{"60017":{"#nid":"60017","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE PhD Hopeful Awarded Prestigious Transportation Fellowship","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA Georgia Tech graduate student, Brian Lewis, has been named as one of seven national Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellows for 2002. This prestigious award, sponsored by the National Highway Institute, is a merit-based award given to encourage the increase of knowledge in the field of transportation in the United States. Lewis is a pre-doctoral candidate in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe three-year fellowship covers Georgia Tech tuition and fees, a monthly stipend, and travel to the annual Transportation Research Board meeting in Washington, D.C.--approximately $100,000. Lewis\u0027 research is based on understanding the tradeoffs between security practices and efficiency within intermodal transportation systems. It is a particularly timely topic, as the U.S. government continues to issue mandates on the security protocol for American roadways, airports, rail yards, and ports. His work focuses on seaports, and the reactive side of those mandates--how do you respond? How do you implement new security practices while maintaining a high level of efficiency and reliability?\u0026amp;quot; Lewis says. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELewis\u0027 professors have high praise for his efforts, especially Dr. Chelsea (Chip) White, his co-advisor and director of The Trucking Industry Program. Lewis followed Dr. White from the University of Michigan to Georgia Tech earlier this year, after completing his master\u0027s in industrial and operations engineering at Michigan in December 2001. Lewis also holds a bachelor\u0027s in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California, Berkeley. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Brian is an outstanding doctoral student with a terrific academic record,\u0026amp;quot; says Dr. White, who described Lewis as \u0026amp;quot;a high achiever,\u0026amp;quot; Dr. Alan Elera, his other co-advisor and a faculty member in ISyE, received the same fellowship from 1997-2000 while he was a Ph.D. student at UC-Berkeley. It was he who urged Lewis to apply. \u0026amp;quot; The Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellowship program intends to fund truly outstanding students with significant potential to be lifelong leaders in the field of transportation research and education,\u0026amp;quot; says Elera. \u0026amp;quot; Brian possesses the analytical research aptitude, the communications skills, and the motivation to become such a leader, and is most deserving of the award,\u0026amp;quot; he continued. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech has ranked first among the nation\u0027s industrial engineering programs for more than a decade. It is part of Georgia Tech\u0027s College of Engineering, one of the country\u0027s finest engineering schools. For more information on the School, the College, and their programs, see \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ethe Georgia Tech website\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn about some of the research Brian participates in, visit the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/setra\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESecurity and Efficiency in Transportation Group (SETRA)\u003C\/a\u003E website.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-08-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:11","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60016":{"#nid":"60016","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Faculty to Receive INFORMS Fellows Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.informs.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EINFORMS\u003C\/a\u003E (the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), has recently established a \u0022\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Prizes\/fellows.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EFellows Award\u003C\/a\u003E\u0022, of which \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1337\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EEllis Johnson\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1336\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorge Nemhauser\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1046\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMike Thomas\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=932\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJohn Jarvis\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=21\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDon Ratliff\u003C\/a\u003E have been selected as one of the inaugural recipients.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOf course, all accepted. The award will be presented to the group at a special luncheon to be held Monday, November 18, 2002, in conjunction with the annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Conf\/SanJose2002\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EINFORMS meeting to be held in San Jose, California\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-10-07 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:11","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-10-07T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60012":{"#nid":"60012","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Program Prepares Engineers to Communicate in the Workplace","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE has long been known for graduating capable engineers. A new project, directed by Judith Shaul Norback, ISyE director of Workplace and Academic Communication, ensures that these graduates also leave with the skills necessary to communicate their engineering prowess to employers and clients. Why are communication skills more important than ever for engineers? First, in today\u0027s workplace, engineers increasingly interact with non-engineers such as marketing and call center personnel, their chief technology officers, and chief executive officers. Second, technological communication tools have become central to engineering work. The new tools, which recent graduates often are assumed to know, include various e-mail systems, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, and Access. Third, practicing engineers are increasingly responsible for their own communication, including technology has not erased or reduced the need for personal communication as had been predicted. If anything, office technology has increased the need for and opportunities for personal communication. