Brett A. Peters - Professor
Dean of the College of Engineering & Applied Science



Contact Information

Office Address:
EMS 520
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414-229-4126
Fax: 414-229-6958
Email: petersba@uwm.edu
WWW: http://www.uwm.edu/~petersba/

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 784
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201

 Brett A Peters
Education

Ph.D. - Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992
M.S.I.E - Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988
B.S.I.E. - University of Arkansas, 1987

Research Interests
  • Facilities Logistics, Planning, and Design Material Handling
  • Systems Design Modeling, Design, Analysis, Operation, and Control of Manufacturing and Warehousing Systems
  • Sustainability Issues in Manufacturing and Facility Logistics Design, Analysis, and Planning of Flexible Assembly Systems

General Information

Brett A. Peters is the Dean of the College of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Before he became Dean in September 2012, he was a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he served as Department Head from 2002 through 2011. Dean Peters’s primary research area is in facility design and material handling systems in manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution applications. His work has been funded by a variety of government and industry entities. He served as President of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education in 2002 and 2003. He was named an Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer by SME in 2001, a 2004 College of Engineering Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M, received the Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award from the University of Arkansas in 2005, and was named a Fellow by the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 2010.