Emmett  Lodree, Jr.

Assistant Professor; B.S. Mathematics, Statistics Minor (1995), University of New Orleans; M.S. Mathematics (1997), University of New Orleans; M.S.I.E. (1999), University of Missouri-Columbia; Ph.D. I.E. (2001), University of Missouri-Columbia.

Dr. Lodree began his teaching career in 1995 as a graduate teaching assistant for developmental algebra courses.  Prior to his appointment at North Carolina A&T in January 2002, he served as instructor for courses in operations research, probability and statistics, computer programming, and college algebra.  Dr. Lodree’s academic endeavors in the realm of teaching are accompanied by his research efforts.  Lodree assisted in the development of models for minimizing the duration of outage scheduling activities for a nuclear power plant.  He also derived scheduling policies for application in the semiconductor environment.  While working in industry, he applied statistical analysis to determine standards for a semi-automated order picking system.  Dr. Lodree’s research has been presented at professional conferences such as INFORMS and IIE, and his work in logistics has also been presented to an international audience in South Africa.  Dr. Lodree is being funded for research in simulation and he serves as reviewer for a technical journal.

Research Interests:

Applied Operations Research, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Production/Inventory Control, Simulation Input Modeling, Production Scheduling, Service Engineering, Vehicle Routing and Scheduling

Teaching Interests:

Stochastic Models in Operations Research, Deterministic Models in Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Service Engineering, Probability and Statistics, Finite Mathematics

Recent Publications:

·        Lodree, E., Klein, C., Jang, W. (2002), “Minimizing customer response time in a two-echelon supply chain system with stochastic demand,” Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, May 19 – 22, 2002, CD-ROM.

·        Lodree, E., Klein, C., Jang, W., Noble, J. (2001), “Lean supply chain design with respect to time-based performance,” Proceedings of Lean Manufacturing Solutions Conference – Transforming the Enterprise, September 10 – 11, 2001, pages 277 – 286.