Curriculum Vitae

Professor Preckel researches and teaches in the areas of decision analysis and mathematical modeling. He has had extensive experience in developing applications and methods over a wide range of subject matter areas. His current areas of interest are focused on: energy modeling, assessment of the effects of policy across an economy's income spectrum, supply chain management, modeling imperfectly competitive markets, and methods and applications for optimization and numerical integration. He became the Faculty Director of Indiana’s State Utility Forecasting Group in February 2007.

Professor Preckel's recent publications include: “Efficient Survey Sampling of Households via Gaussian Quadrature,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, Applied Statistics (2006); “Economic Replacement of a Heterogeneous Herd,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2006); “Diffusion and Spillover of New Technology: A Heterogeneous-agent Model for Cassava in West Africa,” Agricultural Economics (2006); “Development of a Model to Describe the Compositional Growth and Dietary Lysine Requirements of Pigs Fed Increasing Dietary Concentrations of Ractopamine,” The Professional Animal Scientist (2006); “Outbound Supply Chain Network Design with Mode Selection and Lead Time Considerations,” Naval Research Logistics (2007); “Productivity Growth and Convergence in Crop, Ruminant and Non-Ruminant Production: Measurement and Forecasts,” Agricultural Economics (2007). He is serving as Co-editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics for volumes 89-92, and has served on the editorial staff of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He has served as a consultant to Control Analysis Corporation, Electric Power Research Institute, Hudson Institute, Land O’ Lakes, U.S. Agency for International Development, University of Delaware, the World Bank and USAID.