Douglas C. Montgomery is a Regents' Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Montgomery received his B.S.I.E., M.S. and Ph.D. from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Prior to coming to ASU, Montgomery held the John M. Fluke Distinguished Chair in Engineering, was the Director of Industrial Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He has previously served as a professor, associate and assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Montgomery has professional and research interests in industrial statistics, including design of experiments, quality control, applications of linear models, and time series analysis and forecasting. He has lectured extensively throughout the Americas, Europe and the Far East. He has been a Visiting Professor of Engineering at the Monterey Institute of Technology in Monterey, Mexico, and a University Distinguished Visitor at the University of Manitoba. Montgomery has conducted sponsored research with The Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, and the United States Army.

Montgomery is an author of ten textbooks that have appeared in over 30 English editions and numerous foreign languages. He is currently serving as the editor of Quality and Reliability Engineering International and as the associate editor of Naval Research Logistics. He has previously served as editor of the Journal of Quality Technology . He has also previously served as the editor of Applied Probability and Statistics Department and as the editor of Quality and Reliability Engineering Department for IIE Transactions . Montgomery is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Quality Technology, the Journal of Applied Statistics, Quality Engineering, the Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, and the International Journal of Production Research.

Montgomery has industrial experience which includes engineering assignments with Union Carbide Corporation and Eli Lilly and Company. He also has extensive consulting experience with many national and international organizations.

Montgomery is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He has held several national offices in ASQC, ASA, and IIE. He is a member of the honorary societies Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Mu Sigma Rho, and Alpha Pi Mu. He is a recipient of the Shewhart Medal, the William G. Hunter Award, the Brumbaugh Award, and a two-time recipient of the Shewell Award from the American Society for Quality Control. He also received the Ellis R. Ott Award. He has received several outstanding teaching awards, including the Arizona State University Engineering College Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in 1994.