Donald Gross

Donald Gross - received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1956 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operations research from Cornell University in 1959 and 1961, respectively. He served as a First Lieutenant, US Army Signal Corps, from 1962-63 and was an Operations Research Analyst at the Atlantic Refining Company from 1961-65. From 1965 to 1995, he was on the faculty of The George Washington University, retiring as a Professor Emeritus in June 1995. During that time, he was Chairman of the Operations Research Department (1977-88) and served as Program Director of the Operations Research and Production Systems program of the National Science Foundation while on a leave of absence during 1988-90. He also served as Acting Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1990-91 and Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies for the University from 1991-93. He was a consultant to the Institute for Defense Analyses, Research Analysis Corporation and various agencies of the US Government. He is co-author with Carl M. Harris of three editions of the text Fundamentals of Queueing Theory, and also published numerous articles in the professional literature. He is a Past President of ORSA (1989-90), and a member of INFORMS, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Omega Rho. In 1995, he came to George Mason as a Distinguished Research Professor of Operations Research and Engineering.