Education

BA, Mathematics and Physics
Whitman College, 1960

MS, Mathematics
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1966

PhD, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Virginia Tech, 1971

Research Areas

Maintenance, Production Control, Simulation, Rapid Prototyping

Selected Publications

Adapting Total Productive Maintenance to Asten, Inc. Patterson, J. W., Fredendall, L. D., Kennedy, W. J., and McGee, A. Production and Inventory Management Journal, 37(4), 32-37, 1996

Application of Hypertext Technology to Assist Maintenance on the Shop, Khoshi, T., Gramopadhye, A. K., Kennedy, W.J. and Ramu, N.V. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 3(2), 283-295, 1996

Courses Taught

IE 380 Methods of Operations Research I
IE 486 Production Planning and Control
IE 803 Engineering Optimization and Applications

Professional Affiliations

Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
Institute of Industrial Engineers