Wolt Fabrycky

Wolter Joseph Fabrycky (December 6, 1932 – November 6, 2024) was an American systems engineer, Lawrence Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech, and Principal of Academic Applications International.

Biography Wolter Fabrycky studied Industrial Engineering, receiving his BS in 1957 from Wichita State University and his Industrial Engineering MS in 1958 from the University of Arkansas. In 1962 Fabrycky received his PhD in engineering from Oklahoma State University where he was awarded an Ethyl Corporation Doctoral Fellowship.

Fabrycky began as a faculty member at the University of Arkansas in 1957 and continued at Oklahoma State University during 1962–65. In September 1965 he was appointed to the Industrial Engineering faculty at Virginia Tech, where he served for 30 years. There in 1968, he founded and chaired the Interdisciplinary Systems Engineering Graduate Program, served as Associate Dean of Engineering, and later became Virginia Tech's Dean of Research.

Publications Fabrycky was author of almost two dozen textbook editions, revisions, and translations in Industrial and Systems Engineering, including: Fabrycky, Wolter J., Prab M. Ghare, and Paul E. Torgersen. Applied operations research and management science. Prentice-Hall, 1984. Banks, Jerry and Wolter J. Fabrycky. Procurement and inventory systems analysis. Prentice-Hall, 1987. Fabrycky, Wolter J. and Benjamin S. Blanchard. Life-cycle cost and economic analysis. Prentice-Hall, 1991. Fabrycky, Wolter J., Gerald J. Thuesen, and Dinesh Verma. Economic decision analysis, 3rd Ed. Prentice-Hall, 1998. Thuesen, Gerald J. and Wolter J. Fabrycky. Engineering economy, 9th Ed. Prentice-Hall, 2001. Blanchard, Benjamin S and Wolter J. Fabrycky. Systems engineering and analysis, 5th (30th anniversary Ed), Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011.

For more than a half-century, Wolter Fabrycky was a diligent Prentice Hall (now Pearson Prentice Hall) author, reviewer, and editor of the PPH International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering.