Virginia Tech: Invent the Future Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Highlights

ISE researchers and their collaborators from five other institutions will soon engage in research on new construction safety and health
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Dr. Christian Wernz and Andrew Henry won Third Place in the INFORMS Service Science Section Best Paper Award
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ISE Takes First Place in APM Outstanding Chapter Competition for 2008-09!
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2008-2009 Material Handling Student Design Competition won by ISE students
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Winchester's summer research program focuses on diversity, science of human computer interaction
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New staff member to support Harris Manufacturing Processes Laboratory
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Students make own biodiesel derived from waste vegetable oil to fuel vehicles
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Graduate Student, Brian Mayer, participates in two big Adventure Races
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Recent Alumn selected as the Army Chief of Weapons Branch, Human Factors Integration Division
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Adjunct Faculty

Deborah Young-Corbett

Deborah E. Young-Corbett

Assistant Professor, Myers-Lawson School of Construction

545 Whittemore Hall
Phone: 540-231-9093
Email: dyoung@vt.edu

Biographical Information

Education

  • PhD, Industrial Engineering (expected 2007)
  • MS, Industrial Engineering
  • MS, Ecology
  • BS, Biology

Major Responsibilities

Industrial hygiene, occupational safety, and environmental compliance, adjunct instructor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering from 1999-2006.

Professional Activities

  • American Industrial Hygiene Association
  • American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
  • American Society of Safety Engineers, faculty advisor to student chapter 1999-2003

Research Interests

Occupational health, industrial hygiene, prevention of respiratory disease among construction workers, indoor environmental quality, health effects of fungi in indoor environments