Degrees Held:

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK
MS Industrial Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK
BSIE Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Research Interest:



Courses Taught at SIUE:



Professional Societies of Which a Member:
Senior Member - Institute of Industrial Engineers
Faculty Advisor - SIUE Chapter
Member -Alpha Pi Mu, Industrial Engineering Honor Society
Member - Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honor Society
Faculty Advisor - SIUE Chapter
Senior Member - Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Member - American Society for Engineering Education


Principal Publications:

Karacal S. C., J. Mize, 1998. A formal structure for discrete event simulation. Part II: object- oriented software implementation for manufacturing systems, IIE Transactions, 1998, Vol. 30, No. 3.

Karacal S. C., 1998. A novel approach to simulation modeling, Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1998, Vol. 34, No. 3.

Karacal S. C., J. Barker, J. Van Roekel, 1998. Experiences with an engineering problem solving and reasoning course, 1998 ASEE Conference Proceedings.

Karacal S. C., 1997. A goal decomposition language for multiple level manufacturing systems, 1997 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings.

Karacal Z. A. and Karacal S. C., 1997. An optimization library module for an automated discrete-event simulation optimization system, 1997 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Proceedings.

Karacal S. C., 1997. Knowledge Based and Object Oriented Simulation of Production Control Decisions, 1997 SME Computer Applications in Production and Engineering Conference Proceedings.

Karacal S. C., 1997. Evaluating Embedded Decision Processes of Manufacturing Systems Through Simulation, Proceedings of 1997 Winter Simulation Conference.

Karacal S. C. and J. Mize, 1996. A formal structure for discrete event simulation. Part I: modeling multiple level systems, IIE Transactions, 1996, Vol. 28.

Karacal S. C., T. Beaumariage, Z. Karacal, 1996. Comparison of Simulation Environments Through Analytic Hierarchy Process, Proceedings of the 1996 Winter Simulation Conference.

Karacal, S. C., L. Fuller, A framework for resource management , Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference Proceedings, 1991.



Fuller, L., S. C. Karacal, A joint industry-university CIM project, Proceedings of the 9th Biennial University Industry Government Microelectronics Symposium, 1991

Mize, J. H., T. G. Beaumariage, S. C. Karacal, Developments in system modeling offer opportunities and challenges to industrial engineers, Proceedings of 1990 Industrial Engineering Conference.

Basnet, C., P. Farrington, D. Pratt, M. Kamath, C. S. Karacal, T. G. Beaumariage, Experiences in developing an object-oriented modeling environment for manufacturing systems, 1990 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings.

Mize, J. H., T. G. Beaumariage, S. C. Karacal, System modeling using object oriented programming, Proceedings of 1989 Industrial Engineering Conference.

Research in Progress:

Karacal S. C., A literature survey of scheduling issues in wafer fabrication, SIUE Industrial Engineering Technical Paper 94-3, will be submitted to 1999 Industrial Engineering Research Conference.

Karacal S. C., J. Mize, 1997. A formal structure for discrete event simulation. Part III: knowledge processing during simulation, SIUE Industrial Engineering Technical Paper 96-3, will be submitted to IIE Transactions in 1998.

Karacal Z. A. and Karacal S. C., 1997. An automated discrete-event simulation optimization system, SIUE Industrial Engineering Technical Paper 97-1, will be submitted to Computers and Industrial Engineering in 1998.

Karacal S. C., 1998. Parallel discrete-event simulation for object-oriented and knowledge-based manufacturing control, SIUE Industrial Engineering Technical Paper 97-2, will be submitted to 1999 Winter Simulation Conference.

Karacal S. C., 1998. Web Based Manufacturing Simulation Using Java, SIUE Industrial Engineering Technical Paper 97-2, will be submitted to 1999 Winter Simulation Conference



Special Programs Attended:
March 20 - 22, 1997 Los Angeles, California
Engineering Problem Solving Short Course
May 11 - 12, 1993 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SME workshop on ISO 9000
June 15 - 19, 1992 IBM, Palisades, New York
IBM Workshop on Total Quality Management
July 8 - 12, 1990 San Jose, California
Workshop on Manufacturing Database Design
May 12 - 17, 1990 Rochester Institute of Technology, Microelectronic Engineering, Integrated Circuit Manufacturing short course
June 21 - 27, 1989 University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Intelligent Simulation Environments Workshop