2016 Continuing Contribution Award

Professor Emeritus Winfried Grassmann (PhD) has made sustained scholarly contribution in the areas of stochastic models, simulation, and performance evaluation. This is reflected in his publication of numerous papers on numerical queueing theory and the initial bias problem in simulation. Simultaneously, he has supervised a large number of graduate students. His commitment to research and student supervision has continued after retirement extending to topics ranging from simulation, health, and history of computers.

His research has been supported by a number of grants from the NSERC and this funding has continued after his retirement. He has supported his profession as editor or associate editor of journals such as Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, The INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFOR, Journal of the Canadian Operations Research Society. Besides remaining committed to research and student supervision at this University, he continues as Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Ontario and the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

In 2010, he was a Distinguished Speaker at the annual conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. He also continues as the President of the Saskatoon Section of the Canadian Operational Research Society.