{"269771":{"#nid":"269771","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE School Chair Jane Ammons to Retire at End of Academic Year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJane Ammons\u003C\/strong\u003E, who has served as the school chair of the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering for the past two and a half years, will be retiring at the end of the current academic school year.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cUnder Jane\u0027s leadership, ISyE has continued to be the preeminent industrial and systems engineering program in the country,\u201d said Gary S. May, Dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u201cIn her career, Jane achieved many milestones including being the first woman chair of an engineering school at Tech. We are all grateful for what she has done during her tenure as both a school chair and as a College of Engineering associate dean. Her energy, leadership, and hard work on behalf of ISyE will be missed at Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring her time as school chair, ISyE increased the size of the faculty by almost 20 percent by adding nine new faculty members, with plans to hire more outstanding faculty colleagues during before the end of the academic year. To improve the quality of experience for ISyE\u2019s students, Ammons filled three new positions including a director of student services, an Edenfield Executive-in-Residence, and a professor of the practice. Also, ISyE has ramped up its international professional master\u2019s degree in supply chain engineering program and initiated a second professional master\u2019s program, this time in analytics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBecause competition has increased, and the traditional revenue streams are drying up, Ammons has been extremely active in fundraising, working tirelessly to help ISyE achieve its $60M goal.\u0026nbsp;ISyE officially reached its Capital Campaign goal in December 2013 and was the first engineering school to reach its goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition, ISyE has accomplished major facilities upgrade to the School including the construction of a bridge to connect the two buildings for better flow and access and the creation of the ISyE Studio, which was established to provide students with a workspace to practice presentations, collaborate with other students, and obtain tutorial assistance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore joining ISyE as school chair, Ammons previously served as associate dean for faculty affairs in the College of Engineering and before that held the rank of professor at ISyE.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring her time at Georgia Tech, she has experienced a lot of firsts. She is the first female chair of ISyE as well as the first woman to be named a chair of a school in Georgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering.\u0026nbsp; Also, Ammons was the first female to graduate with a Ph.D. (1982) from ISyE, as well as the school\u2019s first female faculty member.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, she has been honored with eight teaching\/faculty awards at the school and university levels including the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR\/MS (2005), \u201cSpirit of Georgia Tech\u201d Professor (2001), MERITOR Faculty Excellence Award (1999),\u0026nbsp;and the WRC\u2019s Woman of Distinction Award (2003), among many others.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShe has authored or co-authored more than 100 refereed and technical publications in the area of manufacturing systems and supply chain engineering in her career. She has a particular interest and expertise in developing closed-loop, environmentally sustainable systems.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Ammons served as an advisor for the Tau Beta Pi student chapter for 24 years. She continues to be engaged in activities to enhance the development of Georgia Tech students and faculty, including women and under-represented groups. At Georgia Tech she served as the NSF ADVANCE Professor of Engineering from 2002-2006 working to advance the career success of women engineering faculty.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmmons has served as the President of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). She has been a member of the Technical Committee for the Uganda: Millennium Science Initiative (MSI) Project co-financed by the World Bank. She serves as a Program Evaluator for ABET, the engineering education accreditation organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her academic experience, Ammons has worked as a plant engineer for an industrial manufacturer and is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech and ISyE have been an important part of my academic life, and it has been a pleasure to serve as school chair and work with ISyE\u2019s renowned alumni, faculty, students, staff, peers, and community to strengthen and influence what our students do today and in the future.\u201d said Ammons.\u0026nbsp; \u201cI know ISyE will continue to move forward with even higher levels of impact and success.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJane Ammons\u003C\/strong\u003E, who has served as the school chair of the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering for the past two and a half years, will be retiring at the end of the current academic school year.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-01-21 14:12:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:44","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-01-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"269791":{"id":"269791","type":"image","title":"Dr. Jane Ammons","body":null,"created":"1449244077","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:47:57","changed":"1475894959","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:19","alt":"Dr. Jane Ammons","file":{"fid":"198603","name":"jane_with_ramblin_wreck.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jane_with_ramblin_wreck_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jane_with_ramblin_wreck_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":332742,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jane_with_ramblin_wreck_0.jpg?itok=xzgtYviB"}}},"media_ids":["269791"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7987","name":"Jane Ammons"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}