Obituary

Andrew S. Schultz Jr., who was the fifth dean of the College of Engineering between 1963 and 1972, died March 13 at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He was 84.

With the exception of his World War II service in the U.S. Army Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Schultz's entire career was spent at Cornell. He became a full professor and head of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Administration (now the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering) in 1951.

After stepping down as dean of the College of Engineering, he returned to the university to serve as acting dean, and he was the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering at the time of his retirement in 1978. He received the College of Engineering Award in recognition of his service.

Schultz attended Cornell, receiving his B.S. in administrative and mechanical engineering in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1941.

He established Cornell's industrial engineering and administration faculty as an independent department, and he was a leader in the major transformation of industrial engineering from a qualitative to a more quantitative discipline.

As a board member of the Engineers' Council for Professional Development and member of the Commission on Education of the National Academy of Engineering, he was active in developing the professional status of engineering. He also served as chairman of the National Institutes of Health study section on accident prevention.

Schultz served as vice president and director of research, and later as chairman, of the Logistics Management Institute in Washington, D.C. He was also an operations analyst for the Operations Research Office of Johns Hopkins University and a consultant to the engineering advisory committee of Western Electric Co.'s Engineering Research Center in Princeton, N.J.

Schultz, an avid winemaker, was a charter member of the Ithaca Oenological Union.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Mory Schultz; his children, Susan Schultz Tapscott of Houston and Andrew M. Schultz of Denver; a sister; and four grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held June 3 at 4 p.m. in Sage Chapel. Donations can be made to the Andrew Schultz Professorship Fund, c/o the Dean of Engineering, Cornell.