The COVID-19 pandemic prevented the IMSE Department from holding its annual IMSE Awards Banquet this year. Each year we award an alumni with our Distinguished Industrial Engineering Award. This year’s recipient was Dr. G. Don Taylor.
Dr. G. Don Taylor is a distinguished alumni here at UTA, having received both M.S and B.S degrees for the IMSE department. Dr. G. Don Taylor is now Vice Provost for Learning Systems Innovation and Effectiveness, and Charles O. Gordon Professor in ISE at Virginia Tech. He is also a Fellow and a Past-President and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Amongst many accomplishments, Dr. G. Don Taylor has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on more than 60 externally funded projects. His research has led to the publication of 10 edited books, more than 75 journal articles and book chapters, more than 120 conference papers and technical reports.
Biographical Sketch: Halit Üster is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems (EMIS) at Southern Methodist University (SMU). His research interests are in the areas of logistics, design of networked systems, and applied optimization. His publications appeared in Transportation Science, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, among others. His research has been funded by National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, and industry. Previously, he was on the faculty of ISE Department at Texas A&M until 2014 and was a visiting professor at the IEMS Department of Northwestern during 2009-2010 where he was named Eshbach Society Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science. He was a recipient of the Caterpillar Teaching Excellence Award in Look College of Engineering of TAMU in 2011 and INFORMS Moving Spirit Award. He serves as an Associate Editor for IISE Transactions and Transportation Science and also serves INFORMS community in varying capacities. Üster is a member of INFORMS and IISE.
Biographical Sketch: Mahmudur Rahman is a Research Fellow in the Division of Safety Research at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He has a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering with an emphasis on Human Factors. Dr. Rahman’s research interests center around transportation safety, human-centered design, and technology acceptance.
Date: November 5, 2019
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. The overarching goal of her research is to comprehensively evaluate and enhance the sustainability of additive manufacturing from both process level and life cycle perspective. She seeks to apply multiple engineering methodologies (e.g., analytical modeling, experimental approach, and data-driven method) to address the sustainability issues in additive manufacturing, and she is interested in interdisciplinary research that can open up collaboration opportunities in the fields of industrial, mechanical, chemical, and environmental engineering. Her research has been financially supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy.
Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering (IMSE) Department 