Biography

In addition to serving as the department head, Mingzhou Jin directs the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment. He also co-leads a $20M initiative, Affordable Manufacturing for Energy-Efficient and Resilient Buildings, at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He was the original PI and founder of the Center for Freight Transportation for Efficient & Resilient Supply Chain (FERSC), a $10M US Department of Transportation tier-1 University Transportation Center. His interests include operations research, supply chain, logistics, transportation, sustainability, smart and additive manufacturing, and clean energy and energy efficiency.  His research has been sponsored with more than $30 million from various government agencies, foundations, and corporations. He has published over 130 journal articles and received multiple research, teaching, and service awards from professional organizations and UT. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and serves as the editor-in-chief for the Engineering Economist and Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy and as the executive editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production.

Education

• PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 2001
• MS, Management Science, Business School of Zhejiang University, 1998
• BS, Electrical Engineering and Mixed Class, Zhejiang University, 1995

Courses Taught

• IE 301 Operations Research I
• IE 310 Operations Research II
• IE 404 Senior Design I
• IE 405 Engineering Economy
• IE 430/530 Supply Chain Engineering
• IE 422 Senior Design II
• IE 550 Graduate Seminar
• IE 522 Optimization Method in Industrial Engineering
• IE 503 Introduction to Industrial Engineering Research
• IE 602 Nonlinear Optimization
• IE 604 Network Flow Optimization
• IE 607 Stochastic Processes
• IE 609 Stochastic Programming

Professional Service

• Editor-in-Chief of The Engineering Economist, 2025 – present
• Editor-in-Chief of Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy, 2021 – present
• Executive Editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 – present
• Editorial board member of the International Journal of Production Economics, 2014 – 2020
• Editorial board member of the Engineering Economist, 2014 – 2024
• Proposal panelist for National Science Foundation, 2015, 2020, 2021
• Organization Committee Member, Post-Pandemic Supply Chain and Healthcare Management Conference, 2021
• Proposal Panelist for the Department of Energy, 2020
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015 – 2020
• Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, the 13th Annual US-China Eco-Environmental Symposium, “Research and Innovation at the Nexus of Food-Energy-Water,” Seattle, WA, October, 2019.
• Co-Chair, International Conference on Cleaner Production & Sustainability, Hong Kong, China, October, 2019.
• Regional Vice President of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2018 – 2020
• Editorial board member of the International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management 2010 – 2016
• Guest Editor of the Journal of Cleaner Production, 2014 – 2016
• Editorial board member of the International Journal of Business Analytics, 2011 – present
• Practice Co-Chair for INFORMS 2016
• President of the Logistics and Supply Chain Division of IISE, 2016-2017
• President of the Engineering Economy Division of IISE, 2014 – 2015
• Secretary of the Railway Application Section of INFORMS, 2014 – 2015
• Member of the TRB Rail Capacity Subcommittee, 2013 – 2015
• Board Director of the Logistics and Supply Chain Division of IISE, 2014 – 2015
• Chair of the Logistics and Supply Chain Track of ISERC, 2014 – 2015, 2015-2016
• Chair of the Engineering Economy Track of ISERC, 2013 – 2014
• Communication Director of the Engineering Economy Division of IISE, 2012 – 2013
• Technical Program Committee member for IEEE Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 Conferences

Awards & Recognitions

• 2026 IISE Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference, Best Paper award for the Engineering Economy Track, “A Framework for the Economic, Social, and Environmental Assessment of Rail Connectivity Improvement,” coauthored with Rui Xi, Chuduo Zhang, and Andrew Yu.
• 2026 Lehigh University Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Distinguished Alumni Award
• 2024 UTK Success in Multidisciplinary Research Award with Joe Zhuang, Frank Loeffler, and Tom Gill
• 2023 Dr. Kenneth Kirby Endowed Faculty Award
• John D. Tickle Professorship, UTK, 2021-present
• 2021 UTK Success in Multidisciplinary Research Award with Qiang He, Nina Fefferman, Shuai Li, Xueping Li, Jun Lin, Jindong Tan, Tami Wyatt
• The Most Viewed Presentation Award at the 23rd Conference on Process Integration, Modeling and Optimization for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES’20)
• 2020 UTK Chancellor’s Research and Creative Achievement Award
• 2020 Tickle College of Engineering Research Achieve Award
• 2018 IISE Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference, Best Paper award for the Logistics and Supply Chain Track, “An Agent-Based Simulation Model for Optimization of Spare Parts Sourcing with Additive Manufacturing,” coauthored with Taner Cokyasar, Huseyin Kose, Wenquan Dong, Xueping Li, and Li Wei.
• 2018 IISE Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference, Second Best Paper award for the Engineering Management, “Optimization of Maintenance and Infrastructure Projects Based on Risk Levels.”
• IISE Fellow, elected in 2018
• 2018 Tickle College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Service Award
• 2017, Dr. Kenneth Kirby Endowed Faculty Award
• 2016 IISE Outstanding Regional Faculty Advisor Award for the Mid-Atlantic Region
• 2016 IISE Industrial and Systems Engineering Conference, Best Paper award for the Engineering Economic Analysis Track, “Incorporating Business Risks in Physical Asset Replacement: A Case in the Mining Industry.”
• 2016 College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award
• 2015 Marsh for College of Engineering at the Fall Commencement
• 2015 CTR Fellow Award
• 2015 College of Engineering Teaching Fellow Award (The highest teaching award in the College)
• 2014 Annual IIE Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Logistics and Supply Chain
• 2014 1st Place in IIE Logistics and Supply Chain Case Study Competition (Advisor)
• 2014 Distinguished Professor Awarded by the IIE Student Chapter at UT
• 2011 State Pride Faculty Award at MSU
• 2010 State Pride Faculty Award at MSU
• 2010 Hearin Faculty Excellence Award of Bagley College of Engineering
• 2009 Best Paper of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at MSU
• 2008 Mississippi State University Faculty Research Award for Bagley College of Engineering
• 2006 Best Paper of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at MSU
• Milestone Fellowship at Lehigh University (1998-2001)

Research Publications

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