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2024

4/11/2024, Electric engineering master student Tarik Pranto successfully defended his thesis “Medium- and Long-Term Wind Generation Forecasting using Machine Learning Algorithm.” Congratulations!
4/1/2024, IE senior students Valenina Mora Casalla, Joy Saha, and Arslan Abbasi will attend the Annual IISE Conference and Expo in Montreal, Canada. They will also present their senor design project “Planning for Net-zero Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure of Texas Through 2040.” The project is funded by EPRI.
On 3/1/2024, Dr. Tongdan Jin was invited to serve as the program chair for The 2024 International Conference on Smart Electrical Grid and Renewable Energy (SEGRE). The conference will be held on August 16-18 in Suzhou, China. The conference webpage is http://www.icsegre.org/.
on 1/15/2024, congratulations on Valenina Mora Casalla, Joy Saha, and Arslan Abbasi for being awarded “Quanta Service Fellowship”. Currently three senior industrial Engineering students are working on EPRI-sponsored project “Planning for Net-Zero Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in Texas through 2040.“

2023

On 8/2/2023, Dr. Tongdan Jin attended the ISSAT Conference in San Francisco, CA, USA. The presented his collaborative work titled “Cost-Availability Analysis for Redundant Systems with Spares Inventory and Emergency Repair.” Special thanks to my co-authors Dr. Emily Zhu and Dr. Bin Xiao, both are my colleagues of Texas State University.
On 7/28/2023, Kathryn Budde successfully defended her master thesis titled “Blockchain and Machine Learning for Smart Factory System Operations under Peer-to-Peer Transactive Energy Trading.” Special thanks to the Committee Members Dr. Michelle Londa and Dr. Karim Zahed.
On 7/6/2023, Dr. Tongdan Jin was invited as a guest speaker for the 2023 International Reliability Technology Forum, Suzhou, China. He delivered a 30-minunute presentation tiled “A Holistic Approach to Reliability, Maintenance, Spares, and Repair Logistics.”
On 6/15/2023, Dr. Tongdan Jin attended the International Conference on Smart Electrical Grid and Renewable Energy (SEGRE 2023). As an invited speaker, his topic is “Joint Location-Sizing of Industrial Facility and Prosumer Microgrid: A Transactive Energy Paradigm,” This work is co-authored with Mr. Honglin Li of UT Dallas and Dr. Emily Zhu of McCoy College of Business at Texas State U.
On 5/1/2023, Dr. Tongdan Jin received a fund from Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to work on electrifying transportation of Texas through 2040. The project title is “Sizing Renewable Microgrid for Net-Zero and Resilient Electric Vehicle Charging Stations of Texas through 2040.” Special thanks to EPRI for their generous support.
On 4/10/2023, Farah Najdawi successfully presented her dissertation proposal titled “Integrating Renewable Energy for Desalination Plant Operations under Generation and Membrane Life Uncertainty.” Special thanks to the MSEC program for the support.
On 3/15/2023, Amanda Gregory successfully defended her dissertation titled “Viability Study of the BIPV-PCM Microfacility under Severe Weather Conditions.” Special thanks to the MSEC program for the support.

2022

On 10/23/2022, Dr. Tongdan Jin received a fund from Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to work on electrifying transpiration of Texas through 2040. The project title is “Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Planning Project: A Case Study of Texas.” Special thanks to EPRI for their generous support.
On 10/17/2022, a poster was presented in the Annual INFORMS conference. The title is “Redesign Supply Chain for Transactive Energy Operations in Manufacturing-Microgrid-Climate Nexus“. Thanks for the collaboration of Honglin Li, Shriyank Somvanshi, and Dr. Clara Novoa.
On 10/4/2022, graduate research student Kathryn Budde presented her thesis proposal. The thesis topic is “Blockchain and Machine Learning for Smart Factory System Operations in Prosumer-Climate Nexus.” Special thanks to Dr. Michelle Londa and Dr. Karim Zahed.
On 6/16/2022, Dr. Rob Basten of Eindhoven University of Technology visited Ingram School of Engineering and presented his latest research titled “Supply Spare Parts through Additive Manufacturing,” Students and faculty of Industrial engineering attended his seminar and engaged a productive exchange.
On 5/28/2022, Dr. Tongdan Jin presented an online seminar titled “Planning Active Distribution Grid for Power Resilience under Renewable Microgrid Integration,” Thanks to Dr. Jian Zhou from NJUST, making this possible.
On 5/1/2022, Ms. Farah Najdawi was awarded Gwen S. Durrenberger Endowment Scholarship (Doctoral-Level) and The Graduate College Scholarship in Science & Engineering, respectively. Congratulation to Farah!
On 4/10/2022, a joint work with Dr. Emily Zu of McCoy Business School, and Dr. Keisuke Ikehata of Civil Engineering has been accepted in the upcoming 2022 IISE Conference in Seattle, WA. The title of the paper is “A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Algorithms for Long-Term Daily Water Usage Forecasting.”
On 1/20/2022, congratulation to Honglin Li and Siva Prabha on the joint paper published in Journal of the Operational Society. The title of the paper “Supply Chain Design for Transactive Energy Operations in the Nexus of Manufacturing, Microgrid and Climate.” The work is a first of kind in synthesizing transactive energy with materials, information and cash flows under integrated commodity and energy market.
On 1/10/2022, congratulation to Fei Sun on her leading authored paper published in Renewable Energy journal. The title of the paper “A hybrid Approach to Multi-step, Short-term Wind Speed Forecasting using Correlated Features.” The paper is based on her dissertation work.

