Faculty
In a faculty renowned for its expertise in the classroom, the Kellogg School of Management and McCormick professors who teach in the MMM program are among the most outstanding. They include several recipients of the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, given annually by Kellogg for excellence in teaching elective courses. Other professors in the MMM program have been named Teacher of the Year at McCormick. Many MMM professors have received other honors for their teaching skills as well.
The MMM faculty maintains a dynamic relationship with industry. Many MMM professors advise and consult with a variety of manufacturing companies, including Black & Decker, Boise Cascade, Eli Lilly, Ford, GE Capital, General Motors, Intel, Motorola, Owens Corning and many others. This interchange creates a powerful conduit for students seeking knowledge of the latest trends in management and technology.
Faculty from both the Kellogg School of Management and McCormick are actively involved in teaching the MMM curriculum. Biographies for the professors are listed below.
Professor Apley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Director of the Manufacturing and Design Engineering Program. His research and teaching interests are industrial statistics, manufacturing variation reduction, quality control, and statistical learning, with particular emphasis on systems in which advanced measurement, data collection, and automatic control technologies are prevalent. He received the BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering, the MS degree in Electrical Engineering, and the PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1990, 1992, 1995, and 1997, respectively, all from the University of Michigan. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2001 and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Technometrics and on the editorial board of the Journal of Quality Technology.
Paul Arntson
Paul Arntson is the director of the Undergraduate Leadership Program at Northwestern University. He is a Fellow at the Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern's McGaw Medical Center, a faculty associate at the University's Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, and an education consultant for both Northwestern University Medical School and Oxford University Medical School. He has conducted research and training programs in primary-contexts, self-help groups, and community groups to improve citizens' decision making about health and the well-being of their neighborhoods. He teaches Leadership in Decision Making Contexts in the MMM program.
Professor Balachandran is the Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Accounting, Information Systems and Decision Sciences as well as Director of the Accounting Research Center. His research deals with performance evaluation, cost management, audit planning, allocation models, and forecasting. His education is as follows: BSc Mathematics, Statistics, MA 1961, MSc 1963, Applied Statistics, Annamalai University; MSE 1969, Engineering, University of Dayton; MSIA 1972, Business Administration, PhD 1973, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University; CPA 1978; CMA 1979. He teaches Accounting for Manufacturing in the MMM program.
Professor Chopra is the Senior Associate Dean of Curriculum and Teaching at Kellogg. He is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Business. He is the recipient of the Sid Levy Teaching Award in the MBA program for 1996 and the Chair's Core teaching award for 1997-98. His research interests include the design of communication and distribution systems. Current projects include the design of multi-tier communication networks and optimal control policies for a rail network. He serves as Associate Editor of Operations Research. Professor Chopra holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Delhi, an MS and PhD in Operations Research from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He teaches Logistics and Supply Chain Management for MBA and MMM students.
Professor Conley is a Clinical Professor in the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department at Kellogg. His research and teaching activities include the development and integration of CAD/CAM/CAE systems, manufacturing process simulation, and rapid prototyping methods/rapid tooling. His further studies show these tools are used to develop competitive advantage in mature industries. He received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from The University of Virginia, his MM from Northwestern University (Kellogg EMP24) and his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Northwestern University (McCormick). He teaches Management and Technology of Rapid Product Development and also Management of Intellectual Property in the MMM program.
Professor Daskin holds a Walter P. Murphy Professorship in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. His research focuses on supply chain network design in general and facility location models in particular. He currently is studying reliability in supply chain design as well as closed loop logistics. He teaches courses on: probability, statistics, operations research, supply chain reliability, location modeling, and heuristic algorithms. He is the immediate past chair of the IE/MS department and editor-in-chief of IIE Transactions, the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and immediate past president of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Finally, he serves on a number of editorial boards and is a past editor-in-chief of Transportation Science. In the MMM Program he teaches Supply Chain Engineering.
Sudhakar Deshmukh is the Kellogg Director of the Masters of Management and Manufacturing (MMM) Program. He is the Charles E. Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences in Kellogg, where he has been teaching since 1971. Professor Deshmukh has developed and taught various courses in operations management and decision sciences in Kellogg's MBA and executive education programs at national and international levels. His research is in the area of development and analysis of probabilistic models of decisions involving time and uncertainty, with applications in management science and economics. His research publications have appeared in leading journals in management science, operations research, applied probability, and economic theory. He is also a co-author of an operations management text for MBAs.
