IIE awards 2008

Many IEs were honoured with awards at the IIE Annual Conference 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia. The honors recognize the achievements of both industrial engineering professionals and students, including prizes that acknowledge superior performance in industry leadership, education, and research.
Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator

Harvey Wolfe, emeritus faculty, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Young IE - Education Award

Esma Gel, associate professor, Arizona State University

Captains of Industry Award

Joseph Forehand, chairman and former CEO of Accenture

Fellows

Richard Bernhard, professor, North Carolina State University

Chris Billings, senior vice president, Kiran Consulting Group

Maged Dessouky, professor, University of Southern California

Roman Hlutkowsky, vice president of operations technology and systems support, FedEx Ground

Ted Mayeshiba, principal, Action Consulting & Training LLC

Benoit Montreuil, professor, Universitè Laval

Paul Ray, professor, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa

Stephen Roberts, professor, North Carolina State University

Susan Sinclair, vice president of continuous improvement, Hershey Foods Corp.

Victor Zaloom, professor and chair, Lamar University

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering

Marlin Thomas, dean of the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology

Outstanding Achievement in Management Award

Terry Warren, senior vice president of global sales and marketing, managing director - Nashville, Willis Group

Outstanding Young IE Award - Business/Industry

Amy Harris, group lean leader - hydraulics, Parker Hannifin Corp.

David F. Baker Distinguished Research

Rajan Batta, professor and associate dean for graduate studies, State University of New York at Buffalo

Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award

First place

Kiavash Kianfar, assistant professor, Texas A&M University

Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering

Sunderesh Heragu, Duthie Chair in Engineering Logistics, University of Louisville

Fred C. Crane Distinguished Service

George Smith, professor emeritus and former chair, Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Ohio State University

Excellence in Productivity Improvement

Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

Distinguished Achievement Award

R.K. Pachauri, director general, The Energy and Resources Institute; chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

UPS Excellence Award for Minority Advancement

Paul Stanfield, associate professor and chair, North Carolina A&T State University

Student Award for Excellence

First place

Michelle McGaha, University of Alabama

IIE Transactions Award - Design & Manufacturing

"MIP Approach to Balancing Transfer Lines with Blocks of Parallel Operations"- Alexandre Dolgui, Brigitte Finak, Nikolai N. Guschinsky, Genrikh M. Levin, Francois B. Vernadat

IIE Transactions Award - Operations Engineering

"Algorithms for Discrete and Continuous Multi-Commodity Flow Network Interdiction Problems" - Churlzu Lim, J. Cole Smith

IIE Transactions Award - Quality and Reliability Engineering

"Detecting Improvement using Shewhart Attribute Control Charts when the Lower Control Limit is Zero" - James M. Luc, Darwin J. Davis, Erwin M. Saniga

IIE Transactions Award - Scheduling and Logistics

"Value of a Put Option to the Risk Averse Newsvendor" - Frank Youhua Chen, Mahmut Parlar