{"62644":{"#nid":"62644","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Fall Advisory Board Meeting Focuses on the Profession of Industrial Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) hosted its fall advisory board meeting on October 22, 2010.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Advisory Board Chair Ed Rogers, global strategy manager with UPS\u2019s corporate strategy, welcomed the group to campus and expressed how fortunate the Stewart School and the Board are to have Dr. Mike Thomas return to Tech as interim School chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter\nRogers\u2019 opening remarks, Thomas updated the board on the ISyE chair search\ncommittee and other School activities.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;The chair search committee, which formed\nduring the summer and comprises seventeen faculty, staff, and alumni, is being\nchaired by Vigor Yang, chair of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace\nEngineering. Current enrollment numbers for\nISyE include 1,183 undergraduate students, 231 master\u2019s students, and 171 PhD\nstudents. \u0026nbsp;Thomas introduced the fall\n2010 issue of\u003Cem\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/eemag\/pdfs\/20101Fall.pdf\u0022\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Emagazine, which was hot off the press.\u0026nbsp; The\nfeature story focuses on ISyE\u2019s graduate program, which \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News and World Report\u003C\/em\u003E ranked first for the 20\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E consecutive\nyear.\u0026nbsp; The feature article, \u201cFirst in Its\nClass,\u201d describes some of the attributes that form the underpinnings of a great\ngraduate program and underscore how the program in ISyE measures up in\ncomparison to others.\u0026nbsp; Thomas also\nreported that the Campaign Georgia Tech, which originally was slated to raise\n$1 billion and run through 2010, is now most likely going to have a goal of\n$1.5 billion and run through 2015. Georgia Tech, as a whole, has raised $916.3\nmillion from July 2004 to date, and ISyE, which had an original goal of $50\nmillion, has raised $40.2M to date.\u0026nbsp; Nancy Sandlin, ISyE director of\ndevelopment, and Thomas will work closely with central development as they\ndetermine ISyE\u0027s new goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJane Ammons, ISyE professor and associate dean\nof engineering, hosted a discussion on what industrial engineers do today and\nwhere they are headed tomorrow.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Ammons opened her session by showing a video\ntitled \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZpPDoLX_9K4\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIndustrial Engineers Make a Difference\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Sponsored by the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads,\nthe video features industrial engineers talking about the jobs they do, the satisfaction\nthey experience, and the impact they make in people\u0027s lives. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmmons then\nfocused her discussion on some of the trends and drivers in engineering (\u003Cem\u003Eclimate change; energy needs; middle class\ngrowth; consumer demand; transportation; healthcare; waste; information\nparadigm shifts; shortage of food, clean water, and housing; growth of\nmegacities; \u0026nbsp;and changes in sea levels\u003C\/em\u003E),\ngrand challenges in engineering \u003Cem\u003E(re-engineering\nhealthcare delivery; engineering a sustainable society; developing better\ndecision-making tools for a dynamic world; mitigating and responding to\ndisasters; point-of-use manufacturing; infrastructure construction; and engineering\nfor a safe, available, and affordable water supply),\u003C\/em\u003E and strategic\ndirections within the field.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E In summary,\nshe stated that we are now seeing global opportunities in the field of\nindustrial engineering and management, that the grand challenges are strategic\nimperatives for our research and education, and that we must position our\nstudents to achieve maximum impact by exploiting the unique strengths of\nindustrial engineering.\u0026nbsp; For those\ninterested in more information, she recommended reading NAE\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.members.nae.edu\/nae\/naepcms.nsf\/weblinks\/MKEZ-5Z5PKL?OpenDocument\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering\nin the New\u003C\/em\u003E Century\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Following this discussion, two\nundergraduate students (Anna Smoak and Chelsea Sanders) and one graduate\nstudent (Animesh Garg) provided their personal perspectives on how they view\nindustrial engineers and where they are in the program. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESmoak is a second-year industrial engineering student who is a part of the co-op program.\u0026nbsp; She is currently working in a hub\ndistribution center for a company that makes and distributes healthcare\nproducts.