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Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

UPCOMING EVENTS & DEPARTMENTAL NEWS


Congratulations to our graduates of Summer 2009!
The department's commencement ceremony was held on Saturday, May 9th.
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Engineering Day 2009, sponsored by ACEC, was held at the North Carolina state capital on Wednesday, April 22.
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The 2009 Anderson Awards Ceremony was held on Thursday, April 16 at the University Club.
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Workshop: "How to Make an Effective Research Poster Presentation": March 11 @ 9:00am, Talley Student Center

All undergraduate and graduate students are invited to attend  "How to Make an Effective Research Poster Presentation" workshop (free) co-sponsored by the NC State Graduate School and the Division of Undergraduate Affairs.

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Congratulations to our graduates of Fall 2008!
The department's commencement ceremony was held on Wednesday, December 17th.
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Dr. Wilbur L. Meier Jr., Former Faculty Member Passes Away
Wilbur L. Meier Jr., former dean of the College of Engineering and professor of Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University, passed away on Monday, October 13.
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ISE Inaugurates Distinguished Alumni Class of 2008
On Wednesday, October 8, ISE welcomed back alumni for our 3rd annual Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony. With over 100 attendees, student scholarship and fellowship recipients were recognized along with faculty award winners. The Distinguished Alumni Class of 2008 included Henry Booke (1956), Phil Kennett (1962), Thomas Cabaniss (1972), Ken Stevens (1972), Larry Bowman (1973), Ed Gerkin (1974), Tom Laundon (1974) and Kathy Wynegar (1986). The guest speaker was Fred Gant, a 1955 alumnus of the department and 2006 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Professor's pet prosthetics work featured on CNN

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Learn how industrial engineers bring the magic alive at Disney!

Watch the race videos from our 2008 Summer Workshop & UCAB Practicum!!

Senior Design Projects Recognized for Spring 2008

ISE Alumna Constance Lightner Awarded for Teaching Excellence

Department Assistant Head recognized & appointed by Governor

Student published in Industrial Engineer Magazine

2007 Nobel Prize recipient & alumnus visits ISE
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A profession of choice, the department of choice

Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) is all about choice. Practitioners work in the industry of their choosing. Product manufacturing and distribution. Transportation. Health care. Telecommunications. Public utilities. Management consulting. And more.

Simply put, industrial engineers are in the business of making things work better – and every industry can benefit from that.

Recently renamed the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in honor of a generous endowment, in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, our department is chosen by some of the brightest, most promising industrial and systems engineers-to-be in the nation as their place to prepare for the world of work.

There are many good reasons for our standing, from our faculty to our facilities and from our academic standards to the wide variety (there’s that concept of “choice” again) of industrial and systems engineering disciplines that we offer. We talk about those reasons, as well as just about anything else you could want to know about ISE at NC State, in the pages of this website.

We hope you'll choose to spend some time here.

Summer 2009 Commencement Photos