Vicki Lynn Sauter (born 1955) is an American

management scientist Management science (or managerial science) is a wide and interdisciplinary study of solving complex problems and making strategic decisions as it pertains to institutions, corporations, governments and other types of organizational entities. It is ...

and

systems engineer Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their life cycles. At its core, systems engineering utilizes systems thinkin ...

known for her books on

decision support system A decision support system (DSS) is an information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations and planning levels of an organization (usually mid and higher management) and ...

s. She is a professor in the Information Systems and Technology Department at the

University of Missouri–St. Louis The University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) is a Public university, public research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Established in 1963, it is the newest of the four universities in the University of Missouri System. Located ...

Education and career

Sauter grew up near Chicago; her father was murdered in an attempted robbery when she was a teenager, an event she cites as influential in her commitment to service. She has a Ph.D. in systems engineering from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

, and serves on the advisory board for industrial engineering and management sciences at Northwestern. She joined the University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty in 1980. When she earned tenure there, she became the first woman in the College of Business Administration to do so. Sauter is an avid collector of crafts, and in 2016 became president of the

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in St. Louis. She also runs a museum at the University of Missouri–St. Louis honoring

Grace Hopper Grace Brewster Hopper (; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of mach ...

Books

Sauter's books include: *''Decision Support Systems: An Applied Managerial Approach'' (Wiley, 1997) *''Decision Support Systems For Business Intelligence'' (Wiley, 2010) She is also the author of two self-published books, ''Street Lights of the World'' (2012) and ''You're Never Too Old To Surf: A Seniors' Guide to Safe Internet Use'' (2015).

Recognition

Sauter is the 2003 winner of the George E. Kimball Medal of the

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research Operations research () (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often s ...

(INFORMS) for her service to the institute and particularly for her work in the merger of the two organizations ORSA and TIMS that together formed INFORMS. She became a Fellow of INFORMS in 2005. In 2012 she won the INFORMS WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS. In 2013 the four-campus University of Missouri system gave Sauter the UM President's Award for University Citizenship.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sauter, Vicki Living people Management scientists American women engineers Women systems engineers American systems engineers Northwestern University alumni University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 1955 births 21st-century American women