Date: Monday, 25-Nov-96 22:10:11 GMT Server: NCSA/1.3 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thursday, 10-Oct-96 14:47:40 GMT Content-length: 1582 Ken Nygard NDSU Faculty

Ken Nygard

258 A9 IACC
(701) 231-8203


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Earned his PhD in 1978 from VPI and has been at NDSU since 1977.

Teaching interests include Operation Research, computer system performance analysis, and artificial intelligence. Research in computer-based routing and scheduling has been applied to school bus and newspaper truck routing and to several military systems including Army and Navy missile routing and the nation-wide Air Force cargo distribution system.

His Operations Research And Software Development Laboratory currently has three major research projects:
  1. SCHOOLMAPs a Geographical Information System developed for the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction
  2. DAKOTA an Aircraft routing and Passenger Scheduling System designed for the United States Air Force in Europe
  3. Remote Autonomous Vehicles a smart weapons system for path computation of remote autonomous vehicles designed for the Department of Defense


Interests include
raquetball and waterskiing.