October 1996 € Volume 23 € Number 5

People

Lee J. Krajewski has been appointed the William R. and F. Cassie Daley Professor of Manufacturing Strategy at the University of Notre Dame.

Krajewski's career spans more than 26 years of research and education in the field of operations management. Prior to joining Notre Dame, he was a faculty member at Ohio State University, where he received the University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and the College of Business Outstanding Faculty Research Award. He initiated the Center for Excellence in Manufacturing Management and served as its director for three years. In addition, he received the National President's Award and the National Award of Merit of the American Production and Inventory Control Society and was elected a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Operations Management and currently is editor of Decision Sciences. He has published numerous articles in leading operations management research journals, and has co-authored two texts.

Shishir Mukherjee has been appointed the regional project coordinator for the $9.5 million, 12-country Asia Least-cost Greenhouse Gas Abatement Strategy (ALGAS) project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The project is being executed by the Asian Development Bank, Maila, on behalf of UNDP/GEF. Mukherjee is coordinating the activities of an international group of consultants and national project teams in 12 major Asian countries, developing their inventory of sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, and developing a national action plan for mitigation. National energy sector models will be developed for optimizing investments and for developing a least-cost portfolio of mitigation projects.

Prior to this appointment, Mukherjee was manager at the San Francisco office of Hagler Bailly Consulting Inc. and worked on international projects in the energy and environment fields. He has also served as senior project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., and a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.

Barry Render, Harwood Professor of Operations Management at Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business, has been named the 1996 winner of the St. Claire Drake Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Render was cited for his 20 textbooks, 100 articles, two Fulbright scholarships and AACSB Fellowship. Render's most recent books are "Production and Operations Management" (4th edition) and "Quantitative Analysis for Management" (6th edition).

James J. (Jim) Jernigan was selected by the Redstone Arsenal-Huntsville Military Operations Research Section (RAHMORS) as its Professional of the Year in recognition for his life-long contributions to military science and analysis.

Jernigan has had a long and distinguished career which began in 1958 and continues to this day. His early career was spent in various positions in the U. S. Air Force, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the U. S. Army. His senior career in the Army included serving as technical director, Allied Developments Evaluation Group; study director, Project Successor; and program manager, U. S. Army High Energy Laser Weapon Demonstrator. Since retirement from the Civil Service in 1985, Jernigan has been manager of the Raytheon Corp.'s Huntsville Office, Advanced Air Defense Program.

Jernigan enjoys a well deserved national reputation as an Air Defense analyst. The Jernigan Number, representing the mean unmask range of low flying aircraft, is named for him.
The Redstone Arsenal-Huntsville Military Operations Research Section is a geographic chapter of INFORMS.

Xavier de Groote, an associate professor at INSEAD, has died at the age of 39.

Professor de Groote attended the Université Catholique de Louvain, where he received his civil engineering degree in mechanics. His contributions on the flexibility of production systems are now part of the education of any doctoral student wishing to deepen his knowledge of the theory of production systems.

Professor de Goote's academic career was fast and brilliant. He earned his civil engineering degree in 1981, and stayed at Louvain for an extra year to obtain a complementary degree in industrial management. He continued his doctoral studies at Stanford University, where he defended his thesis on "The Strategic Choice of Production Processes" in 1988. He was then made assistant professor at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, which he left in 1991 to join INSEAD. He was promoted to associate professor at INSEAD in 1994.
De Groote is survived by his wife, Martine, and two children, Gauthier and Antoine.

Tejpal "Paul" Hundal has joined the Axis Group, a logistics provider for the automotive industry, as vice president, Logistics Design and Engineering.

Suresh Sethi, a professor of operations management and director of Laboratory for Manufacturing Research at the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto, has received the Award of Merit from the Canadian Operations Research Society. The award is the highest form of recognition bestowed on a member by the Society.

Ed Kaplan of Yale has been awarded another Lady Davis Visiting Professorship, this time to the Department of Statistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He will spend the spring 1997 term in Jerusalem.

Kaplan is also part of a research group including Margaret Brandeau (Stanford), Doug Owens (Stanford), David Paltiel (Yale) and Jim Kahn (UCSF) that has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to study the cost-effectiveness of HIV interventions, and to develop models for the optimal allocation of HIV prevention resources.

Yigal Gerchak, professor of OR at the University of Waterloo's Management Sciences Department, will be spending the 1996-97 academic year with the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion in Israel as a recipient of the Stanley Vineberg Visiting Fellowship. He is co-writing a monograph on production systems with random yields, and continuing research on hospital management, R&D resource allocation and fair allocation of indivisible items.

H. Donald Ratliff, director of the logistics institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been elected into the National Academy of Engineering for his leadership in the development of interactive network optimization methods for logistics systems.

Doug Samuelson was elected 1996-97 president of the Washington OR/MS Council (WORMSC), the D.C.-area chapter of INFORMS. Eloise Brooks and Bruce Wyman were elected to at-large Trustee posts.

Behnam B. Malakooti, Ph.D., PE, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, has been selected as one of 10 members of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) to be inducted into its 1996 College of Fellows. Malakooti was recognized for his many years of outstanding contributions to manufacturing and SME.

Panos Kouvelis will be visiting the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis during the academic year 1996-1997 as an associate professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management. He will be teaching courses in Operations Strategy and Operations Management.

Panos, who holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford, currently focuses his research on modeling operations strategy and international operations issues, scheduling of manufacturing systems, robust discrete optimization, and project management.

Richard Steinberg has been appointed to a tenured position at the University of Cambridge as lecturer in Operations Management in the Judge Institute of Management Studies.

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