EARL E. LEE, II

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware
360G DuPont Hall
Newark, DE 19716
(302) 831-4559
Email: elee@udel.edu

• Education
• Professional Honors
• Professional Experience
• Professional Associations
• Publications
• Additional Experience

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York August, 2006
Doctor of Philosophy, Decision Science and Engineering Systems
School of Engineering. Thesis: "Assessing Vulnerability and Managing Disruptions
To Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: A Network Flows Approach"

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York May, 2004
Master of Science, Management (focus in Environmental Management),
Lally School of Management and Technology

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York May, 1978
Bachelor of Science, Nuclear Engineering

Recipient of the 2007 Del and Ruth Karger Doctoral Dissertation Prize, for the outstanding thesis in the Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems

University of Delaware, 2007-present

• Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Teaching responsibilities in the areas of transportation engineering and project management. Research focus in the area of decision support for emergency management; specifically, the modeling of interdependent infrastructure system for purposes of system recovery and vulnerability analysis as well as applications of new and emerging technologies for intelligent transportation systems.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001-2007

• Staff Research Associate in the Department of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems. Research activities include three NSF Grants, Impact of the World Trade Center on Critical Infrastructure Interdependence(Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems); Disruptions in Interdependent Infrastructures: A Network Flows Approach (Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation); and Decision Technologies for Managing Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems (Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems).
• Project Manager for three University Research Projects from the New York State Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration: Advanced Traveler Information Systems Implementation and Integration (ATIS,) Incident Management for Safe, Secure and Productive Transportation Systems (TIM) and Electronic Toll and Traffic monitoring (ETTM). ATIS is the first project of its kind in this country. Two hundred vehicles were equipped with devices that not only provided collection of real time data regarding traffic conditions and congestion, but were able to provide drivers with directions in real time to avoid that congestion, providing for a safer commute. This project received the 2005 Project of the Year Award from the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York and received the 2007 Best of ITS award for Research and Innovation from the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. The TIM project involves research in traffic incident detection and management and development of technology and procedures for the seamless data sharing of the six traffic control and police dispatch centers in the area surrounding Albany, NY. The ETTM project will develop and test the first wireless, solar-powered detector for EZ Pass toll tags. This device will be used to aid in traffic management at incident scenes or at special events. This project received the 2007 Project of the Year Award from the Intelligent Transportation Society of New York. Responsibilities for all of these projects have included budget and workscope development and monitoring, providing close liaison between the project Principal Investigators, eight subcontractors and equipment vendors, and the project oversight team at NYS Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration.
• Appointed Instructor in Lally School of Management and Technology to supervise a distance learning, graduate level course in Project Management. Duties did not include lecturing since all lectures were presented from video tape. Responsible for course administration and grading. Course was presented during Summer 2002 for 15 on-campus and 160 off-campus students. Previously worked as Teaching Assistant for this Project Management course for 60 on-campus and 60 off-campus students during Fall 2001 and for a graduate level course in Information Systems for 40 on-campus and 20 off-campus students.
• Research Advisor for twenty undergraduate research projects and project supervisor for one master's student and five doctoral students.
  

• Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  
• Member, Institute for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  

Book Chapters

"Managing Disruptions to Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies in the Context of the World Trade Center Attack", (with W.A. Wallace, D.M. Mendonca, J.E. Mitchell, and J.H. Chow) In Beyond September 11th: An Account of Post-Disaster Research ( J. L. Monday, Ed.), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. 2003, pp 165-198.

Journal Publications

• "Restoration of Services in Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: A Network Flows Approach" (with W.A. Wallace and J. E. Mitchell) Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C, Vol. 37, No. 6, pp 1303 - 1317, 2007.
• "Probes as Path Seekers" (with A. Demers, G. F. List, W. Wallace and J. Wojtowicz) In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1944, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2006, pp. 107-114.
• "A Systems View of Data Integration for Emergency Response" (with P. Salasznyk, G. F. List, and W. A. Wallace). International Journal of Emergency Management, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2006.

Working Papers

• "Logic-based Multi-Objective Optimization for Restoration Planning" (with J. Gong, J. Mitchell and W. Wallace). Submitted for publication in Computational Optimization and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise (W. A. Chaovalitwongse and K. Furman, Ed.) Springer Book Series on Optimization and Its Applications (SOIA) Springer Publishing Company, New York , NY (Pending)

Conference Proceedings

• "Experimenting with Real-Time ATIS: Stepping Forward from ADVANCE" (with A. Demers, G. F. List, J. Wojtowicz, A. Kornhauser, W. Wallace and P. Salasznyk). Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation, Chicago, IL, August, 2006.
• "Field experience with a wireless GPS-based ATIS system" (with G. List, W. Wallace, A. Demers, P. Salasznyk, and J. Wojtowicz) Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems, San Francisco, CA November, 2005.
  "The Interdependent Layered Network Model for Protection of Critical Infrastructures" (with W.A. Wallace and J. E. Mitchell) Presented at the 2005 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting, November, 2005.
  
• "Data Integration for Traffic Incident Management" (with P. Salasznyk, W.A. Wallace and G.F. List) Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) Portland, OR, August, 2005 and presented at the 2005 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November, 2005.
  
