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EDUCATION
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BS Mining Engineering 1961 - Michigan
Technological University
MS Industrial Engineering 1966 - Illinois
Institute of Technology,
- Areas of Specialization: Operations Research
and Statistics
- Thesis: Statistical Evaluation of Iron
Composition Factors Affecting Ingot Mold
Life
Ph.D Business Administration 1973 - University
of Michigan
- Areas of Specialization: Statistics and
Quantitative Methods
- Dissertation Topic: Sampling From Sequential
Populations
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AWARDS
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Metropolitan Insurance Award of Merit for Safety
Research for a paper, Alcohol and the Night Driver
($500).
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Books
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Applied Statistical Methods, for Business,
Economics, and the Social Sciences (with Betty
Thorne) July 1996 Prentice Hall
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Cases in Managerial Data Analysis , June 1996,
Duxbury Press
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Statistics for Business and Economics, (with Betty Thorne
& Paul Newbold), May 2003, Prentice Hall
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Courses Taught
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- Principles of Economics
- Management and Organizational Behavior
- Marketing Management
- Statistics
- Management Science
- Social Responsibility of Business
- Econometrics
- Management Information Systems
- Comparative Development Economics (1980-81) St. Olaf Global
Semester
- Middle East Economics (1992-93) Middle East Semester
- Britain in Transition (1998, 2000, 2002 Interim)
- Quantitative Managerial Analysis (1999 Interim)
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WORK EXPERIENCE
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- Field Supervisor, 2002-03 St Olaf Global Semester
- Former Chair, Department of Economics, Sept 1999 - May 2002
- Senior Fellow for Strategic Analysis 1997-98
- Director of Academic Assessment 1995-97
- Field Supervisor, 1992-93 St. Olaf Middle East Semester
- Chair, Department of Economics (1985-92)
- The Economics department had the largest number of graduating
majors in most years since 1985
- Director of Academic Computing, Management, Staff Development,
Planning, directed major expansion of academic computing to status
of a nationally recognized innovative program. (1982-1985)
- Chairman of Behavioral Science Division, St. Olaf College (1982-1985)
- Improvement of Information Processing Systems at YoPlait U.S.A.
1982
- Use of Personal Computers to Increase Office Productivity. Consultancy
with Solid State Electronics Division of Honeywell, Inc. (1981).
- Field Supervisor, St. Olaf College Global Semester. (1980-1981).
- Co-Director of St. Olaf Academic Computer Center (June 1979
to May 1980)
- Professor of Economics, St. Olaf College, (Sept. 1985-present)
- Associate Professor of Economics, St. Olaf College, Northfield,
Minnesota. (September 1978-85)
- Assistant Professor of Economics, St. Olaf College, Northfield,
Minnesota. (September 1973 to August 1978)
- Special Leave Assignment with National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration; Mathematical Analysis Division, National Center
for Statistics and Analysis. (August 1977 to July 1978)
- Consultant to Office of Automotive Ratings, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration. (August 1978 to 1980)
- Adviser on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Research
Strategies
- Highway Safety Research Institute: (October 1967 to August 1974)
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PUBLICATIONS
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Reports, Papers, and Major
Presentations
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- A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF IRON COMPOSITION FACTORS AFFECTING
INGOT MOLD LIFE, Master's Thesis, Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, Illinois, June, 1966.
- IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROBLEM DRIVER FOR DRIVER RECORDS:
A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS, RESEARCH NO. 1, Highway Safety Research
Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 1968.
- DEVELOPMENT OF A CLASSIFICATION MODEL USING MAST DATA, IN
"ALCOHOL SAFETY," NHSB Contract FH-11-6555, Highway Safety
Research Institute, Project II (a), August, 1968.
- HIGHWAY SAFETY PROJECT EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES*, Highway
Safety Research Institute, Report to Michigan Office of Highway
Safety Planning, December, 1968.
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF ROADWAY MARKINGS
ON VEHICLES STOPPING IN PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALKS*, Report HuF-4,
December, 1969.
- FAMILIAL VERSUS INSTITUTIONAL SOCIALIZATION OF THE YOUNG
TRAFFIC OFFENDER*, Journal of Safety Research, Volume 2, Number
1, March, 1970.
- THE APPLICATION OF EMPIRICAL DRIVER PERFORMANCE DATA IN A
CAR - FOLLOWING MODEL TO EVALUATE COLLISION REDUCTION FOR REAR
LIGHTING SYSTEMS*, paper given at Operations Research Society
Meeting, Detroit, Michigan, October 29, 1970.
- A METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF COMPONENT CHANGES
ON DRIVING CONFLICT RESOLUTION, Transportation Science, February,
1972.
