NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student Fesseha Gebremikael has been selected to present research at the National Decision Science Institute annual conference in Baltimore, Nov. 16.

His paper, “Decision Support Model for Managing Disruptive Influences in Global Supply Chain Operations: A Sensitivity Analysis Insight,” also will be published in the institute’s 2013 Proceedings. In the paper, Gebremikael identifies a proposed decision support model to examine the most important disruptive influences in a firm’s food supply chain.

Co-writers are Chris I. Enyinda, Canadian University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Khalid Backhar, California State University. Both are graduates of the NDSU doctoral program in transportation and logistics. 

NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.