Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering Laboratory (SCALE)
Led by Elif Akçalı · Industrial and Systems Engineering
What we study
SCALE works with industry and government partners on supply chain and logistics problems, including inventory, lean production and sustainability. It builds and tests new planning and scheduling models alongside faculty from engineering, computer science and business.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- A unified robust stochastic programming approach for integrated production and distribution scheduling problem for seru production system under uncertainty
2026 · European Journal of Operational Research
- Health care team service capacity planning: A mixed-integer nonlinear programming approach
2026 · Computers & Industrial Engineering
Builds a cost-effective model for healthcare team staffing and scheduling.
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- Seru scheduling problem with lot streaming and worker transfers: A multi-objective approach
2025 · Computers & Operations Research
- From Value Stream Mapping to Choreographic Tension Mapping: Preliminary Results and Insights from an Exploratory Study
2024 · Journal of Dance Education
Adapts lean manufacturing tools to analyze dance choreography for efficiency.
- In Their Own Words: Student Perceptions of Technical Poetry Writing in Discipline-Specific Undergraduate Engineering Courses: Opportunities and Challenges
2023 · INFORMS Transactions on Education
Explores engineering students' views on writing poetry about technical topics to boost creative thinking.
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