2021

On 7/7/2021, Sayed Islam (Dr. Novoa serves as advisor) defended his master thesis entitled “Two-Stage Stochastic Aggregate Production Planning Models with Renewable Energy Prosumers and Time of Use Tariff.” Congratulations on the outstanding work.
On 7/5/2021, Hong Lin defended his master thesis entitled “Planning Virtual Power Plants for Smart Factories and Industry 4.0 with Renewable and Thermal Cogeneration.” Congratulations on the outstanding work.
On 7/2/2021, Moumita Saha’s paper entitled “Sizing microgrid and EV battery stock in swap stations under reliability constraint” is accepted by QR2MSE 2021 Conference, Chengdu, China. Congratulations!
On 5/27/2021, Amanda Gregory defended her PhD dissertation proposal titled “Design and Optimization of Microgrids for PCM-Enhanced BIPV Production Facility under Climate Change and Severe Weather Condition .” Congratulations on the advance to the candidacy.
On 5/25/2021, Sayed Islam (Dr. Novoa as advisor) presented his research findings in the Annual IISE Conference. The title is “A two-stage stochastic aggregate production planning model with renewable energy prosumers.” His work is also published in the conference proceedings.
On 5/24/2021, Honglin Li presented his research findings in the Annual IISE Conference and Expo 2021. The title is “Allocating microgrid for transactive energy operations in a multi-echelon manufacturing supply chain.”
On 5/24/2021, a paper titled “System availability considering redundancy, maintenance and spares stock under dual repair queues” was presented by Dr. T Jin in the Annual IISE Conference and Expo 2021, co-authored with Honglin Li and Fei Sun.
On 2/26/2021, Fei Sun defended her PhD dissertation titled “Machine Learning and Weather Analytics for Sizing Variable Generation Systems with Utility-Scale Energy Storage.” Congratulations to Fei!

2020

On 12/10/2020, Moumita Saha defended her master thesis titled “A transactive energy model for design and operation of battery swap and supercharging infrastructure.” Congratulations!
On 8/22/2020, in the on-line APARM 2020 conference, Dr. Tongdan Jin made a presentation “Variance of reliability estimate of k-out-of-n cold standby redundancy systems.”
On 7/13/2020, Siva Prashanth Kumar Prabha defended his thesis titled “Design of prosumer microgrid and virtual power plants for multi-tier manufacturing supply chain.” Congratulations!
In May 2020, Amanda Gregory, to joining our research team as PhD student. Her dissertation will focus on thermal management of solar PV systems and the commercialization.
On 3/6/2020, Siva Prashanth Kumar Prabha attended the WISE conference and presented a poster titled “A three-tier manufacturing supply chain design with zero-energy use,” The research is sponsored by NSF ME-GREEN project.

