Dennis F.X. Mathaisel Professor Management Science Babson College
email:	mathaisel@babson.edu
phone:	(781) 239 4994
fax:	(781) 239 6416
address:	Babson Hall, Babson Park, MA 02457

Profile:

• Ph.D., Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.S., Systems Engineering & Operations Research, University of California
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University

Dennis Mathaisel is Professor of Operations Research and Management Science at Babson College. He was a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder and President of a computer software firm that developed systems for airline scheduling and resource allocation, and he was a Branch Manager for Operations Research at the McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

Dr. Mathaisel's teaching interests are in the fields of operations research, quantitative methods, computer science, physics, and air transport operations. His current research interests focus on the sustainability of complex and aging systems, lean manufacturing, Very Light Jet (VLJ) scheduling, and business jet scheduling. Dr. Mathaisel was the MIT co-lead of the Sustainment Operations Team for the Lean Sustainment Initiative for the U.S. Air Force. He has had research assignments with NASA, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of Transportation (Office of the Secretary), Federal Aviation Administration, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Flying Tiger Line, Pan American World Airways, Hughes Air West, Olympic Airways, Federal Express, Iberia Airlines, Northwest Airlines, USAir, Continental, Garuda Indonesia, Trans World Airlines, and others.  This experience has covered a range of topics including military logistics sustainability, lean enterprise sustainability, decision support systems, vehicle maintenance and routing, equipment acquisition, logistics, scheduling, fleet and route planning, and transport systems analysis and engineering.

Dr. Mathaisel’s current publications focus on enterprise sustainment.  He is the author of Sustaining the Military Enterprise. His publications appear in Benchmarking an International Journal, Acquisition Review Quarterly, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, International Journal of Educational Management, Transportation Science, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Research on Computing in Education, Journal of Systems and Software, Society of Automotive Engineers, American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, and the Decision Sciences Institute Proceedings.

Dennis Mathaisel was elected as a Full Member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).   He is also a member of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI),  the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (AGIFORS), the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  He is a private pilot and an owner of a Cessna 182 aircraft based at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts.

Detailed Vitae

Research

	Very Light Jet Scheduling Business Jet Scheduling Very Light Jet (VLJ) Scheduling Business Jet Scheduling Very Light Jet Marketing Business Jet Marketing Very Light Jet (VLJ) Marketing Business Jet Marketing
	Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul Sustaining the Military Enterprise
	Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul Sustaining the Commercial Enterprise
	Air Transportation Operations Research
	Decision Support Systems: Air Transportation Software
	ModelBase

This page was last updated on 5 September 2008.