{"59999":{"#nid":"59999","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jane Ammons Elected IIE Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1349\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJane Ammons\u003C\/a\u003E, NSF Advance Professor of Engineering and Professor of ISyE, has been named a Fellow of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iienet.org\/ \u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInstitute of Industrial Engineers\u003C\/a\u003E (IIE). The IIE Fellow award acknowledges outstanding leaders of the profession who have made significant, nationally recognized contributions to industrial engineering. With more than 17,000 members and 150 chapters worldwide, IIE is the world\u0027s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession.   \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmons, an IIE member for 28 years, is recognized for her \u0022significant and sustained technical and service contributions to the field of industrial engineering,\u0022 according to IIE officials. \u0022Dr. Ammons has achieved outstanding accomplishments in manufacturing systems research, in engineering education scholarship, in service to IIE, and in service to interdisciplinary activities as an ambassador for the industrial engineering field.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShe joins several current and emeriti ISyE faculty who have been honored with IIE Fellow distinction, including:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERobert Lehrer (1963), James Apple (1968), Harold Smalley (1968), Cecil Johnson (1980), Gerald Thuesen (1987), Michael Thomas (1988), Jack Lohmann (1996), Leon McGinnis (1996), Don Ratliff (1996), John Jarvis (1997), Justin Myrick (2000), Donovan Young (2000), Jerry Banks (2002)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2003-05-12 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-05-12T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}