Dr. Robert C. Waters's Resume
ROBERT C. WATERS
Prior to completing his B.S. at UCLA in mechanical engineering, Dr.
Waters worked for four years on the Los Angeles waterfront as a
longshoreman and marine clerk. Subsequently, he joined the General
Electric Company on the three year Manufacturing Management Program,
during which he held assignments as a manufacturing engineer, cost
analyst, wage rate auditor, assistant planning supervisor, and purchasing
analyst. After completing the program, he became a supervisor in the
Instrumentation Shop of the Jet Engine Department.
Later, he joined the Space Technology Laboratories (now TRW Systems
Group) as a cost effectiveness engineer conducting economic and technical
studies of alternative space and weapon systems. Subsequently, he moved
into the market planning and research function; he became market planning
manager for the Systems Laboratory. This included developing marketing
analyses for product line development plans, new product plans,
competition and customer analysis, and assessing the market potential of
diversificatio n and acquisition proposals of the laboratory.
He then joined the management consulting firm of Engineering and
Management Sciences Corporation (EMSCO) as a vice president. During this
period, he performed general management consulting and directed the
transportation related work. The firm specialized in developing case
oriented, professional educational programs based on the Harvard case
method. He prepared instructional material and taught in the programs.
In 1972, he started his full time academic career at the University of
Missouri-Rolla as an associate professor of engineering management. In
1976, he was assigned, via an American Council on Education Fellowship,
to the U.S. Water Resources Council, initially as Chairman, Economics
Committee. He joined the George Washington University in 1979. He was
Departmental Chair, 1984 through 1989. He was a Visiting Professor in the
Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA, during 1988, where he
taught product ion management.
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Last Revised: May 15, 1995