K. Preston White, Jr.
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Professor
P.O. Box 400747--151 Engineer’s
Way University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 22904-747 Phone: (804)982-2070 |
Biosketch
K. Preston White, Jr., is Professor
of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he serves as
Director of the University of Virginia Institute for Microelectronics (UVIM)
and founding Director of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Information Technology
Center (SMITC). His research interests
include discrete-event simulation, data analysis, knowledge discovery, and
optimization. He is particularly
interested in the integration of decision and information technologies and
applications in manufacturing and service systems. He has published over 100 scholarly articles in these areas.
Dr. White was born in
Port Chester, NY, in 1948. Dr. White
received the B.S.E. (1970) in mechanical engineering and the M.S. (1972) and
Ph.D. (1976) in systems and control engineering from Duke University. He was Assistant Professor in the ORSA
Department at Polytechnic University (1975-77) and in the Mechanical
Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy Departments at Carnegie-Mellon
University (1977-79). Dr. White’s experience also includes positions as
Faculty-in-Residence in the Advanced Technologies Division of Newport News
Shipbuilding (1986) and as Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Modeling and
Statistical Methods Division of SEMATECH (1993-94). In the Systems Engineering
program at Virginia, he has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies
(1983-1996), interim Department Chairman (1996), and currently leads the
award-winning undergraduate Capstone Program.
Dr. White is U.S. Editor for International Abstracts in Operations Research and Associate Editor
for International Journal of Intelligent
Automation and IEEE Transactions on
Electronics Packaging Manufacturing. He
also has served as Associate Editor for Automatica. Dr. White is a member of INFORMS, SCS, and INCOSE
and a senior member of IEEE and IIE. He
has served on the AdCom of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and
as chairman of the IEEE/SMC Technical Committee on System Simulation. He sits
on the Boards of the Winter Simulation Conference; the Virginia Modeling,
Simulation, and Analysis Center; and the University of Virginia Institute for
Microelectronics. He is a member of Tau
Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, and Sigma XI and a charter member of Omega Rho. On behalf
of the Systems Engineering program at Virginia, he accepted the first ABET
Award for Educational Innovation. Dr. White is a past winner of an NSF Graduate
Fellowship, the SAE Teetor Educational Award, and the Boeing Outstanding
Educator Award.
Last
update: 06 June 2001