Academy of Distinguished Alumni

Academy of Distinguished Alumni members at the Distinguished Alumni banquet in April 2018

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We are excited to be accepting nominations for the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Academy of Distinguished Alumni. Nominations can be submitted here (electronically).

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

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

ISE Academy of Distinguished Alumni Honor Nine New Inductees (May, 2017)

The Academy of Distinguished Alumni was established by the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Virginia Tech and its Advisory Board on October 14, 1993. Thirty‑eight charter member alumni were inducted and the Marvin H. Agee Distinguished Alumni Award was presented posthumously to Marvin Agee, who, as ISE department head in the early 1970's, founded the ISE Advisory Board. Since its inauguration, the Academy has steadily developed into a group of recognized leaders in the field who have served their profession and society with distinction.

The Academy of Distinguished Alumni

* Deceased

#	Inducted	Name	Class	Information
140	2019	Suraj M. Alexander, Ph.D.	1972, 1976	Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Louisville
139	2019	Maria Bothwell	1990	Chief Executive Officer, Toffler Associates
138	2019	Donald E.K. Campbell	1990	President, Persona Medical
137	2019	Kristen Casto, Ph.D.	2009	Colonel, Medical Service Corps, U.S. Army
136	2019	Delia Grenville, Ph.D.	1997, 2001	Director of Strategy, Corporate Strategic Procument, Intel Corporation
135	2019	John Kobza, Ph.D.	1993	Department Head, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee
134	2019	J. Cole Smith, Ph.D.	2000	Associate Provost of Academic Initiatives and Professor of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University
133	2019	Warren Vaneman, Ph.D.	1997, 2002	Professor of Practice, Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School
132	2019	Ingrid Vaughan	1985	Vice President and General Manager, Navigation & Maritime Systems, Northrop Grumman
131	2018	Pius J. Egbelu	1979, 1982	Distinguished Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology
130	2018	Olivier A. Girod	1996	Senior Officer, U.S. Security and Exchange Commission
129	2018	Daniel W. Gower, Jr.	1992	President (Retired), U.S. Army Medical Department Test Board
128	2018	C. Garland Hagen	1967	Corporate Executive Vice President (Retired), SunTrust Bank
127	2018	Suvrajeet Sen	1982	Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, UCLA
126	2018	Marilyn Smith	1982, 1984	Professor of Management, Winthrop University
125	2018	Raymond W. Staats	2003	President, Craven Community College
124	2017	Thomas E. Askew	1971	Senior Associate, Partnership Staffing, Inc.
123	2017	Steven M. Belz	1995, 1997, 2000	Director of Express Solutions Design, AT&T Business Solutions
122	2017	Betty Chao	1983	Westech International, Inc.
121	2017	James T. Luxhøj	1984, 1985, 1986	Professor and Undergraduate Director, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University
120	2017	Alexandra Medina-Borja	1995, 2002	Program Director, Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF)
119	2017	John W. Minnich	1989	Proprietor, Trio Wine, Beer, and Cheese
118	2017	W. Frederick St. John	1973	Former Owner, Officer, and Director, True Energy Coal Sales, Inc.
117	2017	Dinesh Verma	1991, 1995	Professor, Systems Engineering and Executive Director of Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), Stevens Institute of Technology
116	2017	Linda S. Wood	1981	Vice President of Operations Services (Retired), R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
115	2016	John Montague	1967	President of John W. Montague Jr. Inc. (retired)
114	2016	Janis Terpenny	1981, 1996	Chair and Head of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University
113	2016	Don Wittke	Honorary alumnus	Director of Industrial Engineering at United Parcel Service
112	2014	Rebecca B. Kates	1978, 1981	Owner, Quality Consulting, LLC
111	2014	Martin E. Muscatello	1982	President & CEO, CCS-Inc. and subsidiaries Qualtrax, Inc. and FoxGuard Solutions, Inc.
110	2014	Chris J. Rockwell	1992	President, Lextant
109	2012	Thomas R. Balzer	1983	Executive Vice President, Balzer & Associates, Inc.
108	2012	Thomas A. Dingus	1985, 1987	Director, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