2019

In March 2019, Wiley published a new book “Reliability Engineering and Services” authored by Tongdan Jin, see details at https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Reliability+Engineering+and+Services-p-9781119167013
On 10/22/2019, Dr. Clara Novoa made a presentation in Annual INFORMS in Seattle, the topic is “Stochastic Programming and Climate Analytics for Planning and Operation of Distributed Generation Systems,” This research is supported by NSF ME-GREEN project.
On 10/22/2019, Priyadharshini Kumaravelan, EE master student, presented a poster in Annual INFORMS in Seattle, the topic is “Power Grid Resilience Planning for Extreme Weather Recovery.” Thanks for the good work.
On 10/21/2019, Fei Sun, PhD Student in SMEC, presented a tall in Annual INFORMS in Seattle, the topic is “Optimal Sizing of a Hybrid Energy Storage System Operated on a Microgrid Using Climate Data Analytics”. She also presented a poster titled “Forecasting Wind Turbine Generation with Machine Learning Regression Model.” The poster enters the finalist in competition.
On 8/2/2019, Dr. Tongdan Jin attended the 26th ISSAT Conference in Las Vegas, and presented the joint work with professors Q. Huang and X. Cheng of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and Professor Y. Xiang of Texas Tech University. The title of the paper is “Semiconductor Process Variation Analysis using Implicit Differentiation Chain Rule“. This project was conducted while the PI was a summer visiting scholar at SJTU.
On 6/7/2019, Professor Gang Niu from Tongji University, China visited the Ingram School of Engineering. He presented a cutting-edge topic “Fault Detection Diagnosis and Prognosis towards Autonomous Health Management and Maintenance Optimization for Rail Vehicle Systems“. Thanks for the nice talk to our students and faculty.
On 6/7/2019, Dr. Zhiqiang Cai, professor of Industrial Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China visited the Ingram School of Engineering. Hel presented recent findings with the topic “A Multi-objective Reliability Optimization for Reconfigurable Systems considering Components Degradation.” Currently Dr. Cai is a visiting scholar in Northwestern University in USA.
On 3/4/2019, Dr. David Coit, professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University, visited the Ingram School of Engineering. He will present recent findings with the topic of “System reliability analysis and models: Assuring superior product performance.” Many thanks, Dr. Coit!
On 2/8/2019. Ms. Temitope Runsewe, master student in Industrial Engineering, won the 3rd place in poster competition in WE Local Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. The title of the poster is “Stochastic Models for Planning Distributed Wind Generation based on Data Analytics” . Congratulation!
On 1/29/2019, Dr. Tongdan Jin received Doug Ogden best paper ward along with his collaborators: Dr. Yisha Xiang and Ms. Yue Shi from Texas Tech University, in RAMS 2019, Orlando, FL. The paper title is “Structured maintenance policies for deteriorating transportation infrastructures: Combination of maintenance types.”

2018

On 10/11/2018, Vinod Subramanyam defended his thesis titled “Designing multi-period production and flow shop manufacturing systems with island microgrid operation.” Congratulation !
On 7/15/2018, Dr. Tongdan Jin presented a talk in The Eleventh Annual International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering in Ningbo, China. The title of the talk is “Distributed Energy Resources for Sustainable Production Operations in Prosumer Economy” co-authored with Drs. Kelly Shi and Taeho Park from San Jose State University.
On 7/8/2018, Dr. Cecilia Temponi from McCoy Business School will present a paper in the Conference of Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain in Lyon, France. The title of the paper is “Integrating Distributed and Variable Power for Production-Inventory Operations in Transactive Energy Market” co-authored with Drs. Novoa and Jin.
On 5/16/2018, Fei Sun proposed her Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Machine Learning to Facilitate Variable Energy Integration with Utility Scale Storage“, Congratulations!.
On 3/28/2018, Professor Alice Smith, as university guest speaker, from Department of Industrial Engineering at Auburn University visited the Ingram School of Engineering. She presented her research with the topic of “Facility layout for semiconductor manufacturing in a double row configuration,”
On 3/2/2018, Vinod Subramanyam, graduate student in IE, presented the poster entitled: “Net-Zero Carbon Production-Inventory Planning Considering Uncertain Demand Responses” in the 2018 Annual WISE Conference hosted by Texas State University. The project is sponsored by NSF ME-GREEN.

