Umesh Saxena - Professor


Contact Information

Office Address:
EMS E357
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414-229-4052
Fax: 414-229-6958
Email: uksaxena@uwm.edu

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 784
Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201

 Umesh Saxena
Education

Ph.D., Production Engineering Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 1968
M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, 1965
Post Graduate Diploma, University of Roorkee, India (1960-62)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Roorkee, India (1957-1960)

Research Interests

Supply Chains (Smaller Companies), Health Care Management, Applied Operations Research in Service Sector and Energy Management.

Selected Publications
  • Al-Hourani, F and Saxena, U. “Energy Management in the Plastic Industry”, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington,   November 2007.
  • Al-Hourani, F and Saxena, U. “Energy, Productivity, and Waste Management in Small and Medium Size Manufacturing Plants”, POMS Annual Meeting, April, Boston, MA, April 2005.
  • Pignet , T, and Saxena, U., “Estimation of Energy Savings Due to Stratification of Air in Manufacturing Plants.” Energy Engineering, Vol. 99, 2002.
  • Saxena, U, and Koeswanto, Y., “Reducing Electricity Cost by Purchasing Spare Batteries.” Energy Engineering, Vol. 94, No. 2, 1997.
  • Saxena, U. and  Bohlman, K. “A Self-Assessment Tool for Energy Management for the Cardboard Industry”, Energy Engineering, Vol. 92, No. 3, 1995.
  • Saxena, U. and Modepalle, R., “Development of a Self-Assessment Tool for Energy Conservation”. Energy Engineering, Vol. 91, No.3, 1994.
  • Chen, J. and Saxena, U., “Optimal Manpower Assignment to Injection Molding Machines”. Industrial Management,Vol. 29, November/December, 1987.
  • Saxena, U. and Garg, A.,“ Estimation of Salvage Value in Comparing Alternatives with Different Lives”, The Engineering Economist, Vol. 31, No. 3, 1986.
  • Saxena, U. “Cost Estimating for Hospital Services”, Transactions American Association of Cost Engineers, 1985.
  • Musa, A and Saxena, U., “Scheduling Nurses Using Goal-Programming Techniques”, IIE Transactions,Vol. 16, No. 3, 1984.
  • Freund, D. and Saxena, U. “An Algorithm for a Class of Discrete Maximum Entropy Problmes.”, Operations Research, Vol. 32, No. 1, 1984.
  • Saxena, U. “Investment Analysis Under Uncertainty”, The Engineering Economist, Vol. 29, No. 1, 1983.
  • Saxena, U., Sit, Chung, and Forward, D.J., “Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Computerized Medical Record System”, Journal of Medical Record Systems, Vol. 7, No. 6, 1983.
  • Saxena, U. and Garg, A. “Equivalence of Cash Flows When Compounding Occurs Less Than the Cash Flows”,The Engineering Economist, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1981.
  • Chen, J. and Saxena, U. “Computerized Job Assignment System Improves Productivity”, Industrial Management, Vol. 26, November/December, 1982.
  • Saxena, U. and Shankara, C.B., “Development of Optimal Policies for a Radiology Department Through Simulation.”, OPSEARCH, Vol. 17 No. 4, 1979.
  • Ahluwalia, K. and Saxena, U.“Development of an Optimal Core Steel Slitting and Inventory Policy”, AIIE Transactions, Vol.10, No. 4, 1978.

Funded Research

  • Saxena, U. “Industrial Assessment Center”, U.S. DOE, October 1, 2002 to September 30, 2007, $769,259.
  • Saxena, U. “Industrial Assessment Center”, U.S. DOE, October 1, 1998 to September 30, 2002, $681,250.
  • Saxena, U. “Industrial Assessment Center”, U.S. DOE, October 1, 1994 to September 30, 1998, $628,070.
  • Saxena, U. “Industrial Assessment Center”, U.S.DOE, October 1, 1992 to September 30, 1994, 270,390.
  • Saxena, U. and Garg, A. “Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center” U.S.DOE, October 1, 1986 to September 30, 1992, $547,463.