He is the director of the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory and Associate Director for the University of Maryland Quality Enhancement Systems and Teams (QUEST) Honors Fellows Program. He is a member of INFORMS, ASME, IIE, SME, and ASEE. He was the chair of the ASME Design for Manufacturing Technical Committee. Dr. Herrmann earned his B.S. in applied mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow from 1990–1993, he received his Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida. Areas of interest: engineering design decision-making, design optimization, design for manufacturing, operations research