Areas of Expertise

• Supply chain management
• Inventory contro
• Scheduling mathematical programming
• Project management

Butler Assignment (classes or work duties)

• MG503 Order Costs under Periodic Review. 3 hours independent study.
• MG503 Purchasing and Materials Management. 3 hours independent study.
• MBA540 Operations and Information Systems. 3 hours.
• MG590 Operations Management. 3 hours.
• MBA440 Statistical Analysis and Operations Management. 3 hours.
• MBA402 Computer Applications, 3 hours
• MS372 Database Design. 3 hours.
• MG350 Production Management. 3 hours.
• MG350W Production Management. 3 hours. Writing Intensive version of MG350.
• MS270 Information Systems and Organizational Procedures. 3 hours.

Education/Degrees
Doctor of Business Administration, Indiana University, 1974-1979.

• Dissertation: Master Production Scheduling in the Assemble to Order Environment: A Comparison of Two Techniques.
• Majored in operations management, minored in computer science.

Master of Science work, Washington University in St. Louis, 1968-1971, in applied mathematics and computer science. Program interrupted by active military service. No degree earned. Thesis work on global convex linear decomposition algorithms.

Bachelor of Arts, University of Missouri -- St. Louis, 1965-1968. Double major in mathematics and economics.

Awards/Honors

• Writing Across the Curriculum Teaching Award for Excellence, 1996 Pi Beta Phi Outstanding Professor Award, 1995
• Butler Academic Grant, Butler Fellow, 1995 - 1996.
• Holcomb Research Institute Award, Holcomb Fellow, 1995.
• Butler Academic Grant, Butler Fellow, 1993 - 1994.
• Holcomb Research Institute Award, Holcomb Fellow, 1993.
• Scholarship, Tennessee Associates International, for study of total quality management, 1992.
• Distinguished Scholar, Marquette University, 1987.
• Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper Award. Conferred at the 1983 national conference of the American Institute for Decision Sciences. Shared with co-authors Lee J. Krajewski, Larry P. Ritzman and Danny S. Wong.
• Listed in Who's Who in the Midwest and in Who's Who in Business.
• Distinguished Teaching Award, Indiana University.
• Research Assistantship, University of Chicago (while at Indiana University.)
• University Fellow, Indiana University.
• Beta Gamma Sigma, scholastic honorary society, Indiana University.
• Assistant Instructorship, Indiana University.
• Mathematics Internship, United States Army.
• National Aeronautic and Space Administration assistantship, Washington University in St. Louis.
• National Science Foundation Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis.
• Atomic Energy Commission research assistantship, Washington University in St. Louis.
• Allowed to take college level mathematics courses by Washington University in St. Louis and University of Missouri -- St. Louis while attending high school.

Association Memberships (professional/educational)

• Manufacturing Representatives Education and Research Foundation, certification trainer.
• Production and Operations Management Society, member.
• Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation, member.
• The Institute of Management Sciences, member.
• The Institute of Management Sciences special interest group for production and operations management, member.
• The Institute of Management Sciences special interest group for artificial intelligence, member.
• Decision Sciences Institute, member.
• American Production and Inventory Control Society, academic advisor, Marquette University.
• American Production and Inventory Control Society, academic liaison officer, Columbus, Ohio.