ROBERT J. SCHLESINGERRobert J. Schlesinger

9291 Wister Dr.
La Mesa, CA 91941, USA
Phone #: 619-469-4532
email #: robert.schlesinger@sdsu.edu

EXPERIENCE: INDUSTRIAL

Founder and CEO of RHO SIGMA, INC., North Hollywood, Calif., for ten years until its sale to a New York Stock Exchange listed firm. Rho Sigma designed and produced controls and data collection systems for energy management.

President/CEO of COMPULASER, INC., Canoga Park, Calif., which manufactured industrial lasers and maintained a CAD/CAM operation.

Vice President of Marketing, ITT, Data and Information Systems Division, Paramus, N.J.

Director of R&D for TELEDYNE'S PACKARD-BELL subsidiary, Newbury Park, Calif.

Member of the staff at CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY'S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL); involved in the study of alternate energy resources and systems, Pasadena, Calif.

Experience includes systems analysis; RF design (HF,VHF,UHF); digital/analog data acquisition systems; and applications to control problems, factory automation and robotics.

EDUCATION:
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut.
M.S. Management Science, West Coast University, Los Angeles.
Ph.D. Henley the Management College, Brunel University, UK.
Dissertation title: "A Statistical Analysis of Robot Parameters as a Guide to their Development between 1973 and 1983."

INVITED LECTURES:

Taught Executive Management & Marketing Course, Ramkhamaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 2005

Summer Session Course at Northeastern University, Shen Yang, China, 2002

Visiting Professor at The National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1995-96

Series of seminars on international manufacturing and production:
Comparison of EC and USA issues, Instituto Superior De Economia E Gestao, Universidade Tecnica De Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, May-June 1994.

Seminar on Economic Conversion, Ruppin Institute, Israel, June 1993.

Congressional testimony, Economic Conversion Commission, Long Beach, Calif., Aug. 6, 1992.

Lecture, "Overview of Production & Operations Management in US Universities," Moscow Aeronautical Institute, Russia, July 1990.

Lecture, "Profiles of the Solar Industry," American Association for Advancement of Science, Long Beach, Calif., Nov. 1979.

Lecture, "Data Acquisition for Alternate Energy Systems," International Solar Conference, Peoples Republic of China, Xian, China, Aug. 1979.

Guest Lecturer, "Solar Control Systems Theory," Kyouggi University, Seoul, Korea, Physics Department, Sept. 1979.

ONLINE INSTRUCTION:

Presented online courses in management science at National University, San Diego.

PUBLICATIONS: (Books)

"Manufacturing Simulation for MBA Students," in Games and Exercises for Operations Management, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1995.

"Modern Factories and Outdated Cost Systems Do Not Mix," in Repetitive Manufacturing Reprints: Critical Issues, Falls Church, Va. Library of American Production, APICS, 1992.

"Industrial Robots, Work and Industry: Past, Present and Future," in Microprocessors, Manpower and Society, Ch. 1, New York: St. Martin"s Press, 1984.

"Robot Parameters in Perspective," in The International Robotics Yearbook, Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger, 1984. Served as technical consultant for 1983 original European edition (London: Kogan-Page).

"Data Acquisition Systems," in Solar Energy Technology Handbook, Vol. 2, Ch. 41, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1980.

Principles of Electronic Warfare, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961. Also translated by the Russians as: Radioelektronnaya Voyna; Publisher, Voyenizdat, 1963. Reissued in the U.S. in paperback by Peninsula Publishing, Los Altos, CA, 1979.

PUBLICATIONS: (Journals)

"Management, Production Reports and Process Stability,” California Journal of Operations Management, Vol 2, 2004.

"Analysis of Quantal Response Data from Bacterial Destruction Studies in Sterilization: The Stumbo Estimate Is Biased," Journal of Applied Bacteriology, Vol. 71, 1991 (with J. Hachigian).

"Teach-Factory: Real-Time Decision Making for Production & Operations Management Students." Invited paper, Proceedings, Annual Meeting of Institute of Decision Sciences, Las Vegas, Nov. l988.

"A Strategy for Integrating University Resources to Support Small Manufacturing Companies," Operations Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1991.

"Database Considerations in a Technology Transfer Network" (with T.B.A. Addo), Journal of Technology Transfer, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1991.

"Decision Models for Robot Selection: A Comparison of Ordinary Least Squares and Linear Goal Programming Methods," Decision Sciences, Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 1989 (with M.M. Imany).

"Modern Factories and Outdated Cost Systems Do Not Mix," Production & Inventory Management, Journal of the American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS), Vol. 30, No. 1, 1989 (with V. Ballew).

"The Nyquist Sampling Theorem in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing Environment," International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 2, No.1, pp. 15-22, 1989 (with V. Ballew).

