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Pittsburgh welcomed annual cavalcade of honorees
Every year, the premier gathering of industrial and systems engineering types offers numerous honors, awards and scholarships to mark how the profession is making a difference in the world.
This year's gala took place May 22 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, site of the IISE Annual Conference and Expo. This year's winners are listed below. IISE Transactions, newsletter and most chapter awards were published in the June issue of ISE.
To see a complete list of winners, go to www.iise.org/2017 fanors.
Frank & Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award
Harvey Wolfe, University of Pittsburgh
Captains of Industry Award
David Baker, DirecTV
Francis Kramer, II-VI Incorporated
Severn McMurtry, FedEx Ground
Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award
Ronald Askin, Arizona State University
David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award
Sheldon Jacobson, University of Illinois-Urbana
Fellows
Russell Barton, The Pennsylvania State University
Steven Butt, Western Michigan University
Antonio Dieck-Assad, Universidad de Monterrey
Natarajan Gautam, Texas A&M University
John Huffman, Spirit Aerosystems Inc.
Gino Lim, University of Houston
Edwin Romeijn, Georgia Institute of Technology
Joyce Siegele, Northside Hospital
Steven Snelling, Boeing (retired)
Warren Thomas, SUNY at Buffalo
Jerry (Mickey) Trimm, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Kai Yang, Wayne State University
Chun (Chuck) Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
Shiyu Zhou, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academia
Sponsored by Integrated Technology Systems
Jennifer Pazour, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
West Monroe Partners Outstanding Early Career IE in Business/Industry
Jared Dunlap, West Monroe Partners
Outstanding Middle Career IE Leadership Award for Business/Industry
Joel Brock, West Monroe Partners
SEMS Outstanding Management Achievement in Industrial and Systems Engineering Award
Janine Kamath, Mayo Clinic
Fred C. Crane Distinguished Service Award
Douglas Rabeneck, West Monroe Partners
George L. Smith International Award for Excellence in Promotion of Industrial Engineering
Gregory Watson, Business Excellence Solutions Ltd.
Honorary Member Award
Peter Hancock, University of Central Florida
UPS Minority Advancement
Charlyn Plunk, CGP Ventura
Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award
First place: Kai Pan, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, "Strong Formulations for Multistage Stochastic Self-Scheduling Unit Commitment" *
James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence
First place: Andrew Anderson, Milwaukee School of Engineering
Award for Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering
Sponsored by the Departmmt of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the...