The Forum of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)

Prof. M. ABDUR RAHIM,

Faculty of Business Administration, University of New Brunswick (UNB ), Fredericton, Canada. He joined UNB in 1983 and is a member of the Quantitative Methods area. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc in Statistics from the University of Dhaka, D.S. in Operations Research from the University of Rome, M.Sc. in Systems Theory from the University of Ottawa, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Windsor. He teaches Management Science, Operations Management and TQM in the BBA and MBA programs. Dr. Rahim is a recognized world expert in Quality Control and Quality Management. He has taught a wide range of courses in Universities in Canada, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. He has served as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science, Quality Engineering, and Engineering Optimization. He is a member of the Advisory or Editorial boards for Economic Quality Control, the Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, the Journal of Quality Engineering and Technology, and the International Journal of Production Research.Dr. Rahim received the UNB Merit Award in 1992, 1999, 2000, and 2009 for his excellence performance in research, service, and teaching.

Dr. SHABBIR AHMED,

Associate Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School
of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and Masters and PhD in Operations Research from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Dr.Ahmed serves as the Chair of the Community of Stochastic Programming (COSP), and was a Vice-chair (Stochastic Programming) of the INFORMS Optimization Society (2006-2008). He is an Associate Editor for Mathematical Programming C
and Operations Research Letters, an Area Editor for Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science, a Topical Editor for the Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science and a
Department Editor for IIE Transactions (Operations Engineering and Analysis). Dr. Ahmed's honors include the National Science Foundation CAREER award, two IBM Faculty Awards, the Coca-cola Junior Professorship
from ISyE, and the INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation award.

Dr. TASNEEM PERVEZ

Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU). He has received his Bachelor’s degree from NED University of Engineering & Technology,Karachi,Pakistan, and MS and Ph.D. degrees, all in Mechanical Engineering, from University of Minnesota, USA. He has been actively engaged in research and consulting work with various national and international organizations. His research interests are in CAE, FEM, Composite Materials and Solid Expandable Tubulars. He has served as an Associate Editor / member of editorial board for The Journal of Engineering, Research, Journal of Solids and Structures, IJMD, NED University Journal of Engineering and Disaster Journal. He has given invited talk on Solid Expandable Tubulars in many conference and technical forums. He has received Outstanding Faculty Award, Best paper awards and Best Researcher award in 1999, 2004, 2005 and 2008. A part from teaching, research and consultancy, he has actively participated in developing new engineering programs and accreditation process. He was instrumental in accreditation of engineering programs in both IIUM and SQU specially focusing on Continuous Quality Improvement Process. He has presented various papers related to accreditation in various conferences and conducted 2-5 days workshops on accreditation to 8 different universities in Middle East countries.