Professor Avraham Shtub

General Information

Professor Avraham Shtub holds the Stephen and Sharon Seiden Chair in Project Management. He has a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (1974), an MBA from Tel Aviv University (1978) and a Ph.D in Management Science and Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington (1982). He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (USA) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI-USA).

He is the recipient of the Institute of Industrial Engineering 1995 "Book of the Year Award" for his Book "Project Management: Engineering, Technology and Implementation" (co-authored with Jonathan Bard and Shlomo Globerson), Prentice Hall, 1994. The book was published in English, Hebrew, Greek and Chinese.

He is the recipient of the Production Operations Management Society; Wick Skinner Teaching Innovation Achievements Award for his book: "Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): The Dynamics of Operations Management" The book was published in English, Hebrew, and Chinese.

His books in Hebrew: "Project Management" (with S. Globerson) and "From Operations Management to Plant Management: Introduction to MRP/ERP systems" are standard textbooks in Industrial Engineering and Management programs in Israeli Universities.

His Project Team Builder software won the Project Management Institute (PMI) Product of the Year Award for 2008. A new book based on PTB will be published in December 2010:

http://www.springer.com/engineering/production+eng/book/978-1-4419-6462-5

More information and Videos on PTB are available at:

http://www.sandboxmodel.com/

Prof. Shtub was a Department Editor for IIE Transactions he was on the Editorial Boards of the Project Management Journal, The International Journal of Project Management, IIE Transactions and IJPR. He was a faculty member of the department of Industrial Engineering at Tel Aviv University from 1984 to 1998 were he also served as a chairman of the department (1993-1996). He joined the Technion in 1998.

He has been a consultant to industry in the areas of project management and the design of production - operation systems. He was invited to speak at special seminars on Project Management and Operations in Europe, the Far East, North America, South America and Australia. He was a visiting Professor at the Sasin Graduate School of Management, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand ( the Kellogg MBA program) and at the Owen Graduate School of Management of Vanderbilt University. He is teaching a workshop on Project Management using the PTB simulator on a regular basis for the EMTM joint program of the Wharton business school and the school of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Research Summary

Professor Shtub's research is focused on three major issues: 1. The design and management of manufacturing systems 2. Project management. 3. Learning and forgetting

His work has been published in the leading professional journals since 1984. His research addresses issues such as the design and operation of multi-model and mixed-model lines, learning and forgetting and their effects, group technology and its applications. His book on ERP systems presents a new approach to teaching Operations Management in a dynamic integrated environment. This book won the Production Operations Management Society's Wick Skinner Teaching Innovation Achievements Award for 2002. A second edition of the book will be published in 2010.

In the area of Project Management, Professor Shtub developed the concept of "project segmentation". His book "Project Management: Engineering, Technology and Implementation" (co-authored with John Bard and Shlomo Globerson) won the Institute of Industrial Engineering 1995 "Book of the Year Award" and is used as a textbook at several universities. A second edition of the book was published in 2004.

In the area of learning and forgetting his work was published in the IIE Transactions and in Computers & Education. The Project Management simulator PTB (Project Team Builder) developed by Professor Shtub at the Technion won the PMI (Project Management Institute) Product of the Year Award for 2008.http://www.pmi.org/AboutUs/Pages/Honors-The-Technion-Israel-Institute-of-Technology.aspx

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Current Research Projects

Development of new teaching tools for Industrial Engineering and Operations Management.
Design of Human computer interfaces.
Design of Project Management and control systems.

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Selected Publications

Publications

Cohen, I., B. Golany and A. Shtub, “The Stochastic Time-Cost Tradeoff Problem: A Robust Optimization Approach”, Networks, 2007, Vol. 49, No. 2, 175–188.
Davidovitch, L., A. Parush and A. Shtub, "Simulation-based Learning: The Learning-Forgetting-Relearning Process and Impact of Learning History", Computers & Education, April 2008, Vol. 50, No. 3, 866–880.
Eklin, M., Y. Arzi and A. Shtub, “Rough-Cut Cost Estimation in a Capacitated Environment”, International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, April–June 2008, Vol. 1, No. 2, 19–39.
Eilat, H., B. Golany and A. Shtub, “Evaluating R&D Projects: An Integrated DEA-BSC Approach”, Omega, 2008, Vol. 36, 895–912.
Eklin, M., Y. Arzi and A. Shtub, “Model for Cost Estimation in a Finite-Capacity Stochastic Environment Based on Shop Floor Optimization Combined with Simulation”, European Journal of Operational Research, 1 April 2009, Vol. 194, No. 1, 294–306.
Eklin, M., Y. Arzi and A. Shtub, “A Comparative Study of Rough-Cut Cost Estimation in a Finite-Capacity Stochastic Environment”, International Journal of Revenue Management, 2009, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1–36.
Davidovitch, L., A. Parush and A. Shtub, “The Impact of Functional Fidelity in Simulator based Learning of Project Management”, International Journal of Engineering Education, March 2009, Vol. 25, No. 2, 333–340(8).
Nembhard, D., K. Yip and A. Shtub, “Comparing Competitive and Cooperative Strategies for Learning Project Management”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1, 2009, 181–192.
Shtub, A., A. Parush and T. Hewett, "Guest Editorial: The Use of Simulation in Learning and Teaching", International Journal of Engineering Education, March 2009, Vol. 25, No. 2, 206–209.
Eklin, M., Y. Arzi and A. Shtub, "Cost Estimation in a Finite-Capacity Environment with Stochastic Process Times, Machine Failures and Product Yields". Accepted for publication to the International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management.
Parush, A., L. Davidovitch and A. Shtub, "Simulator-based Team Training to Share Resources in a Matrix Structure Organization". Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Books

Shtub, A., J. Bard and S. Globerson, Project Management, Engineering Technology and Implementation, Prentice Hall, 1994.
Shtub, A., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): The Dynamics of Operations Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, March 1999. The book was published in Chinese by Harvard Management Services.
Shtub, A.F., J.F. Bard and S. Globerson, Project Management: Processes, Methodologies, and Economics, 2/E, Prentice Hall, October 2004.
Shtub, A., and R. Karni, ERP: The Dynamics of Supply Chain and Process Management, Springer , 2010
Shtub, A., Project Management Simulation with PTB Project Team Builder, Springer , forthcoming

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