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Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

UPCOMING EVENTS & DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Senior Design Projects Recognized for Spring 2008

Presentation Days were held on Monday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 30 in the Robert G. Carson Memorial Conference Room, 401 Daniels Hall, on the NCSU campus. 1st place awards were selected in three (3) project areas out of ten (10) project teams.
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ISE Alumna Constance Lightner Awarded for Teaching Excellence

Dr. Constance Lightner, a 2000 alumna of the Operations Research Program at NC State, was recently selected to receive the prestigious UNC Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence. She was supervised by NCSU ISE professor Dr. Shu-Cherng Fang.
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Department Assistant Head recognized & appointed by Governor

The department congratulates Clarence Smith, who was recently appointed by Governor Easley to the NC Board of Refrigeration Examiners. For the official news release click here.


  Student published in Industrial Engineer Magazine 

Department is recognized in ISE student Jessica Jeppsson's debut piece in the "Emerging Technologies" section of IE Magazine. Click here to view a PDF version of the article.


  2007 Nobel Prize recipient visits ISE 

Alumnus Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri visits NCSU for the 2008 Emerging Issues Forum.

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 Pup's surgery could help humans 

Professor Ola Harrysson works with the College of Veterinary Science to develop a titanium plate for "Pez" that may be a breakthrough in future surgery...for humans!

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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.

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