New editor for IEEE transactions on engineering management

PROFESSOR A. H. RUBENSTEIN, who has been editor of this TRANSACTIONS since I960, announced his intention to resign from that position approximately one year ago. A search committee was established by the Engineering Management Society and half a dozen potential successors were identified all of whom have published in this TRANSACTIONS and are very active in the field of engineering management and the management of R&D/Innovation. The choice was a difficult one. but the search committee ultimately recommended Professor Dundar Kocaoglu of the University of Pittsburgh who has accepted the appointment as of January 1, 1985. Professor Kocaoglu has exciting plans for further expanding the scope of this TRANSACTIONS and for researching a larger percentage of IEEE members who, although they have engineering management responsibilities, do not currently belong to the Engineering Management Society or subscribe to the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT. In addition, he plans to continue reaching out to people in other professional societies who arc engaged in research and practice in this important field. We wish him success in this endeavor.