Bio of Russell Barton
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Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Co-Director, MMM Degree Program, Associate Director, CMTOC |
Introduction
Russell Barton is Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems in the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business at Penn State, Associate Director of the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, and Co-Director of the Master of Manufacturing Management Degree Program, offered jointly by the Colleges of Engineering and Business. He recently completed a three-year term as Associate Dean for Research and Ph.D./M.S. Programs. Prior to joining the Smeal College of Business, Dr. Barton was a professor in the College of Engineering at Penn State, from 1990-2001.
Dr. Barton has published over 70 refereed papers in the fields of applied statistics, engineering design/new product development, optimization and simulation. He has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator for approximately $2 million in research and equipment funding, including 5 industry grants totaling $225,000 and 10 National Science Foundation grants totaling approximately $1,630,000.
In education, he has received one national, one university, three college and two departmental awards for teaching and curriculum development. He served as committee chair for eleven doctoral students at Penn State, and as committee member for three doctoral students in France, where he spent a sabbatical year in 1998-1999. He has developed new courses in applied statistics, using simulation models for new product design, and concurrent engineering, and authored a book entitled Graphical Methods for the Design of Experiments, published by Springer-Verlag. He is a Senior Member of the IIE and a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Board Member for the INFORMS Section on Quality, Statistics and Reliability, and the INFORMS Section on Data Mining. He was Program Chair for the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, and Past President of the 500-member INFORMS Simulation Society.
Current Research
Professor Barton's research interests include web application security, graphical methods for experiment design, design of experiments and metamodeling methods applied to simulation models, and statistical models of product and process behavior.
Expertise
Web Application Security
Optimization, Simulation, Statistical process Control, Design of Experiments
New Product Development, Concurrent Engineering, Design for Manufacturing
Editorship
IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
Education
Ph.D.,
Operations Research,
Cornell University,
1978
M.S.,
Operations Research,
Cornell University,
1975
B.S.,
Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University,
1973
Courses
QMM 572, Design Practice for Manufacturing II
QMM 561, Manufacturing Systems Planning and Control I
SC&IS 545, Supply Chain Simulation