• "Decision Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures" (with W.A. Wallace and J. E. Mitchell) Proceedings of the 2005 Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Conference - Working Together: R&D Partnerships in Homeland Security, Boston, MA and presented at the 2005 Natural Hazards Workshop, Boulder, CO, July, 2005.
  
• "Extreme Events and the Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems" (with W.A. Wallace and J. E. Mitchell) Proceedings of the 2005 International Workshop on Integrated Life Cycle Management of Infrastructures, Hong Kong, December, 2004.
  
• "Decision Support Models for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems" (with J. E. Mitchell and W. A. Wallace) Presented at the 2004 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October, 2004.
  
• "Determining the Number of Probe Vehicles Required to Estimate Travel Times in a Network" (with M. Cetin, G. F. List, and W.A. Wallace) Presented at the 2004 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, October, 2004.
  
• "Impact of the 2001 World Trade Center Attack on Critical Interdependent Infrastructures" (with D. M. Mendonca and W.A. Wallace). Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, Netherlands, October, 2004.
  
• "Assessing Vulnerability of Proposed Designs for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems" (with J.E. Mitchell and W.A. Wallace) Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Science, Hawaii, January, 2004.
  
• "Disruptions in Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: A Network Flows Approach" (with J.E. Mitchell and W.A. Wallace) Proceedings of the 2004 NSF Design, Service and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference Dallas, TX. January, 2004.

Technical Reports

• "A Regional Deployment Plan for ATIS" (with G. List and W. Wallace) Technical Report 06-03, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, August, 2006
• "Identification of Information Gaps" (with P. Salasznyk and W. Wallace) Technical Report 06-02, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, July, 2006.
• "Assessment of Incident Management Systems" (with P. Salasznyk and W. Wallace) Technical Report 06-01, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, March, 2006.
• "Needs Assessment for Capital Region Traffic Control Centers" (with P. Salasznyk and W. Wallace) Technical Report 05-07, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, October, 2005.
• "Preliminary Design of the Experiments For the ETTM Device" (with J. Wojtowicz) Technical Report 05-06, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, August, 2005.
• "Advanced Traveler Information System: Organization of the Experiment" (with A. Demers, M. Cetin, G. List, W. Wallace, J. Wojtowicz, Y. Zhou) Technical Report 05-04, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, June, 2005.
• "Information Dissemination Methods for Highway Users" (with P.P. Salasznyk, J. Wojtowicz , G. F. List, W. A. Wallace) Technical Report 04-07, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, December, 2004.
• "Advanced Traveler Information System Traffic Surveillance Technologies" (with M. Cetin, A. Demers, G. F. List, W. A. Wallace, J. Wojtowicz) Technical Report 04-02, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, November, 2004.
• "Capital District Advanced Traveler Information System: Determination of Data Needs" (with C. Benjamin, D. Mullen, W. A. Wallace, G.F. List) Technical Report 04-03, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, November, 2004.
• "Advanced Traveler Information System Traffic System Implementation" (with G. F. List, W. A. Wallace) Technical Report 04-04, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, November, 2004.
• "Information Dissemination Methods for Highway Users" (with P.P. Salasznyk, J. Wojtowicz , G. F. List, W. A. Wallace) Technical Report 04-07, Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, December, 2004.

Presentations

• Presentations concerning the Capital District Advanced Traveler Information System to the 2003 and 2004 Capital District Celebration of National Engineer's Week, the 2004 and 2005 Intelligent Transportation Society of New York Annual Meeting, and the 2003 New Jersey Department of Transportation Research Showcase.
• Presentations on interdependent infrastructure systems at the 2007 Risk Symposium (Risk Analysis for Homeland Security and Defense Theory and Application) sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Panelist at the 2007 Homeland Security Symposium (Cascading Infrastructure Failures: Avoidance and Response) sponsored by the Federal Facilities Council of the National Academies and the Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance at James Madison University.

United States Navy and Naval Reserve 1978-2002

• 24 years of active duty and reserve experience as an officer in the U.S. Navy, primarily in submarine or nuclear power related positions. Retired at the rank of Commander. Career highlights include the following:
  • Navy department head for a nuclear power training facility. Responsible for oversight of all issues relating to student and staff training, facility operation and maintenance for the Navy staff of 160 and student population of 500.
    
  • Chief Engineering Officer of the nuclear submarine USS James K. Polk supervising the $125 million overhaul including the refueling of the reactor plant. Duties included supervisory review and approval of all work and testing; oversight responsibility for over 10, 000 individual maintenance items and over 500 test procedures; responsible for the training of the 120 ship's personnel for all maintenance and testing procedures, as well as workplace safety programs.
    
  • As an assistant to the senior Navy Commander in Hawaii, conducted a complete review and revision of the emergency procedures for natural and human-caused incidents. Oversaw the planning for and execution of three annual hurricane exercises. Conducted similar reviews and revisions of emergency procedures relating to radiological emergencies for the senior Navy Commander in the Northeastern United States
    
  • Extensive experience in a variety of occupational health and safety programs including hazardous materials and hazardous waste management, oil spills, hearing conservation, heat stress, asbestos monitoring and radiological controls.
    
  • Personally commended by the Chief of Naval Operations, the Navy's senior leader, for identification of and recommendations to correct technical specifications in engineering and propulsion systems of nuclear submarines Commended for exceptional leadership and management skills by the Commander, Naval Reserve Force and by the Commander, Navy Region Hawaii.