Smeal Associate Dean For Research To Receive American Statistical Association Presentation Award

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -- Russell Barton, Associate Dean for Research and Ph.D./M.S. Programs at Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business, has been named Outstanding Presenter by the American Statistical Association’s Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) for his 2002 presentation, “Experiment Designs for Simultaneous Forward and Inverse Approximations.”

Barton will receive the award on Aug. 5 at the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Francisco. Based on audience evaluation of papers contributed to SPES-sponsored sessions at the 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings in New York City, the award is one of several from the organization intended to encourage continuous improvement in the presentation of statistical information at SPES sessions.

Barton’s winning presentation focused on the creation of mathematical models of system behavior, which are often complex and time-consuming to evaluate, but can be simplified via an understanding of inverse behavior (i.e. given the system behavior target, what values must be used for the system variables?).

Named to his post as Associate Dean in 2002, Barton is also a Professor in the Smeal College’s Supply Chain and Information Systems Department. He joined Smeal faculty in 1990 after three years teaching at Cornell University, where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. Barton, who holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton, spent a decade in industry, with most of that time coming at RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center.

During his tenure at Smeal he has worked with a wide spectrum of industry sponsors including Boeing, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, and Lucent in areas such as statistical process control, the design of experiments, and computer simulation. He is a senior member of IEEE and IIE, and a member of ASQ and INFORMS.

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