John A. Muckstadt

Muckstadt and others on a 1975 tour of the Brewer-Titchener Corporation, manufacturer of wire rope, chain fittings and overhead lifting devices in Cortland New York, with the Plant Manager and Muckstadt's Cornell colleagues Lee Schruben and Bill Maxwell.  Engagement with industry has been a hallmark of Muckstadt's teaching and research.  

Associate Professor Jack Muckstadt in his Upson Hall office in 1976.  

Major John A. Muckstadt in 1981.  Muckstadt was an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force for 12 years, primarily working in the logistics field with responsibility for spare parts planning. He retired from the U.S. Air Force Reserves as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Jack Muckstadt in a computer lab, c.1983, with Robert Ferstenberg PhD , later head of Quant Research at ITG, at the computer.

During a Master of Engineering project visit to an IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1987, Muckstadt inspects a silicon chip wafer.  Behind Muckstadt are team members Christopher Glynn '86 M.Eng. '87 MBA '88 and Firoozeh Mostashari AB'86 M.Eng. '87.  IBM employee and Cornell alumnus Michael Isaac Ph.D. '79 is at right.  Isaac was the client for the project, which analyzed module production and raw materials inventory policy at the facility.  

Jack and Linda Muckstadt at the annual ORIE Holiday Party, The Station Restaurant in Ithaca, December 1987.  The Muckstadts were married in 1959 and have four children.  

Jack Muckstadt in a Rhodes Hall lecture room c. 1990, instructing students on the play of a manufacturing game.  Muckstadt has been an enthusiastic proponent of experiential learning, and with Professor Emeritus Peter Jackson has used several games in the classroom.  In 2015, Cornell celebrated the 30 years of experiential learning led by Jackson and Muckstadt.  

Jack Muckstadt at a Dining Discussion lunch with students in Duffield Hall, Cornell, in February 2009.  Muckstadt has been a regular participant in lunch meetings with students, organized under Cornell's Dining Discussion program.  

John Laibe '51 with Jack Muckstadt, the Acheson/Laibe Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies at a reunion breakfast in Rhodes Hall, 2010.  Laibe, who died in 2015, was Chairman of Acheson Chemical Company.  In memory of his classmate Howard A. Acheson Jr.,  Laibe and Acheson Industries endowed the Chair held by Muckstadt.  

Muckstadt's October 2012 PhD reunion retirement party guests. Row 1: Ricardo Frischtak PhD '73; Mark Eisner PhD '70; Bill Maxwell PhD '61; Guy Lohman PhD '77. Row 2: Guillermo Gallego PhD '88; Radhika Kulkarni PhD '81; Odile Marcotte PhD '83; Susan Alten PhD '83; Gwen Spencer PhD '12; James Chao MEng '13. Row 3: Retsef Levi PhD '05; Russ Rushmeier PhD '89; Ganesh Janakiraman PhD '02; Robert Ferstenberg PhD '88; Robert Koca PhD '84; Andrew Loerch PhD '90; Chris Jones MS '83; Mike Isaac PhD '79; Vincent  Cogliano PhD '82; Howard Singer PhD '79; Jim Rappold PhD '97; Dawn Rappold; Victoria Averbukh PhD '97. 

Nearly 200 ORIE alumni, guests, and family joined together at the Metropolitan Club in New York City April 5, 2013 to celebrate Muckstadt's career and retirement.  At the event, he was presented with a symbolic gift for the teacher, a golden apple displaying the Cornell seal and inscribed at its base with "Four Decades of Exemplary Teaching" together with one of his favorite teaching questions: "So what did you learn from this?"   He was lauded teacher, scholar, officer, Director, expert in supply chain management, early vocal and enthusiastic advocate for Cornell pursuing what became the Cornell NYC Tech campus, and mentor.  

Muckstadt and his Jaguar outside of Rhodes Hall, home of Cornell's School of Operations Research and Information Engineering,  in 2013.  As a successful consultant to the automotive industry (among others), Muckstadt has had an appreciation for well-engineered vehicles.