HOBOKEN , N.J. ― Stevens Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Peerasit Patanakul has won the 2007 IEEE-TEM Best Paper Award for his paper, "A Decision Support Model for Project Manager Assignments.” The paper focuses on h ow to assign projects to project managers.

Patanakul and his associates (Dr. Dragan Z. Milosevic and Dr. Timothy R. Anderson) “found that to be effective in project assignments, management should consider strategic elements of the organization in project prioritization, project requirements and competencies of project managers in project manager-to- project matching, and some organizational/personal limitations regarding the assignment.” The importance of the project to the organization and the project requirements need to be jointly considered with the project managers’ competency levels, workload, and experience, as well as the limitations of both the project and the project manager when assigning projects to project managers. The paper discusses an experimentally proven mathematical strategy to optimize results.

This paper was also honored by Stevens’ Howe School of Technology Management as an Outstanding Publication.

Patanakul received the B.E. degree in Chemical Engineering from Chulalongkorn University , Bangkok , Thailand , in 1995. He received his master’s degree in Engineering Management in 2000 and a Ph.D. in Systems Science/Engineering Management in and 2004, both from Portland State University (PSU). He has authored many papers in several international journals, and has served as a peer-reviewer for many academic journals as well. His current research interest includes multiple project management, strategic project management and value-focused project management. Patanakul was the president of the PSU Chapter of Omega Rho engaged in an International Society of Operations Research and Management Sciences and has served in many organizing committees of prestigious international conferences in technology management. He is a member of the Project Management Institute.

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