Profile: Sheila Lawrence

Dr. Sheila Lawrence is a full-time member of the LSER faculty, where she teaches a graduate-level course in Six Sigma and Problem Solving and undergraduate courses in Personal Finance and Finance.  Dr. Lawrence had been a Lecturer in the Rutgers Business School (RBS) since 1993 in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS).  For the academic year 2004-5, she had been an instructor in MSIS in RBS.  Dr. Lawrence has, also, taught undergraduate courses in SAS (Departments of Statistics and Exercises Science/Sports Management) and a graduate course in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.  She had been appointed to the Graduate Faculty at Rutgers as of May 2000. 

Dr. Lawrence has more then 30 years of technical management experience with AT&T, Hoffmann-LaRoche, PSE&G, and the State of New Jersey.  Her teaching interests include problem solving, finance, supply chain, management science, quality and statistics.  Her research interests include supply chain management, productivity analysis, quality management, forecasting, management information systems, and decision support systems.  She has 112 technical publications in the areas of statistics, MIS, and supply chain.   Dr. Lawrence has advanced to Senior Member status of ASQ (American Society for Quality), and she is, also, an active member of professional associations such as INFORMS, POMS, and the American Statistical Association.