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Dr. Robert Yearout
Professor of Industrial and Engineering Management
Owen Hall Office: 211
Office Phone Number: 828-251-6854
E-Mail:
yearout@unca.edu
Professor of Management, B.S.C.E.,
Virginia Military Institute, M.S.S.M., University of Southern
California, M.S., Ph.D., Kansas State University. Tau Beta Phi,
National Honor Society in Engineering. Outstanding Young Men of
America, 1971. Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1994, 1998, 2000,
2002, & 2004. LTC (US Army Special Forces, Retired). Dr. Yearout's
awards include the 1995-1996 Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship for
Outstanding Research, 1997-1998 Distinguished Teaching Award for the
Social Sciences, 1999-2000 UNCA Distinguished Teacher of the Year,
and the First Annual University Service Council Award in 2002, the
Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina Award for
Excellence in Teaching in 2006, and 2006-2007 Annual University
Research Council Award for Scholarly and Creative Achievement. Dr.
Yearout has published one book and a significant number of articles
in national and international peer reviewed journals such as
IEEE Transactions on RELIABILITY, International
Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, and the
International Journal For Industrial Engineering Theory,
Application, and Practice in subject areas directly related
to his teaching expertise. He is the editor for National
Conferences on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Proceedings and
a member of Editorial Board for the International Journal For
Industrial Engineering Theory, Practice, and Application.
Dr. Yearout teaches courses in Management Science, Operations
Research, Production and Operations Management, Industrial
Ergonomics, Engineering Management, Quality Control, other related
industrial topics, and The Ancient World (Humanities). His research
interests are noise hazards, quality control, inventory control,
engineering economics, learning and forgetting as it applies to
progress curves, statistical techniques, industrial health and
safety, and workstation lighting.
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