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ABOUT US'
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jtext += 'Basheer Khumawala'
jtext += 'Ph.D., Purdue University, 1970, Industrial Administration. Teaching Areas are production operations and logistics management. '
jtext += 'Research interests include facilities location, manufacturing and distribution planning, and application of heuristics. '
jtext += 'Prior to joining UH in 1978, served on the faculty at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. '
jtext += 'He has served as chair of the Management Systems and Strategy department and as President of the MS/OR Society of Houston. '
jtext += 'He is also active with several academic and professional societies such as Decision Sciences Institute and '
jtext += 'The American Production and Inventory Control Society, and is on editorial boards of national and international journals. '
jtext += 'Currently he chairs the committees of Large and Small Manufacturing in the Houston Quality Awards Programs. '
jtext += 'Publications have appeared in Management Science, Naval Research Logistics Quaterly, AIIE Transactions, '
jtext += 'Journal of Operations Management, Production and Inventory Management, Sloan Management Review and others. '
jtext += 'Associate Editor of Production and Operations Management. Honored in 1993 with the award of the Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.'
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