{"63010":{"#nid":"63010","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III Shares Parting Thoughts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EI have been asked to share with you\nparting thoughts on having been chair of the Stewart School for the five-year\nperiod ending June 30, 2010. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The thought that immediately comes to\nmind is how uniquely remarkable ISyE is as an academic unit in higher education in the United States and\nthroughout the world. Rankings are not necessarily accurate indicators of\nquality.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, having both our graduate and\nundergraduate programs consistently ranked first by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp;\nWorld Report \u003C\/em\u003Ein industrial and\nmanufacturing engineering is a source of great pride to us all. That our\ngraduate program has been ranked first for twenty consecutive years is simply\nextraordinary. To paraphrase an external review of ISyE written three years\nago: \u003Cem\u003EISyE is the\nnation\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003Eflagship academic\nunit in industrial engineering and operations research and\nplays a leading role in shaping the strategic directions of the discipline. \u003C\/em\u003ESuch recognition\ndoes not come without\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Esignificant\ninvestments in time, effort, and money by Georgia Tech\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eas an institution\nand the School\u2019s alumni, faculty, staff, students,\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eand friends over\na long period of time. Let me thank all of you for\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eyour many\ncontributions that have made ISyE the premier academic\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eunit that it is.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the last five years, we strived\nto ensure continued and increased strength of the School\u2019s foundation\ndisciplines (optimization, stochastics and\nsimulation, and statistics) and to broaden the School\u2019s applied research\nhorizons through continued support of supply chain and logistics initiatives,\nefforts to revive traditional strengths in health, and new initiatives in\nhealth and humanitarian logistics, sustainability and natural systems, and\nsystems informatics and control. ISyE also expanded its international\nactivities beyond those in Singapore to include programs in Shanghai and Latin\nAmerica. During this period, the faculty strove hard to continuously improve\nthe quality of incoming students and faculty, the mentoring process for junior\nfaculty, and the evaluation processes for faculty reappointment, promotion, and\ntenure.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2006, ISyE received a $20 million\ncommitment from H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart that enabled, and will\ncontinue to enable, ISyE to have greater impact on its academic and research\ncommunities and on challenges of economic and societal importance. Overall,\nISyE foundation accounts more than doubled from endowment gifts and commitments\nduring the last five years, helping to ensure the School\u2019s financial stability\nand health during the economic downturn and providing\nresources to help ISyE increase its dominance among its academic peers in the\nfuture. Let me end by expressing my appreciation for being given the opportunity\nto have served as ISyE chair and for the chance it gave me to get to know so\nmany of the fine people\u2014alumni, faculty, staff,students, and friends\u2014who have contributed to ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChelsea \u201cChip\u201d\nWhite, the Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and former\nH. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of Georgia Tech\u2019s H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering, will be spending next year in Abu\nDhabi helping to launch an industrial and systems engineering department at\nKhalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research (KUSTAR). In his new\nrole, White will help establish the curriculum for KUSTAR\u2019s systems engineering\nprogram and recruit systems engineering faculty members. He will also be\nproviding leadership for the Logistics Institute, as well as support in the\nenrollment of personnel. He will be based at the university\u2019s Abu Dhabi campus.\nAbu Dhabi, the richest and largest of the seven city-states in the United Arab\nEmirates, approached Georgia Tech to help them build the educational base Abu\nDhabi needs to reduce its economy\u2019s dependence on oil. White is not the only\nGeorgia Tech professor at KUSTAR; professors in Tech\u2019s biomedical engineering\nand aerospace engineering schools will also be spending the 2010-2011 school\nyear helping KUSTAR build curricula and recruit faculty.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article\nfirst appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of Industrial and Systems Engineering:\nthe Alumni Magazine for the Stewart School of ISyE at Georgia Tech. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the Fall 2010 issue of Industrial and Systems Engineering, former ISyE Chair Chelsea \u0022Chip\u0022 C. White III shared parting thoughts. White, who resigned as chair in June, is spending the next year in Abu Dhabi helping to launch an industrial and systems engineering department at Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research (KUSTAR). \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III Shares Parting Thoughts"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-12-01 14:30:50","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:50","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55103":{"id":"55103","type":"image","title":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III","body":null,"created":"1449175507","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:07","changed":"1475894486","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:26","alt":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. 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