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Mission
The purpose of the Transportation Working Group (TWG) is to assemble cross disciplinary teams of faculty and staff with broad interests in the transportation area. The group meets several times every semester to discuss ongoing research activities at various departments and centers at Mississippi State University (MSU) with the goal of facilitating more interdisciplinary scholarship within the College of Engineering as well as between other colleges and centers. TWG also brings prominent external speakers to talk with the MSU community to increase our visibility in transportation research on national and international arenas. With an increased focus on transportation systems and transportation security the TWG serves as a source of new knowledge and research ideas and provides a means for locating expertise at MSU.

For more information, please contact:
Sandra D. Eksioglu
Chair, Transportation Working Group
sde47@ise.msstate.edu
(662) 325-9220

 

Events

Spring 2008

• January 25th : Integrated Warehouse Location and Inventory Decisions in Three-Tier Distribution Systems, Dr. Burcu B. Keskin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science at the University of Alabama.
• February 29th : Cutting-Stock Problems in the Wood Processing Industry, Yahya Fathi, Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Spring 2007

• April 2nd : Non-Cooperative Outsourcing Games, Dr. George L. Vairaktarakis, Associate Professor Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

Fall 2006

• September 12th : Automotive Distribution Network Design: A Perspective from Mississippi, Sandra D. Eksioglu, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, MSU.
  
• September 27th: Coordinated Inventory and Transportation Decisions in a Two-stage Supply Chain, Ismail Capar, Industrial and Systems Engineering, MSU.
  
• October 18th: Surprising Designs for Unit-Load Warehouses, Kevin Gue, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Auburn University.
• November 16th: Integrated Asset Replacement and Utilization Decisions, Joseph C. Hartman, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University.

Spring 2006

• February 27th: Overview of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Albert Allen, Department of Agricultural Economics, MSU.
• March 27th: Intermodal Competition in US Soybean Exports, Won W. Koo, Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Professor and Director - Center for Agricultural Policy and Trade Studies, Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, North Dakota State University.
• May 3rd: Transportation Security, Patricia S. Hu, Director, Center for Transportation Analysis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory at NTRC, Knoxville, TN.