P. Simin Pulat, Ph.D.

Professor
Associate Dean for Engineering Education

E-mail: pulat@ou.edu
Office Phone: 405.325.2432
Fax: 405.325.7555
More Information: Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Dr. Pulat is a Professor and the Associate Dean for Engineering Education. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of mathematical modeling and applications to complex systems ranging from health care, transportation, distribution, and manufacturing. She is currently working on a sponsored project to develop a freight movement model for Oklahoma. She also works on the development of dynamic routing algorithms for stochastic transportation networks and on scheduling algorithms for the less-than-truckload industry.

Dr. Pulat was awarded IIE Fellow in 2004. She currently chairs the Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads. She is also a senior member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science.

Research Activities

• Mathematical modeling and optimization
• Supply chain logistics
• Real-time decision making
• Transportation scheduling