Wilbert E. Wilhelm

Educational Background

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1972

- Integer programming
- Scheduling, rescheduling
- Supply chain design for international assembly systems
- Second-generation biofuel supply chain design
- Designing sensor surveillance and reaction systems for homeland security

Professional Engineer (PE), 1984-2015
Life Member, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, 1974
Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 1980-2014
Member, Mathematical Optimization Society

Retiree Service Award, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2018
Inaugural holder of the Mike and Sugar Barnes Professorship, 2016
SME Gold Medal Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2011
Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor, 2000
Brockett Professor, Texas A&M College of Engineering, 1997
David Baker Distinguished Research Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, 1996
Fellow, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 1991, 1992
Senior Fellow, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, 1994
IISE Fellow Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, 1992
IISE Operations Research Division Special Citation Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, 1992

Choi, S., and W. E. Wilhelm (2020) Sequencing in an Appointment Systems with Deterministic Arrivals and Non-identical Exponential Service Times, Computers & Operation Research, 117, 1-10.
Gokce, E., and W. E. Wilhelm (2015) Valid Inequalities for the Multi-dimensional, Multiple-Choice 0-1 Knapsack Problem, Discrete Optimization, 17, 25-54.
Kim, S., and W. E. Wilhelm (2014) On the Optimal Deployment of Direction Finders, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 11 (2), 421-428.
Liang, D., and W. E. Wilhelm (2010) A Generalization of Column Generation to Accelerate Convergence, Mathematical Programming Series A, 122 (2), April, 349-378.
Wilhelm. W. E., and E. Gokce (2010) A Branch-and-Price Decomposition to Design a Surveillance System for Port and Waterway Security, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 7 (2), 316-326.