Jeffrey W. Herrmann is a professor at the University of Maryland, where he holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research. He is the director of the reliability engineering graduate program and the director of the systems engineering graduate program. He is a member of ASEE, IISE, ASME, the Design Society, and INFORMS. Dr. Herrmann earned his B.S. in applied mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow from 1990 to 1993, he received his Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida. His dissertation investigated production scheduling problems motivated by semiconductor manufacturing.
Dr. Herrmann's research, service, and teaching activities have established him as a leader in the following areas: (1) developing novel mathematical models to improve public health preparedness, (2) describing and modeling engineering design decision-making processes, and (3) using risk-based techniques to improve planning for autonomous systems. He has published over 100 journal papers and refereed conference papers and fifteen book chapters, co-authored an engineering design textbook, edited two handbooks, and authored an award-winning textbook on engineering decision making and risk management. Dr. Herrmann and his colleagues have been awarded over $6 million in research contracts and grants, including four research awards from NSF. He has advised approximately 40 Ph.D. dissertations and M.S. theses in mechanical engineering, systems engineering, reliability engineering, and applied mathematics. In 2003, Dr. Herrmann received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award; in 2013, he was named a Diplomate of the Society for Health Systems. In 2016, his textbook won the IIE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year award.