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CONTRIBUTORS ERICH BLOCH is director of the National Science Foundation. Before joining the NSF, Mr. Bloch was vice president for Technical Personnel Development at IBM Corporation, which he joined in 1952. He received his education in electrical engi- neering at the Federal Polytechnic Institute of Zurich and the University of Buffalo. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. W. DALE COMPTON became a senior fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in 1986. He joined the Ford Motor Company in 1970 and server] as vice president of Research from 1973 to 1986. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. KATHY PRAGER CONRAD is a senior account manager at New England Strategies, Washington, D.C. Before taking that position she was an issues analyst in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation, where she devel- oped policy recommendations for the director of the Foundation. She received a B.A. degree in biology-psychology from Wesleyan University. THOMAS L. DE FAZIO is currently employed at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory as a technical staff member in the Robotics and Assembly Systems Division. His major fields of interest include preliminary system and machine design, mechanics, combi- natorics, and other issues of mechanical assembly, mechanics, and instrumentation. He received his B.S., M.S., ant] Sc.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 226
CONTRIBUTORS 227 ULRICH FLATAU is architecture development manager, CIM Marketing Group, Dig- ital Equipment Corporation. He joined Digital in 1974 and has worked as a senior marketing consultant for Europe and country marketing manager for the engineering market in West Germany. He received his Diplom Engineer in mechanical engineering from the University of Berlin, FRG. F. HANK GRANT is president of FACTROL, Inc. Before forming FACTROL, he was with Pritsker & Associates. He has been actively involves] in the development of special-purpose simulation languages and is currently concerned with the use of simu- lation tools for shop floor control and real-time scheduling. Dr. Grant receiver! his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue University. RICHARD E. GUSTAVSON is a technical staff member in the Robotics and Assembly Systems Division at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. His major fields of interest are assembly system design, manufacturing economic analyses, kinematics of linkages, and applications of trigonometry. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineer- ing from the University of Michigan and his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. RICHARD W. METZINGER is a section chief in the Robotics and Assembly Systems Division at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. His major fields of interest are simulation, scheduling and control systems, and instrumentation. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ARCH W. NAYLOR is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. He has been associated with Manufacturing Data Systems, Inc., and also with the Industrial Technology Institute in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he worked on manufacturing software. He received his B.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, ant] his Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan. JAMES L. NEVINS is division leader of the Robotics and Assembly Systems Division at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory where he directs a variety of activities involving automation. The principal focus of his work is applied research on acivancecI robotics, intelligent and autonomous systems, and programmable flexible automation and as- sembly systems. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from Northeastern University and his M.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ARTHUR I. ROCH, JR., is (Erector of Industrial Modernization (IMOD) for the LTV Aircraft Products Group, Military Aircraft Division. The IMOD department is in- volved in improving productivity, Towering costs, ant! enhancing product quality through the use of such technology as artificial intelligence ant! computer-integrated manufacturing. Mr. Roch received his engineering degree from Auburn University. JONATHAN M. ROURKE is currently employed at Arthur D. Little as a consultant in the Operations Management Section. His major fields of interest include mechanical design and manufacturing management. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
228 CONTRIBUTORS WILLIAM B. ROUSE is president and principal scientist of Search Technology, Inc., a company that specializes in contract R&D and consulting services in decision support and training systems for personnel in complex engineering systems. He also served as professor of industrial and systems engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Rhode Island and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in systems engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. LAURENCE C. SEIFERT became vice president, Engineering, Manufacturing and Pro- duction Planning at AT&T in 1987. He was director of Engineering at the Oklahoma City Works of AT&T until 1985, when he became vice president of Manufacturing Research and Development at AT&T. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. DONALD S. SELTZER is a staff engineer in the Industrial Automation Division at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. His major fields of interest include the development of hardware ant! software for the control of automated systems and the design of advanced sensors. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. JAMES I. SOLBERG is director of the Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems ant] a professor of industrial engineering at Purdue University. His research interests include stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, and man- ufacturing systems. He received a B.A. degree from Harvard College in mathematics and M. S. ancl Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan. RAJAN SUR! is an associate professor of industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His current interests are in mocleling and decision support for manufacturing systems, specializing in flexible manufacturing systems. He received his B.S. degree from Cambridge University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. V1J~ A. TIPNIS is professor of mechanical engineering, Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Chair for Advanced Manufacturing Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology. He was the founder and president of Tipnis, Inc. His major interests are in the fields of manufac- turing processes and software systems for manufacturing and process control. He receiver! his Sc.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. HERBERT B. VOELCKER holds the Charles Lake Chair in the Sibley School of Me- chanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University and is director of Cornell's Manufacturing Engineering and Productivity Program. He was a member of the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation from 1985 to 1986. Before that he was a member of the electrical engineering faculty at the University of Roch- ester. He holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. degree in engineering from Imperial College of Science and Technology.
CONTRIBUTORS 229 RICHARD A. VOW is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Robot Systems Division of the Center for Research in Integrated Man- ufacturing at the University of Michigan. His interests are in distributed computer systems, manufacturing software, embedded real-time computer systems, and robot- ics. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northwestern University. JOHN A. WHITE is a Regents' Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and past director of the Material Handing Research Center at the Geor- gia Institute of Technology. He received the B.S. degree in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas, the M.S. degree in industrial engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and the Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. DANIEL E. WHITNEY is a section chief in the Robotics and Assembly Systems Division of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. His research interests include robot kinematic and force control, the theory of part assembly, economic analysis of assembly systems, and the role of computers in automation. He received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
