DRO Professor Peter Kolesar won the Distinguished Service Award given by the Upper Delaware Council in recognition of his volunteer research on alleviating thermal stress to improve the habitat of Upper Delaware River fisheries.
Kolesar and his research collaborator, Jim Serio, founder of the Delaware River Foundation, were honored at the council's 25th Annual Awards Ceremony dinner on April 28.
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Professor Kolesar studies quality management and statistical quality control as well as applications of operations research and statistics, particularly in relation to the management of production and service systems. His recent research includes building models for the analysis and design of service systems with random cyclic customer demand patterns, accelerating the implementation and effectiveness of total quality management systems and optimizing credit-screening procedures.