"An Analysis of Robot Growth and Application Activity in San Diego, California," Robotics, June 1987.

"Statistical Investigation of Robot Performance Specifications" (with M. M. Imany), Human Systems Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1986.

PUBLICATIONS: (Conference Proceedings)

"The Impact of the European CE Marking Directives on USA Electronics Exports," Proceedings, 14th Annual CSU-POM Conference, San Jose, Calif., Feb. 22-23, 2002.

"Chaos Theory and the POM Environment: A Concept Whose Time Has Come?", Proceedings, Western Decision Sciences Institute, San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 11-15, 1995.

"Dealing with Complexity: Sigmoids and Quadratic Iterators," Proceedings, Seventh Annual CSU-POM Faculty Development Conference, California State University, Northridge, Calif., Feb. 24-25, 1995.

"Will Computer Simulation Ever Replace Erector Sets?", Proceedings, Business/MIS Simulation Education Conference, Society for Computer Simulation, Tempe, Ariz., Jan. 24-26, 1994.

"Technology for Managers," Proceedings, Sixth Annual CSU-POM Faculty Development Conference, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Calif., Feb. 25-26, 1994.

"Span of Control in the Age of Downsizing," Proceedings, Fifth Annual CSU-POM Conference, Sonoma State University, Calif., Feb. 27, 1993 (with Y. Yassour).

�Management for Engineers - Managing Change: The Problem for the 1990s,� Proceedings, ORSA/TIMS Joint National Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 3, 1992.

"Database Utilization: A CSU Industry Network," Proceedings, Fourth Annual CSU-POM Conference, California State University, Long Beach, Calif., Feb. 29, 1992.

"A Status Report on the Development of the TECHNET Database," Proceedings, Third Annual CSU-POM Faculty Development Conference, Stanislaus, Calif., March 1991 (with T.B.A. Addo).

"A Strategy for Integrating University Resources to Support Small Manufacturing Companies," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Operations Management Association, UK, University of Warwick, June 1990, Vol. 2.

"Creating A California State University Production And Operations Management (CSU-POM) Consortium, Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute 19th Annual Meeting, Western Region Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 1990.

"Status Report on the CSU-POM/Industry Research & Development Network," Proceedings of the 2nd Annual CSU-POM Conference, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Calif., March 1990.

"A Hardware Based CIM Simulation Laboratory Model Test," Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning, Honolulu, Jan. 1989 (with G.N. Vik).

"Computer Integrated Simulation Laboratory for Production and Operations Management," Proceedings of the Computer Simulation in Engineering Education, Society for Computer Simulation, Western Multiconference, San Diego, Calif., Jan. 1989.

"Teach-Factory: Real-Time Decision Making for Production & Operations Management Students." Invited paper, Proceedings, Annual Meeting of Institute of Decision Sciences, Las Vegas, Nov. l988.

"Aerospace and Defense Company Resistance to Economic Conversion," Proceedings, APICS (American Production & Inventory Control) Aerospace & Defense Special Interest Group of the Western Aerospace & Defense Integrated Planning & Control Conference, Los Angeles, Calif., May l3-l7, l987.

" Field Test Data on a Comparison Between Proportional and On-Off Differential Thermostats," Proceedings of the First Workshop in The Control of Solar Energy Systems for Heating and Cooling, in conjunction with American Section, International Solar Energy Society, Hyannis, Mass., May 1978.

"Preliminary Comparison of Proportional and Full On-Off Control Systems for Solar Energy Applications," Conference Proceedings of American Section, International Solar Energy Society, Orlando, FL, 1977.

"Solar Energy Data Acquisition Systems," Joint Conference, American Section, International Solar Energy Society, Winnipeg, August 15, 1976.

"A Marketing Analysis of Solar Energy Users," Conference Proceedings of American Section, International Solar Energy Society, Los Angeles, CA, 1974.

PRO BONO

* SCORE Volunteer for small businesses
* Volunteer Expert for Citizens Democracy Corps (USAID) in Thailand (Summer 2000).  System analysis to increase throughput for medium-sized manufacturing company.

AWARDS AND AFFILIATIONS

*Tau Beta Pi, National Engineering Honorary Society.
* Eta Kappa Nu, National Electrical Engineering Honorary Society.
*Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society.
*Listed in Who's Who in the West, 1969-70; 1996-1997.
*Listed in American Men and Women of Science, 1995-96.
*Registered Professional Engineer-State of California.
*57 articles in professional journals and business publications.
*Contributor to 6 professional and scholarly books.
*8 U.S. patents awarded.
*Innovative teaching award from The Decision Sciences Institute for development of a hardware based, computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) laboratory.