Associate Professor, Area Head: Mechanical Engineering
Email:
fdefersh@uoguelph.ca
Phone number:
519-824-4120 ext: 56512
Office:
Room 2403
Website link:
Fantahun M. Defersha, PhD, P.Eng.
Research Interests
- Manufacturing system analysis
- flexible and cellular manufacturing systems
- fractal, distributed, holonic and modular manufacturing systems\
- reconfigurable machine tools and reconfigurable manufacturing systems
- part sequencing and scheduling; production and inventory planning
- vehicle routing and transportation network optimization
- supply chain modeling and simulation; reverse logistics and remanufacturing systems analysis
- meta-heuristics and application parallel computation in optimization
Graduate Courses
- Optimization in Engineering, ENGG*6140
- Simulation Modeling and Analysis of Discrete Event Systems, ENGG*6090
- Design and Analysis of Experiments, ENGG*6090
Undergraduate Courses
- Engineering Mechanics ENGG*1210
- Kinematics and Dynamics ENGG*2340 (Theory of Machines)
- Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing ENGG*3120
- Integrated Manufacturing Systems ENGG*3070