Member Spotlight
December 2012
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Marianna Jackson
Marianna Jackson is a physician from the University of North Carolina. She is one of the few physicians who have contributed to SEMS. Dr. Jackson has attended the IIE Annual conference, published a manuscript at ISERC, contributed to SEMS blog, and continues to challenge our society to develop new management concepts and solutions.
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November 2012
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Janaina M.H. Costa
Janaina M.H. Costa is a postdoctoral associate with the Lean Advancement Initiative (LAI) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently working on LAI Lean Program Management Community of Practice. She is interested in understanding what are the appropriate metrics that reveal the impact of implementing lean product development methods, tools and practices. Her interests include product development improvement approaches, with a special focus on process diagnosis. She believes that process diagnosis is one of the main practices companies should perform in order to identify the most relevant improvement opportunities. The analysis and evaluation of these opportunities allow the team to focus their attention where it is needed most.
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September 2012
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Dr. Volker Grienitz
Grienitz is an assistant professor for industrial engineering at the Institute of Production Technology at the University of Siegen. He holds an endowed chair of Muhr and Bender GmbH. He received his graduate degrees including Ph.D. in industrial engineering from University of Paderborn. His doctoral supervisor was Dr. Jürgen Gausemeier, and his focus was on technology scenarios. He is the author of more than 25 reviewed papers and book chapters with two primary topics: scenario technique in the area of complexity management and production system optimization with GraFem. In 2012, he earned the best paper award for the "Scenario based Service-Engineering" at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2012) in Istanbul within the Service Systems Track.
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July 2012
George L. Smith
George L. Smith is a life member of IIE and a long-time member of SEMS, having served as its president from 1996-1999. He earned a B.S. in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University; M.S. degrees in experimental psychology and in industrial engineering from Lehigh University; and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and management from Oklahoma State University, specializing in human factors engineering.
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(From left) George Smith with Premier of China, Wen Jiabao
May 2012
Robert A. Martins and Arsalan Safari
SEMS is pleased to profile two SEMS members from our Student Committee: Professor Roberto A. Martins and student Arsalan Safari.
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March 2012
Dr. Craig G. Downing
Active SEMS member, Session Chair for IERC in 2010, 2011 and ISERC 2012, member of the SEMS Student Best Paper Competition Committee and The SEMS Content Committee
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Dr. Edson Pinheiro de Lima
An active international member of SEMS from Brazil, member of the SEMS Student Best Paper Competition Committee and the SEMS Content Committee
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January 2012
Garry Coleman
Active SEMS member and Sponsor of the Student Best Paper Competition
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November 2011
Lukasz Mazur
Active SEMS member and Leader of the SEMS Blog Team
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September 2011
Russell Wooten
Active SEMS member and Winner of the 2011 SEMS Management Award
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