Mark Hillier
Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods
Evert McCabe Faculty Fellow
Mark S. Hillier is associate professor and Evert McCabe Fellow of Management
Science in the Business School at the University of Washington. Dr. Hillier
received his BS in engineering (plus a concentration in computer science)
from Swarthmore College, MS with distinction in operations research and
PhD in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford
University. As an undergraduate, he won the McCabe Award for ranking first
in his engineering class, won election to Phi Betta Kappa based on his
work in mathematics, set school records on the men's swim team, and was
awarded two national fellowships (National Science Foundation and Tau Beta
Pi) for graduate study. As a graduate student, he taught a PhD-level seminar
in operations management at Stanford and won a national prize for work
based on his PhD dissertation. At the University of Washington, he teaches
courses in management science and spreadsheet modeling. He has won several
MBA teaching awards for his MBA core course in decision support models
and for his elective course in spreadsheet modeling, and a university-wide
teaching award for his work in teaching undergraduate classes in operations
management. His research interests include issues in component commonality,
inventory, manufacturing, and the design of production systems. He has
published numerous articles in journals such as Operations Research,
IIE Transactions, Europearn Journal of Operational Research,
and Naval Research Logistics. A recent paper on component commonality
won an award in IIE Transactions for best paper of 2000-2001.
