Society and Division Leaders
These leaders are responsible for the leadership of IISE technical societies and divisions.
Board Rosters - Societies
Board Rosters - Divisions
Other
Societies
President 2020 - 2021
Ben Zavitz
Chief Ergonomist
Ergo Human Performance, LLC
Brunswick, ME
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Teresa A. Bellingar
Senior Corporate Ergonomist
Haworth
Holland, MI
Director 2018 - 2021
Gary Allread
Program Director, SRI-Ergonomics
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Director 2018 - 2021
Jose Banaag
Honda of America MFG Inc.
Marysville, OH
Director 2018 - 2021
Sandra Sellers
Worldwide Safety & Health
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Director 2020 - 2023
Eric Hassen
Director of Business Development
Caster Connection
Columbus, OH
Director 2020 - 2023
Gary Orr
Health Scientist - Ergonomist
US Department of Labor
Washington, DC
Director 2020 - 2022
Julia Abate
Executive Director
Ergonomics Center of NC
Raleigh, NC
Director 2020 - 2021
Thomas Rowell
Principle Consultant
Thomas Rowell Consulting
Georgetown, TX
Appointed 2019 - 2021
Amanda Kauder-Warren
Industrial Engineer
Kysor Warren
Columbus, GA
President 2020 - 2022
Henry Lester
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
Immediate Past President 2019 - 2021
Brian K. Smith
Assistant Professor Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mississippi University
Mississippi State, MS
Director 2020 - 2023
Diamond Williams
Data Engineer
ENGIE
Houston, TX
Director 2020 - 2023
Lizzette Perez Lespier
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina
Wilmington, NC
Director 2020 - 2023
Ruel Ellis
Lecturer
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Director 2020 - 2023
Michael Graul
Assistant Department Head
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX
Director 2018 - 2021
Fernando Aleu Gonzalez
Associate Professor
Universidad de Monterrey
San Pedro Garza Garcia, N.L.
Director 2019 - 2022
Kevin Nortrup
Principal
Sugar Creek Solutions
Fairland, IN
Director 2019 - 2022
Michael V. Testani
Director of Outreach and Continuing Professional Education
Binghamton University
Vestal, NY
Director 2019 - 2022
Chanchal Saha
Industrial Engineer
IBM
Poughkeepsie, NY
Assigned - Special Projects 2020 - 2021
Julie Drzymalski
Clinical Professor & Program Director, Systems Engineering
Drexel University
Philadelphia PA
President 2020-2021
Mary Ellen Skeens
Director of Solutions Consulting
Philips Healthcare
Johns Creek, GA
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Isaac Mitchell
Director of Business Analytics
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
Knoxville, TN
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Lauren Todd
Director of Staffing Efficiency
Parallon, HCA Healthcare
Jacksonville, FL
Director 2018 - 2021
Lauren Cooper
Business Process Improvement Consultant
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Winston-Salem, NC
Director 2018 - 2021
Jordan Peck
VP of Practice Operations
MainHealth
Portland, ME
Director 2019 - 2022
Elizabeth Gentry
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering/Director of the Engineering Mgmt. Program
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY
Director 2019 - 2022
Jarvis Gray
Managing Director
The Quality Coaching Co.
Atlanta, GA
Director 2020 - 2023
Aaron Kanne
Director, Implementation Services
Care Logistics
Alpharetta, GA
Director 2020 - 2023
Cody Hall
WVU Medicine
Parkersburg, WV, GA
Secretary (appointed 2020)
Neal Moriconi
Healthcare Operations Engineer
Cerner
Alpharetta, GA
*Assistant to the President (appointed 2020)
Darrin Judkins
Innovation Manager
Boulder Community Health
Boulder, Colorado
Treasurer 2020 - 2021
Todd Banks
Clinical Operations Analyst
Wake Health
Winston Salem, NC
*SHS Conference 2021 Chairperson
Ben Schleich
Transplant Analyst / PI Advisor
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, NJ
*Non-voting members
Divisions
President 2020 - 2021
Javad Seif
Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Christina Rinaudo
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Vicksburg, MS
Past President 2020 - 2021
Henry Lester
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Emily S. Wall
CAVS-Extension
Mississippi State, MS
Director 2019 - 2021
Abdullah Alhasan
University of Miami
Miami, FL
Director 2019 - 2021
Brian Moore
Kahua Inc.
Alpharetta, GA
Director 2019 - 2021
Kris Harbin
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
San Antonio, TX
Director 2019 - 2021
Robert Ranallo
FedEx
Coraopolis, PA
Director 2019 - 2021
William B. Leonard
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Vicksburg, MS
President 2020 - 2021
Changing Cheng
Assistant Professor
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
Immediate past President 2020 - 2021
Andrew J. Yu
Associate Professor
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Sinal Onal
Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Edwardsville, IL
Director 2020-2022
Hyunsoo Yoon
Assistant Professor
State
University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton,
NY
Director 2020 - 2022
Cheng-Bang Chen
Assistant Professor
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Director 2020 - 2022
Zimo Wang
Assistant Professor
University of New York
Binghamton, NY
Director 2020 - 2022
Ziteng Wang
Assistant Professor
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL
Director 2019-2021
Saeed Ghanbartehrani
Assistant Professor
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
Director 2019 - 2021
Moufid Dardas
Senior Manager, Construction and Capital Projects
Hydro One
Toronto, ON
Director 2019 - 2021
Xiao Liu
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
Director 2019 - 2021
Bing Si
Assistant Professor
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
Energy Systems Division Board, June 2020 - June 2021
President 2020 - 2021
Zhimin Xi
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Piscataway, New Jersey
Past President 2020 - 2021
Andrew Kusiak
Professor
University of Iowa Informatics Initiative
Iowa City, IA
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Sandra Eksioglu
Professor
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
Director 2020 - 2022
Ahmed Aziz Ezzat
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ
Director 2020 - 2022
Benjamin D. Leibowicz
Assistant Professor
University of Texas
Austin, TX
Director 2019 - 2021
Chaoyue Zhao
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Director 2019 - 2021
Ramteen Sioshansi
Professor
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
President 2020 - 2021
Cameron MacKenzie
Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Mehmet Bayram Yildirim
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
Program Chair (President-elect) 2020 - 2021
Ahmet Akgun
Associate Professor
California University of Pennsylvania
California, PA
Director 2019 - 2021
Moufid Dardas
Senior Manager, Construction and Capital Projects
Hydro One
Toronto, ON
Director 2020 - 2022
Terry R. Collins
Associate Professor
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
Director 2020 - 2022
Nabil Nehme
Assistance Professor of Practice
Lebanese American University
New York, NY
Wellington Award Committee
Leland Blank
Chair
Professor Emeritus
Texas A&M
James T. Luxhoj
Professor and Undergraduate Director
Rutgers University
The Engineering Economist Editorial Board members
Cameron MacKenzie (Dec. 2018 & Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2021)
Joe Wilck (Jan. 2018 – Dec. 2020)
President 2020 - 2021
Murat Erkoc
Associate Professor
University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Pratik J. Parikh
Wright State University
Associate Professor
Dayton, Ohio
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Krystel Castillo
Associate Professor and Institute Director
University of Texas
San Antonio, TX
Director 2019 - 2021
Zhijie Sasha Dong
Assistant Professor
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX
Director 2019 - 2021
Hector Vergara
Oregon State University
Assistant Professor
Corvallis, Oregon
Director 2019 - 2021
Jennifer Pazour
Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Director 2019 - 2021
Mike Sherwin
Senior Manager, Supplier Quality Excellence
Curtiss-Wright
Cheswick, PA
Director 2020 - 2022
Jacob Harris
Senior Manager
FedEx
Pflugerville, TX
Director 2020 - 2022
Payam Parsa
Assistant Professor
California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Pomona, CA
Director 2020 - 2022
W. Kendal Roberts
Senior Manager
Raytheon
Arlington, VA
President 2019 - 2021
Lourdes A. Medina, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
department of Engineering
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Immediate Past President 2019 - 2021
Rohan Shirwaiker, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
North Carolina State University
Department of Industrial Engineering
Raleigh, NC
President-elect 2019 - 2021
Guha Manogharan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
University Park, PA
Secretary 2019 - 2021
Harry Pierson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Department of Industrial Engineering
Fayetteville, AK
External Relations Director 2019 - 2021
Alaa Elwany, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
College Station, TX
Media Director 2019 - 2021
Mostafa Bedewy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Industrial Engineering
Pittsburgh, PA
Advisory Committee 2019 - 2021
David Vance III, PE
Plans and Program Engineer
Air Force Material Command
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
Advisory Committee 2019 - 2021
Shayla Spearman, Ph.D.
Industrial Engineer
Mars Wrigley Confectionery
Flowery Branch, GA
President 2020 - 2021
Caroline Krejci
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering
Arlington, TX
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Xueping Li
Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Andrew J. Collins
Assistant Professor
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Director 2019 - 2021
Shima Mohebbi
Assistant Professor
George Mason University
Department of Industrial Engineering
Fairfax, VA
Director 2019 - 2021
John Shortle
Professor and Chair
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Director 2020 - 2022
Allen G. Greenwood
Simulation Education Specialist and Professor Emeritus
FlexSim Software Products Inc. and Mississippi State University
Greenboro, NC
Director 2020 - 2022
Katie Prochaska
Project Engineer
Simio LLC
Sewickley, PA
Director 2020 - 2022
Jessica Yoo Perry
Senior Analyst
Systecon, North America
Arlington, VA
Director 2020 - 2022
Amrita Basak
Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
Directors at Large
Salvador Romo
Director General
STHAL LLC
Miami, FL
Shrikant Jarugumilli
Products & Engineering - Analytics
Optimization & Simulation
Bayer
St. Louis, MO
President 2020 - 2021
Nadiye O. Erdil
University of New Haven
Assistant Professor
West Haven, CT
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Hung-da Wan
University of Texas
Associate Professor
San Antonio, TX
President-Elect 2020 - 2021
Johanna Ficatier
Senior Health Systems Engineer
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Director 2019 - 2021
Jennifer Cross
Texas Tech University
Associate Professor
Lubbock, TX
Director 2019 - 2021
Brian Galli
Assistant Professor
Long Island University
Brookville, NY
Director 2019 - 2021
Felix C. Veroya
Process Excellence Manager | Black Belt
HGST Philippines Corporation
Laguna, Philippines
Director 2019 - 2021
Steve Vijayan
Measurement Specialist
Nemours Children’s Health System
Wilmington, DE
Director 2020 - 2022
Crystal Y. Davis
CEO & Principal Lean Consultant
The Lean Coach, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Director 2020 - 2022
Chinweike Eseonu
Assistant Professor & Lead Operational Excellence Consultant
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
Director 2020 - 2022
Krishnan Krishnaiyer
Partner - Center for Improvement
Marathon Petroleum
San Antonio, TX
Director 2020 - 2022
Leigh Ann Schildmeier
President
Park Avenue Solutions
Scottsdale, AZ
President 2019 - 2021
Katie McConky
Assistant Professor
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Immediate Past President 2019 - 2021
Chase Rainwater
Assistant Professor
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Guiping hu
Associate Professor
Iowa State University
Ames, IA
Director 2019 - 2021
Mohammad Marufizzaman
Assistant Professor
Mississippi State University
Ames, IA
Director 2019 - 2021
Thomas Sharkey
Associate Professor
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Starkville, MS
Director 2020 - 2022
Lei Fan
Assistant Professor
University of Houston
Houston, TX
Director 2020 - 2022
Sharan Srinivas
Associate Professor
Iowa State University University of Missouri
Columbia, MO
President 2020 - 2021
Adel Alaeddini
Associate Professor
University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Trevor Craney
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Linkan Bian
Assistant Professor
Mississippi State University
Starkville, MS
Director 2019 - 2021
Chenang Liu
Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
Director 2019 - 2021
Wilkistar Otieno
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
Director 2019 - 2021
Hongyue Sun
Assistant Professor
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
Director 2019 - 2021
Yisha Xiang
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
Director 2020 - 2022
Chen Kan
University of Texas
Arlington, TX
Director 2020 - 2022
Mingyang Li
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
President 2020 - 2021
Brion Hurley
Owner, Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Business Performance Improvement
Portland, OR
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Joel Brock
Senior Manager
West Monroe Partners
Chicago, IL
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Gokhan Egilmez
Assistant Professor
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
Board Member 2018 - 2021
Gokhan Egilmez
Assistant Professor
University of New Haven
West Haven, CT
Board Member 2019 - 2022
Jeremy Rickli
Assistant Professor
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
Board Member 2020 - 2022
Dustin Diep
Portland, OR
Board Member 2019 - 2022
Anul Mittal
Instructor
Dunwoody College of Technology
Minneapolis, MN
President 2020 - 2021
Erick C. Jones
Associate Dean
UT Arlington
Arlington, TX
Immediate Past President 2020 - 2021
Michael Hair
Senior Engineer
Zymergen
Emeryville, CA
President-elect 2020 - 2021
Miguel Gonzalez
Dean
University of Houston Clear Lake
Houston, TX
Director 2019 - 2021
David Hampton
VP Go to Market
Frito Lay, Inc. (retired)
McKinney, TX
Director 2019 - 2021
Laila Cure
Assistant Professor
Wichita State University
Wichita, KS
Director 2020 - 2022
Ikechukwu P. Ohu
Associate Professor
Gannon University
Erie, PA
Director 2020 - 2022
Matthew Townsend
OEE Director
Avalign Technologies
Warsaw, IN