{"66391":{"#nid":"66391","#data":{"type":"news","title":"First Woman Chair Named in the College of Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, Jane Chumley Ammons has been named the chair\nof the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the\nGeorgia Institute of Technology, effective July 1. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmons is the first woman to be named a school chair in Georgia Tech\u2019s\nCollege of Engineering. She was also the first woman to receive a Ph.D. from\nthe School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) in 1982 and the first\nwoman faculty member in the school.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDr.\nAmmons brings with her a superb track record as a researcher, advisor, and\nrecognized leader in the field of industrial engineering. She brings with her a\nvision to lead the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering to higher\nlevels of excellence within a multidisciplinary and high-technology\nenvironment,\u201d said Don P. Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering. \u201cDr.\nAmmons is a well-rounded educator and administrator, and we look forward to the\ndevelopment of new curriculum, service and research endeavors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmons currently holds the rank of professor and also has served as associate\ndean for faculty affairs in the College of Engineering since 2004. She is the\nauthor or co-author of more than 100 refereed and technical publications in the\narea of manufacturing systems and supply chain engineering with a special\ninterest in developing closed-loop, environmentally sustainable systems. Ammons\nhas served in several school, college and Institute capacities, including as the\nNational Science Foundation ADVANCE professor of engineering from 2002 to 2005.\nShe has been principal or co-principal investigator on a variety of sponsored\nresearch programs, having enjoyed support from both industry and federal\nfunding agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her research and institutional\nservice activities, Ammons has been highly active in professional service\nexternal to Georgia Tech. Ammons is a past president of the Institute of\nIndustrial Engineers and has chaired the National Science Foundation Engineering\nAdvisory Committee. She is a member of the Technical Committee for the Uganda:\nMillennium Science Initiative Project, co-financed by the World Bank, and\nserves as a program evaluator for ABET, Inc., the engineering education\naccreditation organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Ammons has been honored with eight\nteaching\/faculty awards at the school and university levels. In addition to her\nacademic experience, Ammons has worked as a plant engineer for an industrial\nmanufacturer and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering is the largest academic program of its kind in the\nworld with a strong foundation in optimization, stochastics, simulation and\nstatistics. With the recent release of the 2012 \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E, ISyE again was ranked as the No. 1 graduate\nprogram of its kind, making this the 21st\u0026nbsp;consecutive number one\nranking.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, Jane Chumley Ammons has been named the chair\nof the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the\nGeorgia Institute of Technology, effective July 1.\u0026nbsp;Ammons is the first woman to be named a school chair in Georgia Tech\u2019s\nCollege of Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Jane Chumley Ammons named chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-06-06 09:11:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:49","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-06-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"66390":{"id":"66390","type":"image","title":"Jane Chumley Ammons, ISyE school chair","body":null,"created":"1449177169","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:12:49","changed":"1475894589","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:09","alt":"Jane Chumley Ammons, ISyE school chair","file":{"fid":"193308","name":"janeammons-georgiatech_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/janeammons-georgiatech_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/janeammons-georgiatech_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":609953,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/janeammons-georgiatech_0_0.jpg?itok=WfJbUUeh"}}},"media_ids":["66390"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/","title":"Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"13335","name":"College of Engineering; H. 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