{"358741":{"#nid":"358741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Year, New School Chair for ISyE:  H. Edwin Romeijn","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering is starting the New Year off with a new School Chair,\u003Cstrong\u003E H. Edwin Romeijn.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cEdwin has a unique blend of research expertise, teaching excellence and national leadership, which is exactly what we need to maintain the finest industrial engineering program in the country,\u201d said Gary S. May, dean of the College of Engineering. \u201cHe has the vision, experience, temperament and outstanding reputation in fields critical to the school that make him ideally suited and prepared to keep our industrial engineering program at the forefront internationally.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Romeijn was the program director for Service Enterprise Systems and Manufacturing Enterprise Systems at the National Science Foundation in Arlington and a professor and Richard C. Wilson Faculty Scholar in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs the new chair, Romeijn will oversee a school that is consistently ranks as the No. 1 industrial engineering program in both graduate and undergraduate education according to U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report. The school was originally established in 1924, and it has become the largest industrial engineering program in the country with more than 2,000 students and 60 faculty members.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022These are exciting times for the field of industrial and systems engineering,\u201d said Romeijn. \u201cI am looking forward to joining Georgia Tech and helping ISyE both continue and expand its tradition of excellence and leadership in research and teaching in this field.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERomeijn received his M.S. in econometrics and Ph.D. in operations research from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands in 1988 and 1992, respectively. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering is starting the New Year off with a new School Chair, H. Edwin Romeijn.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering is starting the New Year off with a new School Chair, H. Edwin Romeijn."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-12-18 12:49:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:46","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"309101":{"id":"309101","type":"image","title":"H. Edwin Romeijn Appointed New School Chair (Photo Credit: University of Michigan)","body":null,"created":"1449244726","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:58:46","changed":"1475895017","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:17","alt":"H. Edwin Romeijn Appointed New School Chair (Photo Credit: University of Michigan)","file":{"fid":"199816","name":"romeijn_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romeijn_photo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/romeijn_photo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":152583,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/romeijn_photo_0.jpg?itok=haQFO2q9"}}},"media_ids":["309101"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"113011","name":"edwin romeijn"},{"id":"1506","name":"faculty"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"113021","name":"isye school chair"}],"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":""}}}