Ronald G. Askin is Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University.  Dr. Askin received a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, and an MS in Operations Research and a Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.  Prior to joining Arizona State University, he served on the faculties of the University of Iowa, and the University of Arizona.  He has also been a visiting professor at North Carolina State University. 

Dr. Askin is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), and a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).  He has previously served as President of the IIE Council of Fellows, Sr. V.P. and member of the Board of Trustees for IIE, Chair of the Association of Chairs of Operations Research Departments (ACORD), Chair of the INFORMS Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM), Chair of the Operation Research Society of America’s Technical Section on Manufacturing Management (TECMAN), and Chair of the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ).  He is also a former editor of the IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing.  Dr. Askin has authored or co-authored over 80 professional publications, primarily on the application of operations research and statistical methods to the design and analysis of integrated production control systems.  Other research interests include project scheduling and decision analysis.  Dr. Askin co-authored the texts Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems (1993) and Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems (2002), both of which received the IIE Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award (1994 and 2003).  Other awards include the IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing Best Paper Award (twice as coauthor), the Shingo Award for Excellence in Manufacturing Research, IIE Transactions Development and Applications Award (coauthor), the ASEE/IIE Eugene L. Grant Award (coauthor), and a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award.  Dr. Askin has consulted with a variety of manufacturing and service industry companies in the areas of scheduling, facilities planning, inventory control, quality improvement, and performance evaluation.