Papers/Publications/Grants
October, 1997 The Basic Course in POM: Are We Programming Robots? Fall 1997 meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), October 26-29, 1997, Dallas, Texas
October, 1997 Activity-Based Costing in a Manufacturing Resource Planning Environment, Research Paper Series, Educational and Research Foundation, Inc. of the American Production Inventory Control Society, Grant #96-2
August, 1997 Is Your MRP II Costing System Out of Date?, APICS, The Performance Advantage, Volume 7, Number 8, Pages 50-52.
March, 1997 Telecommuting in the Public Sector: A Survey, Western Decision Sciences Institute, Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting, March 1997, Kona, Hawaii.
Spring, 1997 Activity-Based Costing: Multiple Lot Size Effect, The Journal of Applied Business Research, Volume 13, Number 2, Pages 103-107.
February 22, 1997 Activity-Based Costing: Multiple Lot Size Distortions Proceedings of the Ninth Annual CSU-POM Faculty Development Conference, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California February 1997.
September 1996 Reengineering for Profitability: Have Banks Fallen Short of Other Corporations? The Journal of Bank Cost and Management Accounting, Volume 9, Number 2, Pages 47-58 (with Jim Williamson)
August 3-5. 1996 The APICS Certification Exams Measure (A) Memorization, (B) Thinking, (C) Neither, (D) Both. 1996 Summer Academic Workshop, APICS Educational & Research Foundation, Inc., August 3-5, 1996, Denver, Colorado
April 5-7, 1996 Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Evaluate the Cognitive Level of Examination Questions. Western Decision Sciences Institute, Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting, April 2-5, 1996, Seattle, Washington (With Dave Hampton)
February 1996 Received APICS Education and Research Foundation Grant #96-2 for $1,000. Activity-based Costing in a Manufacturing Resource Planning Environment. E&R Foundation, 500 West Annandale Road, Falls Church, VA 22046-4274.
October 10, 1995 Activity-Based Costing in a Multiple Lot Size Environment. Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Sixth annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, October 7-10, 1995. With Mike Shields and Mike McEwen.
April 28, 1995 POM in Academia: Teaching Thinking, Testing Memory, Paper accepted for 1995 Annual meeting of the Enhancement of the Teaching of Management conference, Chicago, Ill April 28-29, 1995 (With David Hampton)
April 13, 1995 Outsourcing Lets Companies Do What They Do Best, Western Decision Sciences Institute, Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 1995, San Francisco. With Fred Raafat and Don Sciglimpaglia.
April 5, 1995 Manufacturing and Marketing Conflicts, Annual meeting of INFORMS (Formerly ORSA/TIMS Societies), Los Angeles, CA, April 2-5, 1995.
1994 Accepted request from INFORMS's (Formed from merger of ORSA/TIMS) Board of Directors to be 1997 co-chair with Fred Raafat for National Meeting of the Society.
December 27, 1994 Granted sabbatical leave for Spring 1996. Will research the applications of activity based costing to reengineering the firm.
Sept/Oct 1994 An Empirical Study of Peer Bias in Evaluations: Students Rating Students, Journal of Education for Business, Volume 70, Number 1, Pages 43-47.
July 1994 Salt Brine and Stinkers: The Eddy Family in the Forest Products Industries of Nineteenth-Century Michigan and Quebec, Forest and Conservation History, Volume 38, Number 3, Pages 127-134
October 3, 1992 "Concurrent Engineering and Communication Infrastructure," Annual Meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society, Boston, MA., October 3-5, 1993
November 4, 1992 "An Empirical Study of Peer Bias in Evaluations: Students Rating Students," Operations Research Society of America/Institute of Management Sciences, Joint Meeting, 1992 Annual Meeting, San Franciso, CA November 1-4, 1992.
October 18, 1992 "Demingism and TQM: Is it Education's Turn," Annual Meeting of the Production and Operations Management Society, Orlando, FL., October 18, 21, 1992
April 20, 1992 "The 'Wonderland' of Off-Campus Teaching: A Faculty Viewpoint," Panelist at Annual Meeting of the National University Continuing Education Association (NUCEA), San Diego, California, April 10-14, 1992.
November 20, 1990 "Strategy for Selecting the Computer Mix for Shop Floor Control: A Case Study" (with Steven R. Anderson and Fred Raafat), Proceedings, 1990 Annual Meeting, Decision Sciences Institute, November 19-21, 1990, San Diego, CA., Volume 2, Page 1698.
July 5-7, 1989 "Feasibility of a Parametric Model for Estimating Costs of Engineering Changes to Space Transportation Systems" (with Sam Wagner), Joint meeting of the Institute of Cost Analysis and the National Estimating Society, Washington, D. C.
October 23-26, 1988 "Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technology in Southern California: A Survey, Presentation at Joint National Meeting ORSA/TIMMS, Denver Colorado, October 23-26, 1988
March 29 - Apr 1, 1988 "Statistical Analysis of Changes in Student Attitudes Concerning Academic involvement." Western Decision Sciences Institute, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
December 17, 1987 Seminar on Forecasting, Executive, Program, College of Business Administration, San Diego State University, Hilton Hotel, San Diego, California.
