operations research

William J. Foley

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Name:	William J. Foley
Title:	Lecturer
Department	Industrial and Systems Engineering
School	Engineering
Website:	http://www.dses.rpi.edu/people/faculty.cfm?facultyID=foleyw

Bio Dr. Foley teaches courses in engineering economy, production and operations management, operations research, computer simulation, and engineering design. His research interests are in the application of research tools such as statistical analysis and operations research models to policy and planning problems in health care delivery and health organizations

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Education Ph.D. Operations Research & Statistics (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1983), M.S. Operations Research & Statistics (Rensselaer, 1974), B.S. Mechanical Engineering (University of Connecticut, 1972)

Jose Holguin-Veras

Tue, 2010-10-05 09:26 — ROOTJ2

Name:	Jose Holguin-Veras
Title:	William H. Hart Chair Professor
Department	Civil and Environmental Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE)
Website:	http://transp.rpi.edu/~jhvweb/index.shtml

Bio Professor Holguin-Veras’s research emphasizes: the integration of state of the art economic principles into transportation modeling, so that a complete picture could be developed on the broader impacts of transportation activity on the economy and the environment; and the study of the behavior of the participating agents to support sustainable policies. His work includes a broad spectrum of research tracks ranging from: basic research on transportation modeling, research on the behavioral responses of agents to pricing and other sustainable policies, research on simplified modeling techniques, i.e., to estimate demand using secondary data. The latter techniques are bound to benefit developing countries because they minimize the need for expensive data collection efforts.

His leadership positions at key international research organizations include: Vice-President for Logistics of the Pan-American Conferences of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Elected Member of the Council for the Association for European Transport, member of the International Organizing Committee of the City Logistics Conferences, member of three Technical Committees and invitational Task Forces on freight modeling at the Transportation Research Board. He is member of a number of editorial boards, Review Chair for freight transportation at the Transportation Research Board, and Transportation Editor at Networks and Spatial Economics.

Holguin-Veras is the author of dozens of articles on transportation modeling and economics.

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Education Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin Transportation M.S., Universidad Central de Venezuala Transportation B.S., Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo Civil Engineering

Recognitions:

Recipient of the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2001)
Recipient of a Proclamation from the City Council of New York honoring his research accomplishments and contributions to local communities (April 17, 2001)
Recipient of the Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award, 1996 (Council of University Transportation Centers)
Recipient of a 2007 School of Engineering Excellence in Research Award