Tongdan Jin, Ph.D.
Industrial Engineering, Ingram Hall 4001D
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Phone:(512)-245-4904
E-mail:tj17@txstate.edu

1. Short Bio

• Dr. Jin is a professor of the Ingram School of Engineering, and served as the Industrial Engineering Program Coordinator between 9/2018 and 8/2022. Prior to academia, he had 5-year reliability design and management experience in Teradyne Inc., Boston. In that capacity, he led the initiatives to manage the after-sales service supply chain for Teradyne’s worldwide, multi-billion dollar automated test equipment fleet.
• His research is cross-disciplinary and resides at the interface of operations management, renewable energy, reliability optimization, and supply chain sustainability. Particularly, statistics, optimization, machine learning, and data analytics are the key methodologies to tackle both theoretical and practical problems arising from manufacturing, transportation, energy, and services sectors.
• His research has been sponsored by NSF, USDA, and the U.S. Department of Education. He garnered several best paper awards, including the Evans-McElroy best paper in 2014 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. His new book “Reliability Engineering and Services” was published by Wiley in 2019. He served as an associate editor of IISE transactions, and currently is a steering committee member of the Intelligent Systems to Human-Aware Sustainability under IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

2. Education

• PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University
• MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rutgers University
• MS in Flight Vehicles Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology
• BS in Electrical and Automation Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology

3. Research Interests

• sustainable supply chain design
• microgrid generation and transactive energy
• electric vehicles and charging infrastructure
• reliability and quality management

4. Awards/Honors/Membership

• William A.J. Golomski best paper award in Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) 2017.
• “Greening The Texas Grid,” a video interview with the Marketing Office at Texas State University, 2014, available at http://www.txstate.edu/discover/solar.
• Evans-McElroy best paper award in Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) 2014.
• Best paper award in ISERC 2013 in Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Track.
• Senior member of IEEE, Member of IIE and INFORMS.