INCOSE Fellow Wolt Fabrycky
INCOSE Fellow Wolt Fabrycky|
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Wolter J. Fabrycky is chairman of Academic Applications International. He received the Ph.D. in Engineering in 1962 from Oklahoma State University, the M.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1958 from the University of Arkansas, and the B.S. in Industrial Engineering in 1957 from Wichita State University. Dr. Fabrycky taught at Arkansas and Oklahoma State and then joined Virginia Tech in 1965 where he served as Chairman of Systems Engineering, Associate Dean of Engineering, and then as Dean of Research for the University. He is now the Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech and a Distinguished Ptofessor of Systems Engineering at Portland State University. Fabrycky received the Lohmann Medal from the College of Engineering at Oklahoma State in 1992 for Outstanding Contributions to Industrial and Systems Engineering Education, Research, and Publications. In 1990, he received the Hotlzman Distinguished Educator Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Fabrycky was elected to the Arkansas Academy of Industrial Engineering in 1989. |
Dr. Fabrycky was elected to the rank of Fellow in the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 1978, the rank of Fellow in American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1980, and the rank of Fellow in the International Council on Systems Engineering in 1999. He is listed in Who's Who in Engineering and Who's Who in America. Fabrycky is a Registered Professional Engineer in Arkansas and Virginia.
Six Prentice Hall books were co-authored by Fabrycky. There are: Economic Decision Analysis (1998), Systems Engineering and Analysis (1998), Engineering Economy (1993), Life-Cycle Cost and Economic Analysis (1991), Procurement and Inventory Systems Analysis (1987), and Applied Operations Research and Management Science (1984). Dr. Fabrycky also co-edits the Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering that now contains more than 50 titles.
In 2000 he was awarded INCOSE's Pioneer Award. This is the citation on his plaque. "An esteemed practitioner, teacher, and advocate of Systems Engineering. His service, as a team member with Dr. Ben Blanchard, allowed them to articulate the principles and objectives of Systems Engineering in a manner that conveys the tremendous potential and value added by this discipline."
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