Woolsey, Gene (Colorado School of Mines)

Topics:

Success in Management Science/Operations Research: How to Do it in Spite of Your Education

How to Take Over Your Company or Agency For Fun and Profit in Your Spare Time Using Operations Research (The Sharkey Lecture)

How to Peddle Geometric Programming to the World for Fun and Profit

Background:

• B.A. Mathematics - University of Texas-Austin
• M.A. Mathematics - University of Texas-Austin
• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering - University of Texas-Austin

Gene Woolsey has served as coordinator of the management science/operations research specialization at the Colorado School of Mines. In order to graduate from this program, a student must do a Pro Bono Publico project for a company or agency that, at least gets used, and, preferably, saves money. Any student, before or after graduation, who has, in one year on one project saved his or her company or agency $1 million at present worth is given a diamond stickpin. Verified savings from this plan now are in excess of $820 million.

He is the past international president of The Institute of Management Sciences (now INFORMS). He is the first recipient of the Harold Larnder Prize for Distinguished International Achievement in Operations Research. One of the areas of research in which he participated effectively doubled the world supplies of lithium. He is the editor emeritus of The Production & Inventory Management Journal, Interfaces, The Journal of Operations Management, The Transactions of The Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the Colorado School of Mines Quarterly of Science and Engineering. He has held teaching positions at seven other colleges or universities in four countries. He has written eight books in management science/operations management, production scheduling, assignment & distribution, linear programming, operations research, and engineering design using geometric programming. He has over one hundred published papers.

For the past decade he has worked Pro Bono Publico for any religious group or government agency of any government with which he agrees. For this work he has been given the Logistics Badge (Honorary) of the Israeli Air Force for logistical work done for them, and awarded the Commander's Medal, the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal, and the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal of the United States Department of the Army.

He has advised or co-advised and graduated over 200 master's students. He has also advised or co-advised and graduated 47 Ph.D.'s in mathematics and computer science and economics and business.
In 1999 he was given the INFORMS Award for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice. In 2002 he was named one of 113 in the world to receive the INFORMS Fellow Award.

WHAT IS GENE WOOLSEY REALLY LIKE?
Gene Woolsey is a successful, witty, pompous ass. He is short, fat, bald, and looks like the second vice president of a Midwest Kiwanis Club that sings in a barber shop quartet.