Kathryn E. Stecke

Ashbel Smith Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management, also Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia, Adelaide

Email: kstecke@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4781

Education:
- Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Purdue University 1981
- MS Industrial Engineering, Purdue University 1977
- MS Mathematics, Purdue University 1974
- BS Mathematics, Boston State College 1972

Classes:
- Operations Management
- Flexible Manufacturing Strategies

Current / recent research:
- Flexible Manufacturing
- Supply Chain Issues
- Disruptions in Supply Chains
- Activity-based Costing in Automated Manufacturing
- Quality Competitiveness Indices

Awards and recognition:
- Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Scheduling, Tokyo, Japan (July 18-20, 2006)
- Keynote Speaker, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Shanghai, China (June 21-23, 2006)
- Distinguished Plenary Speaker, EURO Conference on Continuous Optimization in Industry, Pécs, Hungary (June 28-July 1, 2005)
- Keynote Speaker and Guest of Honor, Global Conference of Flexible Systems Management, New Delhi, India, Dec. 2000
- Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Decision Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, June 1998
- General Chair, INFORMS International Meeting, Maui, Hawaii, June 2001

Current professional organization(s):
- Vice President, Sections & Societies of INFORMS, Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2005
- Member, Board of Directors of INFORMS, Jan.1999 - Dec. 2001
- Member, Decision Sciences Institute
- Editor-in-Chief, Operations Management Education Review, since October 2002
- Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, since August 1986
- Associate Editor, Production and Operations Management, since July 2003
- Editorial Board, Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, since October 2000
- Editorial Board, Annals of Operations Research, since Nov. 2001
- Consulting Board, Cognitive Processing, the International Quarterly of Cognitive Science, since Dec. 1999
- Program Chair, INFORMS National Meeting, Seattle, WA (October, 2007)
- Plenary Chair of the INFORMS Organizing Committee, New Orleans, LA (October 19-21, 2005)
- Member of the International Program Committee, International Symposium on Scheduling, Tokyo, Japan (July 18-20, 2006)
- Member of the Program Committee, International Symposium on Flexible Automation, Osaka, Japan (July 10-12, 2006)
- Member of the Program Committee, Third International Conference on Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing, Groningen, The Netherlands (July 3-5, 2006)
- Member of the Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Mass Customization, Grand Rapids, Michigan (September 27-28, 2006)
- General Chair, International Conference on Management Sciences: Optimization Models and Applications, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas (May 20-22, 2006)
- Member of the Program Committee, PICMET ’05 (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technolgy), Portland, Oregon (July 31-August 4, 2005)
- Member of the Program Committee, IFORS XVII, Honolulu, Hawaii (July 11-15, 2005)
- Member of the Program Committee, International Symposium on Manufacturing and Applications - ISOMA 2004, Seville, Spain (June 28-July 2, 2004)
- Member of the Program Committee Session Chair, Panel Member, PICMET ’03 (Portland, International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology), Portland, Oregon (July 20-24, 2003)
- Member of the Program Committee, 2002 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, Hiroshima, Japan (July 15-17, 2002)
- Member of the Program Committee, International Symposium on Scheduling 2002, Hamanako, Japan (June 4-6, 2002)
- Member of the International Programme Committee, IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Assembly and Disassembly, Gramado, Brazil (November 4-7, 2001)
- Member of the Program Committee, PICMET ’01 (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology), Portland, Oregon (July 29-August 2, 2001)
- Chair of the Program Committee, International Symposium on Information Science Innovations in Intelligent Automated Manufacturing, Dubai, U.A.E. (March 20-23, 2001)
- Member of the International Program Committee, International Conference on Information Technology for Business Management in the 16th World Computer Congress 2000, Beijing, China (August 21-25, 2000)
- Member of the Program Committee, 2000 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, Ann Arbor, Michigan (July 23-26, 2000)
- Member of the Technical Committee, Group Technology/Cellular Manufacturing Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico (March 27-29, 2000)
- Member of the Program Committee, PICMET ’99 (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology), Portland, Oregon (July 25-29, 1999)
- Member of the International Program Committee, Second International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Ahmedabad, India (January 3-6, 1999)
- Member of the Scientific Committee, 3rd International Industrial Engineering Conference, Montréal, Canada (May 26-28, 1999)
- Member of the Program Committee, International Conference on Agile, Intelligent, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, RPI, Troy, New York (October 7-9, 1998)
- Member of the Program Committee, Session Chair, and Author, 1998 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, Ohtsu, Japan (July 13-15, 1998)
- Member of the Program Committee and Session Chair, PICMET '97 (Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology), Portland, Oregon (July 27-31, 1997)
- Elected Member of the Board of Directors of POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) (April 2006- April 2008)
- Appointed Member of the President’s Advisory Board of the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, since March 2004; Advisory Board Meeting, October 17-18, 2005
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas (2004)
- INFORMS has noted the following paper as “one of the 50 most influential papers from the journal Management Science over the last half century” in 2004: “Formulation and Solution of Nonlinear Integer Production Planning Problems for Flexible Manufacturing Systems”, Management Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 273-288 (March 1983)

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