Dr Hesham K. Al-Fares

Chairman & Professor
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Office: 22-432
Phone: 966-13-860-2968
Fax: 966-13-860-2965
Email: alfares(at)kfupm.edu.sa 
 
 
Curriculum Vitae
 
Education
·         Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, 1991, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA
·         MS, Industrial Engineering, 1984, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, USA
·         BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, 1982 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara, USA
 
Teaching
·         PYP 003   University Study Skills
·         ISE 100   Introduction to Technology
·         ISE 201   Introduction to Industrial Systems Engineering
·         CISE 301 Numerical Methods
·         ISE 303   Operations Research I
·         ISE 305   Optimization methods
·         ISE 307   Engineering Economic Analysis
·         ISE 325   Engineering Statistics
·         ISE 390   Seminars
·         ISE 391   Industrial Engineering Design
·         ISE 402   Production Systems and Inventory Control
·         ISE 421   Operations Research II
·         ISE 443   Human Factors Engineering
·         ISE 447   Decision Making
·         ISE 501   Introduction to Operations Research Models and Applications
·         ISE 503   Linear Programming and Applications
·         ISE 508   Advanced Production Systems and Inventory Control
·         ISE 527   Advanced Decision Making
·         SCM 520 Materials and Production Management
·         SCM 540 IT & Supply Chain Management 
·         SCM 572 Customer Relationship Management
 
Research Interests
·         Production Systems,
·         Operations Research,
·         Engineering Management,
·         Project & Manpower Scheduling
 
Selected Publications
1.    H.K. Alfares, Optimum multi-plant, multi-supplier production planning for multi-grade petrochemicals, Engineering Optimization, Vol. 41, No. 5, May 2009, 495–504.
2.    H.K. Alfares, An EPQ model with variable holding cost, International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, Vol. 19, No. 5, 232-240, 2012.
3.    H. Alfares, Production-inventory system with finite production rate, stock-dependent demand, and variable holding cost, RAIRO – Operations Research, Vol. 48, No. 1, 135-150, 2014.
4.    H.K. Alfares, Maximum-profit inventory model with stock-dependent demand, time-dependent holding cost, and all-units quantity discounts, Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, 2015, in press.
5.    H.K. Alfares, S.O. Duffuaa, Simulation-based evaluation of criteria rank-weighting methods in multi-criteria decision making, International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, forthcoming.