David M. Levine CUNY Baruch College

David M. Levine is Professor of Statistics and Computer Information Systems at Bernard M. Baruch College (City University of New York). He received B.B.A. and M.B.A. degrees in Statistics from City College of New York and a Ph.D. degree from New York University in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He has won several teaching awards including Teacher of the Year, and the Dean's Award for Continued Excellence in Teaching at Baruch College, Honorable Mention for the Decision Science Institute Innovation Teaching Award, and the Robert Pearson Award from the Northeast Region of the Decision Science Institute for his development of an innovative Statistical Process Control Course for Business Students.

He is the co-author of Business Statistics for Quality and Productivity, Basic Business Statistics: Concepts and Applications, Statistics for Managers using Microsoft Excel, Statistics for Business and Economics, Intermediate Statistical Methods: A Computer Package Approach, Applied Statistics: A First Course, Using SAS with Basic Business Statistics, Using Minitab for Business Statistics, and Using SPSS with Basic Business Statistics; (all published by Prentice-Hall). He has published articles in various journals including Psychometrika, The American Statistician, Communications in Statistics, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Journal of Systems Management, Quality Progress, and The American Anthropologist.

He has been an invited speaker at the Deming Seminar for Statisticians held at New York University and the Annual Conference for County Administrators of the State of Virginia. He is nationally recognized as a leading innovator in business statistics education. In addition, for the last several years he has conducted a variety of seminars on the Deming Approach and Total Quality Management for organizations such as The New York Times, The New York City Housing Authority, the United Way of New York City, the State of Delaware, Maricopa County (Arizona), and at numerous Executive Education Centers throughout the United States including a series of presentations for executives from the Confederation of Independent States (former Soviet Union) and from Samsung.

He has provided service to his community and profession as an elected member of the Glen Cove Board of Education, member of the Board of Directors of the Intercounty Teacher Center, member of the Districtwide Curriculum Committee of the Glen Cove City School District, President of the Northeast Region of the Decision Science Institute, and member of the Advisory Council of the Northeast Region of the Decision Science Institute. In addition, he worked on a plan for reapportionment of the Mississippi Legislature for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law.

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