Dr. James C. Bezdek will present “Fuzzy Systems 101” noon-1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, via Zoom as part of the Bernard Sarchet Graduate Seminar Series.

Bezdek is the Nystul Profesor emeritus of computer science at the University of West Florida. The Sarchet Seminar Series is sponsored by engineering management and systems engineering as well as the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

The series is named after Dr. Bernie Sarchet, who joined Missouri S&T in the mid-1960s as the founding chair of the engineering management department. Before retiring in 1981, Sarchet secured approval for a Ph.D. program in engineering management at Missouri S&T. He also was a founding member and first national president of the American Society for Engineering Management. After retirement, he helped raise funds for the Engineering Management Building, helped develop the Order of the Golden Shillelagh and spearheaded the development of the video communications center at Missouri S&T.