Powell ’77’s Research and Role in ORFE’s Foundation

The article identified a group of operations research faculty who broke away from civil engineering to form the ORFE department. Unfortunately, the article omitted professor Warren Powell ’77, a fantastic teacher and researcher. His teaching and mentorship inspired me to pursue graduate work in operations research and altered the course of my career. Dr. Powell retired a few years ago but continues to publicize his groundbreaking research on modeling sequential decision-making under uncertainty.