IISE Honors & Awards Honorees
Congratulations to the 2023 award winners presented at the IISE Annual Conference &
Expo May 20-23.
The
top thinkers and performers in the industrial and systems engineering world
were celebrated by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) during
its Annual Conference & Expo in New Orleans May 20-23.
IISE’s
most prestigious award, the Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering
Award sponsored by The Wm. Michael Barnes ‘64 Department of Industrial and
Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded to educator G.
Don Taylor Jr., Ph.D., PE, of Virginia Tech. Taylor is executive vice
provost and Charles O. Gordon Professor in ISE in the Grado Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering.
In
a recent episode of Problem Solved: The IISE Podcast (podcast.iise.org), Taylor discussed his career and the award.
“I
always had aspirations to lead to the best of my ability, and I certainly
wanted to make a real difference with my life’s work. But I think really this
is an honor that goes well beyond my wildest expectations. And I think the fact
that it was named for the founders of our profession, Frank and Lillian
Gilbreth, makes it even more memorable and more special.”
A former IISE president, Board of Trustees
member and IISE Fellow, Taylor’s research interests have focused on the
simulation of complex systems and the logistics of material flow and freight
transportation. He has served as principal investigator or co-principal
investigator on more than 60 externally funded projects, leading to the
publication of 10 books, 75-plus journal articles and book chapters and more
than 120 conference papers and technical reports.
The
Captains of Industry Award went to Robert Pudlo, FedEx Ground (retired).
The award is presented to business or government leaders who successfully used
industrial engineering in the workplace.
The
Class of 2023 IISE Fellows included members who have made significant,
recognized contributions to industrial engineering.
Emanuel Melachrinoudis, Ph.D., Northeastern
University
Om Prakash Yadav, Ph.D., North Carolina
A&T State University
Xueping Li, Ph.D., University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
Jonathan H. Owen, Ph.D., General Motors
Co.
David Coit, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Li Zheng, Ph.D., Tsinghua University
Denis Cormier, Ph.D., Rochester Institute of
Technology
Chase Rainwater, Ph.D., University of
Arkansas
Linda Ng Boyle, Ph.D., University of
Washington
Julie Simmons Ivy, Ph.D., North Carolina
State University
Kash Barker, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Lukasz Mazur, Ph.D., University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
For more 2023 honors and awards
winners, view the brochure at link.iise.org/Honors23.
Details on
IISE’s awards program are available at www.iise.org/Honors.