Andrew S. Schultz, Jr., who was Cornell's fifth dean of the College of Engineering between 1963 and 1972, died March 13 at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. He was 84 and had suffered a stroke in 1995.

With the exception of his World War II service in the U.S. Army Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Schultz's entire career was spent at Cornell. He became a full professor and head of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Administration (now the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering) in 1951.

After stepping down as dean of the College of Engineering, he returned to the university to serve as acting dean, and he was the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering at the time of his retirement in 1978. He received the College of Engineering Award in recognition of his service.

Schultz was born Aug. 14, 1913, in Harrisburg, Pa., and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., in 1932. He attended Cornell, receiving his B.S. in administrative and mechanical engineering in 1936 and his Ph.D. in 1941.

He established Cornell's industrial engineering and administration faculty as an independent department, and he was a leader in the major transformation of industrial engineering from a qualitative to a more quantitative discipline. His first love was teaching, and four of his former students are members of the National Academy of Engineering.

As a board member of the Engineers' Council for Professional Development and as a member of the Commission on Education of the National Academy of Engineering he was active in developing the professional status of engineering. He also served as chairman of the National Institutes of Health study section on accident prevention. He was a fellow of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Institute of Management Science, the Operations Research Society of America, and the honorary societies Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma.

Schultz served as vice president and director of research, and later as chairman, of the Logistics Management Institute in Washington, D.C. He was also an operations analyst for the Operations Research Office of Johns Hopkins University, and a consultant to the engineering advisory committee of Western Electric Co.'s Engineering Research Center in Princeton, N.J. He served as director of a number of companies, including SI Handling Systems, Inc., Zurn Industries, Chicago Pneumatic Tool, and the Lexington Fund. He was chairman of the Logistics Management Institute.

Schultz was an avid winemaker and was a charter member of the Ithaca Oenological Union. His summers were spent at the family cottage at Cayuga Lake, a short distance from Cornell.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary Mory Schultz; his children Susan Schultz Tapscott of Houston and Andrew M. Schultz of Denver; his grandchildren Amanda, Emma and Mary Tapscott and Andrew N. Schultz; and a sister, Alice Schultz Valkenburgh of Winter Park, Fla.

A memorial service will be held in Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus at 4 p.m. on June 3. Donations can be made to the Andrew Schultz Professorship Fund, c/o the Dean of Engineering, Cornell University.