William A. Wallace (organizational theorist)
Encyclopedia
William A. Wallace is an American systems and infrastructure engineering expert. He is professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in the department of decision sciences and engineering systems, and holds joint appointments in cognitive sciences and civil and environmental engineering. He is research director of Rensselaer's Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies.
from the Illinois Institute of Technology
in 1958, and his M.S. (1961) and Ph.D. (1965) in management science from Rensselaer, His doctoral thesis was entitled Producer Learning: An Adaptive Control Process. He also served in the U.S. Navy
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Wallace was the founding co-editor, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
in the department of decision sciences and engineering systems, and holds joint appointments in cognitive sciences and civil and environmental engineering. He is research director of Rensselaer's Center for Infrastructure and Transportation Studies.
Education and early life
Wallace gained his bachelor's degree in chemical engineeringChemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
from the Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
in 1958, and his M.S. (1961) and Ph.D. (1965) in management science from Rensselaer, His doctoral thesis was entitled Producer Learning: An Adaptive Control Process. He also served in the U.S. Navy
United States Navy
The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
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Research
Wallace's research interests center around decision support systems, the process of modeling and emergency management. His work has focussed on transportation, infrastructure and in particular computer-based simulation and modeling, notably of emergency transport and other major incident management.Wallace was the founding co-editor, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of organization theory. The journal is published quarterly by Springer Science+Business Media. It was established in 1995 and initially published by Kluwer. The founding editors were...
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