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Professor and Director, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
Professor Muckstadt is director of the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. He studied at the University of Rochester for the A.B. degree in mathematics and at the University of Michigan for the M.S. in Industrial Administration, the M.A. in Mathematics, and the Ph.D., granted in 1966, in Industrial Engineering. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1974 after twelve years of active military service as a faculty member of the Air Force Institute of Technology and an operations research analyst at the Air Force Logistics Command Headquarters.
Professor Muckstadt has served as a consultant to numerous industrial organizations, including the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, IBM, Bell Atlantic, General Motors, RAND, TRINOVA Corporation, SAS Airlines, General Electric, and Xerox, and he has been an associate editor of several professional journals. His teaching interests include applied operations research, production and inventory control, logistics, manufacturing control, and materials handling. Presently, Professor Muckstadt is conducting research related to manufacturing logistics and inventory control. He has written over 40 papers on these subjects.
Professor Muckstadt served from 1982 to 1987 as director of the Cornell Manufacturing Engineering and Productivity Program (COMEPP).
