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Jeffery K. Cochran is professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. He received a BSE in interdisciplinary engineering, MSNE in nuclear engineering, and MSIE and PhD in industrial engineering, all from Purdue University in 1973, 1976, 1982, and 1984, respectively. Between these degrees he worked for the Aerojet Nuclear Company, NASA's LARS Laboratory, the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Cochran came to the Fulton School in 1984 as an assistant professor after a summer as a senior research scientist at the Battelle Northwest Laboratory. He was promoted to associate professor in 1988 and to full professor in 2000. As a member of the industrial engineering department, he has twice served as Associate Department Chair for Graduate Studies, on two chair search committees, and many others. He has also served three terms in the ASU Academic Senate.
Cochran has authored over 100 journal articles and refereed conference papers. He currently serves on four journal editorial boards, has served as a General Chair of three international conferences and a Program Chair of two more, and been editor of three conference proceedings and a journal special issue.
Cochran's research interests include optimization of stochastic models in high technology production systems, next-generation discrete event simulation tools, and hospital, transportation, and supply chain flow models. His research has been funded by Honeywell, Inc., Motorola, Inc., the Institute for Manufacturing and Automation Research, the National Science Foundation, Technical Systems Integrators, Inc., Siemens AG, Infineon Technologies, AT&T Network Systems, the Arizona Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, Banner Health, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Currently he directs research in whole-hospital flow design in the new Health and Human Systems Laboratory.
Cochran has chaired over 30 PhD dissertation or MS thesis research committees. He is a two-time winner of an Industrial Engineering teaching award, a three-time winner of an Engineering College/School teaching award, and has been recognized as an ASU Corporate Leaders Program Professor of the Year.
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Thursday August 28, 2008 