Industrial Engineering Research groups 

Research Groups

 Operations research and Decision Science

1. Water management, security management, maintenance management. 
2. Combined game theory with reliability
3. OR modeling in steel industry, power systems, aluminum industry.
4.  Bin Packing, Job shop
5. Production planning, supply planning optimization under uncertainty.

Facility Design, Layout, and Location Problems

1.  Layout Design issues in automated manufacturing. 
2. Design of layout with variable capacities
3. Use of fuzzy system and neural network for lay-outing or multi-Location.
4.  Automated guided vehicles Design and operation closed conveyer analysis

Human Factors Group Interests

1. The role of optimizing rest breaks for improving productivity of workers.
2. Using qualitative and quantitative methods for enhancing traffic safety in Saudi Arabia.
3. Improving safety by controlling risk factors at schools.
4. Develop and improve hand tool design.
5. Develop ergonomically furniture.
6. Workplace arrangement design based on biomechanical, psychological, psychophysical, and physiological.
7. Industrial worker safety.
8. Design of manual materials handling techniques.
9. Studying worker capabilities and performance at different tasks.
10. Matching tasks requirements with workers capabilities.
11. Work- related disorders.
12. Anthropometry.
13. Physical & mental work load measurements.

 Manufacturing system

1. Modeling analysis and design of manufacturing systems.
2. CAD/CAM, FMS, CIM.
3. Simulation of manufacturing systems.
4. Cellular manufacturing.
5. Plant layout and facility design.
6. Computer Aided process planning.
7. Applications of knowledge based systems and DSS in manufacturing.
8. Improving quality by applying 6- Sigma methodology.
9. Effectiveness of applying Balance Score Cord (BSC).
10. Continuous improvement by applying Kaizen principals.

 Manufacturing technology

1. Modeling and Designing aluminum holding furnaces.
2. Design of  spiral  adhesive bonded milling cutters.
3. Materials manufacturing history and behavior versus machinability.
4. Analysis of spot welded and weld-bonded joints.
5. Analysis of riveted and riveted-bonded joints.
6. Dynamic behavior of double containment joints.

 Manufacturing automation

1. Applications of programmable logic automation in manufacturing.
2. Remote control of robot automation.

 Bio-engineering Applications

1. Deign and analysis and manufacturing of artificial knee joint.
2. Optimization of artificial hip joint parameters.
3. Modeling of bone injuries treatments.
4. Analysis and modeling of vertebral column surgeries.