Rubenstein, Albert H., 1923-2013
Dates
- Existence: 1923 - 2013
Biography
Albert Harold Rubenstein was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 11, 1923. He received his B.S. from Lehigh University in 1949, his M.S. in 1950 and his Ph.D. in 1954 from Columbia University. His bachelor's and master's degrees were in industrial engineering and his doctorate was in industrial engineering and management. He served on the Industrial Engineering staff at Columbia University from 1950-53 and on the faculty of the School of Industrial Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1953-59. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar in 1955. He joined the faculty of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University in 1959.
At Northwestern University, he established and directed the department's area of specialization in organization theory. He was also the principal investigator of Northwestern's Program of Research on the Management of Research and Development. He co-edited Some Theories of Organization, edited Coordination, Control and Financing Industrial Research, and authored many articles and research reports. He also edited the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management from 1959-1985, and was the director of studies for the College of Research and Development and was vice-president for research and education of the Institute of Management Sciences in 1960. He was the director of the Narragansett Capital Corporation from 1960-1983. He was a visiting professor in the School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. He was also a member of the advisory committee on Economic and Manpower Studies of Science and Technology, National Science Foundation.
In 1977, Rubenstein became director of the Engineering Management Program, a position he held until 1992. In 1986, he became the director of the Center for Information and Telecommunication Technology. Also in 1986, he was named to the Walter P. Murphy Professorship. In 1996, he began an adjunct professorship at the University of California, San Diego. In 1998, Professor Rubenstein was honored at the Fall INFORMS meeting and delivered a Distinguished Speaker Address.
Rubenstein died April 13, 2013.