USC
University of Southern California
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Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Ethel Percy Andrus
Gerontology Center 240
(213) 740-4893
FAX: (213) 740-1120
Email: isedept@usc.edu
www.usc.edu/dept/ise/

Chair: James E. Moore II, Ph.D.

Associate Chair and Director, Systems Architecture and Engineering: F. Stan Settles, Ph.D. (Astronautics)

Faculty

Daniel J. Epstein Chair: Sheldon M. Ross, Ph.D.

David Packard Chair in Manufacturing Engineering: Stephen C-Y Lu, Ph.D. (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering)

IBM Chair in Engineering Management: F. Stan Settles, Ph.D. (Astronautics)

TRW Professorship in Software Engineering: Barry Boehm, Ph.D. (Computer Science)

Professors: Maged Dessouky, Ph.D.*; Randolph Hall, Ph.D.; Behrokh Khoshnevis, Ph.D.; James E. Moore II, Ph.D. (Civil Engineering, Policy, Planning, and Development); Detlof von Winterfeldt (Policy, Planning, and Development)

Associate Professors: Najmedin Meshkati, Ph.D. (Civil Engineering)*; Mansour Rahimi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors: Yong Chen, Ph.D.; Elaine Chew, Ph.D.; Fernando Ordoņez, Ph.D. (Computer Science); Maria Yang, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professors: Mohamed I. Dessouky, Ph.D.; George Friedman, Ph.D.; Michael Mann, Ph.D.

Adjunct Associate Professor: Geza P. Bottlik, Engineer

Research Professors: Yigal Arens, Ph.D.; Carole Beal, Ph.D.; Malcolm Currie, Ph.D.; Peter Will, Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer: Kurt Palmer, Ph.D.*

Emeritus Professors:(Information and Operations Management); Gerald Nadler, Ph.D., P.E.; Eberhardt Rechtin, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering/Systems)

*Recipient of university-wide or school teaching award.

Honor Societies

Alpha Pi Mu
Alpha Pi Mu is the industrial engineering honor society. Qualifications for election are: juniors in the upper one-fourth of their class, seniors in the upper one-third of their class and graduate students recommended by the department chair. The advisor is Kurt Palmer, Senior Lecturer, (213) 740-5960.

Omega Rho
Omega Rho is the operations research honor society to recognize academic excellence in operations research and encourage study of operations research, management science and closely associated disciplines. Election is by nomination only during the spring semester. The advisor is Maged Dessouky, Professor, (213) 740-4891.