Faculty

Dr. Burak Ekşioğlu

• Scholarship Trustee, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE)
• Associate Editor, IISE Transactions – Design and Manufacturing
• Best Paper Award, IISE Transactions – Scheduling and Logistics

Dr. Sandra Ekşioğlu

• 2018 IISE Transactions Best Paper Award (Ekşioğlu, Karimi & Ekşioğlu)
• ASEE-SE Mid-Career Teaching Award, 2015
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2011

Dr. William G. Ferrell

• Fellow of IISE and one of 14 winners of the IISE Medallion Award
• Past-President of the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education and currently a member of the MHI Board of Governors
• Founded and served as director of the Clemson Institute for Supply Chain Optimization and Logistics and the Clemson research site of the NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution

Mr. Walter L. Garvin

• Council of Industrial & Systems Engineering
• Shingo Institute Board of Advisors
• University of Florida Supply Chain Management Board of Advisors

Dr. Anand K. Gramopadhye

• Dean of the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences
• Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
• Editorial Board, Quality Engineering

Dr. Tuğçe Işık

• Member of INFORMS, INFORMS Applied Probability Society (APS), and IISE
• Focuses on Queueing Theory, Markov Decision processes, and their emerging applications in service systems
• Enjoys supervising both graduate and undergraduate research

Dr. Amin Khademi

• Recipient of NSF CAREER award (2017-2022)
• Recipient of Dean's Faculty Fellows Award for Clemson University
• Recipient of the Seth Bonder Scholarship for Health Care given by INFORMS, 2012

Dr. Jeffrey Kharoufeh

• Professor and Department Chair
• Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
• kharouf@clemson.edu
• 864-656-5540

Dr. Mary Elizabeth Kurz

• Editorial Board, Journal of Manufacturing Systems
• Esin Gulari Leadership and Service Award, College of Engineering and Science, Clemson University, May 2016
• ISERC 2019 Production Planning and Control Track Co-chair

Dr. Kapil Chalil Madathil

• NSF CHS Award, 2018
• Editor, International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
• Dean’s Professorship Award, 2018
• Marc Resnick Honorable Mention Award, 2017, 2018
• ACM SIGCHI Honorable Mention Paper Award, 2011

Dr. Scott J. Mason

• Fluor Endowed Chair of Supply Chain Optimization and Logistics
• Member, Advisory Council on Supply Chain Competitiveness, US Department of Commerce
• Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers

Dr. Brian J. Melloy

• Byars Prize for Excellence in Teaching
• Clemson University Class of 1940 Douglas W. Bradbury Award
• Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence

Mr. Jeff Messer

• 30+ years of industry experience and senior management roles with Shell Oil Company and The Coca-Cola Company
• Led Supply Chain Mergers & Acquisition for The Coca-Cola Company
• Led all Supply Chain Planning for the largest Coca-Cola Bottler in the world

Dr. David M. Neyens

• 2018 Clemson IE Professor of the Year
• Recently published in Applied Ergonomics
• Awarded $2.4M AHRQ Grant in conjunction with MUSC and Johns Hopkins for Identifying and Reducing Errors in Perioperative Anesthesia Medication Delivery

Dr. Robert Riggs

• Recipient of Byars Prize for Excellence in Teaching Engineering Fundamentals
• IE Curriculum Advisor
• NSF GRFP Fellow

Dr. Yongjia Song

• NSF CMMI Award, 2016
• INFORMS TSL/VeRoLog Collaborative Grant Winner, 2018
• Associate Editor, INFORMS Jornal on Computing

Dr. Sara Lu Riggs

• NSF CAREER Award, 2018
• College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Dean’s Faculty Fellows Award, 2018
• American Psychological Association George E. Briggs Dissertation Award, 2016

Dr. J. Cole Smith

• Focus Issue Editor for IISE Transactions (Operations Engineering and Analytics)
• Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
• Glover-Klingman Prize Winner (Best paper in Networks)

Dr. Laura Stanley

• NSF THINKER Award, 2018
• NSF HCC Award, 2018
• GHS Transformative Seed Grant Award, 2018

Dr. Kevin M. Taaffe

• 2018 Collaboration Award for CECAS
• Senior Vice President, Regional Operations for IISE
• Member of INFORMS, SIAM, MOS