{"47618":{"#nid":"47618","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Faculty \u0026 Students Win Four IIE Paper Awards","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESeveral faculty and students at the Stewart School of ISyE were recognized at the recent IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2009 in Miami, Florida. This year\u0027s annual conference for the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) drew more than 1,300 representatives of industry and academia for four days of educational sessions, exhibits, and awards ceremonies. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong ten total publication awards, IIE annually awards four Best Paper Awards for articles published in its flagship journal \u003Cem\u003EIIE Transactions\u003C\/em\u003E in the categories of design \u0026amp; manufacturing, quality \u0026amp; reliability, scheduling \u0026amp; logistics, and operations engineering. In 2009, Stewart School faculty co-authored the award-winning papers in three of the four categories.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor \u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Griffin\u003C\/strong\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E received the IIE Transactions \u003Cem\u003EBest Paper Award in Scheduling and Logistics \u003C\/em\u003Efor \u0022Coordination of Marketing and Production for Price and Leadtime Decisions,\u0022 coauthored with Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EPelin Pekgun\u003C\/strong\u003E. Their paper analyzes the inefficiencies that are due to the decentralization of price and leadtime decisions in make-to-order firms.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003ERoshan Vengazhiyil\u003C\/strong\u003E received the IIE Transactions \u003Cem\u003EBest Paper Award in Quality and Reliability\u003C\/em\u003E for \u0022Optimal Specifications for Degrading Characteristics,\u0022 coauthored with \u003Cstrong\u003EI-Tang Yu\u003C\/strong\u003E of Tunghai University, Taiwan. Their paper demonstrates an alternative approach to maximizing the quality of the product when dealing with characteristics affected by degradation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EChen Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E received the IIE Transactions \u003Cem\u003EBest Paper Award in Design and Manufacturing\u003C\/em\u003E for \u0022Clusters and Filling-Curve-Based Storage Assignment in a Circuit Assembly Kitting Area,\u0022 coauthored with \u003Cstrong\u003EWei Hua\u003C\/strong\u003E of IBM (MS 1999, DR 2001). Their paper addresses the complexity of a manufacturing process that assembles circuit boards for more than 1,000 different products.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the publication awards, Ph.D. student \u003Cstrong\u003EMelike Meterelliyoz\u003C\/strong\u003E won the \u003Cem\u003EPritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award\u003C\/em\u003E and received the first-place cash prize of $1,000. Meterelliyoz was advised by Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Goldsman\u003C\/strong\u003E and Associate Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EChristos Alexopoulos\u003C\/strong\u003E, both of whom specialize in the field of simulation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Several faculty and students at the Stewart School of ISyE were recognized at the recent IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2009 in Miami, Florida.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Faculty \u0026 Students Win Four IIE Paper Awards"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-07-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:53","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1270","name":"conference"},{"id":"7922","name":"IIE"},{"id":"7924","name":"Paper Award"},{"id":"7923","name":"Pritsker"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}