Dr. Nazzal enjoys teaching courses in manufacturing, warehousing, and facility logistics system design and operations, as well as advising senior design teams.
ISYE 6335 Warehouse and Distribution Engineering
This is one of the courses in the masters of science in supply chain engineering program, offered by the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. The course covers fundamental concepts and issues involved in the design and operations of warehouses and distribution centers. More specifically, the course aims to equip students with the skill to use analytical models and warehouse organizing principles to solve industry problems.
- Semesters taught: Fall 2021 and Fall 2022
If you are a company looking to host a warehouse design and optimization project team, please see here.
ISYE 3106 Cornerstone Design
An early design course that introduces students to design problems in Industrial and Systems Engineering through project-based learning utilizing past Senior Design projects. See here for more details.
- Semesters taught: FA18, SP19, FA19, SP20, FA20
ISYE 4106 Senior Design Projects Examiner
In Senior Design, students complete an intensive, semester-long, team-based engineering design project. By the end of the semester, students learn how to properly define and scope a problem; identify and analyze relevant factors; apply appropriate industrial engineering methodologies and computational tools; generate and evaluate alternative solutions.
While every project has a faculty advisor, the senior design examiner evaluates all projects to apply the same level of standards and rigor across the projects.
- Semesters taught as Examiner: Spring 2019 through Fall 2022
ISYE 4106 Senior Design Project Advisor:
I served as the project faculty advisor for the following projects:
- RaceTrac: Gas Levels Inventory Planning and Truck Scheduling
- Phillips 66: Locating a New Distribution Center and Product Mix Optimization
- NCR: Inventory Optimization
- McKesson: A-Frame Slotting Tool
- Pepsi: Raw Materials Inventory Management
- American Breast Care: Incremental Production Capacity Expansion Plan
- Emory Endocrinology: A Stochastic Optimization Approach to Appointment Scheduling in Healthcare Emory Orthopedic Clinic: Improving Clinical Operations
- US Environmental Protection Agency: Facility Redesign
- Kellogg’s: Sanitation Cycle Optimization: PERT Model & Critical Path Analysis
- McKesson: Distribution Center Optimization
- Spectral Response: Pick Time Optimization
- Centro de Agencias: Inventory Strategy Redesign
- Avnet: Facility Consolidation and Layout
ISYE 3104: Supply Chain Models in Manufacturing and Warehousing:
The primary objective of this course is for students to gain a quantitative and intuitive understanding of – and a set of modeling and analysis skills for – managing and designing the kinds of material flow systems exemplified by warehouses, factories and service systems like hospitals. Particular emphasis is given to the following topics: modeling material flows, particularly the causes and effects of variability; key performance indicators for material flow systems; managing material flow systems to achieve desired performance levels; and designing material flow systems.
- Semesters taught: SP14, FA14, FA15, FA16
ISYE 6380: Production Planning and Control:
This is a core course in the online Professional Master in Manufacturing Leadership (PMML) launched in 2015 at Georgia Tech. The primary objective of this course is to gain a quantitative and intuitive understanding of a set of modeling and analysis skills for managing and designing production systems. Particular emphasis will be given to the following topics: aggregate production planning, materials requirement planning, deterministic and stochastic inventory control policies, basic factory dynamics, influence of variability on performance; push vs. pull production control; and operations scheduling.
- Semesters taught: FA15, FA16, FA17, SP19, SP20, SP21, SP22
Teaching-related Honors, Awards, and Special Recognition
Provost Teaching and Learning Fellow (2022 – 2024 cohort)
- Innovation in Education Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) (2022)
- Georgia Tech Curriculum Innovation Award (2021)
- Georgia Tech Women in Engineering Outstanding Teacher Award (2015)
- Georgia Tech Class of 1969 Teaching Scholar (2013)
- University of Central Florida (UCF) Teaching Incentive Program Award (2011)
- Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the UCF Chapter of IIE (2011)
- University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Engineering and Computer Science Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award (2010)
- “Solution Provider” award; an annual award given by the Professional Engineering Management Program to one professor (2009)