G. Kemble Bennett
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G. Kemble Bennett | |
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Born | George Kemble Bennett April 2, 1940 Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
Citizenship | American |
Awards | Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | manufacturing, maintainability, reliability, logistics, and quality engineering |
Institutions | Texas A&M University |
Thesis | "Smooth Empirical Bayes Estimation with Application to the Weibull Distribution" (1970) |
G. Kemble Bennett is a Senior Professor of engineering at Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers and of the International Society of Logistics.
Education[]
Bennett received a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics (minor in Chemistry) from Florida State University in 1962. He received his Masters of Science in Engineering Mathematics from San Jose State University in 1968. He then received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University in 1970.
Career[]
In 2006, Bennett was appointed by then Texas Governor Rick Perry as a Board Chair, among other positions, on the Texas Board of Professional Engineers.[1]
In 2011, Bennett stepped down as the Dean of the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.[2]
Currently, he is a Senior Professor in the Industrial & Systems Engineering department in the Dwight Look College of Engineering.[3]
Awards[]
References[]
- ^ Tribune, The Texas. "Political People and their Moves". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ "G. Kemble "Kem" Bennett steps down". The Eagle. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
- ^ A, Texas; Engineering, M. University College of; Tamu, 3127; Station, College; Tx 77843-3127. "Bennett, G. Kemble". engineering.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-06.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- ^ "IIE Award Winners". www.iise.org. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
External links[]
- American engineers
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Texas A&M University faculty
- Florida State University alumni
- San Jose State University alumni
- Texas Tech University alumni
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