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Hussein El Hajj

Ph.D. candidate, Hussein El Hajj, won 2nd place in the INFORMS Health Application Society Student Paper Competition (July, 2019)

Ben Blanchard

In memoriam: Benjamin S. Blanchard Jr., professor emeritus of industrial and systems engineering (July, 2019)

Hosseinichimeh

Niyousha Hoseinichimeh awarded grant to study impaired teen driving (May, 2019)

Eileen Van Aken

Eileen Van Aken named chair-elect of the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads (CIEADH) (May, 2019)

Betty Chao

ISE alumna, Dr. Betty Chao, has been inducted into the College of Engineering's Academy of Engineering Excellence (May, 2019)

Kimberly Ellis

Dr. Kimberly Ellis has been awarded as Oustanding Faculty Member by the undergraduate students in ISE (May 2019)

Eastman Capstone Team

Jad Haj Ali, Hoanan Zhou, Jiyao Shang, and Tushar Kumar who won the 3rd place award in the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) Outstanding Senior Design Project Competition. (May, 2019)

Robert Hildebrand

Robert Hildebrand receives 2019 Sporn Award for teaching undergraduate engineering subjects (April, 2019)

Senior Symposium

Senior Design teams present innovative, award-winning engineering solutions to real-world problems (April, 2019)

Banquet

New members of the ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni announced (April, 2019)

ELB Awards

First recipients of the Emerging Leaders Award announced (April, 2019)

Sarin

Subhash Sarin Receives Hind Rattan Award (March, 2019)

Award winners of the ISE Undergraduate Research Symposium announced (April, 2019)

Researchers develop method to improve 3D-printed prosthetics by integrating electronic sensors (April, 2019

ISE staff member, Nicole Conner, has earned her Associates of Applied Science Degree in Accounting from New River Community College. (May, 2019)

ISE retirees, Dot Cupp and Joyce Vest, have been awarded with Virginia Tech Staff Career Achievement Awards. (May, 2019)

High school senior presents at the National Hearing Conservation Association Conference (February, 2019)

The 2019 Torgersen Leadership Summit inspires over 200 engineering students  (February, 2019)

Dr. Ebru Bish elected President of the INFORMS Health Applications Society (February, 2019)

Dr. Ran Jin elected Chair of INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability
 (February, 2018)

IISE members Megan Schneider, Scott McGowan, Kaitlyn Tokarz, and Dillon Guidera won second place in the case competition hosted by Deloitte at the IISE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (February, 2019)

Lauren Carpentino won first place in the technical paper competition at the IISE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (February, 2019)

Three-time ISE alumnus, C. Richard Cassady, recognized with distinguished leadership award at the University of Arkansas (March, 2019)

Virginia Tech INFORMS Student Chapter wins first place in the OR What? INFORMS Student Video Competition (March, 2019)

Dr. Divya Srinivasan and her team of researchers have been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation award to develop whole-body powered exoskeletons for augmenting human performance in industrial use. (October, 2018)

Weijun Xie receives 3rd place in the 2018 INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition (November 2018)

Local Alumni gather for a reception (October, 2018)

The ISE Advisory Board gathered in October for their annual fall meeting (October, 2018)

Virginia Tech APM receives Outstanding Student Chapter Award (September, 2018)

ISE alumnus, Vidya Jwala '95 named chief eCommerce and Supply Chain officer at Dick's Sporting Goods (August, 2018)

Dr. Maury Nussbaum inducted as a Fellow for the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB) (August, 2018)

ISE Welcomes Four New Faculty Members (August, 2018)

Joseph William "Bill" Schmidt, former professor of ISE, passes away (August, 2018)

ISE alumnus, Jay Merkle '88, has been named the new head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office
 (December, 2018)

Check out our Fall 2018 Department Newsletter! (November, 2018)

Dr. Alejandro Salado awarded grant to study the automatic generation of contractual requirements from MBSE artifacts (August, 2018)

Five new staff members join ISE in summer 2018 (August 8, 2018)

Dr. Maury Nussbaum reappointed as Hal G. Prillaman Professor in ISE (July 24, 2018)

Dr. Alejandro Salado earns NSF award on building a scientific theory of verification (July 17, 2018)

Maj. John Stuart '04 was featured in the Virginia Tech Magazine Summer 2018 edition (July 12, 2018)

Camille DaDamio '11 was elected as a new member of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association Board of Directors (July 12, 2018)

ISE alumna Amanda Kauder chosen as board member of newly-created Applied Ergonomics Society (July 5, 2018)

B. Fielding Rolston receives 2018 Marvin H. Agee Distinguished Alumni Award (June 29, 2018)

ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni honors seven new inductees (June 29, 2018)

2018 Undergraduate Research Award winners presented at Senior Symposium (June 26, 2018)

Dr. James Kong receives U.S. Navy Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative award (June 25, 2018)

Dr. Blake Johnson receives ICAT SEAD grant, CoE and SEC awards (June 18, 2018)

Dr. Alejhandro Salado receives grant for designing and implementing verification strategies in large-scale systems (June 14, 2018)

Dr. Eileen Van Aken named department head of industrial and systems engineering (June 8, 2018)

ISE faculty promotions and tenure among those approved by VT Board of Visitors (June 5, 2018)

Dr. Don Taylor honored with IISE Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award (June 1, 2018)

Joyce Vest and Randy Waldron receive CASE awards from College of Engineering (May 31, 2018)

Senior Design Team wins first place at 2018 George Mason University Capstone Competition (May 29, 2018)

2018 Senior Design Award winning teams recognized (May 29, 2018)

ISE faculty and students earn multiple honors and awards from IISE (May 24, 2018)

2018 ISE Undergraduate Award recipients announced (May 23, 2018)

2018 ISE Outstanding Faculty and GTA recipietns announced (May 18, 2018)

Hrayer Aprahamian, Sophia Ulman, and Rongxuan Wang earned Torgersen Graduate Research Awards (May 16, 2018)

Leon P. Harris receives Virginia Tech's highest honor (May 10, 2018)

Dick Arnold receives 2018 Citizen of the Year Award from local Rotary Club (April 26, 2018)

Chenang Liu nominated as finalist for 2018 IISE QCRE Best Student Paper competition (April 20, 2018)

Andrew Law wins 2018 Outstanding Master’s Student award from the College of Engineering (April 5, 2018)

ISE department announces Ph.D. and M.S. Student of the Year award winners (March 28, 2018)

Dr. Alejandro Salado receives Exemplary Systems Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Award (March 26, 2018)

VT IISE hosts another successful Torgersen Leadership Summit for students (March 16, 2018)

TeAirra Brown was featured on Virginia Tech News (March 12, 2018)

Mohammed Baaoum Wins New Venture Competition at MIT Innovation & Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (March 1, 2018)

Dr. Charlie Klauer joins ISE department in spring 2018 (February 19, 2018)

Dylan Burnette wins first place in the IISE Student Regional Conference technical paper competition (February 13, 2018)

UPS fellowship supports human factors and safety graduate research (February 8, 2018)

Dr. James Kong awarded Diversity and Inclusion Seed grant for additive manufacturing quality control research (February 7, 2018)

Mohammed Ali, Louie Buchen, and Felipe Matamoros won 1st place at Multicultural Diversity Case Competition (February 6, 2018)

Dr. Robert Hildebrand joins ISE department in Spring 2018 (February 5, 2018)

Dr. Maury Nussbaum selected to be Editor-in-Chief of IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors (January 24, 2018)

Dr. Subhash Sarin’s solution to “Traveling salesman” problem featured in ISE Magazine (January 18, 2018)