W. David Kelton,
University of Cincinnati Randall P. Sadowski Nancy B. Zupick,
Rockwell Automation
ISBN: 0073401315 Copyright year: 2015
About the Authors
W. DAVID KELTON is a Professor in the Department of Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems at the University of Cincinnati, where he has also served as MS program director and acting department head. He received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an M.S. in mathematics from Ohio University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from Wisconsin. He has also been a faculty member at Kent State, The University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, and Penn State. Visiting posts have included the Naval Postgraduate School, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and the Warsaw School of Economics. He is a Fellow of INFORMS, IIE, and the University of Cincinnati Graduate School.
His research interests and publications are in the probabilistic and statistical
aspects of simulation, applications of simulation, and stochastic models. His papers have
appeared in Operations Research, Management Science, the INFORMS Journal on
Computing, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Military Operations Research,
the European Journal of Operational Research, Simulation, Socio-Economic Planning
Sciences, the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, and the Journal of the
American Statistical Association, among others. In addition to the United States and
Canada, he has spoken on simulation in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands,
Belgium, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Chile, and South Korea.
He was Editor-in-Chief for the INFORMS Journal on Computing from 2000
to mid-2007, during which time the journal rose from unranked on the ISI Impact Factor
to first out of 56 journals in the operations-research/management-science category. In
addition, he has served as Simulation Area Editor for Operations Research, the
INFORMS Journal on Computing, and IIE Transactions; Associate Editor of Operations Research, the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, and Simulation; and was Guest Co-Editor for a special simulation issue of IIE Transactions. Awards include the TIMS
College on Simulation award for best simulation paper in Management Science, the IIE
Operations Research Division Award, a Meritorious Service Award from Operations
Research, the INFORMS College on Simulation Distinguished Service Award, and the
INFORMS College on Simulation Outstanding Simulation Publication Award. He was
President of the TIMS College on Simulation, and was the INFORMS co-representative
to the Winter Simulation Conference Board of Directors from 1991 through 1999,
serving as Board Chair for 1998. In 1987 he was Program Chair for the WSC, and in
1991 was General Chair; he is a founding Trustee of the WSC Foundation. He has
worked on grants and consulting contracts from a number of corporations, foundations,
and agencies. He once made it down a black-diamond run in the back bowls, this time
upright on his skis.
RANDALL P. SADOWSKI is currently enjoying retirement and plans to continue this new career. In his previous life, he was Product Manager for scheduling and data-tracking
applications for Rockwell Automation. Prior to that, he was director of university relations,
chief applications officer, vice president of consulting services and user education at
Systems Modeling Corporation.
Before joining Systems Modeling, he was on the faculty at Purdue University
in the School of Industrial Engineering and at the University of Massachusetts. He
received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial engineering from Ohio
University and his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue.
He has authored over 50 technical articles and papers, served as chair of the
Third International Conference on Production Research and was the general chair of the
1990 Winter Simulation Conference. He is on the visiting committee for the IE
departments at Lehigh University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Ohio University. He
is co-author, with C. Dennis Pegden and Robert E. Shannon, of Introduction to
Simulation Using SIMAN.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and served as editor of a
two-year series on Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems for IE Magazine that
received the 1987 IIE Outstanding Publication award. He has served in several positions
at IIE, including president at the chapter and division levels, and vice president of
Systems Integration at the international level. He founded the annual IIE/RA Student
Simulation Contest. He collects tools and is the proud owner of a tractor named Dutch, a
stocked farm pond, a monster mower, and an ATV used to inspect the farm and haul
firewood.NANCY B. Zupick is the manager for the Arena Simulation Consulting and Support Services group at Rockwell Automation. She works with her staff to meet the simulation needs of Rockwell’s clients across various industries. In addition to this role, she also assists product management and development and helps manage the IIE/RA Student Simulation Contest and participates in marketing and sales activities.
Nancy received her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. It was at Pitt where she became hooked on simulation in Dr. Byron Gottfried’s class and where she first became familiar with the SIMAN simulation language. In 1997 she joined Systems Modeling in the technical support group, where she worked for over a decade assisting clients with their simulations in a wide array of industries.
When not immersed in the world of simulation, Nancy spends her time hanging
out with her family. She enjoys gardening, cooking, traveling, and occasionally dabbles
in politics to reduce stress.
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