Charles Thompson

Charles Thompson

Charles Thompson


Master of Engineering Management

Course: IEMS 436 - Engineering and Project Management

Course and Teacher Evaluation Link:
Engineering and Project Management (Spring 2007)

E-mail: c-thompson@northwestern.edu

Professor Thompson's research and teaching both focus on field research methodology and systems engineering and management.  Specific current areas of interest include information based framework models, parameter focused research design, process descriptive methods, and a variety of important practical problems in project management which are not covered in the literature, including identifying high risk tasks, technical and time dependencies among tasks, intermediate performance measures, and allocation of time between planning and performing.

Education:
Ph.D.    1969    Industrial Engineering    Northwestern University
M.B.A  1956                                        Ohio State University
LLB.     1949                                        Harvard Law School
B.S.      1943    Secondary Education    Kutztown University

Professional Experience:

1964-Present       Attorney
1986                    Visiting Professor of Systems Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Mechanical Engineering
1966-1975           Visiting Professor in Industrial Engineering, Bradley University
1967-1968           Lecturer in Business Administration, University of Chicago and Northwestern University
1958-1964           Director of Engineering Services, Admiral Corporation
1952-1958           Chief, Electronic Reconnaissance Section, Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory, Wright Air
                            Development Center, USAF; Senior Executive, Federal Television Corporation

Publications:

Charles W Thompson, 1991, Systems (Analysis, Engineering, and Management) Program at Northwestern University, International Journal of General Systems, 19(1),25-30

Charles W Thompson, 1987, Prolegomena to a Multidimensional Framework for Describing the Variety of Systems Methodology and Design, Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, ,443-449

Charles W Thompson, 1985, The Shared a Priori Model as a Framework in Examining Interdisciplinary Processes, Managing High Technology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ,

Charles W Thompson, 1974, Administrative Experiments: The Experience of Fifty-Eight Engineers and Engineering Managers, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, EM-21(2),42-50

Charles W Thompson, G. Rath, 1973, Planning Solutions Aided by Management and Systems Technology, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 405,151-162