Education
· PhD, Industrial Engineering, Laval Univ., Canada, 2008
· MSc, Aerospace Engineering, Laval Univ., Canada, 2000
· DESS, Industrial Engineering, Laval Univ., Canada, 1995
Teaching
· ISE-201 Introduction to industrial engineering
· ISE-325 Engineering Statistics
· ISE-390 Seminars
· ISE-391 Industrial Engineering Design
· ISE-402 Production systems and inventory control
· ISE-422 Facility Layout and Location
· ISE-490 Senior Design Project
Research Interests
o Optimal design of production systems
o Reliability and maintenance optimization
o Systems performance evaluation
o Heuristics and Metaheuristics
o Discrete optimization methods
Selected Publications
1. Nahas. N. (2017). Buffer allocation and preventive maintenance optimization in unreliable production lines. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 28(1), 85-93.
2. Nahas N. and Nourelfath M. (2017). Joint optimization of maintenance, buffers and machines in manufacturing lines. Engineering Optimization, In press.
3. Nourelfath M., Nahas N. and Ben-Daya M. (2016) Integrated Preventive Maintenance and Production Decisions for Imperfect Processes. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 148, 21-31.
4. Nahas N., Nourelfath M. and Gendreau M. (2014). Optimal design of A/D production networks with unreliable machines and finite buffers. International Journal of Production Economics, 154,113-126.
5. Nahas N. and Nourelfath M. (2014). Non-linear threshold accepting: a new meta-heuristic for combinatorial optimization problems. International Journal of Metaheuristics 3 (4), 265-290.
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