{"66383":{"#nid":"66383","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jane Ammons Named Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, Dr. Jane Chumley Ammons has\nbeen named the Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Engineering\n(ISyE) at Georgia Tech, effective July 1, 2011. Dr. \u0026nbsp;Ammons received her Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in\n1982 and joined the ISyE faculty that year as an assistant professor. She\ncurrently holds the rank of Professor in ISyE and also has served as Associate\nDean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Engineering since 2004. Dr. Ammons\nwill also hold the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair in ISyE. \u0026nbsp;Dr. Ammons will be the first woman school\nchair in the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u201cDr. Ammons brings with her a superb track\nrecord as a researcher, advisor, and recognized leader in the field of\nindustrial engineering. She brings with her a vision to lead the H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial Engineering to higher levels of excellence within a\nmulti-disciplinary and high-technology environment,\u201d said Don P. Giddens, Dean\nof the College of Engineering. \u201cDr. Ammons is a well-rounded educator and\nadministrator, and we look forward to the development of new curriculum,\nservice, and research endeavors.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ammons is the author or co-author of more than\n100 refereed and technical publications in the area of manufacturing systems\nand supply chain engineering with a special interest in developing closed loop,\nenvironmentally sustainable systems. She has served in numerous School, College\nand Institute capacities, including as the NSF ADVANCE Professor of Engineering\nfrom 2002-2005. She has been principal or co-principal investigator on a\nvariety of sponsored research programs, having enjoyed support from both\nindustry and federal funding agencies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to her research and institutional\nservice activities, Professor Ammons has been highly active in professional\nservice external to Georgia Tech. Dr. Ammons is a Past-President of the\nInstitute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and has chaired the National Science\nFoundation Engineering Advisory Committee. \u0026nbsp;She is a member of the Technical Committee for\nthe Uganda: Millennium Science Initiative (MSI) Project co-financed by the\nWorld Bank and serves as a Program Evaluator for ABET, the engineering\neducation accreditation organization.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt Georgia Tech, Dr. Ammons\nhas been honored with eight teaching\/faculty awards at the school and\nuniversity levels. In addition to her academic experience, Dr. Ammons has\nworked as a plant engineer for an industrial manufacturer and is a registered\nProfessional Engineer in the state of Georgia. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Georgia Tech\u0027s ISyE has been such an important part of my academic life, and it is an honor to be named ISyE\u0027s new School Chair,\u0022 said Ammons.\u0026nbsp; \u0022I look forward to continuing my work, in this new capacity, with ISyE\u0027s renowned faculty, students, peers, and community as we continue to strengthen and influence what industrial engineers do today and will do in the future.\u0026nbsp; There are many global opportunities for industrial and systems engineers, and the grand challenges in the field are strategic imperatives for our efforts and impact.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering (ISyE) is the largest academic program of its kind in the\nnation with a strong foundation in optimization, stochastics, simulation, and\nstatistics.\u0026nbsp; Students and the\ninternationally renowned faculty understand, design, and optimize complex\nsystems in order to improve their performance in many operational settings\nincluding supply chain logistics, transportation, finance, healthcare,\ntelecommunications, manufacturing, humanitarian relief, security,\nsustainability, and others.\u0026nbsp; ISyE\u2019s\nstrengths in education, emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, and strong\ndiscovery-to-application philosophy have enabled ISyE to achieve a premier\nposition in the field.\u0026nbsp; With the recent\nrelease of the 2012 \u003Cem\u003EU. S. News \u0026amp;\nWorld Report\u003C\/em\u003E, ISyE again was ranked as the number one graduate program of\nits kind, making this the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E consecutive number one ranking.\u0026nbsp; The School grants around 275 B.S. degrees,\n215 M.S. degrees, and 30 Ph.D. degrees a year.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFollowing a national search, Dr. Jane Chumley Ammons has\nbeen named the Chair of the H. 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