{"49825":{"#nid":"49825","#data":{"type":"news","title":"McGinnis Receives Courtesy Appointment in ME","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELeon McGinnis\u003C\/strong\u003E, Eugene Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing Systems and Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received a courtesy appointment in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (ME).\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor many years, McGinnis has collaborated with ME faculty in research and education projects and has served on the committees of MS and PhD students. This appointment now enables him to supervise ME students directly, and recognizes his contributions to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMcGinnis is a leader in interdisciplinary education efforts.  He serves as the Director of the Manufacturing Logistics Center of Focused Research within the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute. He is also the founding Director of the Keck Virtual Factory Lab, serves as Associate Director of the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC), and Research Director of the Tennenbaum Institute.  In his administrative duties, he oversees the integration of computer modeling techniques with manufacturing technologies. McGinnis also teaches a \u0022Systems Modeling with SysML\u0022 course jointly with Chris Paredis, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, that introduces a model-driven approach to systems engineering.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Leon McGinnis has received a courtesy appointment in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (ME).\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"McGinnis Receives Courtesy Appointment in ME"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-05-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:59","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-05-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"577","name":"leon mcginnis"},{"id":"631","name":"manufacturing logistics"},{"id":"632","name":"marc"},{"id":"630","name":"me"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}