​Professor Mahmoud A. Barghash is a faculty member of the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Jordan. He earned his B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Jordan (1992), followed by an M.Sc. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management and a Ph.D. in Manufacturing Process Analysis, Optimization, and Control from the University of Bradford in the UK. His research interests include polymer processing, artificial intelligence applied to manufacturing, simulation, scheduling, decision support systems, control systems, and business dynamics.