{"351111":{"#nid":"351111","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE\u0027s Fall 2014 Advisory Board Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) hosted its fall advisory board meeting on October 10, 2014. The meeting commenced with the introduction of all advisory board members. We were fortunate to have the new ISyE school chair Edwin Romeijn, (starting in January 2015) join the meeting via skype from Michigan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJane Ammons, ISyE school chair, updated the board on ISyE School rankings and activities:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENumber 1 graduate program for 24 consecutive years (2015 Edition of the U. S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u2019s Best Graduate Schools).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENumber 1 undergraduate program for the 20th year (2015 edition of America\u2019s Best Colleges by U.S. News \u0026amp; World Report).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENumber 5 supply chain engineering program (2014 Gartner Top U.S. Supply Chain Graduate University Programs).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENumber 5 Statistics \u0026amp; Operational Research program (2014 QS World University Rankings).\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENew additions to the ISyE faculty: Martin Salvesbergh, Ben Haaland, Benoit Montreuil, Natashia Boland, Paul Griffin and Edwin Romeijn.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWilliam W. George Chair Pinar Keskinocak named COE ADVANCE professor.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Dene Sheheane, VP of Government and Community Relations, discussed with the board how they are working to ensure GT\u2019s strategic priorities receive recognition and support from local and federal government partners. Sheheane went through a typical day and shared capital priorities and b-unit support. He answered the questions and concerns of the board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmmons then gave the board a development update on the campaign goal and a summary of objectives for ISyE as well as the other engineering schools.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDean May gave a college update to the board including research, active learning initiative, faculty construction, and revitalizing undergraduate education. Some highlights included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMore than 13,000 students and 3,200 degrees were conferred last year.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIn COE, there are 434 faculty members, 96,000 alumni and 150 interdisciplinary centers.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGeorgia Tech is number one in awarding engineering degrees to women.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECOE completed a successful ABET review.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIn 2014 25,872 applications were received and 33% were admitted.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe average SAT score for COE in 2014 was 1480.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENext up was the ISyE student panel composed of Greg Miller, Alex Morgan, Nidhi Koshy, and Frederick Grimm. Greg Miller is a fourth year ISyE student who wanted to challenge his abilities and provide himself with a variety of opportunities after graduation. He is minoring in computer science. He is involved in Theta Chi, as well as Connect with Tech. He co-oped at Manhattan Associates to develop and implement software for client to monitor and optimize warehouse management, distribution, transportation. Alex Moran is a third year CS and ISyE student. He is a healthcare research assistant at the Health Center and is working on several projects aimed at potentially changing Medicaid and Medicare. \u0026nbsp;He is a member of the fraternity Sigma Chi, a grader for ISyE 3770 and a GT 1000 team leader. His future plans include studying abroad, continuing to do more research, and landing an internship with Google. Nidhi Koshy is a fourth year ISyE student who was born in India and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She was a liaison for ATL Tamasha and is involved with Lambda Sigma. Her main passion lies in empowering women. She is the Vice President of External Affairs for One Voice Atlanta, a group that educates students about the issue sex trafficking. She has also co-oped at UPS in their transportation department. Frederick Grimm is a fifth year ISyE student. He took advantage of GT\u2019s networking opportunities and became a GT student ambassador, President Scholar fall retreat leader, a GT 1000 teaching assistant, as well as a campus tour guide. He interned at Chainalytics, a supply chain consulting firm, and has dabbled in entrepreneurship, taking home 2\u003Csup\u003End\u003C\/sup\u003E place at Inventure. His product, Sucette, is a pacifier that can detect a fever with color change. He is currently working on getting the product to market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGuy Primus, ISyE advisory board chair, wrapped up the meeting with questions and concerns from the board members.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) hosted its fall advisory board meeting on October 10, 2014.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) hosted its fall advisory board meeting on October 10, 2014."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-12-02 15:52:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:37","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"7863","name":"ISyE Advisory Board"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}