Lori Seward

Lori E. Seward is a Senior Instructor of Systems in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado—Boulder. She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering at Virginia Tech in 1984 and 1985. After several years working as a reliability and quality engineer in the paper and automotive industries she earned her PhD from Virginia Tech in 1998. She joined the Leeds faculty in 1998. Her teaching interests include applied statistics, quality management, and supply chain management and she has taken the lead in using advanced technology tools for enhancing the classroom and learning experience in large lecture courses. She served as the Chair of the INFORMS Teachers'Workshop for the annual 2004 meeting. Her most recent article was published in The InternationalJournal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004).