{"75181":{"#nid":"75181","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leon McGinnis Announces Plan to Retire","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELeon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing\nSystems and professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering (ISyE), has announced his plans to retire from Georgia Tech effective\nDecember 31, 2011, after forty years of service. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Leon has provided important leadership on critical\ndimensions including ISyE curriculum enhancements, campus-wide manufacturing\nresearch, and institute-level faculty governance,\u201d said Jane Ammons, H. Milton\nand Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair.\u0026nbsp; \u201cHe has also been a terrific\ncolleague and friend to faculty, staff, and students.\u0026nbsp; I would like to thank\nLeon for his contributions, and wish him joy and excellent adventures in this\nnew chapter in his life.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMcGinnis, a registered professional engineer in the state\nof Georgia, received his bachelor\u2019s in industrial engineering from Auburn\nUniversity, and a master\u2019s and PhD in industrial engineering from North\nCarolina State University. McGinnis has been a leader in developing and\nadministering industry-focused and interdisciplinary education and research\nprograms at Georgia Tech. He helped establish the Material Handling Research\nCenter in 1982 and managed one of five research programs over the next decade.\nHe also helped establish the Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems Program (CIMS)\nin 1983, which received a LEAD Award from ASME for excellence in graduate-level\ninterdisciplinary manufacturing education, and served as Director from 1988 to\n1998. As CIMS Director, he lead a team that competed for and won a $1 million\nTRP grant, resulting in the establishment of the Rapid Prototyping and\nManufacturing Institute within the Manufacturing Research Center. In 1994, he\nlead a team of ISyE faculty to win over $2 million in grants from the W. M. Keck\nFoundation to create the Keck Virtual Factory Lab as a focal point for IE\nsystems design and control research. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMcGinnis enjoys teaching students how to think like\nindustrial engineers, particularly in developing and using mathematical and\ncomputational models to support design of facilities and control systems. His\nresearch focuses on fundamental representation issues in discrete event\nlogistics systems, on performance assessment models, and on the development of\nintegrated computational tools. The Institute of Industrial Engineers has\nrecognized Dr. McGinnis with the Outstanding Publication Award, the David F.\nBaker Distinguished Research Award, and the Fellow Award. He has given the\nInyong Ham Lecture at Penn State, the Jones Lecture at Dartmouth, and the\nSchantz Lectures at Lehigh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nThough he is retiring, McGinnis plans to remain active in his research,\ncollaborations, and the advisement of his PhD students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELeon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing\nSystems and professor in ISyE, has announced his plans to retire from Georgia Tech effective\nDecember 31, 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-12-21 09:45:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63147":{"id":"63147","type":"image","title":"Leon McGinnis","body":null,"created":"1449176649","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:09","changed":"1475894552","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:32","alt":"Leon McGinnis","file":{"fid":"191752","name":"McGinnis_Leon_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/McGinnis_Leon_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/McGinnis_Leon_-_Bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2552724,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/McGinnis_Leon_-_Bust_0.jpg?itok=dYDoYuvx"}}},"media_ids":["63147"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1202","name":"H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"id":"577","name":"leon mcginnis"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}