Jeff Goldberg
Jeff Goldberg currently serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering; Director of the baccalaureate program in Engineering; and Associate Professor in Systems and Industrial Engineering for the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Goldberg has been a faculty member in the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering at the University of Arizona for over 20 years. In addition to his extensive consulting work with IPS, he has been a consultant to the City of Tucson on emergency vehicle deployment. His mathematical models for optimizing fire and EMS deployment have been published in the peer-reviewed operations research and emergency medicine literature. He was previously employed at Vector Research Incorporated and Bell Laboratories.
Dr. Goldberg received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, in Industrial and Operations Engineering 1984, and the M. ENGR. and BS from Cornell in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering in 1980 and 1979 respectively. His research interests include designing and operating emergency vehicle systems, and using mathematical models to help solve decision problems. He was a recipient of the Shingo Prize for excellence in manufacturing (outstanding paper award, 1994), and spent a year at West Point as a visiting professor in the Department of Systems Engineering. In 1999, he was given the University of Arizona’s EL-Paso Natural Gas Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for outstanding teaching and research. His textbook, The Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems , won the Book of the Year Award from the Institute for Industrial Engineering in 2003.
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