Wolter Joseph Fabrycky (born 1932) is an American
systems engineer
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, Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at
Virginia Tech
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, and Principal of Academic Applications International.
Biography
Wolter Fabrycky studied Industrial Engineering, receiving his BS in 1957 from
Wichita State University
Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. The university offers more than 60 undergraduate degree programs in more than 200 areas of study in ...
and his Industrial Engineering MS in 1958 from the
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and the largest university in the state. Founded as Arkansas ...
. In 1962 Fabrycky received his PhD in engineering from
Oklahoma State University
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where he was awarded an Ethyl Corporation Doctoral Fellowship.
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Fabrycky began as a faculty member at the
University of Arkansas
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in 1957 and continued at
Oklahoma State University
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during 1962–65. In September 1965 he was appointed to the Industrial Engineering faculty at
Virginia Tech
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, where he served for 30 years.
There in 1968, he founded and chaired the Interdisciplinary Systems Engineering Graduate Program, served as Associate Dean of Engineering, and later became Virginia Tech's Dean of Research.
Over a half-century, Wolt Fabrycky received numerous engineering and systems engineering awards. He was elected Fellow in the
Institute of Industrial Engineers
The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), formerly the Institute of Industrial Engineers, is a professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving q ...
in 1978; Fellow in the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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in 1980; Fellow in the
International Council on Systems Engineering
The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE; pronounced in-co-see) is a not-for-profit membership organization and professional society in the field of systems engineering. INCOSE has about 17000 members including individual members, ...
in 1999; and Fellow in the
American Society for Engineering Education
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in 2007. Fabrycky received the Hotlzman Distinguished Educator Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 1990; the Lohmann Medal from the College of Engineering at Oklahoma State in 1992; the Grant Award in 1994; the Wellington Award in 2004, and the
INCOSE Pioneer Award
INCOSE Pioneer Award is an annual prize for people who have made significant pioneering contributions to the field of Systems Engineering given by the INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) since 1997.
Winners
SourceINCOSE* 1997: ...
with
Benjamin S. Blanchard
Benjamin Seaver Blanchard, Jr. (July 20, 1929 - July 11, 2019) was an American systems engineer and Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, who was awarded the INCOSE Pioneer Award jointly with Wolt Fabrycky as ...
in 2000.
In 2006, Wolt Fabrycky founded, endowed, and is now Chairman Emeritus of Omega Alpha: the International Systems Engineering Honor Society. He initiated a Systems Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Showcase within Omega Alpha in 2016, with ten superb Systems Engineering doctoral dissertations exhibited during the years 2016–18. These dissertations provide a reliable global benchmark for SE doctoral research. Fabrycky is past president of
Alpha Pi Mu
Alpha Pi Mu () is an American honor society for Industrial and Systems Engineering students. All chapters are based in the United States, with the exception of one university in Puerto Rico which is an unincorporated territory of the United S ...
and a long time member of its Executive Council. Other honor societies to which he contributes are the Order of the Engineer,
Tau Beta Pi
The Tau Beta Pi Association (commonly Tau Beta Pi, , or TBP) is the oldest engineering honor society and the second oldest collegiate honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students in American universities who have shown a ...
, and
Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society () is a highly prestigious, non-profit honor society for scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi was founded at Cornell University by a junior faculty member and a small group of graduate students in 1886 ...
.
Publications
Fabrycky is author of almost two dozen textbook editions, revisions, and translations in Industrial and Systems Engineering, including:
* Fabrycky, Wolter J., Prab M. Ghare, and Paul E. Torgersen. ''Applied operations research and management science''. Prentice-Hall, 1984.
* Banks, Jerry and Wolter J. Fabrycky. ''Procurement and inventory systems analysis''. Prentice-Hall, 1987.
* Fabrycky, Wolter J. and
Benjamin S. Blanchard
Benjamin Seaver Blanchard, Jr. (July 20, 1929 - July 11, 2019) was an American systems engineer and Emeritus Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, who was awarded the INCOSE Pioneer Award jointly with Wolt Fabrycky as ...
. ''Life-cycle cost and economic analysis''. Prentice-Hall, 1991.
* Fabrycky, Wolter J., Gerald J. Thuesen, and Dinesh Verma. ''Economic decision analysis, 3rd Ed''. Prentice-Hall, 1998.
* Thuesen, Gerald J. and Wolter J. Fabrycky. ''Engineering economy, 9th Ed''. Prentice-Hall, 2001.
*
Blanchard, Benjamin S and Wolter J. Fabrycky. ''Systems engineering and analysis, 5th (30th anniversary Ed)'', Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.
For more than a half-century, Wolter Fabrycky has been a diligent Prentice Hall (now Pearson Prentice Hall) author, reviewer, and editor of the PPH International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
References
External links
INCOSE - Wolter Fabryckypeople/Fabrycky
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1932 births
Living people
21st-century American engineers
Systems engineers
Wichita State University alumni
University of Arkansas alumni
University of Arkansas faculty
Oklahoma State University alumni
Oklahoma State University faculty
Virginia Tech faculty