Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, Ph.D. in Engineering Management, Minor - Systems Engineering, December, 1981. Thesis Topic: Specification and Estimation of Dynamic Cost Functions for Airframe Production Programs (Major Advisor: N.K. Womer).

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, Master of Arts Degree in Economics, Minor - Mathematics, August, 1977. Thesis Topic: Time Series Models for Commodity Price Forecasts (Major Advisor: M.T. Maloney).

University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics, Minor - Mathematics, May, 1975 (Advisor Robert J. Carlsson).

Biography

Thomas Gulledge is Professor of Public Policy and Engineering at George Mason University and Director of the Policy Analysis Center within the School of Public Policy. He lectures in the areas of Enterprise Engineering, Electronic Commerce, Engineering Management, and Extended Enterprise Integration. Professor Gulledge is the Director of the Ph.D. concentration in Organizational Informatics within The School of Public Policy, and a co-founder of the MS program in Enterprise Engineering & Policy that is jointly sponsored by the School of Public Policy and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He is the University Principal Investigator for many technology-related projects, most relating to information technology-enabled organizational transformation. He is the Director of the corporate sponsored International Electronic Commerce project (project Pathfinder) with the Oracle Corporation, which focuses on B2B eCommerce. He also developed the Enterprise Engineering & Policy Laboratory, which is sponsored by Great Plains, IDS-Scheer, Oracle, Promatis, SAP America, and ILOG. He is the Program Manager for a series of on-going funded initiatives relating to supply chain integration and electronic commerce, including initiatives in Europe and Asia. In 2001, Professor Gulledge is the technical lead in a partnering project with the Boeing Corporation in building a trading exchange and EAI laboratory in Taiwan.

The Organizational Informatics Group and the Enterprise Engineering & Policy program form the nucleus of the Policy Analysis Center (PAC) within the School of Public Policy. The Policy Analysis Center is working on issues related to the management and technical aspects of Advanced Technology, Enterprise Integration, Integrated Process Engineering, eBusiness, and Technology Transfer. Additional information about the PAC may be found here.

Dr. Gulledge’s research has been supported in the past by several agencies, including the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (C3I), the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Office of the Director of Defense Information, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the US Navy. He maintains research links with several Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, including The Institute for Defense Analyses and The MITRE Corporation. Professor Gulledge is the immediate past President of the Military Applications Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and is a past Vice President of INFORMS. He is an active participant in IFIP Working Group 5.7 (Computer-Aided Production Management), and is the eCommerce Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management.

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