• Professor Emeritus, Industrial & Systems Engineering
Wilbert E. Wilhelm

Educational Background

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

Research Interests

    • 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

Certifications & Memberships

  • 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

Awards & Honors

  • 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

Selected Publications

  • 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.