November 19, 1987 "Use of Materials Requirement Planning Software for Classroom and Pedagogical Purposes, The Eleventh Annual Western Educational Computing Conference of the Western Educational Computing Institute, San Francisco, CA
August 14, 1986 "The Microcomputer in Materials Management Training: A Case Study," National Meeting of the Academy of Management, Chicago, Ill.
January 9, 1986 "An Integrated Database in a Computer-Aided Planning and Scheduling Model," San Diego Chapter, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), San Diego, CA.
November 1985 - September 1986 Helped organize San Diego Chapter of the Project Management Institute. Served as Vice-President for Professional Growth following the granting of the Charter by the International Project Management Institute.
February 12, 1986 "China: Country, Culture, Quality," Chapter Number 708, American Society for Quality Control," Vista, CA.
May 13, 1985 "The Microcomputer: A Training Tool," Region VIII Annual Meeting, Canadian Production Inventory Control Society, Toronto, Canada.
July 9, 1985 "Computer Integrated Manufacturing: A Micro-computer Application," San Diego Section, Operations Research Society of America.
November 11-13, 1985 "Student Personality and Involvement in the Testing Process: Are They Related?," Annual Meeting, National Chapter, Decision Sciences Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada.
August 22, 1984 "Chinese Manufacturing" San Diego Century Chapter, American Production and Inventory Control Society, San Marcos, CA.
April 14, 1984 "The Effectiveness of MRP II in Relation to Theory A and Theory Z Styles of Management," Annual Meeting, Western Academy of Management, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
March 24-26, 1983 "Production Scheduling: Resolving Tooling Conflicts," Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Western Academy of Management, Santa Barbara, CA.
October 25-27, 1982 Chairperson, Management Philosophy Session, Annual Meeting, Operations Research Society of America/The Institute for Management Science Joint Meeting, San Diego, CA.
October 5, 1979 "Participatory Management and Shared Decision Making," Region II Conference, In-Plant Printing Management Association, San Diego, CA.
October 1977 "The Port Blakely Mill Company," Journal of Forest History, Volume 21, Number 4, October 1977, pp. 202-217.
January 22, 1975 "Certificate Programs in Production and Operations Societies," presented to the Century Chapter, American Production and Inventory Control Society.
May 9, 1974 "Quantitative Techniques, the Computer Revolution," 31st Annual Western Section Conference of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego.
May 15, 1974 "Simulation," presented to Century Chapter, American Production and Inventory Control Society," Quails Inn, San Marcos, California.
March 1974 Tutorial on simulation presented at the monthly meeting of the American Production Inventory Control Society. San Diego Chapter.
March 20,1974 "Utility Curves for Government Employees," Western Regional Meeting, Decision Sciences Institute, Hotel Sahara, Las Vegas, Nevada.
January-June 1973 Co-Chairman-Programs, Annual Education Seminar, San Diego Century Chapter, American Production and Inventory Control Society, San Diego, CA.
March 15-16, 1973 "Power Comparability - Its Contribution to Measuring Political Influence," Western Regional Meeting, Decision Sciences Institute, San Diego, CA.
1972-73 Special Events Chairman for Annual Meeting, Operations Research of America, San Diego, CA.
April 1972 "PERT: A Dynamic Approach," Decision Sciences, Volume 3, Number 2, April 1972.
April 1972 Presentation on the "Firm as a System" to the Management Club, Cubic Corporation, San Diego.
February 1972 "Usefulness of Classical Operations Research Tools," On panel for discussion, San Diego Section, Operations Research Society of America.
February 24, 1972 "A Dynamic Model for the Prediction of Racial Violence," Western Regional Meeting, Decision Sciences Institute, Pomona, Calif.
March 1972 "Computer Optimizing," San Diego Century Chapter, American Production and Inventory Control Society, San Diego State University, San Diego, Calif. March 18, 1972.
March 24, 1972 "Compatible Dyads: FIRO-B vs. Sociometry," Annual Meeting, Western Division, Academy of Management, The Ahwahnee Hotel, Yosemite National Park, Calif.
October 28, 1971 "Commodity Allocation: A Voting Model Approach," Joint National Conference on Major Systems, Operations Research Society of America, 40th National Meeting, Anaheim, Calif.
March 18, 1971 "A Dynamic Aspect of PERT," San Diego Chapter, Operations Research Society of America.
April 23, 1970 PERT: A Dynamic Approach, Annual Meeting, Western Division, Academy of Management, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Spring 1967 "Labor Productivity for the Firm: A Case Study," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 1967.
February 1966 "A Comparison of Business Cycles for Selected Series -- Washington State and the Nation," Business Review, Vol. XXV, No. 3, February 1966.
December 1966 "Power Comparability -- Its Contribution to a Theory of Firm Behavior," Management Science, Vol. 13, No. 4, December 1966.
April 1963 "Legal Aspects of Featherbedding," Personnel Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, April 1963.
October 1962 "The Kirkland Steel Mill, Adventure in Western Enterprise," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 4, October 1962.
April 1959 "The Kirkland Steel Mill, Adventure in Western Enterprise," Monthly meeting of the Seattle Historical Society, Seattle, Washington.
April 1958 "The Kirkland Steel Mill, Adventure in Western Enterprise," Kirkland Chamber of Commerce, Kirkland, Washington (Presentation reported in Eastside Journal, Kirkland, Washington).
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