Department of Operational Sciences Faculty News

Operational Sciences Appoints New Department Head

Professor Jeffery K. Cochran will join the Department of Operational Sciences as Department Head beginning July 2, 2007. Dr. Cochran comes to AFIT from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Arizona State University where he has served on the faculty (as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor) since 1984. Professor Cochran specializes in the optimization of complex systems involving uncertainty. Please join us in welcoming Dr. Cochran to the AFIT community!

Kharoufeh receives INFORMS Outstanding Young Chapter Member Award

Dr. Jeff Kharoufeh, Associate Professor of Operations Research, has been awarded the Outstanding Young Chapter Member Award by the Cincinnati/Dayton Chapter of INFORMS. The purpose of the award is to recognize outstanding contributions to the theory or practice of operations research by an active member of the Chapter who is under the age of 35. The award also serves to recognize promising researchers at or near the beginning of their academic or industrial careers.

OR Faculty Selected to Serve on Editorial Boards

Dr. Marcus Perry, Assistant Professor of OR, was recently named a member of the Editorial Board of Quality Engineering and has also been named an Associate Editor for the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Dr. Jeff Kharoufeh, Associate Professor of OR, has been named an Associate Editor for Operations Research Letters. Since 2003, Professor Kharoufeh has also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Other departmental faculty members holding editorial appointments include:

Dr. Richard Deckro, Professor of OR, Editor-in-Chief of Military Operations Research and Area Editor (Services) for Computers and Industrial Engineering

Dr. James Moore, Professor of OR, Associate Editor for International Journal of Operational Research and Military Operations Research

Dr. J.O. Miller, Associate Professor of OR, Associate Editor for International Journal of Operational Research