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Fred E. (Ted) Williams

ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS
University of Michigan-Flint VOICE: 810.762.3160
School of Management 346 Classroom Office Building FAX: 810.762.3282
Flint, MI 48502-1950 e-mail: tedwill@umflint.edu


EDUCATION
1961-1969 Purdue University: Ph.D. January, 1970 Management Science
Master of Science in Industrial Management 1962
1957-1961 Carnegie Institute of Technology: B.S. 1961 Mechanical Engineering

PRESENT POSITION
6/98- Dean and Professor of Management, University of Michigan-Flint

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2/95-5/98 Dean and Professor of Decision Sciences, Campbell School of Business, Berry College

1990-1995 Dean and Professor, College of Business Administration, Bowling Green State University

1984-1990 Dean and Professor, College of Business Administration, Tennessee Tech University

1969-1984 College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor 1969-71; Associate Professor 1971-84; Tenure; Area Coordinator of Management Science 1972-76 and 1982-83; Chair, Graduate Programs 1979-1984

1976-1977 Visiting Professor, College of Industrial Management & Textiles, Clemson University

1965-1969 School of Industrial Management, Purdue University
Instructor; Academic Advisor; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Counseling; Lecturer

RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Summer NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Research Program
1972 Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
1964-1965 Physical Facilities Analyst, Office of Schedules and Space, Purdue University
1963-1964 Director of Service, University Motors, Inc., West Lafayette, Indiana
1960&1961 Engineering summer intern, IBM, Vestal, New York (1961), Ford Motor Company (1960)

Boards and Consultancies
1972-1984 Georgia Tech Athletic Association Board of Trustees
1980-1981 IBM General Systems Division: Forecasting business opportunities in small computers
1970-1980 Scripto Incorporated, C&S Bank, Coca-Cola, U.S.A, The Early Learning Center, Jackson Beford, Jr., Attorney, David Paul Smith, Attorney

PUBLICATIONS
"Economics Modeling of the Small Computer Industry." With Peter G.Sassone. In The Economics of Information Processing, edited by H. Lorin and R.Goldberg. John Wiley and Sons, 1981.

"The Birthday Problem-Playing with Overloaded Dice." Decision Sciences. Vol. 8, No. 4, October 1977. With Gary M. Mullet.

"Decision Theory and the Innkeeper: An Approach for Setting Hotel Reservations Policy." Interfaces. Vol. 7, No. 4, August 1977.
PUBLICATIONS (continued)

"On the Evaluation of Intertemporal Outcomes." Multiple Criteria Decision Making. Edited by J. L. Cochran and M. Zeleny. South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1973.
"The Effect of Market Organization on Competitive Equilibrium: The Multiunit Case." The Review of Economic Studies. Vol. XL, No. 121, January 1973.

"DECIDE: A FORTRAN IV Program for Decision Analysis." (Abstract) Computers in Behavioral Science section of Behavioral Science. Vol. 17, March 1972, with Kenneth L. Hamilton.
"A Note on 'Preferences, Summation, and Social Welfare Functions'." Management Science. Vol. 17, No. 3, November 1970.

"Decision Theory." With Charles E. Gearing. In The Encyclopedia of Management, edited by Carl Heyel. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982.

"Some Comments on: ON THE APPLICATION OF DIFFERENTIAL GAME THEORY IN THE DECISION SCIENCES." Applications, Issues, Developments, and Strategies in the Decision Sciences. Edited by T. B. Green and S. R. Jones. Mississippi: Southeast Chapter of the American Institute for Decision Sciences, 1973.

"The Valuation of Scientific and Technical Experiments." Research Reports, 1972 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Research Program. (Marshall Space Flight Center-Auburn/Auburn Program).

"Forecasting Business Opportunities in the Small Computer Industry." Proceedings of the Symposium on the Economics of Information Processing. With Peter G. Sassone. Sponsored by IBM's Systems Research Institute. (The paper is classified IBM CONFIDENTIAL. It was circulated with the proceedings.) 1981.

Benefit Assessment of Pollution Monitoring Satellites. Draft of Final Report on Contract NASI-14351, Langley Research Center. With P. G. Sassone, F. E. Grambling, R. D. Wilkins, J. B. Wood, and D. M. Brown, 1979, 270 pps.

"Benefit Assessment of Monitoring Stratospheric Ozone and Aerosols." Proceedings of SOUTHEASTCON'78 (Region 3 IEEE), April 1978. With F. E. Grambling and P. G. Sassone.

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
"Hotel Reservation Policies." With Thomas F. Fox and Michael A. Perry. Working paper MS-76-1, College of Industrial Management, Georgia Tech. Presented at the ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, November 1976.

"The Evaluation of Risky Investments." Working paper MS-75-4, College of Industrial Management, Georgia Tech. Presented at the ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, November 1975.

"Some Simulation Studies of Multiple Discriminant Analysis with Binary Variables." With Kenneth L. Hamilton. August 1972. Fourth Annual Classification Society Meeting, May 1973.
Benchmarking Processes. Workshop conducted at the Southern Business Administration Associations 1996 Summer Workshop, Huntsville, Alabama, August 1966. (co-organizer)
Managing Technology in the Business School. Workshop conducted at the Southern Business Administration Associations 1995 Summer Workshop, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, August 1995.

Business Enrollment Patterns in Selected Public-Assisted Ohio Universities. American Accounting Association 1994 Ohio Regional Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, May 1994.

RECOGNITIONS
Scimitars and Delta Skull (Undergraduate)
Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Grant (1967-68)
NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Research Program
Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa, Beta Gamma Sigma, Sigma Beta Delta
Professor of the Year (1979-80) presented by Graduate Students in Management (Georgia Institute of Technology graduate student organization) for excellence in teaching at the graduate level

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