Georgiou Paraskevas
Academic Position: Assistant Professor
Member of Division of Management & Organization Studies
Laboratory member: Laboratory of Operations Research
Tel.: +30 2610 969476
Email: p.georgiou@upatras.gr
Biographic Notes
Dr. Paraskevas Georgiou is an Assistant Professor with specialty in “Energy and Industrial Systems Optimization with Mathematical Programming” at the Division of Management & Organization Studies of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics of the University of Patras.
He received his Ph.D. in Operational Research and Decision Making with application to Energy Planning from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He is a Chemical Engineer from NTUA and holds a MBA from the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) and NTUA.
He teaches the courses “Operational Research I”, “Operational Research II” and “Industrial Management” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics of the University of Patras, and the course “Project Management & Investment Plan Management” at the Master’s Program “Farm Business Management” of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA). He has taught the courses “Operational Research I”, “Operational Research II” and “Decision Support Systems” at the School of Mechanical Engineering NTUA, the course “Operational Research” at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development AUA, the course “Business Decision Making with Multicriteria Methods” at the Department of Economic Sciences of the University of Peloponnese and the course “Entrepreneurship & Innovation” at the Department of Chemistry of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.
He had been appointed as a Laboratory Teaching Staff at the Sector of Industrial Management & Operational Research of the School of Mechanical Engineering NTUA and as a specialist associate in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Unit NTUA. He was an innovation consultant at the Small Business Institute of the General Confederation of Professional Craft Merchants of Greece (IME GSEVEE) while he was a scientific associate at the Center for Renewable Sources & Energy Saving (CRES).
He is an external associate of the Laboratory of Industrial & Energy Economics and the Laboratory of Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry of the School of Chemical Engineering NTUA.
He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Economic Chamber of Greece, the Panhellenic Association of Chemical Engineers, and the Hellenic Operational Research Society.
Research Interests
His research interests are on the scientific areas of Operational Research, Systems Optimization and Decision Making with applications in the fields of energy, industry, environment, and supply chain management using methods and tools belonging to Mathematical Programming, Multicriteria Analysis and Techno-Economic Analysis. He is active in the design of biomass-to-biofuels supply chains and the techno-economic design of units producing rare earth elements from bauxite by-products. He also deals with the fields of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility.
Detailed CV: pdf (Greek)
Contact hours: Wednesday 12:00-13:30 & Thursday 12:00 – 13:30
Courses
INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL AND AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
COURSE CONTENT Introduction to the course and historical data of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics. Energy, Heat, environmental issues from the energy view point (e.g....
Operational Research IΙ
COURSE CONTENT Section 1: Criteria for decision-making under uncertainty, Maximin, Maximax, Hurwicz, Minimax Regret, Mean value, Criteria for decision-making under risk, Maximization of expected...
Production and Project Management
COURSE CONTENT Product and service production processes. Process design. Product and service development. Supply and distribution networks. Layout and flow. Work design. Production planning...
Operational Research I
COURSE CONTENT Section 1: Introduction to Decision Making, Decisions & Problems, Process & Conditions of Decision Making. Section 2: Operational Research, Introduction, Historical Review,...
Industrial Management
COURSE CONTENT Section 1: Decision Making, Introduction, Concepts, Fundamentals of a Decision Making Problem, Conditions & agents in Decision Making, Business Decision Making process,...