Jose F. Espiritu, Ph.D. - College of Engineering - University of Texas ...

Jose F. Espiritu, Ph.D.
Department of Industrial Engineering
The University of Texas at El Paso. El Paso, TX 79968-0521
Tel: 915-747-5735, Fax: 915-747-5019
E-mail: jfespiritu@utep.edu, http://engineering.utep.edu/ie/espiritu/
CURRENT POSITION:
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso
September 2007 – till date
EDUCATION:
PhD. in Industrial & Systems Engineering July, 2007
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Piscataway, NJ.
Advisor: Dr. David W. Coit
Ph.D thesis title: “System Reliability Estimation and Component Replacement Analysis for Electricity
Transmission and Distribution Systems”
M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering January, 2005
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
M.S. Industrial Engineering (Quality) June, 2002
Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya
Celaya, GTO. México
B.S in Biochemical Engineering January, 2000
Instituto Tecnológico de Zacatepec
Zacatepec, MOR. México
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• System risk and reliability analysis
• Replacement analysis
• Supply chain analysis
• Applied operations research
• Data mining and pattern recognition
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
• Jose F. Espiritu, David W. Coit & Upyukt Prakash. (2007). Component Criticality Importance
Measures for the Power Industry. Electric Power systems Research, 77(5-6).
• Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. (2007). Component Replacement Analysis for Electricity
Transmission and Distribution Systems. International Journal of Performability Engineering,
3(2).
• Heidi Taboada, Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. (2008). MOMS-GA: A Multiobjective Multi-
State Genetic Algorithm for System Reliability Optimization Design Problems. IEEE
Transactions on Reliability, 57(1): 182-191.
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• Heidi Taboada, Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. (2008). Design Allocation of Multi-State
Series-Parallel Systems for Power Systems Planning: A Multiple Objective Evolutionary
Approach. Journal of Risk and Reliability (in print).
• Heidi Taboada, Jose F. Espiritu, Gregory Levitin & David W. Coit. (2008). A multi- objective
evolutionary algorithm for determining optimal configurations of multi-task production systems.
IIE Transactions (under review).
• Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. (2008). Component Replacement Models for Electricity
Distribution Systems. The Engineering Economist (under review).
• Tongdan Jin, Jose F. Espiritu & Heidi A. Taboada. (2008). Variance estimation for system
reliability estimates with k-out-of-n configurations. Reliability Engineering and System Safety
(under review).
• Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. (2008). Component Replacement Analysis for Radial
Distribution Systems. In Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC).
Vancouver, BC.
• Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. (2008). Component Replacement Analysis for Complex
Electricity Distribution Configurations. In Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research
Conference (IERC). Vancouver, BC.
• Jose F. Espiritu, David W. Coit & Naruemon Wattanapongsakorn (2007). Component
Replacement Models for Electricity Transmission and Distribution Systems. In Proceedings of
the Fifth International Conference on Quality and Reliability. Chiang Mai, Thailand.
• Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. (2006). Customized Component Reliability Importance
Measures for Electricity Transmission Systems. In Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering
Research Conference (IERC). Orlando, FLA.
• Jose F. Espiritu, David W. Coit, Upyukt Prakash & Jose Ramirez-Marquez. (2005). Reliability
Modeling of Electricity Transmission Systems: An Extension of Traditional Reliability Methods.
Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC). Atlanta, GA.
PRESENTATIONS
• Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Conference (INFORMS). A
replacement analysis model for electricity distribution systems. Washington, D.C, October 2008
(forthcoming).
• Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC). Replacement Analysis for Radial
Distribution Systems. Vancouver, BC, May 2008.
• Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC). Replacement Analysis for Complex
Distribution Systems. Vancouver, BC, May 2008.
• A Multiple Objective Evolutionary Approach to Consider the Design Allocation of Multi-state
Series-parallel Systems for Power Systems Planning. INFORMS Southwest Regional
Conference. College Station, TX, April 2008.
• A New Component Replacement Analysis Method for Electricity Distribution Systems. Industrial
Engineering Seminar. The University of Texas at El Paso, February 2008.
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• Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Conference (INFORMS). A
replacement analysis model for electricity distribution systems. Seattle, Washington, November
2007.
• Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC). Customized Component Reliability
Importance Measures for Electricity Transmission Systems. Orlando, FLA, May 2006.
• Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC). Component Reliability Importance
Measures and Replacement Analysis for Electricity Transmission Systems. Poster Presentation.
Orlando, FLA, May 2006.
• Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Conference (INFORMS).
Multiobjective Multi-State Genetic Algorithm for Power Systems Reliability Optimization
Problems, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2006.
• Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC). Reliability Modeling of Electricity
Transmission Systems: An Extension of Traditional Reliability Methods. Atlanta, GA, May 2005.
WORK UNDER PREPARATION
• Jose F. Espiritu. SAIFI and CAIDI based criticality importance measures for electricity
transmission and distribution systems.
