Biography

Jennifer Bekki is a doctoral candidate in the Industrial Engineering department at Arizona State University working in the Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing (MASM) Lab. Prior to beginning her Ph.D. studies, she served as an intern in the Operational Decision Support Technologies group at Intel. She is currently funded on an SRC/Intel Doctoral Fellowship and is seeking employment as an assistant professor.

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Education

PhD, Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University

• Expected December, 2007
• Chairpersons: Dr. John W. Folwer and Dr. Gerald T. Mackulak
• Defense held March, 2007, currently working on revisions
• Topic: Quantile Estimation in Discrete Event Simulation

MSE (in passing), Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, 2006

BSE, Bioengineering, Arizona State University, 1998

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Research Interests

• Discrete Event Simulation (DES) methodology
• Applied Operations Research
• Application of DES to complex stochastic systems (i.e. Manufacturing Systems, Hospitals, Supply Chains)
• Modeling and analysis of manufacturing systems (with particular emphasis on semiconductor manufacturing systems)
• Quantile Estimation

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Teaching Interests

• Applied Probability / Statistics
• Technical Writing and Communication
• Introductory/Advanced Discrete Event Simulation
• General Engineering Modeling Concepts
• Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems
• Applied Operations Research
• Manufacturing Production Control

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