Dr. Clara M. Novoa
Assistant Professor

Ingram School of Engineering

Industrial Engineering Program

Texas State University

Office: RFM 2214

Office Phone: (512) 245-4343

Fax: (512) 245-7771
Postal Address:

601 University Drive

San Marcos, TX 78666
URL: http://www.txstate.edu/~cn17

 

Teaching Objectives:

Provide Texas State undergraduates with high-quality education in Industrial Engineering topics such as operations research, simulation, engineering economy, methods engineering and ergonomics and quality control. I expect that students gain a solid understanding of these topics so they feel motivated to apply them in their future careers.

Serve as a role model and mentor for women in the Engineering program so they can encourage other women to pursue careers in engineering and related fields.  

Research Objectives:

Contribute with solutions to Operations Research (OR) problems that arise in logistics such as transportation, inventory, warehousing, facility location, and scheduling applying stochastic and dynamic programming techniques.

Investigate the impact of solving large scale OR problems under parallel and distributed computing environments.

I have also interests in Industrial Engineering problems related to statistics, quality control, queuing theory, and simulation.

Teaching links:

1.    Xpress-MP Student Edition

2.    AMPL Student Edition

3.    Mathcad

4.    MATLAB

5.    Mathematica

 

More detailed information about me:

·         Complete vita

·         Ph.D. courses

·         Personal information

Research links:

1.    Detailed results for paper: “An approximate dynamic programming approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands (VRPSD)” 

2.    See the paper corresponding to the results above at the European Journal of Operations Research (EJOR) site

 

3.    Detailed results for paper: “A set-partitioning based model for the stochastic vehicle routing problem” under review in transportation science

Societies:

Operations Research:

·         Institute for the Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)

·         The Science of Better

·         The Mathematical Programming Society (MPS)

Industrial Engineering:

·         Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

Other societies:

·         Society of Women Engineers (SWE) national headquarters

·         SWE Texas State Chapter

 

 



 

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