Manbir Sodhi

  • Professor
  • Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • Phone: 401.874.5189
  • Email: sodhi@uri.edu
  • Office Location: Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering, Rm 284
  • Google Scholar
  • ResearchGate

Research

  • Manufacturing Optimization/Layout
  • Supply Chain Modeling
  • IoT/Manufacturing Tracking
  • Production Planning
  • Global Product Sustainability
  • Logistics

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1991
  • M.S., University of Arizona, 1987
  • B.S., Jadavpur University

Selected Publications

Chen R, Sodhi M, Imani M, et al. Brain-inspired computing for in-process melt pool characterization in additive manufacturing. CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 2023; 41, 380-390. doi: 10.1016/j.cirpj.2022.12.009
Sodhi M, Banaszek L, Magee C, Rivero-Hudec M. Economic Lifetimes of Solar Panels, Procedia CIRP, 2022; 105, 782-787. doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2022.02.130
Mosayebi M., Sodhi M., Wettergren TA. The Traveling Salesman Problem with Job-times (TSPJ). Computers & Operations Research, 2021; 129, 105226. doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2021.105226
Thies C, Kieckhäfer K, Spengler TS, Sodhi MS. Operations research for sustainability assessment of products: A review. European Journal of Operational Research, 2019; 274 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.039
Thies C, Kieckhafer K, Spengler TS, Sodhi MS. Assessment of Social Sustainability Hotspots in the Supply Chain of Lithium-Ion Batteries. Procedia CIRP, 2019; 80, 292-297. doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2018.12.009
Thies C, Kieckhafer K, Spengler TS, Sodhi MS. Spatially Differentiated Sustainability Assessment for the Design of Global Supply Chains. Procedia CIRP, 2018; 69, 435-440. doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2017.11.001
Thies C, Kieckhafer K, Sprengler T.S, Sodhi M.S. Operations Research for Sustainability Assessment of Products: A Review. European Journal of Operational Research, 2018; 274(1), 1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.04.039

Recent Grants

4/15/2021. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT 2020 COMP 19: Qualification Support for Additive Manufacturing of Production Parts.”
2/25/2021. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT 2020 COMP 21: Enhanced Localization and Tracking of Large Parts Using Radio-based Image-based  Sensor Fusion of Process Improvements in Shipbuilding”
2/24/2021. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, US Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT 2020 COMP 25: Integrated analysis, design and operation evaluation of UUV Swarms.”
7/12/2020. Co-PI. Navatek, US Office of Naval Research. “RE-ROUTE: Network Cyber-Physical Security and Resiliency”
3/27/2020. PI. University of Connecticut, Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT: Comp 15: Requirements Formalization and Verification through Integrated Model-Based Systems Engineering for the Manufacturing of Underwater Vehicle Systems.”
3/25/2020. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT: Comp 08: Extension to SEED 01- Using Mixed Reality for Advanced Manufacturing.”
3/9/2020. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT: Comp 16: Agile & Resilient UUV Mission Planning Under Navigation Uncertainty, Time Pressure and Communication Constraints.”
3/9/2020. Co-PI. University of Connecticut, Office of Naval Research. “NIUVT: SEED 10: Process Improvements by Enhanced Material Location & Tracking.”

Patents

  • Sodhi M, Inventor; Rhode Island Board of Education, Assignee. Selective Surface Smoothing Using Lasers. US Patent 8653409. February 18, 2014

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