2017

On 12/22/2017, Dr. Tongdan Jin was invited to present a talk entitled ““Design for Resilient Smart Energy System under Extreme Events,” in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China.
On 10/23/2017, An Pham and her collaborators presented “A Zero Carbon Multi-site Production Model under Stochastic Demand and Intermittent Power,” in Annual INFORMS Conference, Houston, TX.
On 5/16/2017, IE graduate student An Pham attended the 2nd Workshop for Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics at Prairie View A&M University, TX. She won the 3rd Place in student poster competition with the topic on big data analytics for facilitating renewable energy integration in manufacturing systems. Congratulations!
On 5/10/2017, PhD student Fei Sun received the graduate research scholarship award for her research and academic excellence from The Graduate School of Texas State University. Congratulations!
On 4/28/2017, IE graduate student An Pham attended the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Conference in LBJ Center at Texas State University. She presented new findings in designing “A Net-Zero Energy Production-Inventory System: Climate Analytics for Renewable Integration” by leveraging big data analytics on hundreds of thousands of meteorological data world-wide.
On 2/17/2017, Dr. Tongdan Jin visited the Department of Industrial Engineering at University of Houston, and he also gave a seminar talk “Recent Studies on Performance-Based Maintenance Contracting and Distributed Generation Planning“.
On 2/3/2017, Dr. T. Jin presented a talk “Towards a Zero-Carbon Society: Where Are We Now?” in The Obama Legacy Conference in London Johnson Student Center, Texas State University.
On 1/25/2017, Dr. Tongdan Jin and Dr. Steven Li (from Western New England University) share the William A.J. Golomski best paper award in RAMS 2017 conference. They co-authored the paper titled “Reliability Growth Planning for Product-Service Integration.” The award is granted by QCRE division of the Institute of Industrial and System Engineers (IISE).

2016

On 12/23/2016, Dr. Tongdan Jin visited the Department of Industrial Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xian, China, and presented his research entitled “A Game Theoretic Approach to Performance-based Maintenance Contracting.” in Room B410, Hangkong Building.
On 12/9/2016, Dr. Tongdan Jin visited Stanford University by the invitation of Chinese Scholarship Association of Stanford University. He presented his recent research findings entitled “Zero Carbon Manufacturing and Transportation: A Fantasy or Possibility?” in Room 4205，South building of CCSR.
On 6/17/2016, Ms. Donna Lakomski defended her master thesis titled “Understanding the Impacts of Hybrid Programming on Software Energy Efficiency“. Congratulations Donna for your commitments to this cutting edge project!
On 6/1/2016, Professor Cecilia Temponi from TexState presented a paper in The International Logistics and Supply Conference in Bordeaux, France. The topic is “A Net-Zero Carbon Supply Chain Model: Minimizing the Cost of Onsite Renewable Energy” authored with T. Jin, A. Pham and C. Novoa.
On 5/1/2016, Professor Hongying Sun, visiting scholar from Sun Yat-Sen University, presented her research work in The 18th International Society for Business Innovation and Technology Management Conference at University of Michigan, USA. Her topic is “A Joint Decision on Service Cost and Retail Price for Online Shopping“. The project is developed based on the e-commerce case study of “The “Singles Day” in China.
On 4/1/2016, Dr. Tongdan Jin is invited to present his latest findings in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University. The topic is “Zero Carbon Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operations: A New Industrial Paradigm.”
On 3/30/2016, Dr. Tongdan Jin is invited to present at The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The topic is “A Game Theoretic Approach to Maintenance and Logistics Optimization with First Best Solution.”
On 1/27/2016, Shuying Li, visiting PhD student from China, presented her latest work in the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium in Tucson, AZ. Her topic is “Design of Maintenance Outsourcing Contract considering Fleet Expansion.”

2015

On 11/2/2015, Joseph Duke attended the Annual INFORMS conference in Philadelphia, PA and presented a poster titled “Net Energy Analysis of Wind and Solar Generation and Electric Vehicles: Are They as Green as They Seem?”
On 10/30/2015, Juan Gomez Ortega successfully defended his PhD dissertation, and congratulations!
On 6/1/2015, Fei Sun attended the Annual ISERC conference in Nashville, TN and presented her collaborative work with Binbin Li. The project title is “Design of Net-Zero Carbon Manufacturing Systems using Variable Onsite Generation,“
On 6/2/2015, Matthew Snead, David Holt, Michael Mullen attended the Annual ISERC conference in Nashville, TN and presented their research project entitled “Big Data Intelligence for Eco-Friendly Bus Routing: A Case Study.”
On 4/20/2015, Fei Sun successfully defended her MS thesis, and congratulations!
On 4/15/2015, Binbin Li successfully defended his MS thesis, and congratulations!
On 4/1/2015, Binbin Li was awarded as the Outstanding Graduate Student by the Graduate School of Texas State University. Congratulations!

