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James
C. Bean, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Engineering, University of Michigan
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James
C. Bean is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and
Operations Engineering and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
in the University of Michigan College of Engineering. He
has earned a Master's Degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University
in operations research and a B.S. in mathematics from Harvey
Mudd College.
Professor
Bean's research interests are in genetic algorithms, integer
programming and infinite horizon optimization as applied
to equipment replacement, capacity expansion, production
and scheduling. He has published in Mathematics of Operations
Research, Operations Research, Mathematical Programming,
Management Science, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics,
The Engineering Economist, Interfaces, Journal of Optimization
Theory and Applications, INFOR, Engineering Design and Automation,
Information Processing and Management and the Journal
of Biomechanics.
Professor
Bean was Associate Dean for Graduate Education for two and
a half years and Co-director of the Joel D. Tauber Manufacturing
Institute for six years. He is an Associate Editor for the
Journal of Scheduling, past Associate Editor of
Management Science and former Editor of the ORSA/TIMS
Annual Comprehensive Index. Professor Bean is Past-President
of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences (INFORMS).
Professor
Bean has worked on various industrial projects with companies
such as General Cable (production control), Penford Products
(production scheduling) Homart Development (divestiture
scheduling), General Motors (scheduling and equipment replacement/capacity
planning), Michigan Consolidated Gas Company and IBM (equipment
replacement), Bethlehem Steel (capacity planning) and Tektronix
(forecasting).
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