107	2012	John R. McKnight	1991	Vice President & General Manager, Wyman-Gordon Forgings
106	2010	David (Dave) H. Klein	1983	Principal, BTB Solutions, LLC
105	2010	Kevin E. Layne	1983	President, Kollmorgen
104	2010	Eileen M. Van Aken	1988, 1991, 1995	Interim Department Head, ISE Department, Virginia Tech
103	2008	Kevin W. Leclaire	1995	Founder & Managing Director, ISDR Consulting
102	2008	Charles E. Leslie	1956	President & Owner, Embroidery by Chalaine
101	2008	Jaime A. Smith	1989	Vice President Sales, SunEdison
100	2006	Aditya (Tim) Guleri	1988	Sierra Ventures
099	2006	Robert (Bob) L. Gunter*	1992	Sector Senior Vice President, Northrop Grumman Newport News
098	2006	Robert van Luyn	1963	Staff Engineer, General Electric Aircraft Engines (retired)
097	2006	Bevlee A. Watford	1983, 1986	Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech
096	2004	Lawrence K. Baker*	1957	Engineer, Hearing Aid Industry
095	2004	Dan H. Heflin Jr.	1953	Professional Engineer, Heflin & Williams, Inc.
094	2004	Nancy Bowman Sauer*	1984	President, D2Xchange, LLC
093	2004	Herb H. Thompson*	1956	President and CEO, Ball Foster Glass Container Company (retired)
092	2002	Darrell A. Davis	1982	Vice President - Six Sigma, Empire-Today
091	2002	Timothy Fields Jr.	1970	Senior Vice President, Marasco Newton Group, Ltd.
090	2002	Oren E. Hopkins Jr.*	1950	Former President, The Coombs-Hopkins Company
089	2002	James P. Ignizio	1971	Manager, Modeling and Simulation, Intel Corporation
088	2002	Joseph (Joe) W. Meredith Jr.	1997	President, Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
087	2002	William T. Miller*	1951	President, RBI Corporation
086	2002	Kirk E. Spitzer	1967	President & CEO, Alfa Laval Inc.
085	2002	Thomas Cato Tillar*	1945	W.T. Tillar Company, Inc.
084	1999	Richard (Dick) M. Arnold	1956	Consultant, Ben. Rd. of Global Ministries of the UMC
083	1999	William G. Buchanan Jr.*	1935	Associate Professor, “Voice of the Hokies”
082	1999	Richard L. Francis	1960, 1962	Professor, Department of ISE Dept., University of Florida
081	1999	Homer H. Hickam Jr.	1964	Retired NASA Engineer and noted author
080	1999	James Ed Hines	1969	Manufacturing Vice President, Lucent Technologies, Inc. (retired)
079	1999	Harold W. Schneikert	1965	Principal Consultant, International Division, E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Co.
078	1999	Walter L. Thomas*	1943	Production Control Contracts Administrator, Newport News Shipbuilding, Retired US Army Major
077	1999	Grover L. Wilson*	1937	Retired Colonel, Industrial Engineer, US Air Force
076	1999	Hal G. Worley*	1946	Manager, AT&T Customer Engineering & Quality Administration
075	1998	Jerry R. Batt	1972	Consumer Billing Systems Vice President, AT&T Corporate
074	1998	John G. Casali	1979, 1982	John Grado Professor, ISE Department, Virginia Tech
073	1998	George A. Costan*	1936	Chairman of the Board, Southern Air Inc.
072	1998	Daniel M. Dick	1970	Director, Air Force Programs, General Dynamics Advanced Info Systems
071	1998	John C. Harrell	1963	President, Suffolk Iron Works, Inc.
070	1998	Jesse P. Jacobs Jr.*	1949	Retired USAF, Boeing Corporation
069	1998	James L. Jones Jr.	1956	Retired Patent Agent
068	1998	Arthur C. Klages*	1942	Vice President, Burlington Handbags, Inc.
067	1998	Edward H. Lane Jr.*	1937	Vice President, The Lane Company
066	1998	John S. McLellan	1963	President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems
065	1998	Augustus M. Raney*	1941	Investment Real Estate
064	1998	T. Frank Smith Jr.*	1944	Manager of Southern Region, Exxon Corporation (retired)
063	1998	Harry D. Temple*	1934	United States Army
062	1998	John W. Thomas Jr.	1949	Chairman of Board, Thomas Built Buses, Inc.
061	1996	Leon P. Harris	1964	President, Keltech, Inc.
060	1996	Robin L. Keesee	1970, 1976	Director, US Army Human Ergonomics Lab
059	1996	Gordon A. Mapp*	1968	Vice President and General Manager, Thermo King Corporation
058	1996	C. Alexander Neely	1973	President, Burlington Menswear
057	1996	L. Thomas Wilburn Jr.*	1951	Chairman, President & CEO, Bethesda Services
056	1996	Paul J. Woo Jr.	1969	President and CEO, Sterlie Concepts, Inc.
055	1996	Elwin I. Brawner	1966	Chairman of the Board, ICI Explosives, Inc.
054	1996	Bennie J. Butts Jr.*	1950	Adjunct Associate Professor, North Carolina A&T State University
053	1995	John R. Canada*	1957, 1961	Professor Emeritus, IE Department, NC State University
