Bruce Schmeiser's HomePage Bruce Schmeiser

School of Industrial Engineering
Grissom Hall, Room 228
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2023

Contact Information

  • Cell:   +1-765-491-8665
  • E-mail:    bruce@purdue.edu
  • URL:         http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~bruce/

    Academic Background

  • Ph.D. '75:  Georgia Tech, ISyE
  • M.S. '71:    Iowa, Industrial Engineering
  • B.S. '69:     Iowa, Mathematical Sciences

    Curriculum Vitae

  • .pdf

    Recent Purdue Courses

  • IE 230:    web page
  • IE 330:    web page
  • IE 336:    web page
  • IE 581:    web page
  • IE 680:    web page
  • IE 230 Concise Notes web page

    Research Interests

  • Applied operations research, probability, and statistics.
  • Theory and methodology development for Monte Carlo simulation,
        including stochastic optimization, stochastic root finding,
        output analysis, input modeling, random-variate generation,
        variance-reduction techniques, Markov chain Monte Carlo.

    Commonly Asked Questions

  • IE Simulation Courses
  • Financial-Aid Suggestions
  • Computational Finance

    xxx Good Reading

  • James R. Wilson, "Responsible authorship and peer review,"
        Science and Engineering Ethics 8 (2002), 155--174. .pdf

    "Soft" Presentations

  • The Teaching Process, IE697, September 2010 .pdf
  • On Being a Successful Graduate Student, SWE overheads, August 2002 .pdf
  • Effective Technical Writing, SWE overheads, April 2002 .pdf
  • Effective Technical Speaking, IE697 overheads, October 2013 .pdf
  • Ronald Rardin, Research Funding, IE697 overheads, October 2003 .ppt

    Links

  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
  • Informs College on Simulation
  • Institute of Industrial Engineers
  • Winter Simulation Conference
  • .581