Joel A. Nachlas
Associate Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering (1974-2016)
Dr. Joel A. Nachlas
Research Areas
Main Area: Operations Research
- Reliability Theory
- Maintenance Planing
- Statistical Quality Control
Research Accomplishments
- Analysis of time dependent availability for a class of non-stationary repair problems
- Definition of bivariate reliability and maintenance probability models
- Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1976
- M.S., University of Pittsburgh, 1974
- B.E.S., Johns Hopkins University, 1970
- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 9/1974 - 3/2016
Visiting appointments
- Visiting Professor, Polytechnique de Nice (formerly Ecole Superieure d’Ingenieurs de Nice Sophia Antipolis), University of Nice, Biot, France, 10/2011 - 1/2012
- Visiting Professor, Ecole Superieure d’Ingenieurs de Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice, Biot, France, 9/2003 - 6/2004
- Visiting Professor, Ecole Superieure d’Ingenieurs de Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice, Biot, France, 9/1995 - 6/1996
- Visiting Professor, Physics, University of Angers, Angers, France, 1/1989 - 6/1989
- Statistical Quality Control
- Reliability Theory
- Introductory Probability
- Stochastic Processes
- Philosophy of Operation Research Modeling
- Henry, A. and J. A. Nachlas, “An Equivalent Age Model for ConditionBased Maintenance”, Proc. of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, (January, 2012), pp.232-237.
- Nachlas, J. A. and C. R. Cassady, “A General Framework for Modeling Equipment Aging”, Proc. of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, (January, 2010), pp.368-373.
- Rehmert, I. J. and J. A. Nachlas, “Availability Analysis for the Quasirenewal Process” IEEE Transactions on Man, Systems and Cybernetics, Part A, Vol. 39, No. 1, (2009), pp. 272-280.
- Murdock, W. P., and J. A. Nachlas, “Availability under Age Replacement with Distinct Service Time Distributions”, Proc. of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, (January, 2007), pp. 333-338.
- Nachlas, J. A., "Reliability Engineering: Probabilistic Models and Maintenance Methods", Boca Raton, Taylor & Francis, (ISBN: 0-8493-3598-1), April, 2005.
- Senior Member, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
- Fellow, American Society for Quality (ASQ)
- Member, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
- Fellow, Society of Reliability Engineers
- Member, Alpha Pi Mu
- IIE William A. J. Golomski Award, 2004
- US Lacrosse, Men’s Division Coach of the Year, 2001
- P. K. McElroy Outstanding Technical Paper Award, 1991
- Outstanding Teacher Award, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1990 - 1991
Head coach, Virginia Tech men's lacrosse team (www.lacrosse.org.vt.edu)
Joel A. Nachlas honored with emeritus status (April 2016)
Dr. Joel Nachlas to retire in March 2016 (March 2016)
Professor Engineers Lacrosse Team's Success (Winter 2002)