Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute (IMSEI)

Dr. Thom J. Hodgson

Director, IMSEI
James T. Ryan Distinguished University Professor
Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Education

University of Michigan: B.S.E., Science Engineering, 1961; M.B.A., Quantitative Methods, 1965; Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, 1970

Areas of Interest

Scheduling, logistics, production and inventory control; manufacturing systems; applied and military operations research.

Dr. Thom J. Hodgson came to NCSU as Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering in the fall of 1983. Shortly after arriving, he and a number of others (including then Associate Dean Carl Zorowski) began work to organize what was to become IMSEI. Dr. Hodgson is currently the James T. Ryan Distinguished University Professor and the Director of the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering Institute at North Carolina State University. He is also a Fellow of IIE and INFORMS and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Hodgson served as Head of the Industrial Engineering Department at NCSU ('83-'90); Director of the Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems at the National Science Foundation ('91-'93); Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida ('70-'83); Operations Research Analyst at Ford Motor Company ('66-'70); and an Officer in the US Army ('61-'63).