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Catherine Harmonosky

Associate Professor and Associate Department Head

Affiliation(s):

  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

304 Leonhard Building

c1h@psu.edu

814-865-2107

Research Areas:

Operations Research; Operations, Services, and Analytics

Interest Areas:

Manufacturing and service systems analysis, production planning and control, healthcare delivery systems analysis, scheduling, computer simulation applications

 
 

 

Education

  • BS, Industrial Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 1981
  • MS, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1982
  • Ph D, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, 1987

Publications

Journal Articles

  • S. L. Rosen, Catherine M Harmonosky and M. T. Traband, 2008, "Optimization of systems with multiple performance measures via simulation: Survey and recommendations", Computers and Industrial Engineering, 54, (2), pp. 327-339
  • S. L. Rosen, Catherine M Harmonosky and M. T. Traband, 2007, "A simulation optimization method that considers uncertainty and multiple performance measures", European Journal of Operational Research, 181, (1), pp. 315-330
  • J Frey, Catherine M Harmonosky and Kathryn H Dansky, 2005, "Performance model for telehealth use in home health agencies.", Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association, 11, (5), pp. 542-50
  • P J Egbelu, Catherine M Harmonosky, Jose Ventura, W E O'Brien and Henry J Sommer, 1998, "Cost analysis of hospital material management systems.", Journal of the Society for Health Systems, 5, (4), pp. 1-10

Abstracts

  • Janis Terpenny, Catherine Harmonosky, Amine Lehtihet, Vittal Prabhu, Elena Joshi, Jose Ventura and Andris Freivalds, 2018, "Product-Based Learning: Bundling Goods and Services for an Integrated Context Rich Industrial Engineering Curriculum"

Research Projects

Honors and Awards

  • Penn State Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Society Faculty Appreciation Award, Penn State Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Society, 2010
  • 1996 PSES Outstanding Advising Award, Penn State Engineering Society and Penn State College of Engineering, 1996
  • Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year Award (Academia), Institute of Industrial Engineers (now Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers), 1994
  • Earl E. Walker Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1993

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About

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The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

310 Leonhard Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802-4400

Phone: 814-865-7601

FAX: 814-863-4745