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Victoria Jordan, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers president-elect and CFO; Amanda Mewborn, immediate past president, Don Taylor; and Eileen Van Aken, president. Photo courtesy of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.

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The Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering is proudly ranked #3 in the nation by U.S. News and World Report for our undergraduate program, #6 for our graduate program, and #8 for our online programs. Our department is home to world-class faculty and students performing cutting-edge research, participating in experiential and hands-on learning, and shaping the future of industrial and systems engineering each and every day. 

Spring 2024 Awards

Robert D. Dryden Oustanding Senior Award
Sarah Abbadi
Sarah Abbadi
Don Taylor Leadership Award
Aziz Malouche
Aziz Malouche
Oustanding Service Award
Lindsay Brilliant
Lindsay Brilliant
Oustanding Service Award
Olivia Ferrare
Olivia Ferrare
Oustanding Service Award
Aya Hobeika
Aya Hobeika
Oustanding Service Award
Kathryn Sloan
Kathryn Sloan
Oustanding Academic Achievement Award
Mia Saade
Mia Saade
Oustanding Academic Achievement Award
Yujiao Wen
Yujiao Wen
Robert P. Davis Outstanding Junior Award
Meredith DePuy and Eileen Van Aken
Meredith DePuy
Mollie McKee and Eileen Van Aken
Mollie McKee
Emma Grace Woolsey and Eileen Van Aken
Emma Grace Woolsey
Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award
Md Shafiqul Islam, Sol Lim, Eileen Van Aken
Md Shafiqul Islam

Alpha Pi Mu National Awards 

  • First place, best chapter competition – Alpha Pi Mu at Virginia Tech

Alpha Pi Mu National Scholarship Recipients

  • Ruwaa Abu-Ageel – Robert Dryden Scholarship
  • Kathryn Sloan – Paul E. Givens Diversity Scholarship
  • Jia Dong – Alpha Pi Mu Scholarship
  • Mollie McKee – Alpha Pi Mu Scholarship

Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) National Awards

  • First place, James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence – Aziz Malouche
  • Third place, James W. Barany Student Award for Excellence – Kathryn Sloan
  • Second place, Pritsker Postdoctoral Dissertation Award – Cheolhei Lee

Material Handling Education Foundation, Inc. (MHEFI)  National Scholarship Recipients

  • Scan Label Apply Manifest (SLAM) Honor Scholarship – Rashed Amad
  • Frazier Industrial Honor Scholarship – Meredith DePuy
  • Irving M. Footlik, PE Memorial Scholarship – Madison Harmon
  • Loading Dock Equipment Manufacturers Honor Scholarship – Mollie McKee
  • Rack Manufacturers Institute Honor Scholarship – Emma Grace Woolsey

Virginia Tech Awards

  • 2024 Graduate Student Service Award – Jia Dong
  • Aspire! Award for Pursuit of Self-Understanding and Integrity – Joe D'Agostino 

External Awards and Recognition

 

Internal Awards and Recognition 

  • Dean's Awards for Excellence: Certificate of Teaching Excellence – Laura Savage 
  • Virginia Tech Staff Career Achievement Award – Randy Waldron
  • Academy of Faculty Service – Ran Jin 
  • Principles of Community Award – ISE Diversity, Equity, and Incusion Committee 
  • Pete White Chair for Innovation in Engineering Excellence – Kimberly Ellis 

Fall 2023 Awards

HFES Student Chapter at Virginia Tech

Silver Level Award

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

 

Manhua Wang

Alphonse Chapanis Award 

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

 

John Casali 

Oliver Hansen Outreach Award

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

 

Ranjana Mehta 

Fellow of HFES

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

 

Shiyu Deng/Jinwoo Oh

3rd Place, Health Care Technical Group Best Student Paper Award for: “Assessing Laparoscopic Surgical Skills of Trainees with Scene Independent and Dependent Eye Gaze Metrics.” 

