Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Ph.D., holds the St. Abbo of Fleury Endowed Chair in Engineering and serves as a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering within the College of Engineering, Physics, and Computing at the Catholic University of America. Prior to this role, he held a joint appointment at the University of Maryland, College Park, in both the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research.
Dr. Herrmann has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, along with fifteen book chapters. He is the co-author of an engineering design textbook, editor of two handbooks, and the author of a textbook on engineering decision making and risk management, as well as a book on metareasoning.
His contributions to the field have been recognized with several honors, including the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2003 and designation as a Diplomate of the Society for Health Systems in 2013. His textbook, Engineering Decision Making and Risk Management, received the IIE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award in 2016.
Dr. Herrmann is a member of ASME, the Society of Catholic Scientists, and IISE. He earned a B.S. in applied mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida in 1993.
Dr. Herrmann has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, along with fifteen book chapters. He is the co-author of an engineering design textbook, editor of two handbooks, and the author of a textbook on engineering decision making and risk management, as well as a book on metareasoning.
His contributions to the field have been recognized with several honors, including the Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2003 and designation as a Diplomate of the Society for Health Systems in 2013. His textbook, Engineering Decision Making and Risk Management, received the IIE/Joint Publishers Book of the Year Award in 2016.
Dr. Herrmann is a member of ASME, the Society of Catholic Scientists, and IISE. He earned a B.S. in applied mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida in 1993.