Patrick D. Krolak

Academic Rank: Professor

Degrees:

B.S. Physics, University of Chicago, 1962

M.A. Physics, Washington University, 1964

D.Sc Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Washington University, St. Louis 1968

Professional and Honorary Societies:

ACM - Association for Computer Machinery

ORSA - Operations Research Society of America

AIDS - American Institute of Decision Sciences

Simulation Councils

Mathematical Programming Society

Sigma Xi

 

Honors, Awards and Scholarships

Illinois State Scholar (1958 - 62)

Sigma Xi

AEC Summer Research Trainership (1967)

NSF Summer Institute for Management Science (1972)

ACM National Lecturer (1973 - 77)

 

Editorships

Associate Editor for Urban and Regional Planning SIMULATION(Simulation Councils) (1972- 78)

Courses Taught:

Fall 1994: 91.203 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language

 91.548 - Robotics

Spring 1995: 91.450 - Robotics I

 91.589 - Creating a Software Venture

Fall 1995: 17.462

 

Current: The University of Massachusetts at Lowell

1986 - Present: Director, The Center for Productivity Enhancement

The Center for Productivity ENhancement is a university-wide research center dedicated to improving the productivity and competitiveness of government and industry. The CPE has encompassed 3 major groups.

 1. Intelligent Manufacturing

 2. Work and Environment (including ergonomics and skills based on automation)

 3. Advanced Materials

 It has three institutes: The Institute for Computer Arts and INdustrial Design; The Institute for Photovoltaics; and The Institute for Interactive Media. Technology groups include both hardware and software design, intelligent network, management and security expert system, document recognition, and multimedia videoconferencing. Dr. Krolak is the chair of the ANSI X3H3.8 API for imaging standards groups and ISO JTL SC24 Imaging task group. THe CPE participates in a variety of standards groups and ISO including CALS. Imaging and Graphics (ANSI X3H3), X Windows, POSIX, and those related to multimedia communications.

1982 - Present: Professor, Department of Computer Science

 

Other Related Experience (Teaching, Industrial):

1979 - 1982: 

Visiting Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.

 Teaching and research in qperations research, computer graphics for human-aided optimization, design automation and simulation.

 1970 -1979: Teaching at Vanderbilt University.

 

1977 - 1979:

 

Professor, Vanderbilt University. Teaching and research in a robotics, simulation, artificial intelligence apllied to health care, space, investment management, and manufacturing.

 

1974 -1977:

Chairman and Professor of Systems and Information Science (Computer Science), Vanderbilt University. Department offered M.S., M.Eng.(professional degree in information systems)and Ph.D. While chairing the department, it offered its first Ph.D's became the largest graduate program in engineering, and generated 30 percent of the of the semesters hours in the engineering school. The department was focused around software and systems programming. Program attracted signifigant numbers of women and minorities (<25%). Graduates of the Ph.D prgram have gone to head the Office of Naval Research, the DOD STARS program, the CMU Software Engineering Institute, and the University of Virginia. Among the department's many distinguished undergraduate students are several Rhodes Scholars, including one who became a Vice President of Sun Computers.

 

1970 - 1974:

Associate Professor of Systems and Information Science, Vanderbilt University. Teaching and research in data structures, artificial intelligence, simulation and operations research.

 

1968 - 1970:

Assistant Professor of Systems and Information Science, Vanderbilt University. Research in algorithms and computer heuristics.

 

1967 - 1968:

Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, School of Business, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Taught MIS courses and developed data bases and models for portfolio management.

 

1965 - 1966:

Instructor in Applied Mathematics, Lindenwood College for Women, St. Charles MO, taught courses in Advanced Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Numerical Methods.

 

Consulting:

National Association of Manufacturing (NAM)

1.Invited presentation at fall meeting of External Affairs Committee on the technical implication now pending legislation on the Information Super-highway and virtual (agile) manufacturing.

 2.Invited speaker at the

United Nations Industrial Developement Orginization (UNIDO)

1.Undertook an in-depth analysis of the Mexican electronics industry and reviewed proposals by the Instituto Mexicano De Cummicioned(Institute for Mexican Communications) for introducing Surface Mount Manufacturing to Mexican manufacturers. .

 2.Provided lectures to UNIDO's Science and Technology Office in Vienna, Austria.

 

American and International Standards and Committees

1. Chair and charter member of ANSI X3H3.8, Applications Programmer's Interface (API) for imaging. Goal to codify the industrial practice of image practice of image processing for machine vision, medicine, remote sensing, prepress, and document processing.

 2. JTC1/ISO/SC24/WG7 national expert and former United States Head of Delegation (HOD) of the ISO Imaging Working Group.

 3. The end product of the above two standards bodies was a standard called the Image Processing Interchange (IPI) and that would have three parts.