personnel profile
 Robert C. Carlson |
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Research Statement
Robert C. Carlson is a professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and is a former chair of the Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Department. He has held visiting faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Amos Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College, and at the International Management Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. He worked as a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in the Operations Analysis and Economic Studies Center. He was the founding Co-Director of the International Manufacturing Policy Seminar offered at the International Management Institute in Geneva.
He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS and PhD in Operations Research from The Johns Hopkins University. He has published approximately sixty articles and technical reports in such journals as Operations Research, Management Science, IIE Transactions, Decision Sciences, OMEGA, Journal of Operations Management, Operations Research Letters, Journal of Manufacturing and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. He has created and conducted numerous executive seminars in the United States and in England, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Japan, Spain, and Canada
His primary areas of interest for both teaching and research are production and capacity planning, new product development, manufacturing strategy and sustainable product design, development, and manufacturing. Professor Carlson has consulted for several private firms and public organizations in the areas of the management of new product development, manufacturing strategy, scheduling, facilities planning, and cost analysis. He is the recipient of the prestigious School of Engineering Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the Eugene L. Grant Teaching Award.
Professional Services
Professor Carlson lectures, consults, and directs programs throughout the world in the areas of the management of new product development, manufacturing strategy, scheduling, facilities planning, and cost analysis. At Stanford, he founded and directed a one-week summer executive program entitled "Excellence in Developing and Manufacturing Products". He also has lectured in the programs "Effective Management of Production Operations" and the "AEA/Stanford Executive Institute". He has created and conducted numerous executive seminars in the United States and in England, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, and Canada. He was the founding Co-Director of the International Manufacturing Policy Seminar offered at the International Management Institute in Geneva and the founding Co-Director of the Stanford Faculty Program in the Management of Technology offered at the Kyoto Research Park in Japan.
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| Degree | Discipline | Year | School |
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| PhD | 1976 | Johns Hopkins |
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| MS&E 108 | Senior Project | http://www.stanford.edu/class/msande108 |
| MS&E265 | Supply Chain Logistics | http://eeclass.stanford.edu/msande265/ |
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| Advanced Models in Production and Operations | ||
| Management of New Product Development | ||
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Academic Honors & Awards
- 2002 Co-author of best paper published in the Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
- 1994 Eugene L. Grant Teaching Award (selected by student and alumni vote)
- 1984 Faculty Service Award, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
- 1983 Outstanding Faculty Contribution to the Action Research Liaison Office, Stanford University
- 1982 Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, School of Engineering
- 1980 Outstanding Teacher Award (selected by student vote), Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management