Sadan Kulturel-Konak

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT SADAN KULTUREL-KONAK

I am a Professor of Management Information Systems and the Director of Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center at Penn State Berks. Dr. Kulturel also has a courtesy appointment at Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. My research focuses on modeling and optimizing complex systems using hybrid approaches combining heuristics and exact techniques from probability and operations research. The primary application areas of her research include designing and redesigning facilities to provide significant economic benefits. I am also interested in pedagogical research, such as professional skill development in STEM education.I am a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). I served as the President of the INFORMS-Women in OR/MS (WORMS), the Chair of INFORMS-Facility Logistics Special Interest Group, and the Chair of ASEE Middle Atlantic Section. I am currently an academic member of the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE). I am an Associate Editor of the Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier). I have been a principal investigator in several sponsored projects from National Science Foundation (NSF) and VentureWell.