Abdelghani Elimam

Professor, Decision Sciences

Professor Elimam teaching areas include Applied Operations Research (OR), Operations Management, World Class Manufacturing and Service Operations, and Total Quality Management. Prior to January 1991, he was a Senior Research Scientist in the Applied Systems Department of the Techno-Economics Division at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR). While at KISR, he worked on the mathematical modeling and optimization of industrial and service systems , industrial diagnosis, quality and productivity improvement studies. Over the four years preceding Dec. 1979, he worked on OR applications in production, distribution and maintenance for the petroleum and petrochemical products plants of Union Carbide Corporation. His consulting work includes Application of Mathematical Modeling and optimization in industrial and service facilities, Scheduling and Quality Assurance. He published in Operations Research, Interfaces, Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, The International Journal of Production Research, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, The International Journal of Management Science, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Applied Discrete Mathematics, Solar Energy and The ASCE Environmental Engineering Journal. He carried out and led numerous consulting and applied research projects in the US and abroad. He is a member of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science), and IIE.

Contact Information

Email: aelimam@sfsu.edu

Website:

www.sfsu.edu/~bacswww/aelimam.htm

Office Hours: Not available in summer

Phone: 338-2214

Department: Decision Sciences

Location: SCI 370

Advising Duties: Advisor-UG/Grad

Education

• BS (1967), Alexandria University - Alexandria, Egypt
• MS (1970), Kansas State University
• Ph. D. (1978), North Carolina State University

Research Interests

• Application of Optimization in Services and Industry
• Project Scheduling
• Total Quality Management and Productivity Improvements
• Applied Mathematical Modeling in Logistics

Honors and Awards

• Finalist prize in the Franz Edelman Award (1996)
• Research grant: California Public Utilities commission (1992)
• Research grant: California Department of Transportation (1994)
• Member: Omega Ro (Operations Research Honor Society ) (1974)
• Memebr Sigma Xi: Scientific Research Honor society. (1976)
• Member of Alpha Pi Mu in Industrial Engineering (1975)