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Faculty Biography

Robert C. Ash
Associate Professor of Management Marketing and Info-Ops Management
(812) 941-2523
bobash@ius.edu

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Professional Interests:

Research: Operations Management, Project Management

Teaching: Operations Management, Project Management

Academic Background:

Intellectual Contributions:

Refereed Articles

Ash, R. C. & Pittman, P. (2008). Towards Holistic Project Scheduling using Critical Chain Methodology enhanced with PERT Buffering. International Journal of Project Organisation and Management, vol 2 issue 1

Ash, R. C. & Smith-Daniels, D. E. (2004).  Measuring the Impact of Customer Support Disruptions on New Product Development Projects. Project Management Journal, 35 (1), 3-10.

Ash, R. C. (2000).  A Time-based Learning Model for Development Projects. American Business Review, XVIII (1), 69-75.

Ash, R. C. & Smith-Daniels, D. E. (1999).  The Effects of Learning, Forgetting, and Relearning on Decision Rule Performance in Multiproject Scheduling. Decision Sciences (Journal of), 30 (1), 47-82.

Pannirselvam, G., Ferguson, L. , Ash, R. C., & Siferd, S. P. (1999).  Operations Management Research: An Update for the 1990's. Journal of Operations Management, 18, 95-112.

Ash, R. C. (1994).  Operations Strategy for Services: 2020 Vision. OM Review, 10 (3), 38-41.

Refereed Proceedings

Full Paper

Ash, R. C. (2002).  Serial and Multi-project Scheduling with and without Preemption. Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting , 2202-2207.

Ash, R. C. (1999).  Activity Scheduling in the Dynamic, Multi-project setting: Choosing Heuristics through Deterministic Simulation. Winter Simulation Conference , 937-941.

Ash, R. C. & Smith-Daniels, D. E. (1997).  The Moderating Influence of Documentation in Development Project Environments with Preemption. Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting , 1375-1377.

Ash, R. C., Smith-Daniels, D. E., & Hershauer, J. C. (1995).  Resource Assignment Policy Selection in Resource Constrained Multiproject Scheduling with Preemption. Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting , 1409-1411.

Ash, R. C., Siferd, S. P., Pannirselvam, G. , & Ferguson, L. (1994).  The Changing Operations Management Research Paradigm: Where Do Quality and Operations Strategy Fit? Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting .

Ash, R. C., Smith-Daniels, D. E., & Hershauer, J. C. (1994).  A Model for the Learning, Forgetting, and Relearning Cycle in Projects with Preemption. Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting , 1719-1721.

Presentation of Refereed Papers

International

Ash, R.C. (2005, November). Project Planning: Traditional Methods versus Critical Chain.   Presented at Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, San Francisco, California.

Ash, R.C. & Pannirselvam, G. P. (2003, November). Inventory Reduction: Application of Single Firm Principles to the Supply Chain.   Presented at Decision Sciences Institute National Meeting, Washington, District of Columbia.

Ash, R.C. (2003, April). Preemption or Non-preemption in Resource Constrained Multi-project Scheduling.   Presented at Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.

Ash, R.C. & Smith-Daniels, D. E. (1994, October). Learning and Forgetting in Multiproject Resource Constrained Scheduling.   Presented at Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Meeting, Washington, District of Columbia.

Ash, R.C. & Smith-Daniels, D. E. (1993, November). Human Resource Assignment Policies in Project Scheduling.   Presented at ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona.

Regional

Keefe, T. , Ash R., Ramsey, G., Rakich, J., & Ernstberger, K. (2001, April). Teaching Leaerning Partners.   Presented at Lilly Conference on Teaching, Bloomington, Indiana.

Research Grants

Funded-Internal

2000 - "I received an IU Southeast research grant in the amount of $5000 for the summer of 2000 to work on a research project titled: Resource Sharing Across Multiple Development Projects: Impact and Alternatives," IU Soputheast, ( $0).

Dissertation

Learning, Forgetting, and Relearning Cycle Effects in Resource Constrained Multiproject Scheduling with preemption