Dr Subhash Sarin earned his PhD at North Carolina State University in 1978. He has made research contributions in production scheduling, sequencing, applied mathematical programming, and analyzing and designing algorithms for the operational control of manufacturing systems. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Production Planning and Control. Currently, Dr Sarin is the Paul T. Norton Endowed Professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He is also Director of the Electronics Manufactu...