Key Faculty
Sanjay Joshi
Dr. Sanjay Joshi is a professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM), with a specific focus on computer-aided process planning, additive manufacturing, control of automated flexible manufacturing systems, and topics in advanced manufacturing.
Vittal Prabhu
Dr. Vittal Prabhu is a professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of manufacturing and service enterprises with a focus on distributed control, computing and information systems, and modeling their dynamics.
Ling Rothrock
Dr. Ling Rothrock is a professor in the industrial and manufacturing engineering department. He leads the Human Performance and Assessment Lab. Dr. Rothrock’s research interests include human-in-the-loop discrete event simulations, display visualization, and human-machine performance evaluation.
Jose Ventura
Dr. Jose Ventura is professor, Dean’s Fellow, and chair of the Interdisciplinary Operations Research Graduate Program in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Ventura, an IISE Fellow, focuses his research interests on logistics and supply chain management, applied operations research, revenue management, and design and analysis of energy and environmental systems.
Robert Voigt
Dr. Robert Voigt is a professor of industrial engineering, with research interests in the area of improved processing and properties of engineering alloys. He works collaboratively with industry/government/university research consortia focused on the areas of metal casting, welding, heat treatment, machining, and improving the environmental and economic sustainability of manufacturing operations.
Hui Yang
Dr. Hui Yang is the Harold and Inge Marcus Career Associate Professor in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. He heads the Complex Systems Monitoring, Modeling, and Control lab at Penn State, and he is PI and site director of Penn State’s National Science Foundation Center for Health Organization Transformation. Dr. Yang’s research interests focus on sensor-based modeling and analysis of complex systems for process monitoring, process control, system diagnostics, condition prognostics, quality improvement, and performance optimization.
Online Graduate Programs:
- Overview
- Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering
Contact information:
- Graduate Program Office
344 Leonhard Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-1269
imegradoffice@psu.edu