Thomas A. Mazzuchi, D.Sc

Background

Dr. Thomas A. Mazzuchi holds a B.A. (1978) in Mathematics from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and an M.S. (1979) and D.Sc. (1982), both in Operations Research, from The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Currently, he is Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. Formerly, he served as Chair of the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at GW, as Chair of the Department of Operations Research, and as Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Dr. Mazzuchi has been engaged in consulting and research in the areas of reliability and risk analysis, and systems engineering techniques, for over thirty years. He served for two and a half years as a Research Mathematician at the international operations and process research laboratory of the Royal Dutch Shell Company. While at Shell, Dr. Mazzuchi engaged in reliability and risk analysis of large processing systems, maintenance optimization of off-shore platforms, and quality control procedures at large-scale chemical plants. In his academic career, he has held research contracts in the development of testing procedures for both the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army; in spares provisioning modeling with the U. S. Postal Service; in mission assurance with NASA; and maritime safety and risk assessment with the Port Authority of New Orleans, the Washington Office of Marine Safety, the Washington State Department of Transportation, and the San Francisco Bay Area Transit Authority. He is an elected member of the International Statistics Institute.