Prof. Avraham Shtub is an Industrial Engineering and Management powerhouse and is recognized as such worldwide. During a career that has spanned over 45 years, Prof. Shtub’s leadership has extended to all aspects of academic life.
Currently Prof. Shtub is a Professor Emeritus at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology where he held the Stephen and Sharon Seiden Chair in Project Management. While at the Technion he served as Associate Dean and Head of the MBA programs and established and managed a research center dedicated to Project Management. After leaving the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Prof. Shtub became the Dean of Engineering at Rupin Academic Center. At the beginning of his outstanding career Prof. Shtub was a faculty member at Tel Aviv University, where he served as Department Chairman.
Prof. Shtub has left his mark on the Israeli and world research community by producing a rich body of influential academic achievements, including 114 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Many of these publications have appeared in the most prestigious journals in his field. Prof. Shtub has also made a similar number of conference presentations. Prof. Shtub has published more than a dozen books in Hebrew and English with some being translated to Greek and Chinese. No less than three of these books have received international awards. In one study which identified the top 100 authors publishing in the field of Operations Management in top-rated journals (1985-2010), Prof. Shtub was ranked twenty-fifth!
During his distinguished career Prof. Shtub’s research has spanned many areas including learning and forgetting, assembly line balancing, and educational simulators. However, what he is best known for is his work in project management. Prof. Shtub has had an impact on the “real world” through consulting, projects, and research with both government and industry.
Prof. Shtub’s dedication to teaching appears in his research, with many of his publications focused on educational innovation. Unsurprisingly, he has earned a teaching award both at Tel Aviv University and at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Prof. Shtub has also been instrumental in educating the next generation of researchers in so much as he has advised forty-four theses; a quarter of which being Ph.D. theses.
In light of the above, the committee unanimously finds Prof. Shtub eminently qualified to receive the Academic Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his exceptional contributions to research, teaching and industry, as well as his profound influence on the field of industrial engineering, both in Israel and around the world.