2014

On 10/8/2014, Victor Santana and Danielle Duffy attended the Annual INFORMS Meeting in San Francisco, and presented latest development in designing zero-carbon manufacturing systems.
On 5/11/2014, Binbin Li won a prestigious scholarship from the Student Government of Texas State University in recognizing his academic achievements as well as his devotion to various student organizations.
On 4/21/2014, Victor Santana (IE Under) attended and presented his latest research on onsite renewables generation in upcoming ISERC 2014, Montreal, Canada. His topic is“A Design-of-Experiment for Factory Demand Response Planning with On-site Wind Generation.”
On 4/15/2014, James Farris (EE Under) and Binbin Li (Engr & Technology Master) will present their research in FAIMS 2014, the title of the paper is “Design of a Cost-Effective Wireless System for Estimating Solar Photovoltaics Generation.” They have successfully developed and tested a wireless sensor network to track the environmental parameters on a mobile solar PV system.
On 1/29/2014, Drs. R. Cassady at U. of Arkansas, Y. Xiang at Sun Yat-Sen U., and T. Jin received the Evans-McElroy best conference paper award in RAMS 2014.

2013

On 10/21/2013, Sergio Espinosa won 1st prize in poster competition at SAMPE Wichita conference (Dr. Jintendra Tate is the advisor). Sergio’s research is partly supported by BGREEN project. Congratulations to Sergio and thanks for Dr. Tate!
On 7/19/2013, Dr. T. Jin presented a paper titled “Managing demand response for manufacturing enterprises via renewable energy integrationwon” (co-authored with Drs. J. Jimenez and Z. Tian) in 2013 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Madison, WI.
On 5/22/2013, Dr. H. Liao, Mr. W. Xie (both from U of Arizona), and Dr. T. Jin won the best paper award in Quality and Reliability Engineering Track in 2013 Annual ISERC Conference in Puerto Rico.
On 2/20/2013, Dr. T. Jin presented a solar Photovoltaics workshop to 40 high school students as part of the High Tech U outreach program.
On 2/1/2013, supervised by Drs. T. Jin and E. Perez, IE senior students James Barry, Jose Medellin, Jett Piechota, Matthew Harris turn the capstone design project into a technical paper accepted by ISERC 2013 conference in May, Puerto Rico. The paper title is “Minimizing renewable energy integration cost under reliability and power quality requirements”. Congratulations !
On 1/30/2013, Drs. R. Cassady, Y. Xiang, T. Jin jointly won the Stan Ofthun best paper award in RAMS 2013 conference, the paper title is “Understanding operational availability in performance-based maintenance and logistics services”.

2012

On 10/16-17, 2012, Nhi Mai and Rana Dawud attended the annual INFORMS meeting in Phoenix,AZ and presented their research titled “Striving for Operational Availability: Investing in Reliability or Maintenance Logistics”.
On 7/26-28, 2012, Dr. Tongdan Jin attended the 18th ISSAT Reliability and Quality Meeting in Boston, MA. His presentation is “Contracting for Performance-Based Maintenance Service under Profit Maximization.”
On 7/22-26, 2012, Dr. Tongdan Jin attended the IEEE PES General Meeting in San Diego, CA. His presentation is “Managing Wind Turbine Reliability and Maintenance via Performance-Based Contract.”
On 7/15-18, 2012, Dr. Tongdan Jin attended the ICQ2MSE Conference in Chengdu, China. His presentation is “Coordinating Maintenance with Spares Logistics to Minimize Levelized Cost of Wind Energy.”
On 7/14/2012, Dr. Tongdan Jin made a Webinar titled “Managing System Reliability and Maintenance under Performance Based Contract,” This event is organized by American Society for Quality.
On 6/1/2012, Naveen Nalajala, graduate research assistant, graduated with MS Degree of CS in May 2012, is hired as a software engineer at Dell Corporation, Austin, TX. Congratulations!
On 3/24/2012, Miguel Huerta and Jett Piechota won the 3rd place in poster session of Southwest Energy Science and Engineering Symposium held in El Paso, TX. The title of the research is “Wind Turbine Reliability and Lifecycle Cost Analysis for Top Three Manufacturers”. The project is sponsored by USDA BGREEN funding, and Congratulations!!
On 3/24/2012, Dr. Tongdan Jin made a presentation in Southwest Energy Science and Engineering Symposium held in El Paso, TX. The title “Powering Manufacturing Facilities using Renewable Energy: Reliability and Cost Analysis,” co-authored with Dr. Heidi Taboada, Dr. Jesus Jimenez, Dr. Zhenhua Xiong, Dr. Mauricio Cabrera-Rios, and Mr. Saul Villarreal.
On 2/29/2012, Smart Grid Seminar Series sponsored by the REP project and co-sponsored by the USDA BGREEN Project, Dr. Guangyong Li presents “Optimizing Organic Solar Cells via Multiscale Modeling and Simulation,” (flyer)

