"It is the mark of modern society that decision must often be made under circumstances characterized by novel conditions, limited resources, conflicting goals, expensive experimentation, complex organizations, uncertainty, and short lead times. Operations research is a field of study explicitly devoted to aiding decision makers under such circumstances."

Paul A. Jensen

pjensen@mail.utexas.edu

Cullen Trust Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

Network flow programming, manufacturing systems, water resource planning.

Publications

Network Flow Programming, John Wiley and Sons, 1980. Winner of the A.I.I.E. Book of the Year Award for 1980 (with J. W. Barnes).

The Student's Guide to Operations Research, Holden-Day, 1986. Jensen, P.A. 

"Deming's Quality Principles Applied to a Large Lecture Course", Journal of Engineering Education, January 1995. 

"Using Flow Ratio Analysis and Discrete Event Simulation to Design a Medium Volume Production Facility," (with D. Crowley and J. Bard), Computers and Industrial Engineering, 1995.

Research Funding

Office of Water Resources Research 
Department of Transportation

Recent Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised

"The Optimization of Stochastic Multiperiod Systems by an Implicit Dynamic Programming Approach," Chien - Chih Yu.

"Response Surface Analysis of Two-Stage Stochastic Linear Programming with Recourse," T Glenn Bailey.