052	1996	Thomas (Tom) A. Carpenito	1973, 1974	Vice-President of Global Infrastructure, Computer Sciences Corporation
051	1994	Robert F. Allnutt	1957	Executive Vice President, Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Assoc.
050	1994	Vinod Chachra	1968, 1971	President, VTLS Inc.
049	1994	Charles M. Forbes*	1949	VP Development & University Relations, University of Delaware
048	1994	Larry M. Goodall	1970	Attorney, McGuire, Woods & Battle
047	1994	D. Joe Long	1956	Owner and President, Regency Bedspread Mfg. Company
046	1994	Ellis P. Monroe	1956	President, Monroe Sales Company, Inc.
045	1994	Douglas C. Montgomery	1965, 1967, 1969	Regents' Professor of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University
044	1994	J. Frederick Moring*	1957	Attorney & Partner, Crowell and Moring
043	1994	J. Landon Short*	1952, 1956	Director of Education, The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation
042	1994	Wayne C. Turner	1964, 1970, 1972	Professor, IE Department, Oklahoma State University
041	1993	Warren E. Abrams*	1950	President, Warren Elliott Associates, Inc.
040	1993	John A. Bachmann	1965, 1968, 1970	President, Proteus Performance Group
039	1993	Charles J. Brown III	1970	President, Entergy Power Group
038	1993	Thomas C. Burns*	1949	Chairman and Managing Director, AIT/BAC New Zealand Ltd.
037	1993	David H. Burrows*	1942	Chairman and CEO, Wiley N. Jackson Company
036	1993	Fred T. Campbell*	1950	Past President, Campbell and Associates, Inc.
035	1993	W. John Campbell*	1953	President, Tobacco Technologies Group
034	1993	Gerald D. Clarke	1968	Retired President and CEO, Energy Services Group
033	1993	William S. Cross Jr.	1941	CEO and Director, Cross Sales and Engineering Co., Inc.
032	1993	Charles W. Davies Jr.	1971	President and CEO, Tultex Corporation
031	1993	John W. Donehower	1969	Senior Vice President and CFO, Kimberly Clark Corporation
030	1993	Robert D. Dryden*	Honorary alumnus	Dean of Engineering, Portland State University
029	1993	Phillip E. Frankfort*	1940	Union Camp Corporation (retired)
028	1993	Leroy O. Gillette*	1947	Director of IE, Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
027	1993	Charles O. Gordon, Sr*	1942	Chairman, Bydand Corporation
026	1993	Charles O. Gordon Jr.	1969	Senior Vice President, Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc.
025	1993	Jack C. Gordon*	1977	President, The Bydand Corporation
024	1993	John Grado, Jr.*	1951	Retired Chairman and CEO, Technographics, Inc.
023	1993	George C. (Jack) Guynn	1964	President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
022	1993	Dale B. Hartman*	1950	President, Cam-I
021	1993	Robert H. Holland	1966, 1969, 1972	President and Chairman, Holland Systems Corporation
020	1993	O. P. Johnson	1952	President, L-TEC Welding & Cutting Systems
019	1993	Barry A. Latimer	1971, 1972	President, Whites Advertising, Inc.
018	1993	Robert H. Levine*	1946	President, Raleigh Junk Company
017	1993	Earl F. Myerholtz*	1948	Vice President, TRW Inc. Industrial Product Group
016	1993	Charles G. O'Brien	1956	Retired Executive Vice President, Thomasville Furniture Industries
015	1993	Frederick T. Parker II*	1965	President, Virginia Peanuts, Inc.
014	1993	Charles J. Parks*	1948	Vice President in Operations, Union Carbide Corp., Nuclear Division
013	1993	Hal G. Prillaman	1955	President, Prillaman Brothers, Inc.
012	1993	Wiley E. Ring, III	1958	President, Kingsport Foundry & Manufacturing Co.
011	1993	B. Fielding Rolston	1964	Vice President, Eastman Chemical Company
010	1993	Donald L. Sage*	1956	Engineering Manager, AT&T Microelectronics
009	1993	John F. Sweers	1946	Corporate Vice President, The Gap Stores, Inc.
008	1993	Robert E. Taylor P.E.	1970	Associate Professor Emeritus, ISE Department, Virginia Tech
007	1993	Joseph C. Thomas*	1943	President, Thomas Brothers, Inc.
006	1993	Curtis Tompkins	1964, 1967	John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
005	1993	Paul E. Torgersen*	Honorary alumnus	Honorary Professor & John Hancock Chair, ISE Department, Virginia Tech
004	1993	John A. Urquhart*	1949	President, John A. Urquhart Associates
003	1993	James R. Vilseck	1959	President, Island Creek Coal Company
002	1993	Douglas D. Walker	1963	Vice President Engineering, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
001	1993	John A. White Jr.	1966	Chancellor and Distinguished Professor, University of Arkansas

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