Stanford University

Graduate Degrees

  • Ph.D., Operations Research (1970)
  • M.S., Mathematics (1966)
  • M.S., Physics (1963)

School of Engineering

Department of Management Science and Engineering

  • Consulting Associate Professor (1976-1988)
  • Consulting Professor (1988-2009)
  • Supervisor of graduate student research: Application areas include forest and fishery resource management, communications satellite planning, decision analysis of medical treatment.
  • Guest lecturer for graduate-level courses and summer executive seminar programs.
  • Teaching assistant to Professor Ronald A. Howard in 1966 for the first course in decision analysis taught at Stanford University.

Management Science and Engineering 453

  • Graduate/upper-level undergraduate seminar on applications of decision analysis and associated methodologies to decision making in medicine, energy, and environmental protection (with Professor Burke Robinson, 2006-2012).

Management Science and Engineering 290

  • Graduate/upper-level undergraduate class on public policy analysis, with applications in national security, health, energy, and the environment (co-taught with William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, Stanford Professors John Weyant and Ross Shachter, 2003-2005).

Biology 155

  • Graduate/upper-level undergraduate seminar on environmental health policy (co-taught with Donald Kennedy, President Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Studies, 1995, 1996).

EES&OR 194/294

  • Graduate/upper-level undergraduate course: "The Role of Technology in Public Policy Decisions" using energy and environmental case studies (1993-1999).