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NSB Staff
Cerry
M.
Klein
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| Email:
cklein@nsf.gov
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| Phone:
(703) 292-5365
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| Fax:
(703) 292-9056
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| Room:
550 S
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| Organization:
CMMI
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| Title:
Program Director
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Program Responsibilities:
Manufacturing Enterprise Systems
(MES)
Service Enterprise Systems
(SES)
Biography:
Cerry Klein is the Program Director for the Service Enterprise Systems program and the Manufacturing Enterprise Systems program at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Klein received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. He also holds a bachelors degree in Mathematics from Northwest Missouri State University and an MS in Mathematics from Purdue University. He is on leave from the University of Missouri where he is the Lapierre Professor of Engineering and past chair of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. Dr. Klein's research areas include health care, logistics, entrepreneurship, nonlinear and linear integer programming, dynamic programming, network optimization, multi-criteria and multi-attribute decision making, and scheduling. Dr. Klein has also been involved in educational research involving freshman retention, the development of K-12 teacher's expertise in science and mathematics, and the development of introducing entrepreneurship across the engineering curriculum. He has received as a PI or Co-PI funding from several industrial and government institutions including the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, The Kauffman Foundation, Department of Education, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, McDonnell Douglas, Union Electric, Missouri Department of Transportation, and Unilever. He also has over 100 technical publications. Dr. Klein was a recipient of an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and has been honored by the University of Missouri with the Senior Faculty Research Award for Excellence in Research in the College of Engineering, Outstanding Engineering Faculty Teaching Award, Outstanding Industrial Engineering Professor, and the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, the highest teaching award at the University. He also received the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers.
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