ROBERT J. SCHLESINGER

Professor Emeritus, Information and Decision Systems, San Diego State University
Engineering and Management Consultant (Registered Professional Engineer)
Expert Witness
9291 Wister Dr.
La Mesa, CA 91941, USA
Phone #: 619-469-4532
email #: robert.schlesinger@sdsu.edu

EXPERIENCE: INDUSTRIAL

Founder and CEO of RHO SIGMA, INC., North Hollywood, Calif., for ten years until its sale to a New York Stock Exchange listed firm. Rho Sigma designed and produced controls and data collection systems for energy management.

President/CEO of COMPULASER, INC., Canoga Park, Calif., which manufactured industrial lasers and maintained a CAD/CAM operation.

Vice President of Marketing, ITT, Data and Information Systems Division, Paramus, N.J.

Director of R&D for TELEDYNE'S PACKARD-BELL subsidiary, Newbury Park, Calif.

Member of the staff at CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY'S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY (JPL); involved in the study of alternate energy resources and systems, Pasadena, Calif.

Experience includes systems analysis; RF design (HF,VHF,UHF); digital/analog data acquisition systems; and applications to control problems, factory automation and robotics.

EDUCATION:
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Connecticut.
M.S. Management Science, West Coast University, Los Angeles.
Ph.D. Henley the Management College, Brunel University, UK.
Dissertation title: "A Statistical Analysis of Robot Parameters as a Guide to their Development between 1973 and 1983."

PUBLICATIONS: (Books)

"Manufacturing Simulation for MBA Students," in Games and Exercises for Operations Management, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1995.

"Modern Factories and Outdated Cost Systems Do Not Mix," in Repetitive Manufacturing Reprints: Critical Issues, Falls Church, Va. Library of American Production, APICS, 1992.

"Industrial Robots, Work and Industry: Past, Present and Future," in Microprocessors, Manpower and Society, Ch. 1, New York: St. Martin"s Press, 1984.

"Robot Parameters in Perspective," in The International Robotics Yearbook, Cambridge, Mass: Ballinger, 1984. Served as technical consultant for 1983 original European edition (London: Kogan-Page).

"Data Acquisition Systems," in Solar Energy Technology Handbook, Vol. 2, Ch. 41, New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1980.

Principles of Electronic Warfare, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1961. Also translated by the Russians as: Radioelektronnaya Voyna; Publisher, Voyenizdat, 1963. Reissued in the U.S. in paperback by Peninsula Publishing, Los Altos, CA, 1979.

PUBLICATIONS: (Journals)

"Management, Production Reports and Process Stability,” California Journal of Operations Management, Vol 2, 2004.

"Analysis of Quantal Response Data from Bacterial Destruction Studies in Sterilization: The Stumbo Estimate Is Biased," Journal of Applied Bacteriology, Vol. 71, 1991 (with J. Hachigian).

"Teach-Factory: Real-Time Decision Making for Production & Operations Management Students." Invited paper, Proceedings, Annual Meeting of Institute of Decision Sciences, Las Vegas, Nov. l988.

"A Strategy for Integrating University Resources to Support Small Manufacturing Companies," Operations Management Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1991.

"Database Considerations in a Technology Transfer Network" (with T.B.A. Addo), Journal of Technology Transfer, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1991.

"Decision Models for Robot Selection: A Comparison of Ordinary Least Squares and Linear Goal Programming Methods," Decision Sciences, Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 1989 (with M.M. Imany).

"Modern Factories and Outdated Cost<