Frank Forst

Personal Information

Degrees

• PhD Management Science, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1981

• MBA Quantitative Methods, Loyola University Chicago, 1972

• BS 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

• OPMG 332. Operations Management

• OPMG 341. Quality Management and Continuing Improvement

• OPMG 343. Operations Research

• OPMG 480. Operations Management

• ISOM 491. Managerial Statistics

Research Listings

Refereed Articles

Forst, Frank. , "Minimizing the Expected Weighted Number of Tardy Jobs with Non-Identically Distributed Processing Times and Due Dates." Research in Business and Economics Journal (2009).