Dean of Engineering Publishes Textbook

Mahyar Amouzegar, dean of the College of Engineering, is one of three editors of "Intelligent Automation and Systems Engineering," which was published in 2011. The text provides a comprehensive reference on Intelligent Automation and Systems Engineering, covers fundamental issues, new technologies and applications, and describes methods for modeling, where the information available may be imprecise, uncertain, incomplete or of a linguistic nature.

Amouzegar has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (UCLA, 1994), a D. Engineering in operations research (UCLA, 1991), a M.S.E.E. in operations research (UCLA, 1989), and a B.S. in applied mathematics (San Francisco State, 1987). Amouzegar serves on the executive board for the Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research, the advisory board for the Center for the Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies, and the Military Application Society Council. Mahyar is the immediate past president of the Western Decision Sciences Institute, a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.