2011

On 10/9/2011, Saul Villarreal won the best student poster award in the 23th HENAAC Conference, Orlando, FL. The poster title is “Modeling, analysis and integration of distributed energy systems in semiconductor wafer fabs”. Congratulations, Saul, an outstanding job done!
On 10/1/2011, the USDA awarded a 4-year, multi-million dollar grant to the consortium comprising UTEP (lead institute), Texas State U, Texas A&M-Kingsville, and NMSU. The project aims to develop research and education programs related to renewable energy and smart grid for under and graduate students. Dr. Heidi Taboada from UTEP is the project PI, and Dr. Tongdan Jin is a Co-PI representing Texas State U.
On 6/29/2011, Dr. Jin presented “Weibull renewal and its application in service parts logistics management,” in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.
On 6/12/2011, Dr. Jin attended the 8th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety Conference in Guiyang, China.
On 4/8/2011, Invited by ORIE of Mechanical Engineering Dept. at U. of Texas at Austin, Dr. Tongdan Jin made a presentation “Performance Based Logistics and Virtual Energy Provisioning: A Unified Supply Chain Design”.
On 1/25/2011, Dr. Tongdan Jin attended the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium where he made the presentation to discuss his research on electronics prognostics.

2010

On 12/3/2010, Dr. Tongdan Jin(PI) and Dr. Stan McClellan (Co-PI) are awarded Annual REP Research Grant with $16,000 by Texas State University. The project aims to develop an Internet-based intelligent metering system as smart grid initiatives.
On 11/7/2010, Joe Alex Granado, IE research student, presented his join research with Dr. Jin in the annual INFORMS in Austin. The topic is “Maintenance decision on renewable energy equipment with reliability growth and dynamic population.
On 11/4/2010, Naveen Nalajala presented his research in The Annual International Graduate Student Research Conference at Texas State University. The title is “Communication technology-a survey on its application in power grid automation.”
On 10/30/2010, WITNESS partners with the CHiPS Lab of Ingram School of Engineering to develop new simulation tools to model and analyze distributed energy generation systems. Drs. Jesus A. Jimenez and Tongdan Jin are the faculty mentors of the project Detail News.
On 10/1/2010, Dr. Jin (PI) and Dr. Fethi Belkhouche (Co-PI) recently received a $430,000 award from the US Department of Education.
On 9/20/2010, Dr. Jin was invited to serve the ICQRMS20101 conference committee, thanks for the general conference Chair Dr. Hong-Zhong Huang’s invitation.
On 8/31/2010, Naveen Nalajala has accepted the Research Assistant position. Welcome aboard!
On 8/22/2010, Dr. Jesus Jimenez presented the paper co-authored with Dr. Jin “A Review on planning and automation for distributed generation systems” in CASE 2010, Toronto, Canada.
On 8/1/2010, Joe Alex Granado, a undergraduate student in IE major, won the best student paper for the journal of Reliability Review co-authored with Dr. Jin.
7/1/2010, Dr. Jin visited the Department of Management Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, and presented his research to the students and faculty.
From 6/12/2010 to 6/18, Dr. Jin attended the PMAPS conference in Singapore and presented the paper “Uncertainty analysis for wind energy production with dynamic power curves.”
On 6/17/2010, Dr. Jin visited the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), National University of Singapore, and presented his research to ISE students and faculty.
On 6/1/2010, Dr. Yi Ding presented the paper co-authored with Dr. Jin “Lifecycle-based reliability growth management for electrics designs” in ICMIT conference, Singapore.
On 3/21/2010, a logistics team from US Air Force visited the Ingram School of Engineering, and Dr. Jin presented “Electronics Prognostics and Its Applications in Complex Systems/Equipment” to the visitors.
On 1/28/2010, Dr. Peng Wang presented the paper co-authored with Dr. Jin “Optimal replacement of safety-critical aircraft parts with utilization uncertainties,” in annual RAMS 2010 conference, San Jose, CA.

2009

On 11/27/2009, about 20 high school students in San Marcos, TX, visited the Ingram School of Engineering. Dr. Jin met the students and presented “Global Engineering and Opportunities for You” to these future engineers in room RFM 5233.