The document summarizes that Rutgers' Master's Program in Industrial and Systems Engineering is drawing students sponsored by their employers, including 11 people from the Canadian Forces, Greek Air Force, and Schlumberger oil services firm. The program has built strength in quality and reliability engineering. Five students from Schlumberger are attending to gain expertise to apply quality principles to the oil industry. The program began over 20 years ago in response to growing importance of quality and reliability in industries. It has since built expertise in these areas and is in demand by various industries.

1. t’s not unusual for working engi-
neers to enroll in master’s pro-
grams to update or broaden their
knowledge. But a master’s pro-
gram in the Rutgers’ School of
Engineering seems to be drawing more than
the usual number of students who are spon-
sored by their employers.
This past year, 11 people from the Canadian
Forces, Greece’s Hellenic Air Force, and
Schlumberger, a worldwide oilfield services
firm headquartered in Paris, chose to pursue
graduate work in Rutgers’ Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE).
Professor Susan Albin believes that attracting
these students is evidence that her depart-
ment has built a top-notch program in quali-
ty and reliability engineering—the theory and
practice of consistently manufacturing prod-
ucts to specification, and then ensuring that
those products perform as expected over
their lifetime.
“We’re not a large department, but we have
extraordinary strength in this area, with a
track record in education and research. Even
compared to large departments, we are
strong,” Albin said.
Ken Clasper was one of five students that
Schlumberger (pronounced shlum-ber-
ZHAY) sent to Rutgers for the 18-month pro-
gram. The 37-year-old Toronto native stud-
ied engineering physics at Canada’s Queen’s
University before heading to the oil fields of
northern Alberta in 1998. Later he worked at
drilling sites in Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico,
and North Africa.
Clasper, whose job involves deploying
instruments into freshly drilled wells to
measure geological conditions, recalls a time
when his company brought in outside qual-
ity consultants who didn’t know about the
Rutgers’ Master’s Program Drawing
Military and Industry Professionals
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING BUILT TOP-NOTCH PROGRAM IN QUALITY AND RELIABILITY
By Carl Blesch
I
NO. 10, FALL 2011 DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING http://www.ise.rutgers.edu
oil and gas industry. He tactfully character-
ized those efforts as “less than fruitful.”
“The five of us are trying to subvert that
dynamic,” said Clasper, “Rutgers is giving us
the expertise to understand quality princi-
ples and figure out which programs can
apply to our industry.” Not bad for a univer-
sity that had no such expertise a little more
than two decades ago. Around that time, for-
eign firms in industries from automobiles to
electronics were grabbing market share
away from American firms with smartly
designed, highly reliable products.
“A group of people from Bell Labs, RCA Labs,
and other New Jersey industries came to
Rutgers and said that quality and reliability
were becoming very important. They need-
ed people trained in this,” said Albin, an
expert in manufacturing process quality con-
trol who helped organize the
offering. “So it was really moti-
vated externally, but I have to
say, we took the opportunity.”
Albin’s department teamed
with the Department of
Statistics on the New Brunswick
campus to offer programs with
separate specialties but signifi-
cant overlap. The next task was
to build a critical mass of facul-
ty in the discipline. Today, there
are five industrial and systems
engineering professors with
wide-ranging expertise who are
in demand as consultants to
the aircraft, automotive, energy
and health care industries as
well as the military.
Elsayed A. Elsayed, a professor
with expertise in reliability who
also helped build the Rutgers
program, understands Clasper’s
distaste for “flavor of the day” and “one
size fits all” programs peddled by some
consultants.
“It’s really fundamental knowledge we try to
emphasize here—the mathematical and
engineering tools,” he said. “When they fin-
ish, I don’t care what industry they’re in, the
students will be qualified as quality and reli-
ability engineers.” Livonia Mitchell, also of
Schlumberger, said the fundamentals she
learned at Rutgers will help her make and
maintain tools that gather geological informa-
tion as wells are drilled.
“I’ve gone from supply chain to manufacturing
to process engineering, where it’s all about
improving how we build the tools,” Mitchell
said. “Now, the company wants me to go into
the field to see how the tools are used and
how we can improve their reliability.”
While Schlumberger and the Hellenic Air
Force are new to Rutgers, the Canadian
Forces have sent officers here for more than
10 years. Completing their studies this spring
were Navy Lieutenant Scott Koshman and Air
Quality and reliability engineering graduates, from left, Livonia
Mitchell and Ken Clasper of Schlumberger, and Air Force
Capt. Isaac Goldberg and Navy Lt. Scott Koshman of the
Canadian Forces.