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENorback\u0027s program, which was first used during spring semester, is not a stand-alone course; it is designed to complement assignments in the senior design class. As students work through their engineering project, they receive input and feedback on oral and graphic presentations as well as written reports. \u0022I interviewed senior executives in the workplace on an empirical basis to learn their criteria for employees,\u0022 she said. \u0022I also got permission from corporations to use their materials in the class, listing a bogus name.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause the program integrates into the design course, Norback works closely with the professors who teach the course. Assistant Professor Julie Swann agrees that the students benefit from the added course dimension. \u0022One student said he particularly liked the peer evaluations during class presentations. It helped the students focus and consider more effective communication tools.\u0022 Swann says. \u0022From the panel of alumni, the students heard about communication as it really is in the workplace, and learned that things like grammar, conciseness, and organization really do matter.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome examples of techniques shared in the program include: how to make good eye contact; when to use non-technical language; how to assess and respond to evidence of a lack of understanding; avoiding the use of inappropriate gestures; and how to respond to questions and comments. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EInitial funding from the program comes from Mel Hall, BIE 1967, and Hayne McCondichie, BIE 1952, MSIE 1953, in addition to contributions from the Georgia Tech Foundation through the College of Engineering. The College is watching ISyE\u0027s efforts closely, Norback said, and would like to utilize the program in all the engineering disciplines. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The students can\u0027t get enough,\u0022 she said. \u0022They want more feedback. They\u0027re asking why they didn\u0027t get any of this before their senior year.\u0022 Norback and ISyE hope to expand the program into the junior and sophomore years as soon as resources are available.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-07-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60014":{"#nid":"60014","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Women in Engineering Banquet Honors 140 IEs","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA total of 140 undergraduate IE students, more than in any other school at Tech, were honored in April during the annual Women in Engineering awards banquet. The event salutes the success and achievements of female engineering students who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.4 or above and have demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities on and off campus. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe keynote speaker was Jenifer Cistola, BIE 1981, vice president of North American Marketing for Scientific-Atlanta. She outlined the ten most important things she learned during her time at Georgia Tech and her career in the corporate world. They include being able to balance demands, maintain a positive attitude, continue to learn, and inspire the people around her. Cistola also recounted the hard work and countless hours of studying that characterize her memories of undergraduate life at Tech. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMimi Philobos, a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has organized the event since its inception in 1999. That year, the event drew about 100 attendees, and Philobos, who also directs the Women in Engineering Program at Tech, vowed she would make it an annual affair. Philobos closed the evening with words of thanks and encouragement. \u0022Your hard work has been recognized by all of your peers,\u0022 she said. \u0022You are the leaders.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-07-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-07-15T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60008":{"#nid":"60008","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Book Release on Col. John R. Boyd","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECol. John R. Boyd, BIE 1963, is known as one of this country\u0027s greatest fighter pilots and most brilliant military theorists. He has been described as the greatest secret hero of the American military, transforming the way military aircraft were designed with his theory on \u0022Energy- Maneuverability.\u0022 Boyd was often at odds with Air Force officials, but his revolutionary ideas are now acclaimed as some of the most influential thinking about conflict. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA new biography of Boyd will be available this fall. Written by Robert Coram of Atlanta, Boyd: \u003Cem\u003EThe Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War\u003C\/em\u003E, will be published by Little, Brown \u0026amp; Company. One area the book will explore is why Boyd is heavily respected by the U.S. Marines but virtually ignored by the Air Force. Some say it is because he made as many enemies as friends during his thirty-year career. When Boyd died of cancer in West Palm Beach in 1997, Charles C. Krulak, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, eulogized him as \u0022a towering intellect who made unsurpassed contributions to the American art of war.\u0022 He is credited with the development and design of both the F-15 \u0022Eagle\u0022 and, as leader of the so-called \u0022Fighter Mafia,\u0022 the F-16 \u0022Fighting Falcon.\u0022 In addition to the \u0022Energy Maneuverability Theory,\u0022 he developed the concept of the \u0022OODA Loop\u0022 (Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action) that is now standard in both the U.S. military and American business.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBoyd never published anything outside technical studies, but his ideas continue to have an impact on the military, academia, and business. For more information on Boyd and his theories, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.belisarius.com\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.belisarius.