Industrial Engineer Engineering and Management Solutions at Work

April 2025    |    Volume: 57    |    Number: 4

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FEATURES

Engineering people and team performance

ISE professionals can drive efforts to reach full potential
By D. Scott Sink

Outcome-focused organizations: Operating with closed, open and living systems

Aircraft maintenance case study offers blueprint for trust, problem-solving
By Robert E. Hamm Jr., David Bernacki and Chuck Chandler

Managing the soft side of organizational change in 4 steps

How to overcome obstacles, resistance while adopting new approaches
By Mostafa Sayyadi and Michael Provitera

Enhance productivity through work sampling

Keys to apply process excellence principles in different business settings
By Merwan Mehta

THE FRONT LINE

Top stories in this month's news from the field

  • Teens get hands-on experience in construction trades
  • Quartz disruption reveals supply chain weak link
  • Mobile clinic could improve rural healthcare
  • Half of employees feel buried by busy work
  • Water toys inspire space radiation shields
  • New delivery bots can carry more food faster, farther
  • VR images may ease pre-surgery jitters
  • Workers, employers each embrace a less-formal style
  • Robot recycling: New life for Robby, Rosie and R2D2
  • E-commerce giant tests smart glasses for delivery staff
  • Annual day focuses on technology and worker health
  • Students’ floating city concepts earn top prizes
  • AI goes deep to help monitor, protect undersea assets
  • Healthcare AI expert: ‘Tech doesn’t matter,’ only outcomes
  • Examining a high-tech future and its dark sides

PERSPECTIVES

Performance by Kevin McManus

Please don’t think I’m merely a ‘Bob’

Management by Cynthia J. Young

Eliminate excuses: Inspire accountability in your team’s administrative work

21st Century Engineering By Anirudh Dhebar

Effort does not equal excellence

Supply Chain by Jim Tompkins

Why industrial engineers should care about warehouse security

THE INSTITUTE

This month in IISE news ...

  • Workshops get Annual started with expert guidance
  • Student volunteers: Join the fun and save on conference fees
  • #HSPI2025: A healthy exchange of process remedies
  • IISE Training Focus: New IISE-SAVE online course focuses on value
  • Capstone prizes go to students’ innovative solutions
  • Career Zone: Anxious about changing jobs? Ponder these questions
  • IISE University Regional Conferences
  • IISE seeks nominations for key board positions
  • Healthcare, ergonomics societies pick new leaders

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QUOTE/UNQUOTE

"Enlightened companies are beginning to realize that people other than the supervisor know about employee performance. In fact, a worker's peers are more likely to know how an employee performs on a job on a consistent basis."  

– Merwan B. Mehta, author of "Peer Evaluations Hit the Factory Floor" in the January issue

 MULTIMEDIA

 
The best job ever 

The best job ever

Mark Wallace with UPS discusses why his job is the coolest job for an industrial engineer in this December 2014 Web exclusive.

Resurrection in Atlanta 

Resurrection in Atlanta

Members of the IISE Atlanta Chapter appear in this October 2014 video to discuss the value of a revitalizing the chapter.

Training humanitarian IEs 

Training humanitarian IEs

IE interviews the three co-directors of Georgia Tech’s Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics.