Fluor International Supply Chain Professor & Associate Dean of the Graduate School
Fellow of IISE
Department of Industrial Engineering
277-A Freeman Hall, Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-0920
Phone: (864) 656-2724
Fax: (864) 656-0795
Email: fwillia@clemson.edu
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Education
BA, Physics
Wake Forest University, 1977
MS, Nuclear Science and Engineering
Virginia Tech, 1979
PhD, Operations Research
North Carolina State University, 1989
Research Areas
Supply chain logistics systems design and analysis, warehouse operations modeling
Selected Publications
Forger, G., Edwards, C., Ferrell, W., Hopper, S., Magliola, D., Schneider, D. (2017). Material Handling and Logistics U.S. Roadmap 2.0, Charlotte, NC: Material Handling Institute.
Devapriya, P., W. Ferrell, and N. Geismar (2017). Optimal fleet size of an integrated production and distribution scheduling problem for a perishable product. European Journal of Operational Research, 259 (3), 906–916.
Wickramage, N and W Ferrell (2016). Intermodal hubs in the physical internet, Proceedings of the 14th International Material Handling Research Colloquium (IMHRC 2016, Karlsruhe, Germany), Charlotte, NC: Material Handling Institute.
Samanlioglu, F. and W. Ferrell. (2012). An interactive memetic algorithm for production and manufacturing problems modeled as multi-objective traveling salesman problem. International Journal of Production Research, 50 (20), 5671-5682.
Erol, I. and W. Ferrell, Jr. (2009). Integrated approach to total quality management and just in time based purchasing: theory and a case analysis on a Turkish company, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 56 (4) 1192-1204.
Courses Taught
IE 4560/6560 Supply Chain Design
IE 8040 Systems Manufacturing Planning and Design
IE 8500 Introduction to Capital Projects Supply Chain
IE 8540 Fundamentals of Supply Chain and Logistics
Professional Affiliations
College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE)
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
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