Professor Deshmukh received his Ph. D. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley, M. S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and B. E. in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University in India. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and the Econometric Society.
Before coming to Northwestern, Professor Frey served for 17 years as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Bell & Howell Company and before that was vice president for product development at the Ford Motor Company. He does research in information systems and technology management and is a elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the National Medal of Technology in 1990 from President George H. Bush. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Kimberly Gray is Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, has a secondary appointment in Chemical and Biological Engineering and is the director of the Environmental Science, Engineering and Policy Program. She does research in the areas of synthesis and characterization of photoactive materials for energy and environmental applications, particularly catalysis, and on sustainable resource use and recovery. She teaches a minicourse for MMM entitled "Sustainable Design and Manufacturing."
Thomas Hubbard has been a professor at Kellogg since 2005. Before coming to Kellogg, he was a professor at the University of Chicago GSB and the University of California, Los Angeles. During 2004-5, he was a visiting professor at Columbia GSB. Professor Hubbard's research interests mainly concern how information problems affect the organization of firms and markets, and therefore the structure of industries. His work has appeared in top-ranked journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Rand Journal of Economics. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Seyed M. Iravani
Professor Iravani is Pentair-Nugent professor of manufacturing and an assistant professor in the department of Industrial Engineering. His research interests include the design and control of production and service operations systems. Current projects include the design of production/inventory control policies in supply chain with information sharing, the design of flexible workforce in Call Centers, and integrated production and maintenance policies. He has been working with GM, Ford, and Motorola on several projects related to the design and control issues of work and knowledge management systems. He is on the editorial board of IIE Transactions and also serves as associate editor for Management Science, and Naval Research Logistics.
Martin Lariviere is Professor of Decision Sciences in the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences department at Kellogg. His AB is in Economics from Yale University and his Ph.D. in Business was earned at Stanford. His area of research concentrates on the economics of operations management, incentives in operations, supply chain management and contracting, and the marketing-manufacturing interface. He teaches Operations Management and Service Operations.
Elmer E. Lewis is Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include reliability modeling, risk assessment, and computational methods for radiation transport and the physics and safety of nuclear systems. He received a B.S. in Engineering Physics and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army and on MIT's faculty before coming to Northwestern. From 1987 to 1997 he was Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Stuttgart and a consultant to Los Alamos and Argonne National Laboratories as well as a number of industrial firms. A Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, he is winner of its Arthur Holly Compton and Mathematics and Computation Distinguished Service Awards. In addition to authoring or co-authoring four textbooks and nearly 200 other technical publications, he has written Masterworks of Technology for the general public. He teaches Reliability and Quality Engineering Methods in the MMM program.
Barry L. Nelson is the Charles Deering McCormick Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University, and Editor in Chief of Naval Research Logistics. His research focus is on the design and analysis of computer simulation experiments on models of discrete-event, stochastic systems, including applications in manufacturing, services and transportation. His current interest is using simulation to search for the best of a very large number of potential system designs, often called "optimization via simulation." Nelson's work has been consistently funded by the National Science Foundation, and he has published numerous papers and two books, including Discrete-Event System Simulation, 4th edition (Prentice Hall, 2004) which has been adopted by over 60 universities. In 1997, an award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers Operations Research Division for lifetime contributions to the field recognized this body of work, and in 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. While at Ohio State University, Nelson received the Alpha Pi Mu Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award in Industrial and Systems Engineering; the Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teacher Award in the College of Engineering; and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching among all faculty at Ohio State. Since his arrival at Northwestern University he has received the Graduate Teaching Award in IEMS many times, was named the McCormick Teacher of the Year in the School of Engineering in 1998 and 2007, received the Northwestern University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award among all NU faculty in 2003, and was awarded the 2004 Excellence in Teaching Operations Research Award by the Institute of Industrial Engineers Operations Research Division.
Don Norman is the Breed Senior Professor in Design in the School of Engineering at Northwestern University where he is co-director of MMM and co-director of the Segal Design Institute. He is cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting firm that helps companies produce human-centered products and services. He has been Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer and an executive at Hewlett Packard. He serves on many advisory boards, such as the editorial advisory board of Encyclopedia Britannica and the Department of Industrial Design at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He is a fellow of many organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science from the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia), honorary degrees from the University of Padova (Italy) and the Technical University of Delft (the Netherlands), the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from SIGCHI, the professional organization for Computer-Human Interaction, the Mental Health award for contributions to Business from Psychology Today, and the Taylor Award for outstanding contribution to the field of Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology from the American Psychological Association.
