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List of Professors
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Charles Burton Gordy |
1921 - 1959 | Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Robert McDowell Thrall |
1937 - 1969 |
Professor of Mathematics Professor of Operations Analysis |
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Quentin C Vines |
1948 - 1971 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Dean H. Wilson |
1948 - 1969 1974 - 1975 |
Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning |
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Edward Lupton Page |
1948 - 1965 | Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Wyeth Allen |
1955 - 1963 |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Professor of Industrial Engineering Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering 1955-1963 |
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Richard C. Wilson |
1955 - 1984 |
Professor of Industrial Engineering Chair Industrial Engineering 1973-1977 |
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Bertram Herzog |
1955 - 1975 |
Professor of Industrial Engineering 1962-1975 Director, Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) 1987-92 Director of MERIT 1968-74 |
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Jack Lohmann |
1955 - 1991 | Associate Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering |
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Richard W. Berkeley |
1956 - 1973 | Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Merrill M. Flood |
1956 - 1976 |
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Professor of Mathematical Biology Professor of Education |
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James A. Gage |
1956 - 1975 | Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Frederick Lee Black |
1956 - 1961 |
Director of Business Relations Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Clyde W. Johnson |
1957 - 1974 | Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Richard V. Evans |
1958 - 1962 |
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Assistant Professor of Mathematics |
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Walton M. Hancock |
1959 - 1997 |
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Chair Industrial Engineering 1963-1968 |
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Ralph L. Disney |
1962 - 1977 | Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Hugh E. Bradley |
1963 - 1967 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Herbert P. Galliher |
1963 - 1982 | Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Richard Jelinek |
1964 - 1971 |
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Associate Professor of Hospital Administration |
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Seth Bonder |
1965 - 1979 | Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Stephen R. Kimbleton |
1968 - 1974 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Daniel Teichroew |
1968 - 2000 |
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Chair Industrial Engineering 1968-1973 |
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Don B. Chaffin |
1968 - 2006 |
Richard G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering G. Lawton and Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering Professor of Occupational Health |
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Katta Murty |
1968 - 2010 | Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering |
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Richard F. Baum |
1969 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Stephen Pollock |
1969 - 2005 |
Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering Herrick Professor of Manufacturing Chair Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering |
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Kenneth Baker |
1969 - 1972 | Assistant Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering |
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Edgar Sibley |
1969 - 1973 | Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Charles N. Rollinger |
1970 | Adjunct Assistant Professor of Industrial |
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Alan G. Merten |
1970 - 1986 | Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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David Michael Warner |
1971 |
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering Assistant Professor of Hospital Administration 1971-1974 |
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Thomas L. Boardman Jr. |
1973 - 1976 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Gary D. Herrin |
1973 - 2011 |
Professor Associate Dean for Engineering Undergraduate Education |
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Craig W. Kirkwood |
1974 - 1977 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Gary D. Langolf |
1974 - 1988 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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James M. Miller |
1976 - 1997 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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John J Bartholdi III |
1977 - 1980 | Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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Louis E Boydstun |
1977 - 1983 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Anthony Woo |
1977 - 1997 |
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics |
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Francis Noonan |
1978 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Loren K. Platzman |
1978 - 1980 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Jack R. Lohmann |
1979 - 1991 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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James Carl Bean |
1980 - 2004 | Professor of Industrial Engineering |
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John Roberts Birge |
1980 - 2000 |
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Chair Industrial & Operations Engineering 1993-2000 |
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Devinder S. Kochhar |
1980 - 1986 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Robert L Smith |
1980 - 2012 | Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering |
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Jeffrey K. Liker |
1982 - 2017 | Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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William David Kelton |
1983 - 1986 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Candice Yano |
1983 - 1993 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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W. Monroe Keyserling |
1984 - 2019 |
Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering Professor of Environmental Health Sciences |
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Manndyam Srinivasan |
1985 - 1992 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Jay Elkerton |
1986 - 1990 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Julian J. Faraway |
1987 - 2006 |
Professor of Statistics Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering 2004-2006 Interim Chair Department of Statistics-2003 |
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Ching Yee Lam |
1988 - 1994 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Medini Ranjan Singh |
1990 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Chelsea C. White III |
1990 - 2002 |
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering Chair Industrial & Operations Engineering 1990-1993 |
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Chien-Fu Jeff Wu |
1993 - 2004 |
Professor of Statistics Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering Chair Department of Statistics 1995-1998 |
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Vijayan N. Nair |
1993 - 2017 | Professor of Statistics, Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Rachel Zhang |
1994 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Stephen E. Chick |
1995 - 2003 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Jianjun Shi |
1995 - 2007 |
Professor G. Lawton & Louise G. Johnson Professor of Engineering |
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Shixin Jack Hu |
1995 - 2019 |
Professor of Industrial & Operations & Mechanical Engineering Vice President for Research |
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Shane Gordon Henderson |
1996 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Vadim Linetsky |
1998 - 2000 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Mark E. Lewis |
1999 - 2005 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Barry H Kantowitz |
1999 - 2012 |
Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering Professor of Psychology Research Professor UMTRI |
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Tava M. Olsen |
2000 - 2001 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Jussi Keppo |
2001 - 2012 | Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Sebastian K. Fixson |
2002 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Dushyant Sharma |
2002 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Goker Aydin |
2003 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Volodymyr Babich |
2003 - 2009 | Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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H. Edwin Romeijn |
2008 - 2014 | Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering |
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Kwai H. H. Lam |
2014 - 2017 | Assistant Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering |
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Matthew A. Plumlee |
2015 - 2017 | Assistant Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering |