Curriculum Vitae


Wilbert E. Wilhelm

Professor (full time)

Degree
Ph.D. 
MS 
BS 

Field
Industrial Engineering & OR 
Industrial Engineering & OR 
Mechanical Engineering 

Institution
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. 
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. 
West Virginia University 

Date
1972 
1970 
1964 

Title: Barnes Professor of Industrial Engineering (2000)

Teaching Experience:

Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University (1988-present)
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University Assistant (1972 - 1988)
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Instructor)

 

Industrial Experience:

Sum. 1986 Systems Engineer, IBM Federal Systems Division, Owego, NY
1964-1969 Manufacturing Training Program and Other Positions, General Electric

 

Professional Licenses and Certifications:

Registered, Professional Engineer in Ohio (E-49126) since 1984

 

Selected Papers in Review

 

Gokce, E. I. and W. E. Wilhelm (2008) On Bounds Available from Branch-and-Price Decomposition of the Multi-dimensional Knapsack Problem with Generalized Upper Bound Constraints.

 

Paper Conditionally Accepted

 

Wilhelm. W. E., and E. Gokce (2008) A Branch-and-Price Approach to Design a Surveillance System for Port and Waterway Security, IEEE Transactions on Automation, conditionally accepted, subject to minor editorial refinements.

 

Selected, Recent Refereed Publications

 

Liang, D., and W. E. Wilhelm (2006) A Generalization of Column Generation to Accelerate Convergence, Mathematical Programming, accepted for Publication, October 1.

 

Liang, D., and W. E. Wilhelm (2008) Decomposition Schemes and Acceleration Techniques in Application to Production-assembly-distribution System Design, Computers and Operations Research, 35, 4010-4026.

 

Zhu, X., and W. E. Wilhelm (2007) Three-stage Approaches for Optimizing some Variations of the Resource Constrained Shortest-path Sub-problem in a Column Generation Context, European Journal of Operational Research 183, 564-577.

 

Choudhry, N., Wilhelm, W. E., Vasudeva, B. R. T., Gott, J., and N. Khotekar (2007) Process Planning for Circuit Card Assembly on a Series of Dual Head Placement Machines, European Journal of Operational Research, 182 (2), October 16, 626-639.

 

Wilhelm, W. E., Choudhry, N. D., and P. Damodaran (2007) A Model to Optimize Placement Operations on Dual-Head Placement Machines, Discrete Optimization, 4, 232-256.

 

Zhu, X., and W. E. Wilhelm (2006) Sequence-Dependent Scheduling: A Literature Review, IIE Transactions, 38, 987-1007.

 

Butenko, S., and W. E. Wilhelm (2006) Clique-detection Models in Computational Biochemistry and Genomics, European Journal of Operational Research, 173 (1), August, 1-17.

 

Wilhelm, W. E., Arambula, I., and N. N. Choudhry (2006) A Model to Optimize Picking Operations on Dual-Head Placement Machines, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, January,   3 (1), 1-15.

 

Warrier, D., Wilhelm, W. E., Warren, J., and I. V. Hicks (2005) A Branch-and-Price Approach for the Maximum Weight Independent Set Problem, Networks, 46 (14), 198-209.

 

Damodaran, P. and W.E. Wilhelm (2005) A Branch-and-Price Approach for Prescribing Profitable Feature Upgrades, International Journal of Production Research 43 (21), 4539-4558.

 

Wilhelm, W. E., D. Liang, B. Rao, D. Warrier, X. Zhu, and S. Bulusu (2005) Design of International Assembly Systems and Their Supply Chains Under NAFTA, Transportation Research E, 41, 467-493.

 

Wilhelm, W.E., S. Bulusu, D. Liang, B. R. T. Vasudeva, D. Warrier, and X. Zhu (2005) Design of International Assembly Systems and Their Supply Chains Under NAFTA, forthcoming, Transportation Research E.

 

Damodaran, P., and W. E. Wilhelm (2004), Branch and Price Methods for Prescribing Profitable Upgrades of High-Technology Products with Stochastic Demands, Decision Sciences, 35 (1), 55-82.  Link: ‘This is an electronic version of an article published in Decision Sciences complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of the Decision Sciences, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal’s website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/deci or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.

 

Wilhelm, W.E. and R. Gadidov (2004) A Strong Cutting Plane Approach to the Multiple Product Assembly System Design Problem INFORMS Journal on Computing, 16 (1), 39-55.

 

Wilhelm, W.E., P. Damodaran, and J. Li (2003) Prescribing the Content and Timing of Product Upgrades, IIE Transactions, 35 (7), 647-664.

 

Wilhelm, W.E. and P. Kiatchai Tarmy (2003) Circuit Card Assembly on Tandem Turret-Type Placement Machines, IIE Transactions, 35 (7), 627-646.

 

Wilhelm, W.E. and K. Xu (2002) Prescribing Product Design, Price, and Production Level Over Time in a Stochastic Environment, European Journal of Operational Research, 138 (3), 601-621.

 

Wilhelm, W.E. (2001) A Technical Review of Column Generation in Integer Programming, Optimization and Engineering, 2 (2), 159-200.

 

Drees, L.D. and W.E. Wilhelm (2000) Scheduling Experiments on a Nuclear Reactor Using Mixed Integer Programming, Computers and Operations Research, 28, 1013-1037.

 

Pinnoi, A. and W.E. Wilhelm (2000) Valid Inequalities for a Class of Assembly System Problems, European Journal of Operational Research, 126 (1), 31-50.

 

Rutherford, D.P. and W.E. Wilhelm(2000) Forecasting Notebook Computer Price as a Function of Constituent Features, Computers in Industrial Engineering, 37, 823-845.

 

Gadidov, R. and W.E. Wilhelm (2000) A Cutting Plane Approach for the Single-Product Assembly System Design Problem, International Journal of Production Research, 8 (8), 1731-1754.

 

Schmidt, G. and W.E. Wilhelm (2000) Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Decisions Related to Multi-national Logistics Networks: A Review and Discussion of Modeling Issues, International Journal of Production Research, 38 (7), 1501-1523.

 

Parija, G.R., R. Gadidov, and W.E. Wilhelm (1999) A Facet Generation Procedure for Solving 0/1 Integer Programs, Operations Research, 47 (5), 789-791.

 

Wilhelm, W.E. (1999) A Column Generation Approach for the Assembly System Design Problem with Tool Changes, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 11, No. 2, 177-205.

 

Wilhelm, W.E. and P. Som (1999) Analysis of Stochastic Assembly with GI Distributed Assembly Time, INFORMS Journal of Computing, 11 (1), 104-116.

 

 

Scientific and Professional Society Membership:

Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Fellow; Senior Member; Vice-President, Publications (1997-99).
Editor-in-Chief, IIE Transactions (1993 - 1996).

Member, Mathematical Programming Society.
INFORMS, Member: Chair, Technical Section on Manufacturing Management (1992 - 1993).

 

Honors and Awards:

Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor (2000)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE): David Baker Distinguished Research Award (1996)
TAMU College of Engineering: Brockett Professor (1997)
Texas Engineering Experiment Station: Fellow (1991, 92) & Senior Fellow (1994) Awards
IIE Fellow Award (1992)
IIE Operations Research Division Special Citation Award (1992)

 

Graduate Courses Frequently Taught:

INEN 668: Integer Programming, INEN 664: Scheduling and Sequencing, INEN 622: Linear Programming