Industrial Engineering Faculty Member Named Editor-in-Chief of Military Operations Research Journal
Ed Pohl
Ed Pohl, professor and head of the Industrial Engineering Department, was recently announced as the editor-in-chief of the Military Operations Research Society Journal. The journal publishes articles that describe operations research methodologies and theories used in key military and national security applications.
Pohl joined the U of A in 2004. Before coming to Arkansas, he spent 21 years in the United States Air Force, where he served in a variety of engineering, operations analysis and academic positions. Previous assignments include the deputy director of the Operations Research Center at the United States Military Academy; operations analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he performed independent cost schedule, performance and risk assessments on major acquisition programs; and as a munitions logistics manager at the Air Force Operational Test Center.
Pohl received his Ph.D. in systems and industrial engineering from the University of Arizona. He holds an M.S. in systems engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, an M.S. in reliability engineering from the University of Arizona, an M.S. in engineering management from the University of Dayton and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Boston University.
His primary research interests are in risk, reliability, engineering optimization, health care and supply chain risk analysis, decision making and quality. Pohl is a certified professional engineering manager. He is a fellow of IISE, ASEM and SRE. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ASQ, a Diplomate in the Society of Health Systems, and a member of INCOSE, INFORMS and AHRMM.
He also previously served as director of the Master of Science in Operations Management online degree program. He has participated and led several risk and supply chain related research efforts at the U of A.
His work is widely published in peer-reviewed publications, and he has received numerous awards and honors, both military and academic, including the J. Steinhardt Prize for lifetime achievement in military operations research.
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Tamara O. Ellenbecker, Department of Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering
479-575-3157,
tellenbe@uark.edu
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