New Faculty Virginia Tech's College of Engineering 2008-2009

In the fall of 2005, he joined the Department of Mechanical
Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Technological
University as an assistant professor, staying there for three
years until he joined the Virginia Tech faculty. His research
interests are in design and analysis of manufacturing systems.
He is particularly interested in decision making under uncertainty,
data mining and statistical learning applications in production
systems, self-healing manufacturing systems, design
and analysis of value recovery operations, and micro-forming
processes.
Among his honors, he received the Society of Manufacturing
Engineering’s (SME) 2007 Outstanding Young Manufacturing
Engineering Award. In 2001, he received the Best Paper
Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) Design Engineering Technical Conference. He also
was honored with the Best Student in ME Award from the
Colegio de Ingenieros de Chile in 1996.
Camelio is a member of ASME, SME, the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
Christian Wernz received his doctorate
in industrial engineering and operations
research in 2008 from the University of
Massachusetts Amherst.
For the past five years, as he pursued
his doctorate, he served as a research assistant
in the University’s Consortium for
Distribute Decision Making. His research
focuses on the multi-scale analysis and
modeling of complex systems, stochastic
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processes and probability theory, decision
theory, game theory and information science. The applications
of his theoretical work are in manufacturing systems, management
systems engineering, service operations, environmental
engineering, technology management, homeland security, and
supply chain networks.
Among his awards and scholarships as a doctoral student,
he received the 2006-07 Graduate School Fellowship for Outstanding
Doctoral Students, the 2004-05 Eugene M. Isenberg
Award for Entrepreneurship and Technology Management,
Hamburg, Germany’s 2003-04 Research Scholarship for Post
Graduate Research, and he was a German National Academic
Foundation Fellow from 2000-04.
Wernz received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in
industrial engineering and business administration from the
University of Karlsruhe, Germany in 1999 and in 2003, respectively.
While he was a master’s student, he participated
in an exchange program at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst.
His teaching interests are in management systems theory,
economic decision making, production planning and control,
system and processes modeling, service operations, technology
management, and supply chain management.
As an engineering student, he worked with various industries
in an IE capacity. He had stints with BorgWarner of
Heidelberg, Germany, McKinsey and Company of Frankfurt,
Germany, Hardigg Industries of South Deerfield, Ma., and
Loyalty-Partner and BMW, both of Munich, Germany. He also
interned at the Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Heidelberg.
Wernz was an integral member of the University of Mas-
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