Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1978 Education: Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University, 1979 M.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University, 1973 B.S. Industrial Engineering, Penn State University, 1971

Teaching Areas:

• Production and Inventory Control
  
• Dynamic Programming
  
• Non-Linear Optimization Techniques
  
• Applied Stochastic Processes
  
• Operations Research Fundamentals
  

• Queueing Theory (Process, Approximation, Tandem and General Networks, Optimal Control)
  
• Large Scale Systems, Systems Decomposition for Optimization
  
• Combinatorial optimization (integer programming, Scheduling Theory, Heuristic Methods)
  
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Design and Control
  

• Operations Research Society of America
  
• The Institute of Management Science
  
• American Institute of Industrial Engineers
  

• Paper presented on "A Semi-Markov Approximation of GI/G/1 Queue," The Institute of Management Science/Operations Research Society of America, 1980
  
• Paper presented on "Stochastic Models of 2-Lane Traffic Flow," The Institute of Management Science-Intemational, 1979
  
• Paper presented on "Pennsylvania Coal Distribution Model," Operations Research Society of America, 1977
• "A Technique for Packing Irregular Shapes in a Rectangle," a paper presented at the Joint National Meeting of ORSA/TIMS, New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 1987, with A. Bringhurst
  
• "The Application of Management Science Approaches to Performance Problems of a Social Service System: An Exploratory Study of the Day Care Program," a paper presented at the National Association for Welfare Research and Statistics Conference, Richmond, Virginia, July, 1986, with D. Spottheim
  
• "Global Logistics Support Planning for Manufacturing and Distribution," a paper presented at the Second Int. Conference on Flexible automation and information management, June 30, 1992, Washington, D.C. with K. Gardiner and M.U. Thomas