TED
KLASTORIN is the Burlington Northern/Burlington
Resources Professor of Operations Management in the Department
of Management Science (School of Business), Adjunct Professor in
the Department of Health Services (School of Public Health and
Community Medicine), and Adjunct Professor of Industrial
Engineering (College of Engineering) at the University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington. He holds a B.S. degree from
Carnegie-Mellon University (1969) and a Ph.D. from the
University of Texas at Austin (1973).
Professor
Klastorin is a senior research fellow at the IC2 Institute, The
University of Texas, Austin, Texas. He previously taught at the
Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University
(Winston-Salem, North Carolina) as well as the University of
Washington and the University of Texas. At the UW, he was the
founding chair of the Management Science Department and a
co-founder of the PEMM Program (Program in Engineering and
Manufacturing Management)--a joint program of the College of
Engineering and the School of Business.
Professor Klastorin's research interests include project
management, and supply chain management issues in manufacturing
and service organizations. His current research projects include
a study of the impact of random disrutpive events (e.g.,
strikes) on project planning, and coordination issues in
decentralized supply chains. His articles have appeared in IIE
Transactions, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and
Management Science, among others. He is currently
completing a textbook entitled Project Management: Tools and
Trade-offs, which is scheduled to be published by John
Wiley & Sons in 2003.
Professor Klastorin has consulted with numerous organizations,
including Boeing, Starbucks, Fluke Corp, and Microsoft (where he
has assisted with the design of Microsoft Project). He is a
member of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences), IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers),
and POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) and
serves on the editorial boards of Manufacturing &
Service Operations Management (M&SOM) and IIE
Transactions.
