Jeff Camm

Jeffrey D. Camm is Professor of Quantitative Analysis, Head of the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, and College of Business Research Fellow in the College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Xavier University (Ohio) and a Ph.D. in Management Science from Clemson University. He has been at the University of Cincinnati since 1984, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 1992. Dr. Camm has published over 25 papers in a variety of journals in the general area of optimization applied to problems in operations management. He is the supply chain and operations management functional editor for Interfaces, and is an associate editor for both INFORMS Transactions on Education and Naval Research Logistics.

His current research interest is in the area of large-scale integer programming models for facility location. Dr. Camm's joint work with Procter & Gamble in supply chain optimization was a finalist in the 1996 Edelman Award Competition for the best applied work in management science. Dr. Camm has been one of the leaders in the movement for teaching spreadsheet-based management science. He is co-author (with James Evans) of two textbooks, the latest being Management Science & Decision Technology (South-Western College Publishing, 2000). In 1987 he was the recipient of UC's Harold Grilliot Award for the promotion of outstanding faculty/student relations and in 1995 he received the UC MBA Excellence in Teaching Award. In 1999 he was named the Ronald J. Dornoff Fellow of Teaching Excellence.

A strong believer in learning-by-doing, Dr. Camm has served as an operations research consultant to a number of organizations including Procter & Gamble, The Kroger Company, The United States Air Force, Ernst and Young Supply Chain Operations, Senco, Cinergy Inc., Louisville Gas & Electric, General Electric and Owens Corning.