IISE Honors & Awards Honorees
More information about the 2021 conference will be posted at a later date. Watch this space!
2020 Recipients
Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award
Kailash Bafna
Western Michigan University
Annual Conference Implemented Solutions Award (formerly the I5
Award)
John Huffman
Spirit AeroSystems Inc.
Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering
Sponsored by Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at UCF
Salil Desai
North Carolina A&T State University
Boeing
Excellence Award for Collaboration in Productivity, Workplace Safety and
Ergonomics
Joel Haight
University of Pittsburgh
David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award
Waldemar Karwowski
University of Central Florida
Fellow Award
- Laura Albert, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Alexandre Dolgui, IMT Alantique Tech University
- Daniel Epstein, ConAm Group
- Paul Griffin, Purdue University
- Charles Hochstein, USPS
- Robert Inman, GM
- Erick Jones, University of Texas at Arlington
- Mohammad Khasawneh, BInghamton University
- Zhenyu (James) Kong, Virginia Tech
- Jingshan Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science & Technology
- Brad Parrish, FedEx
- Susan Schall, SOS Consulting
- Julie Swann, North Carolina State University
- Bill Tolo, Best Buy
- Teresa Wu, Arizona State University
Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award
Deborah Nightingale
University of Central Florida/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fred C. Crane Distinguished Service Award
John Corliss
PEER Consultants
Graduate Research Award
Parth Chansoria
North Carolina State University
IISE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year
Adedeji Badiru
Air Force Institute of Technology
Medallion Award
Ken Case
Oklahoma State University
West Monroe Partners Outstanding Early Career IE in Business/Industry Award
Matthew Purcell
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
Outstanding Middle Career Leadership Award
Daniel Rubenstein
Steptoe and Johnson, LLP
Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award
- 1st place - Ruizhi Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2nd place - Yiling Zhang, University of Michigan
- 3rd place - Anh Tuan Bui, Northwestern University
James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence
Sarah Hack
Virginia Tech
Innovations in Education
Kaibo Liu
University of Wisconsin-Madison