Daniel M. Frances - Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

PhD, P.Eng

Professor, Teaching Stream, Industrial Engineering

Email: frances@mie.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-946-7435
Office: MC318

Research Areas

Operations Research

Research Interests

Application of simulation techniques to health care and manufacturing; Ontario electricity market; interfaces between operations research and information systems.

Bio

After obtaining a PhD from MIE in 1974, joined University of Manitoba as an Assistant Professor. In 1976, he moved back to Toronto and joined Ontario Hydro (predecessor of Hydro One, Ontario Power Generation, and IESO), developing and implementing various Operations Research models, and later managing the groups responsible, for improved operation of the Ontario Power System, including non-linear network optimization models, and database models. Upon joining MIE, Dr. Frances taught various courses in the OR and Information Systems areas, as well as consulting assignments with various organizations including OPG, Hatch, Pratt & Whitney, Canadian Blood Services and Victoria Order of Nurses.

Traditional Land Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.