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ROBERT WAYNE SAMOHYL, Ph.D
Rd.
Tertuliano Brito Xavier, 2352, apto. 4/101
Florianopolis, SC, BRAZIL 88054-601
Home
phone (voice mail and fax): 55-48-282-9450
Cellular:55-48-9608-5056; University:55-48-331-7027; E-MAIL:samohyl@deps.ufsc.br;
www.qualimetria.ufsc.br
From
Houston, Texas, 58 years old, two daughters Kristen and Kelly, 5
grandchildren. Has lived and worked in Brazil permanently since 1978.
Presently full professor and Vice Chairman of the Industrial Engineering
Department (EPS) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC),
considered among the best in Latin America, with 26 Ph.D. faculty,
undergraduate and doctoraL programs, and several state-of-the-art
studios (sound and stage) for distance teaching via satellite and
Internet. The city of Florianopolis, located in Southern Brazil, is
known for a thriving software industry.
EDUCATION:
Masters degree and Ph.D., Economics, 1979,
Rice University, Houston.
Undergraduate degree from the University of Houston. Graduated from
Saint Thomas High School, Houston, in 1966.
TEACHING:
Quantitative methods at the graduate and under-graduate level:
Industrial and Business Statistics,
Econometrics and Forecasting.
Has developed full-credit courses for the internet and has taught by
video-conferencing. Many teaching awards.
CONSULTING
for Brazilian firms and the Brazilian federal and several state and
municipal governments: Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq),
Research Foundations for the States of Santa Catarina, Alagoas, Rio
Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo; Banco do Brasil, Petrobras, Tupy Iron Works
in Joinville, IntelBras, Cyprus Copper Mines (Cerro Verde) in Peru, CRM
with large data bases for several local software companies, special
consultant to the Governor of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, among
others. As adviser on numerous Masters´ and Doctoral projects has been
in contact with a large sample of Brazilian industry, both in and
outside of the State of Santa Catarina.
Presently coordinating project for implementing forecasting techniques
for electrical energy companies in Brazil.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
experience includes: Coordinator of the Under-graduate Program in
Industrial Engineering at the Fed. Univ. of S. Catarina, elected member
of the University Board on Undergraduate Affairs and
member of the University Senate.
Coordinator of the Normalization and Qualimetrics Study Group. Visiting
Professorships at the National University of Brasilia
(UNB), University of
Illinois at Champagne-Urbana,
and the University of Texas at
Austin. Research at Virginia Tech.
Referee for the European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of
Computing and Industrial Engineering, several Brazilian journals in
Industrial Engineering, among others. Member: American
Society for Quality, the Brazilian Association of Industrial Engineers
and the Brazilian Statistics Association, the Brazilian Operations
Research Society. Recent Vice President of
the Brazilian Operations Research Society.
ACADEMIC INTERESTS:
Statistical Process Control and Quality, Forecasting,
Statistical Market Research
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
“Multivariate Process Control” in Computers and Industrial Engineering
(2004). Participation as session leader and presenting two seminars,
International Symposium on Forecasting, San Antonio, June, 2005.
“Measuring the efficiency of an informal forecasting process” Foresight,
Issue 3, February, 2006; Identification of dispersion effects
from 2k and 2k–p
factorial design with few replications. |