He is well known for his books "The Design of Everyday Things" and "Emotional Design." BusinessWeek called The Invisible Computer "the bible of the 'post PC thinking'." His newest book, "The Design of Future Things," discusses the role that automation plays in such everyday places as the home and automobile. He lives at www.jnd.org.
Craig Sampson
Craig is founder and director of IDEO's Chicago area office in Evanston, Illinois. Craig joined IDEO in Palo Alto, California as a design engineer in 1985 and founded IDEO Chicago in 1990. Before joining IDEO, Craig held positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard and Eastman Kodak. Craig's skills and interests focus in the areas of human-centered design, applied technology, and business innovation, but he is most passionate about the opportunities where these three areas intersect. Craig's areas of knowledge include product planning & marketing, user-centered research and design, materials & manufacturing technology, risk & return analysis, intellectual property, accelerated product development, innovative organizations, design and brand strategy, and new ventures. Craig holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering with honors from the University of Colorado, and a MS in Mechanical Engineering - Product Design from Stanford University.
Henry W. Stoll is Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Stoll's teaching responsibilities in the MMM program focus on Design for Manufacture and Quality by Design. His research interests center on the interface between product design and manufacturing including the development of engineering design methodologies that help to optimize the manufacturing system as a whole. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, for work in mechanical systems design.
Thomas Tirpak
Professor Tirpak has more than 10 years of experience in the electronics industry, leading efforts to develop methods and software tools for improving the productivity and quality of product design and manufacturing processes. At Motorola he has managed R&D projects and facilitated technology transfer by organizing Centers of Excellence, including the Virtual Prototyping Knowledge Management Team. He has mentored more than 40 projects at universities around the world. Dr. Tirpak is the Master Instructor for two classes at Motorola University on Operations Management. He was a visiting lecturer at the Univ. of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow, Poland. Dr. Tirpak received the M.S. degree in General Engineering (Robotics) and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana, and the Master of Engineering Management degree from Northwestern University. He is a member of IEEE, INFORMS, Tau Beta Pi and a Motorola Science Advisory Board Associate.
Professor Uzzi is the Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Kellogg. Uzzi joined the Kellogg School of Business in 1993. His research focuses on the study of social networks and complex systems with applications to leadership, the diffusion of ideas, and creative industries. At Kellogg, he has received 7 teaching awards on three continents, including Executive Masters Teacher of the Year three times. He advises and consults for companies worldwide. He holds a M.S. in psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in sociology from The State University of New York at Stony Brook. He teaches the core Management and Leadership course for MMM students.
Jan Van Mieghem is the Harold L. Stuart Distinguished Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Kellogg School of Business. He teaches the required MBA course in operations management and an MBA elective in operations strategy. He is the recipient of various teaching awards in the MBA and executive programs. His research focus is on flexibility and operations strategy. Dr. Van Mieghem has published two textbooks and over 30 research articles. Specific topics of interest are capacity management, risk management and operational hedging, and dynamic control of processing networks using Brownian models. He has served as Area Editor of Operations Research and as Associate Editor to Management Science and to Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He is a Fellow of The Belgian American Educational Foundation, The Francqui Foundation and the Future Professors of Manufacturing of the Stanford Integrated Manufacturing Association. He received the Jaedicke Merit Scholar award from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Kellogg School of Business, he worked in design engineering, manufacturing and management consulting. Professor Van Mieghem holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University K.U., Leuven, an MS in Electrical Engineering (Administration) and a PhD in Business, both from Stanford University.
William White joined the Industrial Engineering faculty in 1998 after a career in business. He formerly served as Chairman/CEO of Bell + Howell Company. Prior to that he has held president/CEO positions at Mead Products, Masonite, US Gypsum, as well as his own company WhiteStar Graphics. An author, his recent book is titled "From Day One: CEO Advice to Launch an Extraordinary Career." He teaches Organizational Behavior, Engineering Entrepreneurship and General Management. Behavior-based leadership is the primary focus of his research activies. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern and an MBA from Harvard University. His course, The New General Manager, is enthusiastically received by MMM students.