\u0026nbsp; This experience has given her\nsome practical knowledge and skills beyond her years studying in the field.\nSmoak, in her nascent stage of becoming an industrial engineer,\u0026nbsp; has already formed a working definition of\nindustrial engineering,\u0026nbsp; \u201cIE is about\ncreating processes and systems and having the ability to think outside the box.\n\u201c\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EChelsea Sanders\nis a third-year ISyE student who spent the summer in Chile where she\nparticipated in the study and work abroad program.\u0026nbsp; \u201cWhat really sets Georgia Tech apart is its\nglobal focus,\u201d said Sanders.\u0026nbsp; \u201cAnd ISyE\nis really pushing us to be prepared to work in this global community.\u201d\u0026nbsp; She went on to say that learning in\nclassrooms with ISyE\u2019s top faculty is great, but you also need to get out in\nthe world to continue your growth.\u0026nbsp; \u201cYou\nhave to experience some things for yourself, and spending the summer working in\nanother country required me to step, even further, out of my comfort zone and\nforced me to learn and grow outside the classroom.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Sanders is not sure what she will do after\ngraduation, but feels her options are infinite.\u0026nbsp;\n\u201cISyE has taught me how to think and problem solve; no matter what\nproblem is presented to me, I can solve it.\u0026nbsp;\nI feel I have endless possibilities in the field of industrial\nengineering.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnimesh Garg is a first-year graduate student who comes from a background in\nmanufacturing, production, and automation.\u0026nbsp;\nWanting to pursue his graduate degree, he decided to come to Georgia\nTech\u2019s Stewart School of ISyE \u201cnot only because it has been ranked number one\nfor the last twenty years, but mostly because it has a large faculty who are\npioneers in their fields, and I would have so many opportunities to do a\nvariety of research.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Garg feels that\nTech is giving him an unparalled multicultural experience and continues to open\nmany windows of opportunity for him.\u0026nbsp;\n\u201cGeorgia Tech has given me my wings and is telling me to spread them out\nand do what I want to do.\u0026nbsp; I am sure I\nwill realize my potential here and come out with flying colors.\u0026nbsp; With an IE degree, I think I will be able to\nchose where I want to go.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEd Rogers discussed Georgia\nTech\u2019s new 25-year strategic vision and plan that President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d\nPeterson launched in August.\u0026nbsp; The plan,\n\u201cDesigning the Future,\u201d has five main goals and ten Institute-wide initiatives,\nwhich can be found in the full report at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/vision\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\/vision\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; An alumni\nsubcommittee, led by Rogers, was formed to begin discussions on drafting ISyE\u2019s\nstrategic vision and plan.\u0026nbsp; Rogers\nconcluded the meeting with advisory board business updates and wrap ups.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe spring advisory board\nmeeting will be held on April 22, 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn October 27\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ELogistics Viewpoint\u003C\/em\u003E addressed hiring IE\u2019s\nin their article, \u201cSupply Chain Teams Should Consider Hiring Industrial\nEngineers.\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/logisticsviewpoints.com\/2010\/10\/27\/supply-chain-teams-should-consider-hiring-industrial-engineers\/.\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the article.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) hosted its fall advisory board meeting on October 22, 2010.\u0026nbsp; Ed Rogers, advisory board chair and global strategy manager with UPS\u2019s corporate strategy, gave the opening remarks, which were followed by presentations from Mike Thomas, ISyE interim chair; Jane Ammons, ISyE professor and associate dean\nof engineering; undergraduate students Anna Smoak and Chelsea Sanders; and graduate\nstudent Animesh Garg. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fall Advisory Board Meeting Focuses on the Profession of Industrial Engineering"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-11-09 13:50:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:42","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-11-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62612":{"id":"62612","type":"image","title":"(L to R): Mike Thomas, ISyE interim chair; Ed Rogers, ISyE advisory board chair; and Jane Ammons, ISyE professor and associate dean of engineering.","body":null,"created":"1449176382","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:42","changed":"1475894544","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:24","alt":"(L to R): Mike Thomas, ISyE interim chair; 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