Engineering Enterprise: The Alumni Magazine for ISyE at Geogia Institute of Technology.

Our ISyE magazine – Engineering Enterprise – is dedicated to informing, supporting, and connecting ISyE leaders in all their endeavors.

This magazine, in conjunction with the online Georgia Tech Business Network, will assure that your affiliation with and support of ISyE are key elements in gaining the knowledge, skills, and relationships central to the success you seek.

Engineering Enterprise is published quarterly by Lionheart Publishing Inc. and ISyE, Georgia Institute of Technology. Editorial contributions including manuscripts, news items, and letters to the editor are welcome. Unless stated otherwise, articles and announcements reflect the opinion of the author or firm and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Engineering Enterprise, Lionheart Publishing Inc., ISyE, its advertisers, or sponsors.

5-21 The Green Pages
The world is in the midst of a green movement and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is at the research forefront. In the special section of this issue, “The Green Pages,” you will read articles covering a range of topics on the environment that strategize how we can move toward a more sustainable society.

Featured in this issue:
Valerie Thomas is investigating how radio frequency identification (RFID) tags could be used to promote more efficient recycling and reuse. Alumni Ray Anderson and John Jewell of Interface Inc. are transforming the carpet manufacturing industry, eliminating waste while increasing renewable materials and energy.

22 Leaders in Logistics: Win-Win Industry-University Partnerships
To promote supply chain research and education, business and government organizations partner with the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute’s faculty and students.

24 Senior Design Group Works to Eliminate Malaria
Participants of an undergraduate research project develop a new method to decrease the population of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Sudan.

Download Engineering Enterprise Magazine, Spring 2008

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From the Chair:

Toward a More Environmentally Friendly World It’s spring and once again time for another issue of Engineering Enterprise. Our goal for this issue is to cover a strategic direction of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering that aligns with current topics of societal relevance to demonstrate how industrial engineering and operations research can be applied to improve the quality of life. Since discussions on energy, the environment, and natural systems are ever present in the media, politics, and around the family table, it is the perfect time to highlight how the Stewart School is addressing these pressing societal issues.

Further, this is a topic that was of considerable interest to recently deceased Professor Thiruvenkatasamy “Govind” Govindaraj, who was involved in sustainability efforts before it became a popular topic. For this reason, we are dedicating this issue to his memory. This issue also contains a memoriam to Govind as well as an article by him describing his thoughts on the problems, challenges, and opportunities of sustainability in globalized societies, which he completed just prior to his death.

More specifically, in this issue we turn the alumni spotlight on alumnus Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface Inc., and his passion that propelled him to become a world leader on issues of sustainability and the environment. In keeping with the environmental theme, our student spotlight features several of our students with environmental interests and contributions. Following, we then have several articles by our faculty describing how their research is helping to make the world a better place environmentally.

These articles address recent research in reverse logistics, recovery systems for recycling, the analysis of sustainable packaging, energy pricing strategies, the transportation of wind tower components, and honeybee- and ant-inspired environmental innovations.

In addition to learning about our work in sustainability and the environment, you’ll also hear the latest news in the Stewart School community. It is a pleasure to announce that Jianjun “Jan” Shi, an internationally well known expert on the variation modeling, analysis, and control of complex manufacturing systems, has joined our faculty as the first recipient of the Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Also, Carolyn Stewart, the wife of alumnus Milt Stewart and for whom the new endowed chair was named, was just recently awarded honorary alumna status at Georgia Tech. Don’t forget to read the ISyE Bulletin section to find out more about other faculty, student, and alumni news.

Inside this issue, we’ve also included a survey to gain feedback on what you like, dislike, would like to see added, etc., in our Engineering Enterprise publication. I would like to encourage you to fill out the survey and send it back to us as soon as is convenient for you. We value your opinions and are eager to hear back from you.

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible back on campus soon.

Chelsea C. White III
H. Milton Stewart and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair, Schneider National Chair of Transportation and Logistics, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Visit The School of ISyE Website

Welcome to the website of The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

With nearly 60 tenure-track faculty, ISyE is able to support not only a broad spectrum of academic concentrations but, importantly, several that have achieved world-class rank.

Established originally as a Program at Georgia Tech in 1924, becoming a School in 1945, the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) is the largest academic program of its kind in the United States.

With nearly 60 tenure-track faculty, ISyE is able to support not only a broad spectrum of academic concentrations but, importantly, several that have achieved world-class rank.

Though the Stewart School functions administratively as a single cohesive unit, some of our sub-disciplines or academic specialties are so large and concentrated, they could be legitimately viewed as academic departments in their own right.

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