Opportunities:

Opportunities for graduate studies will be posted here when they are available.

However, students with 85% or above in their B.Sc. and M.Sc. are always encouraged to apply as there may be special opportunities for exceptionally talented students.

 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people!  If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. Jesus is

“‘the stone you builders rejected,
    which has become the cornerstone.’

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Acts 4:8-12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceedings (total of 23)

  1. Touhid, M.T.B., Marne, M., Oskroba, T., Mirahmadi, S. A., Zhu, E., Mehrabian, A., Defersha, F., Yang, S., (2023). Building a cloud-based digital twin for a robotic assembly system, in the proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference. IDETC-CIE2023, August 20-23, Boston, Massachusetts.
  2. Naser, A.Z., Defersha, F., and Yang, S. (2023), Feature selection for constructing data-sets toward automated lifecycle assessment for additive manufacturing, in the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress. May 26-31, Sherbooke, QC, Canada.
  3. Defersha, F. M. (2020). A Research Direction in Manufacturing Systems Scheduling: A proposal. Accepted in ICRP-Americas 2020, the International Conference of Production Research Americas 2020. December 9-11, 2020 Bah´ıa Blanca, Argentina.
  4. Obimuyiwa, D., and Defersha, F. M. (2020). A Genetic Algorithm for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem with Scarce Cross Trained Setup Operators. Accepted in ICRP-Americas 2020, the International Conference of Production Research Americas 2020. December 9-11, 2020 Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
  5. Tahsien S. M., and Defersha, F. M. (2020). Discriminating and Clustering Ordered Permutations using Neural Network and Potential Applications in Neural Network-Guided Metaheuristics. Accepted in the 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2020). November 14-15, 2020 Stockholm, Sweden (to appear in IEEE Xplore).
  6. Defersha, F. M., Obimuyiwa, D., and Yimer A. D. (2020). Multiple-Trial/Best-Move Simulated Annealing for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling with Scarce Setup-Operators. Accepted in the 7th IEEE International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2020). November 14-15, 2020 Stockholm, Sweden (to appear in IEEE Xplore).
  7. Jalalian, M., and Defersha, F. M., (2019). A Genetic Algorithm for Scheduling a Semi-Continuous Process Industry: A Case Study. The 9th IFAC Conferece on Manufacturing Modeling, Management, and Control, August 28-30, 2019, Berlin, Germany, IFAC Papers Online, Vol. 52, No. 13, 1849-1853.
  8. Rooyani, D., and Defersha, F. M., (2019). An Efficient Two-Stage Genetic Algorithm for Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling. The 9th IFAC Conferece on Manufacturing Modeling, Management, and Control, August 28-30, 2019, Berlin, Germany, IFAC Papers Online, Vol. 52, No. 13, 2519-2524.
  9. Wisam Al-Wajidi, Deiab, I., and \underline{Defersha}, F. M., (2018). The effect of Minimum Quantity Lubrication on the FSW Process, CSME International Congress 2018, May 27-30, 2018, Toronto, CANADA.
  10. Wisam Al-Wajidi, Deiab, I., and Defersha, F. M., (2017). Modeling and Optimization of Submerged Friction Stir Welding of AA 2219-T6 Alloy, March 23 to 24, Ottawa, CANADA.
  11. Shafigh, F., Defersha, F. M., and Moussa, S.E., (2014). A Comprehensive model for the design of distributed layouts in manufacturing systems. IIE Conference and Expo 2014, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Sessions, May 31 to June 03, Montreal, QC. CANADA.
  12. Zarrinbakhsh, N., Defersha, F.M., Mohanty, A.K., and Misra. M., (2013). A Factorial Design of Distillers’ Grains Based Biocomposites: A path to sustainability of corn ethanol. In the proceeding of the 19th International Conference on Composite Materials, July 28 -August 2, 2013, Montreal, QC. CANADA.
  13. Defersha, F.M., Salam, A., and Bhuiyan, N., (2011). Product Cost Estimation Using Supper efficiency Data Envelopment Analysis. In the IEEE 2011 International Conference on Uncertainty Reasoning and Knowledge Engineering, Bali,4-7 Aug. 2011. (DOI: 10.1109/URKE.2011.6007797)
  14. Salam, A., Defersha, F.M., Bhuiyan, N., and Chen, M., 2010. A Case Study on Target Cost Estimation using a Genetic Algorithm and a Back-Propagation Based Neural Network in the proceeding of the International conference on engineering systems, March 30 -April 1, 2010, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
  15. Defersha, F.M., and Chen, M., (2009). A Coarse-Grain Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling with Lot Streaming. In the 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE-09) August 29-31, Vancouver, Canada
  16. Defersha F.M., Chen, M., and Bulgak, A.A., 2009, A Production Planning Model for a Hybrid Manufacturing-Remanufacturing System in Reverse Logistics, Proceedings of the International Conference on Management Technology and Applications (ICMTA 2009), Beijing, China.
  17. Salam, A., Defersha, F. M., Muia, T. and Bhuiyan, N., (2009) Estimating Target Costs: A Case Study at Bombardier Aerospace. In the proceeding of the IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2009, May 30 -June 3, Miami, Florida, USA.
  18. Defersha, F. M., Gonzalez, H.A., Chen, M.Y., and Garcia, J.M., (2008). A Mathematical Model for an Integrated Multi-period Planning of the Production and Transportation of Multiple Petroleum Products in a Pipeline System. In the proceeding of the sixth annual international symposium on Supply Chain Management, October 15-17, 2008, Alberta, Calgary, Canada
  19. Khatie, A.H., Defersha, F.M., Bulgak, A.A., (2008), 2008, Maximizing Supply Chain Profits through Integration of the Residual Capacity, Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 15-17, 2008.
  20. Khatie, A.H., Defersha, F.M., Bulgak, A.A., (2008), Maximizing Supply Chain Profits With Effective Order Management, In the proceeding of the 28th National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress (YAEM 2008 Conference), Istanbul Turkey, June 30-July 2, 2008.
  21. Koganti, R., Zaluzec, M. J., Chen, M., and Defersha, F.M., (2007), Design for Dis-Assembly: An AHP Approach for Automotive Front End Component Design and Evaluation. In the proceeding of SAE 2007 World Congress, Detroit, Michigan, USA, April 16-19, 2007
  22. Koganti, R., Zaluzec, M. J., Chen, M., and Defersha, F.M., (2006), Design for Integrated Assembly and Disassembly of Automotive Products, In the proceedings of SAE 2006 World Congress, Detroit, Michigan, USA, April 3-6, 2006
  23. Cao, D., Chen, M., and Defersha, F.M., (2005), Lot streaming and operation regrouping considering alternative process routes and production quality. In the proceeding of the International Conference on Production Research (ICPR) Salerno, Italy, July 31 -August 4, 2005