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60010":{"#nid":"60010","#data":{"type":"news","title":"EPICS, Microsoft Partnership Donates Software to Hands On Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHands On Atlanta (HOA) is a nonprofit organization that helps individuals, families, and corporate and community groups find flexible volunteer opportunities at more than 400 service organizations and schools in the metropolitan Atlanta area. Every year, it sponsors HOA Day, when approximately 15,000 volunteers come together to work at more than 200 projects sites in and around Atlanta. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThanks to the partnership of the nationally based Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) and Microsoft Corporation, a generous software gift was recently donated to HOA. This software, Microsoft Project 2000, will allow the organization to implement a system to improve its special events planning. During spring semester 2002, an EPICS team of senior design students at ISyE needed this scheduling software to complete a project for HOA. Microsoft\u0027s University Relations (Microsoft Research) is a major sponsor of the EPICS program and allowed the software to be donated. The software has an estimated retail value of $20,000. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMS Project 2000 will be used by HOA to implement a tracking system for planning and organizing special events. \u0022The software will allow us to manage our day-to-day activities and other detailed projects for special event planning,\u0022 said Tony Chan, BIE \u002794, a planning and evaluation specialist at HOA. EPICS is a national organization founded at Purdue University with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Corporation for National Service. The purpose of EPICS is to enhance student volunteerism by providing large student teams with opportunities to contribute to community service and nonprofit organizations on long-term projects while earning academic credit. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE Professor Dr. Faiz Al-Khayyal and Electrical Engineering Professor Dr. Mark Smith serve as program directors for EPICS. Artexas Davis is the EPICS Program Coordinator. For additional information on the EPICS program, please visit our website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/epics\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/epics\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60011":{"#nid":"60011","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HENAAC Announces 2002 Student Leadership Winners","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) is proud to announce that \u003Cstrong\u003ECarolina Borges, a Georgia Tech Industrial Engineering student\u003C\/strong\u003E, has been awarded the HENAAC 2002 Undergraduate Student Leadership Award. Carolina was selected because of her commitment to exposing our minority youth to science and engineering. She has shown strong dedication to volunteering in the community, taking leadership roles in campus organizations, interning, working, and all the while continuing to perform above a 3.0 GPA. Carolina will receive a $5,000 scholarship, HENAAC conference registration and airfare. We will be honoring her at the HENAAC Awards with the rest of the Professional Award Winners on October 18, 2002 in South Padre Island, Texas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information about all of HENAAC\u0027s 2002 winners, about the conference and the Scholarship Programs please call Julie Olivas at the HENAAC office at (323) 262-0997, or visit the HENAAC website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.henaac.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.henaac.org\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-08-22 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-08-22T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60015":{"#nid":"60015","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Governor Barnes Appoints Georgia Tech Professor Jane Ammons to State Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, October 4, 2002, Governor Roy Barnes held a swearing-in ceremony for members of the newly created Computer Equipment and Disposal Recycling Council.   One of the new board members is Jane Ammons from Georgia Tech, where she serves as the NSF ADVANCE Professor of Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Computer Equipment and Disposal Recycling Council by the 2002 Georgia General Assembly with House Bill 2 and signed by Governor Barnes on May 14.   With great concern for long term hazardous waste pollution risk, this board will advise the Governor and Legislature of the state of Georgia on potential actions and policies to enhance electronics recycling and reuse.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-10-08 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2002-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}},"60006":{"#nid":"60006","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hayriye Ayhan remembers her first Atlanta Marathon","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1409\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHayriye Ayhan\u003C\/a\u003E remembers her first Atlanta Marathon. She got so tantalizingly close. But at the 19-mile mark, she suffered severe leg cramps and did not finish. Undaunted, and with the knowledge she could do a marathon, she ran in Jacksonville. She finished, but the downside is that the Jacksonville race was only three weeks after the Atlanta race, held on Thanksgiving each year. It was very upsetting not to finish the Atlanta Marathon, said the 33 year-old industrial engineering professor at Georgia Tech. \u0022So I ran in Jacksonville three weeks later. That,\u0022 she laughs, \u0022was not a very good idea.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFour years later, Ayhan has learned as she continues running and preparing for the Atlanta Marathon on Thanksgiving. It will be her fourth. This is the 41st running of the Atlanta Marathon and about 1,000 racers are expected for the 7:30am start. An additional 7,300 people will run the Atlanta Half Marathon, which begins at 7a.m. Marathoners will follow the 1996 Olympic course from Turner Field to Chamblee, which is also the half marathon start. Then they\u0027ll head back to the stadium along Peachtree. