Ronald Pelot
Professor
Dr. Ronald Pelot - BSc, MSc, PhD (Waterloo)
Email: Ronald.Pelot@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-6113
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About
Dr. Pelot has been in Industrial Engineering at DalTech since 1994. His main interest is in Operations Research applied to risk and resource analysis. A risk model of marine activities is under development for the Search and Rescue branch of the Canadian Coast Guard. Using the Bay of Fundy as a pilot area, incident rates and risk factors for various activities are being assessed. He has also developed a multi-period cost/risk capital budgeting model for contaminated site remediation. Other work in the resource field includes production models for large scale shellfish aquaculture (NSERC funded), a Stackelberg leader/follower production model of the world oil market, and a joint project on efficient heat storage (NSERC Strategic Grant).
As a member of the Ergonomics Research Group (ERG) at Queen's University, Dr. Pelot also collaborates extensively on a number of projects involving ergonomic design and evaluation, and fitness standards for military personnel. Specific DND funded projects include the design and evaluation of personal load carriage systems, for which Dr. Pelot is designing a computer design and assessment tool. Other studies involve test development for minimum physical fitness standards, and specialized standards for specific trades, such as Fire Fighters, and SarTechs.
Dr. Pelot has taught Engineering Economics, Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Psychology, Simulation, and Production Management. In 1998 he won the DalTech Award for Teaching Excellence.
Dr. Pelot was president from 1997-1999 of the Atlantic section of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS). He is a member of INFORMS and the Institute for Industrial Engineering (IIE). He chaired the Canadian Society for Industrial Engineering (CSIE) national student conference in 1993. He also holds a Professional Engineering designation.
KEY WORDS operations research, resource management, risk analysis, environment, energy, marine, aquaculture, Stackelberg, ergonomics, physical fitness standards.