William B. Rouse, Ph.D.
Professor (Joint Appointment with College of Computing)
Executive Director, The Tennenbaum Institute
Contact Information
Email:
Campus Phone: 404-894-2331
Fax: 404-894-2301
Office Location: ISyE Main Entrance Bldg, Room 214
Bio
Bill Rouse is a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a joint appointment within the College of Computing. He also serves as Executive Director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute for Enterprise Transformation.
Rouse has over thirty years of experience in research, education, management, marketing, and engineering related to individual and organizational performance, decision support systems, and information systems. In these areas, he has consulted with over one hundred large and small enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His expertise includes individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations and information systems.
Rouse has written hundreds of articles and book chapters, and has authored many books, including most recently Essential Challenges of Strategic Management (Wiley, 2001) and the award-winning Don't Jump to Solutions (Jossey-Bass, 1998). He is co-editor of the best-selling Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management (Wiley, 1999) and edited the eight-volume series Human/Technology Interaction in Complex Systems (Elsevier). Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council and as a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.
Rouse is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a fellow of four professional societies -- the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Council on Systems Engineering, the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. He has received the Joseph Wohl Outstanding Career Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; a Centennial Medal and a Third Millennium Medal from IEEE; and the O. Hugo Schuck Award from the American Automation Control Council. He is listed in Who's Who in America , Who's Who in Engineering, and other biographical literature, and has been featured in publications such as Manager's Edge, Vision, Book-Talk, The Futurist, Competitive Edge, Design News, Quality & Excellence, and IIE Solutions.
Rouse has served in a variety of leadership roles in several companies and on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also has served in visiting positions on the faculties of Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands and Tufts University . He received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island , and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Honors & Awards
- Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) 2006
- IBM Faculty Award 2006
- IBM Faculty Award 2005
- Best Article Published in the Journal of Systems Engineering 2005
- College of Engineering Hall of Fame, University of Rhode Island 2003
- Fellow, INFORMS 2002
- Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society 2001
- Third Millennium Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2000
- Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 1994
- National Academy of Engineers 1991
- Norbert Wiener Award, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society 1986
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 1985
- Centennial Medal, IEEE 1984
- O. Hugo Schuck Award, the American Automation Control Council 1979
- Who's Who in Engineering
- Who's Who in America
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