One area of interdisciplinary engineering study is supply chain management. Opportunities for research in this area include, but are not limited to, the following. Students will establish a degree plan in consultation with their advisory committee. Detection and disruption of illicit supply chain networks, Blockchain technology and supply chain management, Value of misinformation/disinformation, Multi-agent stochastic systems with partial information, System vulnerability and resilience, Port operations, maritime supply chains and intermodal logistics. The Interdisciplinary Engineering (ITDE) Ph.D. program allows students to develop unique expertise in emerging areas that may not be covered by traditional departmental degree programs and provides a path for those whose research interests cross engineering disciplines and/or college lines. Graduates with interdisciplinary engineering skill sets are highly sought after by employers, and the Ph.D. in ITDE poises graduates to become leaders in academic organizations, government and industry. Examples of previously awarded interdisciplinary topics include environmental engineering and public policy, and engineering and education.