bulletin - Columbia University

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH
313 S. W. Mudd, MC 4704, 212-854-2941
www.ieor.columbia.edu
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CHAIR
Clifford Stein
326 S. W. Mudd
DIRECTOR: ADMINISTRATION,
ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Jenny S. Mak
324 S. W. Mudd
STUDENT AFFAIRS
MANAGER
Adina Berrios Brooks
DIRECTOR:
UNDERGRADUATE
PROGRAMS
Garud Iyengar
DIRECTOR: M.S. PROGRAMS
IN ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS,
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING,
AND OPERATIONS
RESEARCH
Soulaymane Kachani
DIRECTOR: MASTER OF
SCIENCE IN FINANCIAL
ENGINEERING
Emanuel Derman
DIRECTOR: DOCTORAL
PROGRAMS
Daniel Bienstock
PROFESSORS
Daniel Bienstock
Mark Broadie
Business School
Edward M. Coffman Jr.
Electrical Engineering
Emanuel Derman
Awi Federgruen
Business School
Guillermo Gallego
Paul Glasserman
Business School
Donald Goldfarb
Iannis Karatzas
Mathematics
Peter J. Kolesar
Business School
S. G. Steven Kou
Karl Sigman
Clifford Stein
M. Suresh Sundaresan
Business School
Garrett van Ryzin
Business School
Ward Whitt
Vlihalis Yannakakis
Computer Science
David D. Yao
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Maria Chudnovsky
Rama Cont
Garud Iyengar
Soulaymane Kachani
Jay Sethuraman
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Jose Blanchet
Mariana Olvera-Cravioto
Xuedong He
LECTURER IN DISCIPLINE
Martin Haugh
ADJUNCT FACULTY
Khasha Dehnad
David DeRosa
Alexander Eydeland
Leon S. Gold
Ali Hirsa
Iraj Kani
Alexander Kuznetsov
William J. Latzko
Michael D. Lipkin
Hanan Luss
Allan Malz
Leon M. Metzger
Peter V. Norden
Lucius J. Riccio
David Robbins
Alexander Stanton
Leon Tatevossian
Leo Tilman
Andrew Webster
Sheldon Weinig
Larry Wright
Industrial engineering is the branch of
the engineering profession that is
concerned with the design, analysis,
and control of production and service
systems. Originally, an industrial engineer
worked in a manufacturing plant
and was involved only with the operating
efficiency of workers and machines.
Today, industrial engineers are more
broadly concerned with productivity and
all of the technical problems of production
management and control. They may
be found in every kind of organization:
manufacturing, distribution, transportation,
mercantile, and service. Their
responsibilities range from the design
of unit operations to that of controlling
complete production and service systems.
Their jobs involve the integration
of the physical, financial, economic,
computer, and human components of
such systems to attain specified goals.
Industrial engineering includes activities
such as production planning and control;
quality control; inventory, equipment,
warehouse, and materials management;
plant layout; and workstation design.
Operations research is concerned
with quantitative decision problems,
generally involving the allocation and
control of limited resources. Such problems
arise, for example, in the operations
of industrial firms, financial institutions,
health care organizations, transportation
systems, and government.
The operations research analyst develops
and uses mathematical and statistical
models to help solve these decision
problems. Like engineers, they are problem
formulators and solvers. Their work
requires the formation of a mathematical
model of a system and the analysis and
prediction of the consequences of alternate
modes of operating the system.
The analysis may involve mathematical
optimization techniques, probabilistic
and statistical methods, experiments,
and computer simulations.
Engineering management systems
is a multidisciplinary field in industrial
engineering, operations research, contemporary
technology, business, economics,
and management. It provides
a foundation for decision making and
managing risks in complex systems.
Financial engineering is a multidisciplinary
field integrating financial theory
with economics, methods of engineering,
tools of mathematics, and practice
of programming. The field provides
training in the application of engineering
methodologies and quantitative methods
to finance.
SEAS 2009–2010