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

 

Jiayuan Dong, Md Shafiqul Islam, Manhua Wang 

Student Member with Honors Award

Awarded by: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

 

Mungyeong Choe 

Honorable Mention Award

Awarded by: Korean HFES Affinity Group

 

Hayoun Moon 

Best Paper Award

Awarded by: Korean HFES Affinity Group

 

INFORMS Student Chapter

Magna Cum Laude Award

Awarded by: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

 

Kwok Leung-Tsui

2023 Class of INFORMS Fellows

Awarded by: The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

 

Spring 2023 Awards

Faculty and student recognitions include:

  • Winner of IISE Manufacturing and Design Division Track Best Student Paper Competition: Rongxuan Wang, James Kong
  • Winner of ProcessMiner Inc. QCRE Data Challenge Competition: Bo Shen, Raghav Gnanasambandam, Jihoon Chung
  • Winner of Data Analytics and Information System Track mobile/web app competition: Rongxuan Wang, Yinan Wang, James Kong
  • Winner of IISE Transactions Data Science, Quality and Reliability Best Paper Competition: Yinan Wang, Weihong "Grace" Guo, Xiaowei Yue
  • Winner of IISE Transactions Design and Manufacturing Best Paper Competition: Yinan Wang, Kaiwen Wang, Wenjun Cai, Xiaowei Yue
  • Finalist of IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Track Best Paper Competition: Jihoon Chung, James Kong
  • Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Oustanding Early Career IE in Academia Award: Xiaowei Yue
  • Innovation in Education Award: Natalie Cherbaka and Kimberly Ellis
  • Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award: Don Taylor

Student award recipients include:

  • Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2nd place: Yinan Wang
  • First Place for the James Barany Student Award for Excellence: Jessica Aujla
  • Second Place for the James Barany Student Award for Excellence: Amber Clauss
  • Oustanding Capstone Award, 4th Place: Will Carlyle, Ashley Girod, Drew Martin, Sam Barnes, Zach Schwinger

Student scholarship recipients include:

  • Kathryn Sloan, UPS Minority Student Scholarship
  • Aziz Malouche, Dwight D. Gardner Scholarship
  • Nabil Habib, Dwight D. Gardner Scholarship
  • Emma Grace Woolsey, IISE Council of Fellows Scholarship
  • Ann Osi, John S.W Fargher Scholarship

Ph.D. candidate Alexandria Rossi-Alvarez named the Virginia Tech Graduate Student of the Year

Ph.D. candidate Mohammed Baaoum was recognized with the Graduate Student Service Award

John Luksas won the Outstanding Masters Award, and Raghav Gnanasambandam won the Outstanding Doctor of Philosophy award. 

ISE students recognized with the Outstanding Service Award during Senior Symposium by the ISE Undergraduate Awards Committee include:

  • Avintha Anumolu

  • Amber Clauss

  • Theresa Mull

  • Allison Tieman 

Additional award winners include:

  • Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, presented to Jarrett Johnson

  • Outstanding Junior Award, presented to Kathryn Sloan 

  • Outstanding Senior Award, presented to Jessica Aujla 

  • ISE Advisory Board Don Taylor Leadership Award, presented to Marah Ghanem 

Amber Clauss and Theresa Mull (both B.S. ‘23), and Rongxuan Wang (Ph.D., ‘23)  were awarded national scholarships from Alpha Pi Mu, the honor society for industrial and systems engineering students. Of 11 national scholarships awarded, three belong to Virginia Tech ISE students.

 

Professor James Kong was recognized as the College of Engineering’s 2023 Outstanding Faculty Mentor award during the Virginia Tech Graduate School Awards Ceremony. 

Two ISE faculty were recognized at the 2023 College of Engineering Dean’s Awards Ceremony.

  •     Natalie Cherbaka, Excellence in Teaching Award
  •     Charlie Klauer, Excellence in Research Award