Schneider National Commits to Higher Learning

Funds endowed transportation and logistics chair at Georgia Tech

Green Bay, WI, and Atlanta January 27, 2005 Chelsea (Chip) White III has been named Schneider National chair in Transportation and Logistics for the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. White is also executive director of The Logistics Institute.

Schneider National, a provider of transportation, logistics and related services in the United States, funded The Schneider National Chair Endowment Fund. The chair is to provide undergraduate and graduate instruction and research at Georgia Tech. Students will have the opportunity to conduct individual projects in the logistics and supply chain management area with special emphasis on problems of carriers and shippers.

Dr. White came to Georgia Tech in 2002 from the University of Michigan, where he served as professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as director of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center and co-director of the University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program.

He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in computer, information and control engineering, and he additionally has served on the faculties of Southern Methodist University and the University of Virginia.

Dr. White teaches courses about decision-making under uncertainty and risk.