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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:110%;color:red'>INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:110%;color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:110%;color:red'>Date: November 30, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:110%;color:red'>Time: 11am-12pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:110%;color:red'>Place: D 102<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:110%;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'>Funding Opportunities at the National Science Foundation in Manufacturing and Service Enterprise Systems<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'>Edwin Romeijn<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'>Program Director<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'>Service Enterprise Systems/Manufacturing Enterprise Systems<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'>National Science Foundation</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'>The Manufacturing and Service Enterprise Systems programs at NSF support research on strategic decision making, design, planning, and operation of manufacturing and service enterprises, respectively. Topics of interest include new models as well as analytical and computational tools for optimal planning, monitoring, control, and scheduling of operations in manufacturing and service enterprises that offer the prospect of implementable solutions. In this talk we will provide an overview of NSF in general, the two abovementioned programs in particular, and describe focus areas as well as new research directions. In addition, we will discuss characteristics of successful proposals. Finally, we will address related programs and new initiatives with NSF that can provide funding for research in these areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:110%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;color:red'>Biography</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#333333'>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:110%'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Edwin Romeijn received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. He has been a faculty member at the Rotterdam School of Management, the University of Florida, and (since 2008) at the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Since September 2012 he also serves as Program Director of the Manufacturing and Service Enterprise Systems programs at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. He has taught courses in operations research, stochastic processes, applied probability and statistics, supply chain management, and decision support systems. His research focuses on optimization theory and applications, in particular in the areas of supply chain optimization and optimization in health care. He is the author of over ninety-<a name="_GoBack"></a>five peer reviewed journal publications. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>