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William
B. Rouse, Ph.D.
Head Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Georgia Tech |
Bill
Rouse is the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of the
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology. He is responsible for leadership
of the School, as well as development and management of
its human and financial resources.
Rouse
has over thirty years of experience in research, education,
management, marketing, and engineering related to individual
and organizational performance, decision support systems,
and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted
with over one hundred large and small enterprises in the
private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked
with several thousand executives and senior managers. His
expertise includes individual and organizational decision
making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations
and information systems.
Rouse
has written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and
has authored many books, including most recently Essential
Challenges of Strategic Management (Wiley, 2001), the
award-winning Don’t Jump to Solutions (Jossey-Bass,
1998), and Start Where You Are (Jossey-Bass, 1996).
He is co-editor of the best-selling Handbook of Systems
Engineering and Management (Wiley, 1999) and edited
the eight-volume series Human/Technology Interaction
in Complex Systems (Elsevier). Among many advisory
roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human
Factors of the National Research Council and as a member
of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Rouse
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well
as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), the Institute for Operations Research
and Management Science, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics
Society. He has received the Joseph Wohl Outstanding Career
Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics Society; a Centennial Medal and a Third
Millennium Medal from IEEE; and the O. Hugo Schuck Award
from the American Automation Control Council. He is listed
in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Engineering,
and other biographical literature, and has been featured
in publications such as Manager's Edge, Vision, Book-Talk,
The Futurist, Competitive Edge, Design News, Quality &
Excellence, and IIE Solutions.
Rouse
has served in a variety of leadership roles in several companies
and on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He also has served in visiting positions on the faculties
of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and
Tufts University. He received his B.S. from the University
of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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