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Mohammad Z. Meybodi is Associate Professor of Operations Management in the School of Business at Indiana University Kokomo. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Oklahoma. His research areas of interest include aggregate production planning, production scheduling, stochastic modeling, total quality management, and just-in-time systems. He has published in journals such as Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Mathematics Today, and International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management.