• IE 5341 - Advanced Production and Inventory Control (Spring 2008)
• MFG 5350 - Reliability & Maintainability (Fall 2009)

• IE 4333 - Supply Chain Management (Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
• IE 4391 - Production and Inventory Control (Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
• IE 4385 - Statistical Quality Control & Reliability (Spring 2009)

• Impact of Parameter Uncertainty on Asset Criticality and System Reliability, Hydro One, Inc. Toronto, Ontario. January 2004-December 2004

• Developed system reliability models for Hydro One, Inc., related with the reliability evaluation of electricity transmission and distribution systems

• Developed models to determine the importance of components in the electricity transmission and distribution systems to determine where investments should be made in order to increase the overall system availability

• Developed models to relate the impact of each individual component variability to the overall system availability

• Developed an excel-based software to incorporate the models developed and evaluate the system availability and component importance of several commonly used electricity transmission and distribution configurations

• Developed models to estimate the impact of switching times in the overall system availability

• Reliability models of back-up data centers, large international banking company, Piscataway, New Jersey. August 2006-December 2006

• Evaluation of several possible locations for back-up data centers based on the analysis of loss of load probability considering the transmission grid in the state of New Jersey

• Developed reliability models of back-up data centers for a large international banking company

• Developed fault tree and probability models for the assessment of conditional loss-of-offsite power in several locations for building a new back-up data center in NJ

• Cynthia A. Vargas, Claudia Banda, Sowmya Parimi and Jose F. Espiritu. A New Component Allocation Model for the Dual Element Spot Network Configuration. UTEP SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) Research Expo in the Engineering category. UTEP, April 16, 2009

• Ricardo Meraz, Arlette M. Chavez, Vasukumar Chenna and Jose F. Espiritu. An ant colony optimization model to solve the component replacement problem for power distribution systems. UTEP SACNAS (Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) Research Expo in the Engineering category. UTEP, April 16, 2009