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Dr. William B. Rouse
Executive Director of the Tennenbaum Institute
at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Biography
Bill Rouse is the Executive Director of the Tennenbaum Institute
at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This university-wide center
pursues a multi-disciplinary portfolio of initiatives focused on
research and education to provide knowledge and skills that enable
fundamental change of complex organizational systems. He is also
a professor in the College of Computing and School of Industrial
and Systems Engineering. His earlier positions include Chair of
the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, CEO of two innovative
software companies - Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology
- and faculty positions at Georgia Tech, University of Illinois,
Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University.
Almost four decades of experience in research, education, engineering,
management, and marketing. His expertise includes individual and
organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design
of organizations and information systems. In these areas, he has
consulted with well over one hundred large and small enterprises
in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked
with several thousand executives and senior managers.
Written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored
many books, including most recently Essential Challenges of Strategic
Management (Wiley, 2001) and the award-winning Don't Jump to Solutions
(Jossey-Bass, 1998). He is editor of Enterprise Transformation:
Understanding and Enabling Fundamental Change (Wiley, 2006), co-editor
of Organizational Simulation: From Modeling & Simulation to
Games & Entertainment (Wiley, 2005), co-editor of the best-selling
Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management (Wiley, 1999), and
editor of the eight-volume series Human/Technology Interaction in
Complex Systems (Elsevier). Among many advisory roles, he has served
as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research
Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board,
and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation.
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow
of four professional societies -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering
(INCOSE), the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science,
and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He has received the
Joseph Wohl Outstanding Career Award and the Norbert Wiener Award
from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; a Centennial
Medal and a Third Millennium Medal from IEEE; the Best Article Award
from INCOSE, and the O. Hugo Schuck Award from the American Automation
Control Council. He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who
in Engineering, and other biographical literature, and has been
featured in publications such as Manager's Edge, Vision, Book-Talk,
The Futurist, Competitive Edge, Design News, Quality & Excellence,
IIE Solutions, Industrial Engineer, and Engineering Enterprise.
Rouse received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island,
and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Served in a variety of leadership roles in several companies and
on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He also has served in visiting positions on the faculties of Delft
University of Technology in The Netherlands and Tufts University
. He received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island , and
his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Honors & Awards
- Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
2006
- IBM Faculty Award 2006
- IBM Faculty Award 2005
- Best Article Published in the Journal of Systems Engineering
2005
- College of Engineering Hall of Fame, University of Rhode Island
2003
- Fellow, INFORMS 2002
- Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award, IEEE Systems, Man,
and Cybernetics Society 2001
- Third Millennium Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) 2000
- Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 1994
- National Academy of Engineers 1991
- Norbert Wiener Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
1986
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
1985
- Centennial Medal, IEEE 1984
- O. Hugo Schuck Award, the American Automation Control Council
1979
- Who's Who in Engineering
- Who's Who in America
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