• Jose F. Espiritu & David W. Coit. A mixed integer and dynamic programming model for the
optimal replacement scheduling of complex electricity distribution systems.
• Jose F. Espiritu & Sowmya Parimi. Electricity distribution system optimization via heuristic
approaches.
• Heidi A. Taboada, Jose F. Espiritu & Noe Chavez. Electricity distribution systems optimization
considering different conflicting objectives.
FUNDING AND AWARDS
• NSF: Critical modeling of existing and emerging infrastructure projects through the development
of resiliency-improvement models considering reliability, vulnerability, and risk reduction.
Collaborative proposal with Stevens Institute of Technology. Co-PI with Drs. J. Ramirez-
Marquez, J. Farr, and H. Taboada. (To be submitted to the IMEE (Infrastructure management and
extreme events) program, due date oct.1, 08.
• NSF CAREER: Prioritizing Component Replacements in an Aging Electricity Transmission and
Distribution Infrastructure. UTEP-PI, $454, 134. Jan 09 – Dec 13. (pending)
• USDA/HIS (Hispanic Serving Institutions) – An initiative to increase research, participation, and
education of underrepresented groups in sustainable biomaterials manufacturing engineering for
crafting Eco-inspired future generations. UTEP-Co-PI, $256,000. Sep 08 – Aug 11. (not funded)
• PBL modeling and simulation capability/gap evaluation. Prepared for Lockheed Martin
Corporation (with Heidi A. Taboada and Rafael Gutierrez). UTEP-Co-PI, $243 000 proposed.
Oct 2007-Mar 2008. (not funded)
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• NSF EFRI/RESIN. Holistic Modeling Techniques for Resiliency and Sustainability in the
National Infrastructures. (Collaborative pre-proposal with Stevens Institute of Technology).
UTEP-Co-PI, $649,005 proposed. Sept 2008-Aug 2012. (pre-proposal accepted, not invited)
• UTEP URI. Development of a new replacement analysis method for aging electricity
transmission and distribution systems. $5000. Dec 2007-Aug 2008
COURSES TAUGHT AND DEVELOPED AT UTEP
Graduate
• IE-5341 Advanced Production and Inventory Control
Undergraduate
• IE-4333 Supply Chain Management
• IE-4391 Production and Inventory Control
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE:
Impact of Parameter Uncertainty on Asset Criticality and System Reliability, Hydro One, Inc. Toronto,
Ontario. January 2004-December 2004
• Developed system reliability models for Hydro One, Inc., related with the reliability evaluation of
electricity transmission and distribution systems.
• Developed models to determine the importance of components in the electricity transmission and
distribution systems to determine where investments should be made in order to increase the
overall system availability.
• Developed models to relate the impact of each individual component variability to the overall
system availability.
• Developed an excel-based software to incorporate the models developed and evaluate the system
availability and component importance of several commonly used electricity transmission and
distribution configurations.
• Developed models to estimate the impact of switching times in the overall system availability.
Reliability models of back-up data centers, large international banking company, Piscataway, New Jersey.
August 2006-December 2006
• Evaluation of several possible locations for back-up data centers based on the analysis of loss of
load probability considering the transmission grid in the state of New Jersey.
• Developed reliability models of back-up data centers for a large international banking company.
• Developed fault tree and probability models for the assessment of conditional loss-of-offsite
power in several locations for building a new back-up data center in NJ.
Quality Assurance evaluation, PURISIMA, Cuernavaca, Morelos. August 1999-December 2000
• Internship: Developed the basis for a company to obtain Quality Assurance certification as a
"Clean Industry" (Certificado como Industria Limpia). Agua Purisima (Purified Water Company),
August 1999-January 2000
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Teacher Assistant
• Engineering Economics. Spring 2007. Responsibility to grade homework, exams, mentoring
students and give recitation lectures.
• Engineering Economics. Fall 2006. Responsibility to grade homework, exams, mentoring
students and give recitation lectures.
Lecturer
• Mathematics. Department of Industrial Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya, Gto,
Mexico. August 2002-December 2002
• Probability and Statistics. Universidad del Centro del Bajío, Celaya, Gto, Mexico. August 2002-
December 2002
PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Attendee):
• National Science Foundation Day. The University of Texas at El Paso. Jan 22, 2008. El Paso TX.
• Teaching effectiveness colloquium. Nov 2-3, 2007. Colloquium preceding INFORMS Annual
Meeting. Seattle, WA.
• Quality Education for Minorities/NSF Major Research Instrumentation workshop. Sep, 28-29,
2007. Albuquerque, NM.
• 4th Annual IIE Doctoral Colloquium. Orlando, FLA, May 2006.
SOCIETIES
• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), member since 2005.
• Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), member since 2007.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member since 2008
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