Faculty Biographies
Nick T. Thomopoulos
Research Professor of Management ScienceOffice: DTC 407
E-Mail:
thomop@stuart.iit.edu
Phone: 312.906.6536
Fax: 312.906.6549
Education
- B.S., Business, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1953
- M.A., Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1959
- Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology 1966
Affiliated Programs
- Nick has taught fourteen different courses: probability, advance data analysis, time series, queuing theory, simulation methods, data analysis, inventory management, inventory and production control, assembly methods, statistical methods, industrial forecasting, stochastic processing, statistical decision theory and operations research. Most were in the graduate school in the Industrial Engineering department and in the Stuart School of Business.
- Nick has been the advisor to thirty-two graduated Ph.D. students from the industrial engineering department and the Stuart School of Business. In 2006, he was the advisor to four students who received Ph.D. degrees. He currently is advising three students, one is a professor at Cairo University in Egypt. Nick was advisor on four master degree thesis. He also served on Ph.D. committees for students around the campus: architecture, mathematics, civil engineering, psychology and electrical engineering. In addition, he has been an advisor to Ph.D. students from other universities, (Northwestern, Rocky Mountain and Adelaide Universities).
Research Interests
- Nick's research interests are wide and include: forecasting, inventory, production, supply chain, assembly lines, probability, queuing theory, simulation and data analysis.
Biography
Nick worked for International Harvester? and was promoted to supervisor of operations research in the corporate headquarters.? He then was employed at IIT Research Institute where he was promoted to the rank of senior scientist.? He later left IITRI and joined the Industrial Engineering Department of IIT.? In 1980, the Industrial Engineering Department moved to the Stuart School of Business.? There he rose to the rank of professor (Management Science).? He now has the titles of Professor Emeritus and Research Professor.? He continues to teach mostly to the Ph.D. students.?? Nick is author of three books: Assembly Line Systems, Hayden Books, (1974), Applied Forecasting Methods, Prentice Hall (1980) and Inventory Management and Planning, Hitchcock Publishing Company (1990).?
