{"623872":{"#nid":"623872","#data":{"type":"news","title":"In Memoriam: William \u0022Bill\u0022 Hines","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Emeritus William \u0026ldquo;Bill\u0026rdquo; Hines passed away on June 25, 2019.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHines received a B.S. in mathematics from Memphis State University in 1954. After serving in the Air Force for several years, he earned both a master\u0026rsquo;s degree (1958) and a PhD (1964) from Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHines served on the ISyE faculty for several decades. It was during his stint as associate chair for graduate studies \u0026ndash; a position he held from 1968 to 1996 \u0026ndash; that ISyE was first ranked as the No. 1 graduate industrial engineering program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHe served as an early editor-in-chief of AIIE \u003Cem\u003ETransactions\u003C\/em\u003E, which eventually became IISE \u003Cem\u003ETransactions\u003C\/em\u003E. Hines also co-authored a popular and long-used textbook, \u003Cem\u003EProbability and Statistics in Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Dave Goldsman, who served as a co-editor with Hines on one of the latest revisions of the textbook, said, \u0026ldquo;Bill Hines was a senior faculty member and, in fact, the graduate chair when I arrived at ISyE in the mid-1980s. He made sure that I was given appropriate courses to teach and even guided a grad student or two my way in order to help me get going in my academic career. After he retired, Bill invited me to come on board with a revision of his popular \u003Cem\u003EProbability and Statistics\u003C\/em\u003E textbook for engineers, and it was certainly nice to work with him on that project.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE Professor Emeritus Gary Parker had a similar remembrance of Hines\u0026rsquo; academic ability and professional generosity. \u0026ldquo;Bill Hines took one of the first PhDs awarded from ISyE, then joined the faculty around 1962,\u0026rdquo; said Parker.\u0026nbsp; \u0026ldquo;In the late 1960s, he was named ISyE graduate chair; in fact, when I interviewed in the summer of 1971, I distinctly remember chatting with Bill, sharing my teaching and research interests.\u0026nbsp; Fortunately I was hired, and true to his word, he let me teach a preferred graduate course very early in my career \u0026ndash; something that was not automatic in those old-school days. He also directed a Ph.D. student or two my way, which, as a young untenured faculty member, I very much appreciated.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When Georgia Tech brought in Joseph Pettit as president in 1972, everyone knew that the plan was to elevate the Institute\u0026#39;s visibility in research and doctoral education,\u0026rdquo; continued Parker. \u0026ldquo;But getting on board with that transition was not easy. Bill hung in there, however, and when he retired in 1996, he had served for a quarter of a century as ISyE\u0026#39;s chair of graduate programs. I was named to succeed him, and just as he had helped me when I was first hired all those years before, Bill was also gracious and helpful as I moved into his position when he stepped down.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHines is survived by his wife of 59 years, Gayle, his sons William and Matthew, and a grandson, Nathaniel. His daughter, Jennifer, predeceased him.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYou can read the \u003C\/em\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution \u003Cem\u003Eobituary of Hines here: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/legcy.co\/2LPkM5P\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/legcy.co\/2LPkM5P\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHines had a long and distinguished career at the School, where he served as graduate chair for over 25 years. Under his tenure, ISyE\u0026#39;s graduate program was ranked No. 1 for the first time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Hines had a long and distinguished career at ISyE, where he served as graduate chair for over 25 years. Under his tenure, ISyE\u0027s graduate program was ranked No. 1."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2019-07-31 19:25:35","changed_gmt":"2019-07-31 19:39:29","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-07-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"623871":{"id":"623871","type":"image","title":"ISyE Professor Emeritus William \u0022Bill\u0022 Hines","body":null,"created":"1564600917","gmt_created":"2019-07-31 19:21:57","changed":"1564600917","gmt_changed":"2019-07-31 19:21:57","alt":"ISyE Professor Bill Hines","file":{"fid":"237609","name":"William Hines - cropped Square.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/William%20Hines%20-%20cropped%20Square.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/William%20Hines%20-%20cropped%20Square.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":244731,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/William%20Hines%20-%20cropped%20Square.jpg?itok=uXIy6DK8"}}},"media_ids":["623871"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/legcy.co\/2LPkM5P","title":"Bill Hines Obituary "}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181846","name":"Bill Hines"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"181847","name":"Transactions"},{"id":"181848","name":"edior in chief"},{"id":"11269","name":"Gary Parker"},{"id":"53361","name":"Dave Goldsman"},{"id":"181849","name":"Jospeh Pettit"},{"id":"18651","name":"featured"}],"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:swundersmith3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EShelley Wunder-Smith\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EH. 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