Peter Jurkat

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Peter Jurkat teaches statistics for teachers and product development

Peter Jurkat performed urban transportation planning and metropolitan demographic and economic modeling. Jurkat then participated in designing the US interstate highway system around Philadelphia. For the US Air Force, he developed computer-based communications and control systems--secure, high-speed message and data communications for SACC bases worldwide. Employing IBM mainframes, ITT proprietary communications and switching processors and terminals, he worked on traffic analysis, programming, testing, and demonstrations. Later, he helped create an all-terrain military vehicle simulation, now known as NATO Reference Mobility Model. At Stevens, he was Director of the Center for Municipal Studies and Services, providing analysis for small urban centers on facilities and operations. Jurkat used computer databases, statistical analysis, and simulation for fire-fighting, environmental impact, solid waste disposal, transportation systems, and waterfront redevelopment. He also participated in initiating the Information Management Masters and Doctoral programs at Stevens. Jurkat has taught numerous graduate and undergraduate courses in expert systems, networks, quantitative analysis, organizational theory, mathematics, and statistics. He was founding director of an undergraduate curriculum in technology management and was instrumental in making personal computers an undergraduate requirement. He is also a faculty associate of Steven's Center Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). He earned his B.A. at Swarthmore, his M.A. at the University of North Carolina, and his Ph.D -- all in Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

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