Albert Wayne Wymore (February 1, 1927 – February 24, 2011) was an American

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, Professor Emeritus of Systems and Industrial Engineering of the

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, and one of the founding fathers of

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.Dr. Albert Wayne Wymore Obituary
''Arizona Daily Star'', March 6, 2011

Biography

Wymore received both his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mathematics from the

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early 1950s. In 1956 he received his PhD in mathematics from the

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under the Supervision of Associate Professor William F. Eberlein for the thesis "On the Weak Compactness in Functional Analysis".The University of Wisconsin Press (1956) ''Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations'', University of Wisconsin, Volume 16. p. 356. With his PhD in pure mathematics, Wymore started his career in industry for two years.A.W. Wymore (2004) "Systems Movement: Autobiographical Retrospectives. " ''International Journal of General Systems'' Vol. 33 (6), p. 593-610 In 1956 he joined the faculty of

, where in 1957 he established Universities first computing center, and the department of Systems and Industrial Engineering as part of the College of Engineering. Wymore became the first Chairman of Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) Department at the

. He was also one of the first Fellows of the

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(INCOSE).

Publications

A selection: * 1967. ''A Mathematical Theory of Systems Engineering: The Elements''. Krieger, Huntington, NY. * 1976. ''Systems Engineering Methodology for Interdisciplinary Teams'', Wiley, New York. * 1992. ''Engineering Modeling and Design'', with Bill Chapman and A. Terry Bahill, CRC Press Inc. * 1993. ''Model-Based Systems Engineering'', CRC Press, Boca Raton.

References

External links

Webpage about Wymore
by A. Terry Bahill.

from

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on his book ''Model-Based Systems Engineering''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wymore, A. Wayne 1927 births 2011 deaths Systems engineers Iowa State University alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni University of Arizona faculty