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About Keith Womer

Keith Womer serves as a professor of logistics and operations management at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL). He has previously served as the Dean of the College of Business Administration at UMSL and earlier as a director of the Hearin Center for Enterprise Science at the University of Mississippi. He was principal investigator for several research projects funded by the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Business Management Research office, and other government agencies. He has over forty years of experience in research and teaching operations research and statistics. He has served as a consultant to the Office of Secretary of Defense, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Institute for Defense Analysis, MITRE, the Logistics Management Institute and the U.S. Department of Justice. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Penn State and a B.A. from Miami University. 

Dr. Womer has written extensively in the area of cost estimation and project management in the public sector. His book, The Economics of Made-to-Order Production: Theory with Applications Related to the Airframe Industry, co-authored with Thomas Gulledge, summarizes early work in this area. Latter papers apply this body of theory to project management and system selection in the Department of Defense and throughout the public sector. Much of this work involves the analysis and estimation of the dynamic systems that result from modeling the optimal schedule for producing made-to-order systems that are characterized by learning. Recently, he has explored the use of data envelopment analysis to aid in system selection. He is the associate editor of Military Operations Research and on the editorial boards of the Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting and the International Journal of Social Sciences. He has previously served as editor of the INFORMS book series Topics in Operations Research; as the editor-at-large of Interfaces; and associate editor of Operations Research. He is the 2015 winner of the J. Steinhardt Prize awarded for outstanding contributions to military operations research.

Positions

July 2020 - Present Interim Dean, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ College of Business Administration
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Present Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Department of Economics
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2004 - 2013 Dean, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ College of Business Administration
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2001 - 2004 Director, University of Mississippi ‐ Hearin Center for Enterprise Science
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2001 - 2004 Professor, University of Mississippi ‐ Hearin Center for Enterprise Science
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1999 - 2001 Interim Director, University of Mississippi ‐ School of Business Adiministration
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1998 - 1999 Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, University of Mississippi ‐ School of Business Administration
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1986 - 1998 Chair, University of Mississippi ‐ Department of Economics and Finance
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1986 - 1998 Professor, University of Mississippi ‐ Department of Economics and Finance
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1992 Visiting Professor, University of Torino
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1985 - 1986 Visiting Professor, China Textile University Shanghai
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1979 - 1986 Professor, Clemson University ‐ College of Commerce and Industry
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1979 - 1984 Associate Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology ‐ School of Engineering
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1973 - 1979 Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School ‐ School of Engineering
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1968 Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University ‐ Pennsylvania Transportation and Traffic Saftey Center
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Professional Service and Affiliations

1969 - 1973 Lieutenant, United States Navy
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Honors and Awards

  • Steinhardt Prize, 2015
  • Koopman Prize for Best Paper in Military Operations Research, 1989
  • Researcher of the Year, School of Business, University of Mississippi, 1986-1987
  • Best Technical Paper, DOD Cost Analysis Symposium, 1986
  • MORS Associate, 1984
  • Outstanding Teacher, 1979
  • NDEA Fellowship, 1966-1969
  • Navy Scholarship, 1962-1966

Courses

  • INFSYS 6851 - Practicum in Business Intelligence
  • LOG OM 5300 - Statistical Analysis for Management Decisions
  • LOG OM 3300 - Business Statistics

Education

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1970 PhD, Pennsylvania State University ‐ Economics
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1966 BA, Miami University ‐ Economics
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Books (3)

Research Works (55)