NEW FACULTY

Brandon Crisel joined the department as an instructor in July 2022. He received his Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas, a Master’s Degree in Mathematics with Emphasis in Statistics from Arkansas State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Arkansas State University. His engineering research was in systems reliability, but his continued research has been in improving educational methods and practices, particularly in the STEM fields.

Brandon Crisel, instructor

Brandon has received multiple teaching awards such as the inaugural Dean’s Non-Tenure Track Teaching Award from the University of Arkansas’s College of Engineering and the Departmental Award for Teaching from the First-Year Engineering Program. He is a member of FYEE, ASEE, Alpha Tau Omega and an active FIRST volunteer.

Alan Vazquez joined us as an Assistant Professor in August 2022. He received his PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Before joining the University of Arkansas, he was an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was also a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biosystems at the KU Leuven, Belgium.

Alan Vazquez, assistant professor

Alan’s research area is the interface between the fields of statistical design of experiments and operations research. More specifically, he investigates how heuristic and exact algorithms can be used to develop cost-efficient experimental plans to innovate and improve products and processes. His research is featured in high-impact journals such as Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology and European Journal of Operational Research. Alan has earned numerous travel grants and a Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) in Belgium.