Gerald William Evans

Gerald W. Evans is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering at the University of Louisville. He has served as a NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow at Langley Research Center and Kennedy Space Center. In addition, he has served as a Senior Research Engineer for General Motors Research Laboratories and as an Industrial Engineer for the Department of the Army. Dr. Evans’ teaching and research interests include multi-objective decision analysis, simulation modeling and analysis, optimization, and project management. Dr. Evans has published approximately 110 papers in various conference proceedings and journals, and is the author of the textbook: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis for Industrial Engineering: Methodology and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2017. In addition, he has directed the research of 92 Master’s students and 20 PhD students while at the University of Louisville. Dr. Evans has received the Fellow Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, and the Moving Spirit Award from INFORMS.

Publications

Analytics, Operations, and Strategic Decision Making in the Public Sector
Gerald William Evans, William E. Biles, Ki-Hwan G. Bae. © 2019. 441 pages.
Analytics for the public sector involves the application of operations research and statistical techniques to solve various problems existing outside of the private sector. The...