- Arnold Reisman
Arnold Reisman (
Aug 2 1934 ) is an Americanengineer ,historian andauthor , who was professor ofOperations Research atCase Western Reserve University .Biography
Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz,
Poland , in 1934. He came to the United States after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering fromUniversity of California, Los Angeles . He is a registeredProfessional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, and has published over 200 papers in refereed professional journals, along with 14 books. Reisman served 27 years as Professor of Operations Research atCase Western Reserve University .In 1992, CWRU alleged that Reisman had engaged in "disruptive conduct" as a faculty member. Reisman sued CWRS for age discrimination. He lost the jury trial, settled with CWRU and was bought out his tenured position at CWRU for $350,000 in 1994. During 1999-2003, he was an invited Visiting Scholar in Turkey at both
Sabanci University , and theIstanbul Technical University .He is listed in
Who's Who in America , Who's Who in the World, American Men and Women of Science, and Two Thousand Notable Americans, and he is a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science . Reisman is living in Shaker Heights,Ohio .Work
His current research interests are technology transfer, epistemology, meta research, and most recently, the history of German-speaking professors who, starting in 1933, were exiled from their homelands by the Third Reich, found sanctuary and work in the Republic of Turkey, and had a phenomenal impact on science in general and Turkish universities in particular. Reisman is also actively pursuing his lifelong interest in sculpting.
Publications
Reisman published over 200 papers in refereed professional journals, along with 14 books:
* 1970. "Managerial & Engineering Economics". Allyn & Bacon Publishing Company of Boston.
* 1972. "Industrial Inventory Control". With Burton V. Dean, Muhittin Oral and Michael Salvador. New York : Gordon and Breach.
* 1972. "Systems Approach and the City", edited withMihajlo D. Mesarovic . North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam.
* 1973. "Health care delivery planning." Edited by Arnold Reisman and Marylou Kiley. New York : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.
* 1973. "Discounted Cash Flow Analysis: Stochastic Extensions". With A.K. Rao. American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Monograph Series.
* 1979. "Systems Analysis in Health-Care Delivery". Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books.
* 1981. "Computer System Selection: An Integrated Approach". With Jon D. Clark. Praeger Publishers.
* 1981. "Materials management for health services". Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books.
* 1982. "Welcome Tomorrow". With Ellen Reisman. North Coast Publishing Co.
* 1992. "Management science knowledge : its creation, generalization, and consolidation". Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books.
* 2006. "Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Atatürk's Vision". Washington, DC : New Academia Pub., LLC.External links
* [http://www.lionhrtpub.com/orms/orms-2-05/theft.html "To Catch a Tech Thief"] by Arnold Reisman, OR/MS Today - February 2005.
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