Dr. Thom J. Hodgson

James T. Ryan Professor & Director of Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute

Education
University of Michigan: B.S.E., Science Engineering, 1961; M.B.A., Quantitative Methods, 1965; Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, 1970

Areas of Interest
Scheduling, logistics, production and inventory control; manufacturing systems; and applied and military operations research.

Thom J. Hodgson is the James T. Ryan Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and the Director of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute at North Carolina State University. He served as Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at NCSU ('83-'90); Director of the Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems at the National Science Foundation ('91-'93); Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida ('70-'83); Operations Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company ('66-'70); and an Officer in the US Army ('61-'63). He is a Fellow of IIE and INFORMS, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the author or co-author of over 70 journal articles and book chapters. He served as Associate Editor, Departmental Editor ('81-'84; '88-'91), and Editor-in-Chief ('84-'88) of IIE Transactions. He also served as a member of the US Army Science Board ('94-'00).

Links
Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute