Awards

ASEE-IED annually awards exceptional individuals in the Industrial Engineering Education area.

2020 IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • IED Best Paper Award  – “Applying Artificial Intelligence to the Beer Game”, Lisa Bosman, Aasakiran Madamanchi, Scott R. Bartholomew, and Vetria L. Byrd (Purdue University, West Lafayette).
  • IED Best Paper Award Runner-Up – “Incorporating Divergent Thinking Skills Development into a Project-based Course in Industrial and Systems Engineering”, Elif Akcali, Wayne C.W. Giang, and McKenzie Landrum (University of Florida).
  • New IE Educator Outstanding Paper Award – “Multiplayer Physical and Virtual Reality Games for Team-based Manufacturing Simulation”, Faisal Aqlan (Penn State Behrend). Additional Paper Authors: Richard Zhao, Lisa Jo Elliott, and Ethan James Baxter (Penn State Behrend).
  • IED Outstanding Student Paper Award – “The CLICK Approach and Its Impact on Learning Introductory Probability Concepts in an Industrial Engineering Course”, James Devin Cunningham (Pennsylvania State University).

Additional Paper Authors: Christian Emmanuel Lopez (Lafayette College), Omar Ashour (Penn State Behrend), Conrad Tucker (Carnegie Mellon University), and Paul C. Lynch (Penn State Behrend).

2019 IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • IED Best Paper Award  – “Aggregating Industrial Engineering Concepts Through Cookie Manufacturing”, Aimee Ulstad and Lora Mavrouli, The Ohio State University.
  • IED Best Paper Award Runner-Up – “Monetizing Life May Be the Ethical Thing to Do”, Alejandro Salado (Virginia Tech) and Andrew Katz (Purdue University).
  • New IE Educator Outstanding Paper Award – “An introduction to the CLICK Approach: Leveraging Virtual Reality to Integrate the Industrial Engineering Curriculum”, Omar Ashour (Penn State Behrend), Christian Emmanuel Lopez (Penn State University), and Conrad Tucker (Penn State University).
  • Distinguished Service Award – Letitia Pohl, University of Arkansas.

2018 IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • IED Best Paper Award  – “Immersive Virtual Training Environment for Teaching Single and Multi-Queuing Theory Industrial Engineering Queuing Theory Concepts.”” o Michael Andre Hamilton, Raed Jaradat, Parker Jones, Emily S. Wall, Vidanelage Lakshika Dayarathna, Debisree Ray, Ginnie Shih En Hsu, Mississippi State University.
  • New IE Educator Outstanding Paper Award – “Immersive Virtual Training Environment for Teaching Single and Multi-Queuing Theory Industrial Engineering Queuing Theory Concepts.” o Michael Andre Hamilton, Raed Jaradat, Parker Jones, Emily S. Wall, Vidanelage Lakshika Dayarathna, Debisree Ray, Ginnie Shih En Hsu,Mississippi State University.
  • New Attendee Travel Grant. Sangho Shim, Robert Morris University; Omar Ashour, Penn State University Behrend; Elizabeth Kovalchuk, Montana State University

2017 IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • IED Best Paper Award  – “Decision-Making, Information Seeking, and Compromise: A Simulation Game Activity in Global Industrial Management.” Alejandro Salado, John Ray Morelock and Arash Baghaei Lakeh, Virginia Tech
  • IED Best Paper Award Runner-Up – “Transforming Outreach Education: Implementing Industrial Engineering Classroom Activities as Outreach Projects.” Dia St. John and Eric Specking, University of Arkansas
  • New IE Educator Outstanding Paper Award – “Industrial Engineering Beyond Numbers: Optimizing under Ethics.” Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech
  • New Attendee Travel Grants
    • Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech
    • Behin Elahi, Purdue University – Fort Wayne

2016 IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • “Industrial Engineering Students’ Perceptions of the Logistics and Supply Chain Industry,”
  • Christina R Scherrer, Michael Maloni, Elizabeth M Boyd, and Stacy M Campbell, Kennesaw State University
  • New Attendee Travel Grant Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton.

2015 – IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • “Use of Self-regulated Learning Strategies by Second-year Industrial Engineering Students,”
  • Ms. Justine M. Chasmar, Dr. Brian J. Melloy, and Dr. Lisa Benson (Clemson University)

2014 – IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • “Project Management Learning Takes Flight,”
  • Miss Victoria Townsend and Dr. (Ruth) Jill Urbanic P.Eng., (University of Windsor)

2013 – No paper selected (change in date of award)

2012 – Best Division Paper:

  • “Integrating Project Management & Lean-Six Sigma Methodologies in an Industrial Engineering Capstone Course,”
  • Ana Vila-Parrish and Dianne Raubenheimer

2012 – New IE Educator Outstanding Paper Award:

  • Two awards (from the 2011 conference)
  • Paper #1 –  “Experiences while incorporating sustainability engineering into the industrial engineering curricula.”
  • Heidi A. Taboada and Jose F. Esperitu
  • Paper #2 – “Using Social  Networking Game To Teach Operations Research and Management Science Fundamental Concepts.”
  • Elizabeth Cudney, Ivan Guardiola, and Susan Murray

2012 – IE Distinguished Service Award: Kim LaScola Needy

2011 – IE Division Best Paper Award: “Design projects with out-of-town companies.“

  • Lizabeth T. Schlemer

2010 – IE Division Lifetime Achievement Award: Jane Fraser

2010 – IE Division New Industrial Engineering Educator

  • Outstanding Paper Award: Cynthia Forgie, Marco Lara Gracia, and MT Morris,  “A Service Learning Case Study: An Efficiency Study of a Metropolitan Bus Transit System.”

2010 – IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • Laura Ruff and Lesley Strawderman,  “Improving Industrial Engineering Career Efficacy Through Introductory Course Design.”

2009 – IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • Terri Lynch-Caris and Daniel Ludwigsen,  “Integrating Student Experience into the Classroom.”

2008 – IE Division Best Paper Award:

  • Dale Masel and Arun Nambiar,  “Teaching Concepts of Lean Manufacturing Through A Hands-On Laboratory Course.”

2006 – New IE Educator Outstanding Paper Award:  

  • Terri Lynch-Caris and Nicole LaRocque, “Integrating Physical Fitness Research Into the Ergonomics Classroom,” presented at the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference.

2006 – IE Division Best Paper Award 1st place:  

  • David H. Hartmann , “A Methodological Approach to Developing Stakeholder Defined Demand-Pull Requirements for Graduate-Level Industrial Engineering Graduates,” presented at the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference.

2006 – IE Division Best Paper Award 2nd place:

  • Marlin Thomas, “Homeland Security and the IE Curriculum,” presented at the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference

2005 –  IE Division Best Paper Award 1st place:  

  • Bryan A. Norman, Mary Besterfield Sacre, Bopaya Bidanda, Kim LaScola Needy, and Jayant Rajgopal, “A Conceptual Model for Integrating and Synthesizing the Industrial Engineering Curriculum,” presented at the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference.

2004 – IE Division Best Paper Award 1st place:  

  • Sharon A. Johnson, Arthur Gerstenfeld, Amy Z. Zeng, Boris Ramos, and Saumitra Mishra, “Teaching Lean Process Design Using a Discovery Approach,” presented at the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference.

2004 – IE Division Best Paper Award 2nd place:

  • Emory W. Zimmers, Jr., Gregory L. Tonkay, and Edmund O. Goll, “Introducing Freshmen to the Field of Industrial Engineering Through the Use of Collaborative Project Experiences,” presented at the 2003 ASEE Annual Conference