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe final five miles are hilly. \u0022It is not the most challenging marathon by any means,\u0022 said race director Julia Emmons, \u0022but the thing to remember about Atlanta is that it\u0027s in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and you can\u0027t do a thing about that if you\u0027re running 26.2 miles.\u0022 Ayhan and her husband, Anand Srinivasa, began running about nine years ago. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022The first time I ever ran, I could only run for five minutes,\u0022 she said. Her job and her research pretty much confine her to a sedentary workday. She wasn\u0027t getting any exercise. \u0022Running is part of my life now. The marathons, they are entertaining and engaging, but now I do just one a year,\u0022 she said. She says she tries to run between 30 and 40 miles per week. Her husband used to be a running partner but injuries have kept him out of distance events. They still run together when she is not training for a distance event. She enjoys running in the mornings but has to work her running around her teaching schedule. The weather is never a factor. \u0022If it is real bad outside, I just run on a treadmill,\u0022 she said. She also does a little weight training twice a week for upper body strength. She says she has modest goals in terms of competing in distance races. \u0022I have hopes to be under four hours and if I can, then that will be very good for me,\u0022 she said.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp class=\u0022smalltext\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAs seen in Dekalb at Play from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-11-16 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2002-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}},"60005":{"#nid":"60005","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Six ISyE Faculty Earn prestigious INFORMS Fellow Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESix ISyE faculty members were honored with an inaugural \u0026amp;#8220;INFORMS Fellow Award\u0026amp;#8221; at the Institute\u0026amp;#8217;s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, in November: John Jarvis, Ellis Johnson, George Nemhauser, H. Donald Ratliff, William B. Rouse, and Michael E. Thomas.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.informs.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EINFORMS\u003C\/a\u003E (the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)  is a 10,000-member professional society representing members in the fields of operations research, management science, and related disciplines. The Fellows  Award recognizes distinguished individuals who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments and experience in these sciences, and who are long-standing members of the INFORMS society.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026amp;#8220;We established this award as a means to recognize illustrious commitment on the part of our members to the INFORMS society and the industry at large in the areas of research, education, service to the profession and to the society, and the management of OR\/MS organizations,\u0026amp;#8221; said Mark S. Daskin, Chair of the Professional Recognition Committee for INFORMS.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE is pleased to honor these distinguished faculty members:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/John_Jarvis\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. John Jarvis\u003C\/a\u003E the former chair of ISyE and now serves as executive director of The Logistics  Institute Asia-Pacific. His professional interests include transportation, distribution,  and logistics; networks and linear programming; operations research; and optimization. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1337 \u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Ellis Johnson\u003C\/a\u003E is the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor. His research interests in logistics include crew scheduling and real-time repair, fleet assignment and routing, distribution planning, network problems, and combinatorial optimization. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1336\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. George Nemhauser\u003C\/a\u003E is the A. Russell Chandler Chaired Professor. A former co-director of Tech\u0026amp;#8217;s Logistics Engineering Center, his current interests are in solving large-scale mixed-integer programming problems.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=21\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Donald Ratliff\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director of The Logistics Institute, is UPS and Regents\u0026amp;#8217; Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE). His current research and logistics competencies include intermodal network design, supply chain integration, delivery strategies, cross docking, vender managed resupply, real-time routing, shipment planning, logistics performance measurement, and container port operations. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1046\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Michael E. Thomas\u003C\/a\u003E, former professor, chair of ISyE, and Institute provost, is the executive director of the Center for Internet Research, Policy, and Application. He is responsible for increasing collaboration, expanding research opportunities, and forging new research alliances in information security, information technology policy e-business, and new hardware and software systems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/profile.php?id=1345\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EWilliam B. Rouse\u003C\/a\u003E is the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He has more than 30 years of experience in individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, decision support systems, and information systems. Dr. Rouse has consulted with numerous enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2002-11-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2002-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2002-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","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":""}}}