Mahyar Movahed Nejad

an industrial engineering doctoral student and Rumble fellow, has been selected as a runner up for the 2014 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition.

The aim of the College of Sustainable Operations is to foster the creation and dissemination of knowledge to improve understanding of the issues at the interface between sustainability and operations. The Student Paper Competition was started in 2010 to highlight the most promising doctoral student projects in the field of sustainable operations and provide visibility to the doctoral students carrying out this work.

Nejad's paper, "Optimal Routing for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles," shows that his proposed routing algorithms for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles can lead to significant energy savings. The paper was co-authored by Lena Mashayekhy, computer science doctoral student; Daniel Grosu, associate professor of computer science; and Ratna Babu Chinnam, professor of industrial and systems engineering.

The applications were judged by an award committee and were evaluated based on the importance of the topic, the significance of the potential research contribution, and the appropriateness of the research approach. Winners will be announced at the 25th Annual POMS Conference, to be held May 9-12 in Atlanta, Georgia.