Opportunities:

Opportunities for graduate studies will be posted here when they are available.

However, students with 85% or above in their B.Sc. and M.Sc. are always encouraged to apply as there may be special opportunities for exceptionally talented students.

 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people!  If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. Jesus is

“‘the stone you builders rejected,
    which has become the cornerstone.’

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:8-12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personal Profile

profileComputer literate in – multiple programming languages (C/C++, Visual Basic); applications software (Minitab, LATEX, Excel, PowerPoint, Ms-Word); simulation package (ARENA); optimizations packages (LINGO and CPLEX); CadCam Packages (AutoCAD, SolidWorks, MasterCam); and Parallel Computing using Message Passing Interface (MPI)

A professional industrial engineer with experience in mathematical modeling, meta heuristics, industrial systems simulation, and parallel computing;;

Author and co-author for over 50 peer-reviewed journals articles, 22 refereed proceedings, refereed book chapters, and many conference presentations and invited talks in manufacturing systems design & operations, life cycle analysis of bio materials, and statistical design of materials and processes;

More than 28 years of academic experience: Five years as a lecturer in Ethiopia (between 1995 and 2002); Seven years as a PhD Student (2002-2006) and Research Associate/Part-time Faculty (2006-2009) at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; More than 15 years of experience as an Assistant Professor (2010 to 2015), as Associate Professor (2015 to 2025) and as Full Professor (2025 to date) at University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada;

Research Interest: Manufacturing system analysis, flexible and cellular manufacturing
systems, advanced planning and scheduling, quantitative techniques in inventory management, statistical design of materials and processes, supply chain modeling and simulation, reverse logistics and remanufacturing systems, artificial intelligence, meta-heuristics, and parallel computing;

A Registered Professional Engineer of Ontario (P.Eng); Senior Member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) from 2014 to 2022; Member of the Canadian Operations Research Society since 2004 (CORS).