Event

Shaking the Money Tree at NSF

 

Dr. Cerry Klein, program director for the service enterprise systems and manufacturing enterprise systems programs at the National Science Foundation, will discuss the efforts and funding opportunities at NSF in areas related to engineering. The recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will also be discussed.

Klein is also the Lapierre Professor and served as chair of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri for seven years. His research areas include health care, logistics, entrepreneurship, nonlinear and linear integer programming, dynamic programming, network optimization, multicriteria and multiattribute decision making, and scheduling. He has also been involved in educational research involving freshman retention and the vertical integration of material, the development of K-12 teachers’ expertise in science and mathematics, and the development of introducing entrepreneurship across the engineering curriculum.

Klein has received funding as PI or co-PI from several industrial and government institutions including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Kauffman Foundation, the Department of Education, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, McDonnell Douglas, Union Electric, the Missouri Department of Transportation, and Unilever. He received his PhD from Purdue University in industrial engineering and his MS from Purdue in mathematics.

"Shaking the Money Tree at NSF" will take place at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, July 8, in 1227 Hoover Hall.

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