Jeffrey W. Herrmann is the St. Abbo of Fleury Chair in Engineering and an ordinary professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Catholic University of America. He is a Knight of Columbus and a member of the Society of Catholic Scientists, ASME, and IISE.
Dr. Herrmann earned his B.S. in applied mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow from 1990 to 1993, he received his Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida. His dissertation investigated production scheduling problems motivated by semiconductor manufacturing. He held a post-doctoral research position in the Institute for Systems Research from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 2023, he was a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland.
In 2003, Dr. Herrmann received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. In 2016, his textbook on decision making won the IIE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year award. In 2012 he and Gino Lim were the conference chairs for the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference.
Education and Employment History
Graduate, Plant City High School, Plant City, Florida, 1985.
President's Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1985-1990.
B.S., Applied Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, University of Florida, 1990-1993.
Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, 1993.
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, 1993-1995.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, 1995-2001.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, 2001-2015.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, 2015-2023.
Ordinary Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 2023 to present.
Blogs
Engineering Decision Making and Risk Management explores technical topics.
Bethlehem Road wanders through topics in engineering, science, philosophy, religion, and literature.
Saint Abbo of Fleury
Saint Abbo was a monk who lived in France in the early Middle Ages. He studied astronomy in Paris and Reims. He taught at the monastery in Ramsey, England, and became the abbot of the monastery in Fleury, France, in A.D. 988. He died in 1004.
For more about St. Abbo, see Elizabeth Dachowski's work: First among Abbots, 2008.
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