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Faculty & Staff Details

Frank Forst , G.
Title: Associate Professor
Office #: Maguire Hall 386
Phone: 312-915-7058
E-mail: fforst@luc.edu


Personal Information

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Management Science, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1981
  • M.B.A. Quantitative Methods, Loyola University Chicago, 1972 
  • B.S. Mathematics, Loyola University Chicago, 1969

Research Interests

  • Operations Management with special interest in job shop scheduling and vendor selection
  • Business forecasting

Professional Associations

  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 
  • INFORMS College on Production and Operations Management
  • Production and Operations Management Society

Professional Activities

  • Library Liaison for Management Science Department
  • Manuscript reviewer for:
              Operations Research
              European Journal of Operational Research
              Naval Research Logistics
              Decision Sciences
              International Transactions in Operational Research
              and several textbook publishers

Courses Taught

  • ISOM 241: Business Statistics
  • ISOM 332: Operations Management
  • ISOM 341: Quality and Productivity Improvement
  • ISOM 343: Operations Research
  • ISOM 480: Operations Management
  • ISOM 491: Managerial Statistics

Research Listings


PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
"Minimizing the Expected Weighted Number of Tardy Jobs with Non-Identically Distributed Processing Times and Due Dates," 16th Annual National Conference of Production and Operations Management Society in Chicago, 4/29/05 to 5/2/05 2005