- WASHTENAW COUNTY BAC ROADSIDE SURVEY, Highway Safety
Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September,
1971.
- BEHAVIOR PATTERNS OF SNOWMOBILE OPERATORS - A PRELIMINARY
REPORT*, Journal of Safety Research, December, 1971.
- ALCOHOL AND THE NIGHT DRIVER, Journal of Safety Research,
March,1972.
- DETECTION OF DEFECTS IN ACCIDENTS*, paper given at Society
of Automotive Engineers Congress, Detroit, Michigan, May 18, 1973.
- SAMPLING FROM SEQUENTIAL POPULATIONS, Ph.D Dissertation,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 1973.
- AGE, EXPOSURE, AND ALCOHOL INVOLVEMENT IN NIGHT CRASHES,
Journal of Safety Research, December, 1974.
- CAN AN AUTOMOBILE DESIGNER FIND HAPPINESS WITH AIS?,
paper given at Society of Automotive Engineers Congress, Detroit,
Michigan, March 1, 1974.
- BIASES IN SEQUENTIAL POPULATION SAMPLING, presented at
Annual Meeting Business and Economics, Section of American Statistical
Association, August 26, 1974, St. Louis, Missouri.
- CAN RESEARCH IMPROVE TRAFFIC SAFETY EDUCATION, presented
at the Spring Conference of Minnesota Driver Training and Safety
Education Association, April 12, 1975, Bloomington, Minnesota.
- CASE STUDIES CONSIDERED AS RETROACTIVE EXPERIMENTS*,
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association,
Atlanta, Georgia, August 1975.
- SODAS ST. OLAF DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM*, Users Manual, St.
Olaf College, August 1975.
- SAMPLING FROM HIGHWAY CRASH POPULATIONS, Accident Analysis
and Prevention, November 1976.
- CRASH INJURY LOSS: THE EFFECT OF SPEED, WEIGHT, AND CRASH
CON-FIGURATION, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Volume 9,
pp. 55-68, 1977.
- THE EFFECT OF GROWTH ON SMALL CITY EXPENDITURES*, Study
prepared for Minnesota State Planning Agency, October 1976.
- INTERACTIVE STATISTICAL COMPUTING FOR UNDERGRADUATE LIBERAL
ARTS EDUCATION*, Journal of Minnesota Academy of Science,
Summer 1976.
- THE EFFECT OF GROWTH ON SMALL CITY EXPENDITURES*, Annual
Meeting of the Minnesota Economic Association, St. Thomas College,
November 12, 1976.
- MARKET ANALYSIS FOR THE CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY'S
PROPOSED DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT*, Rochester, Minnesota
Study, for Rochester redevelopment plan, 1978.
- EMPIRICAL CRASH INJURY MODELING AND VEHICLE SIZE MIX, NHTSA
Technical Report, U.S. Department of Transportation, May 1978.
- CRASH INJURY AND VEHICLE SIZE MIX, American Association
for Automotive Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 1978.
- AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF DRIVER EDUCATION ON THE LICENSING
OF 16 AND 17 YEAR OLDS, NHTSA Technical Report, U.S. Department
of Transportation, August 1978.
- ESTIMATION OF NON-RESPONDENT BAC USING A PRIORI JUDGEMENT,
Accident Analysis and Prevention, Volume 9, No. , pp. 35-42, 1978.
- STATISTICAL MODELS FOR POLICY ANALYSIS, American Association
for Automotive Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky, October 1979.
- CRASH INJURY PREDICTION MODEL, Accident Analysis And
Prevention, Volume 111, No. 2, pp. 137-154, 1980.
- THE USE OF ACCIDENT DATA FOR CRASHWORTHINESS RATINGS,
Final Report, NHTSA Contract No. 8-0756, U.S. Department of Transpor-tation,
August, 1980.
- Major Review of "Traffic Accident Exposure and Liability,"
by Carsten Wass, ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION, Vol., No.
, 1981.
- PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND PRODUCTIVITY, Final Report to
Honeywell, Inc., September 1981.
- MICROCOMPUTER IMPACT AT A CORPORATE DIVISION, Small Business
Computers, Volume 6, No. 6, November-December, 1982, pp. 38-41.
- FIVE YEAR CAPITAL EXPENDITURE PLAN FOR ACADEMIC COMPUTING,
St. Olaf Report, July 1982.
- LIFE AFTER GRADUATION, paper presented at National Association
of College Admissions Counselors, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September
30, 1983.
- MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, The UMAP Journal, Vol. V, No. 1,
1984.
