Dr. Edward A. Pohl is Co-Director, System Design and Analytics Laboratory (SyDL), Professor and Head of the Industrial Engineering Department, and a holder of the 21st Century Professorship at the University of Arkansas. He has led reliability-, risk- and supply chain-related research efforts at the University of Arkansas. Before coming to Arkansas, Ed spent twenty-one years in the United States Air Force, where he served in a variety of engineering, operations analysis and academic positions during his career. Ed received his Ph.D. in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona. He holds an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Reliability Engineering from the University of Arizona, an M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University. Ed is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Engineering Management, on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transaction on Technology and Engineering Management, and Systems. Ed is a Fellow of IISE, a Fellow of the Society of Reliability Engineers, a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Management, a Senior Member of IEEE and ASQ, and a member of INCOSE, INFORMS, ASEE, MORS and AHRMM.