Rick Olson

Associate Professor Of Industrial And Systems Engineering

Ph.D

Dr. Rick T. Olson is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (with an emphasis in operations research), his M.S. in Industrial Engineering and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to coming to USD to establish the ISyE program, Dr. Olson taught in the Business School at Loyola University-Chicago and worked as a medical device engineer for Baxter-Travenol.