- STATISTICS CAN BE USEFUL, (refereed paper), Proceedings
1984 Small College Computing Symposium LaCrosse, Wisconsin, April,
1984.
- COMPUTING AND LIBERAL ARTS, CAUSE/EFFECT, Vol. 7, No.
6 November, 1984.
- NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND LIBERAL ARTS: STUDENT OUTCOMES,
Invited Paper, Colleges of Mid-America Faculty Workshop, Sioux
Falls, S.D., November 3, 1984.
- Computer Literacy at St. Olaf College, paper delivered
at the 2nd Annual Microcomputers and the Learning Process, held
at Clarkson College, Potsdam N. Y., October 1985.
- The Information Age: Friend or Foe of The Liberal Arts?
- Lutheran Church College Essay contest 1986-87
- The Liberal Arts College in the Information Age: An Appropriate
Response
- To Information Technology, Cause/Effect, Vol. 11, No.
4, Fall 1988, Boulder CO.
- U. S. Perspectives of the EEC and The U. S. and Japan: Trends
in Economic Relations, Invited Lectures, Paderborn University,
Paderborn West Germany, October 1989
- Calculating Volume-Based Garbage Fees, Biocycle, February
1991 Economics and the Middle East Semester, Unpublished background
material for Middle East Semester Economics Course
- Germany and the Middle East, Invited Lecture, Paderborn
University, Paderborn West Germany, January 1993
- Analysis of Academic Activity by Department and Major,
Study prepared for St Olaf Administration, April 1995
- Conversations with Case Writers (Invited Major Presentation),
(with Marlene Smith), Making Statistics More Effective in Schools
of Business, Penn State University, June, 1997.
- A Case Method for Teaching Statistics, The Journal of
Economic Education, Accepted and waiting publication (April 1998)
- Statistical Cases to Increase Learning and Motivation,
Invited Paper, Fifth International Conference on Teaching Statistics,
Singapore, June 1998.
- The Use of Microsoft Excel for Statistical Analysis: Textbook
Author Perspective, Joint Statistical Meetings ASA Proceedings,
Contributed Panel 127, Atlanta, Georgia, August 6, 2001
- Learning Statistics with Cases, ACM Professional Development
Workshop, Colorado College, Mar. 7-9, 1997.
- Teaching and Learning Statistics: Beyond the Core, Plenary Session
Panel, MSMESB XVI Program, June 2001, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
(Published in Conference Proceedings)
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EDUCATION
ACTIVITIES
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- Hill Teaching Productivity Grant, Summer 1974.
- Develop empirically based case problems for use in under
graduate statistics and economics courses.
- Recent Developments on Applied
Economics, Summer 1975.
- Program sponsored by the University
of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
- Businesses' Role and Responsibility
in Modern Society.
- Program at the Catholic University
of America, June 1976.
- Workshop Technology and Ethics,
Summer 1980.
- Summer 1981. Development of Case
Projects and Computer Algorithms for Teaching Econometric Modeling.
National Science Foundation Cause Grant.
- Summer 1982. Study Management Information
Systems & Computer Science
- Initial research: Information
and the Economy, St. Olaf Study funded by Melon Foundation.
- Summer 1986. Visiting Lecturer,
University of Paderborn, West Germany Management Information Systems
(one week; June)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Accident Analysis and Prevention,
an International Journal; Referee, 8 to 10 papers per year.
- Investment Advisory Board, American
Lutheran Church.
- Spring 1988 Designed & presented
course "Statistical Methods for Management" Presented to Management
of, Malt O Meal Inc.
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COMPUTER
EDUCATION
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Conference Director, 1983 Small College
Computing Symposium (Approximately 200
attendees)
Educom Computer Literacy Task Force
Advisory trips
- Viterbo College, LaCrosse, Wisconsin 1981
- St. John's University, Collegeville,
Minnesota 1983
- Eckerd College, St. Petersberg, Florida
1984
- Depauw University, Greencastle Indiana 1990
(Computer & Economics)
- Making Statistics Relevant in Graduate
Schools of Business; Member of planning
committee since 1990, Annual Conferences at
major Schools of Business
including Wharton, Michigan, Chicago, Kansas,
Wisconsin, Alaska, Penn
State, Iowa
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MEMBERSHIPS AND
ORGANIZATIONS
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- Decision Sciences Institute
- American Statistical Association
- Minnesota Economic Association Board of Directors (President-
1994)
- Teaching Statistics in Graduate Schools of Business (Program
Committee)
- Small College Computer Symposium Board (Treasurer 1986-1992)
- American Association of University Professors
- International Statistical Institute
Over 100 presentations and talks to various professional, educational,
and service groups since 1973.
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