CarlBlesch
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2. DEPARTMENT NEWS
2 RUTGERS ISE news • Fall 2011
Dear alumni, colleagues,
fellow ISEs and students,
Greetings to the alumni and friends of the
Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering of Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey!
This newsletter brings you exciting news
about our department activities and high-
lights of some of our ISE faculty and stu-
dents accomplishments during the fiscal
year 2010–2011. Strengths in research and
scholarships have always been the defining
marks of the ISE faculty at Rutgers. The
department is doing great.
Our faculty continues to produce high qual-
ity research and scholarly publications, and
be recognized in their research profession.
Of particular recognitions bestowed on
among the ISE faculty this past year include:
three faculty members named IIE Fellows,
one faculty elected ASME Fellow, recipient of
2011 Thomas Alva Edison Award, and recip-
ient of the Fulbright Scholar
Award.
We congratulate Dr. Myong
K. Jeong for being promot-
ed to Associate Professor
with tenure in July who
joined Rutgers in 2008. The
ISE also welcomed two new
faculty members: Dr. Kang
Li in January 2011 and Dr.
Honggang Wang in July
2011.
We also would like to
congratulate our distinguish
alumni Dr. Nozer
Singpurwalla (M.S. ’64), who
has accomplished so much, for winning the
2011 Alumni Achievement in Academia
Award by the Rutgers School of Engineering.
I am very excited as we are
heading to another exciting
and productive year. We
thank you, our alumni and
friends for your generous
support of the Department
of Industrial and Systems
Engineering over the years.
We truly appreciate your
contributions to the depart-
ment. I encourage you to
visit our website at
www.ise.rutgers.edu—and
please consider visiting us if
you happen to be in the
area.
Hoang Pham
C H A I R M A N ‘ S M E S S A G E
Dr. Tayfur Altiok, invited panelist, 5th DHS
Annual Science Conference, Panel on
“Balancing Commerce and Security”, March
30–April 1, 2011, Washington D.C.
Dr. Tayfur Altiok served on the Advisory
Board of the Conference on Hurricane and
Homeland Security in Texas and the Gulf
Coast Region, Texas Hurricane Center and
The University of Houston, August, 2010.
Dr. Elsayed A. Elsayed has been appointed
member of the editorial board, International
Journal of Metrology and Quality Engineering
Dr. Elsayed A. Elsayed, Member of the
Panel on Theory and Applications of
Reliability Growth Modeling to Defense
Systems, Committee on National Statistics,
National Research Council of National
Academic, National Academy of Science,
March 2011–June 2012.
Dr. Elsayed A. Elsayed has been appointed
as Academic Liaison of the American Society
for Quality.
Dr. M. K. Jeong, Council Member, INFORMS
Data Mining Cluster.
Dr. Kang Li, the finalist for the New
Investigator Recognition Award, 57th Annual
Meeting of Orthopaedic Research Society,
January 2011.
Dr. Tugrul Özel served as co-guest editor of
the Special Issue on “Manufacturing
Processes and Systems”, International Journal
of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems
(Volume 3 – Issue 5/6, 2010).
Dr. Tugrul Özel, invited panelist, National
Science Foundation, Division of Engineering,
CMMI, “Machines & Equipment,” October 28,
2010.
Dr. Tugrul Özel received a National Science
Foundation Summer Fellowship “Principles of
and Advances in Laser Micro/Nano
Manufacturing Processes,” Evanston, Illinois,
June 2010.
Keynote and Plenary Addresses
at International Conferences
Dr. Tayfur Altiok, Featured Speaker, ”Risk
Analysis for Maritime Transportation in Ports
and Waterways,” IERC, May 21–25, 2011,
Reno, Nevada.
Dr. Tayfur Altiok, Keynote Speaker,
“Continuous Material Flow Networks:
Application to Bulk Ports,” Conference on
Stochastic Models in Manufacturing and
Service Operations, May 28–June 2, 2011,
Kusadasi, Turkey.
Dr. Tayfur Altiok, Keynote Speaker, “Risk
Analysis and Simulation Modeling,” Summer
Simulation Conference, June 27–30, 2011,
The Hague, Netherlands.
Dr. Elsayed A. Elsayed, Plenary Speaker,
“Reliability Economics and Challenges in
Global Competition,” Qualita 2011, March
22–25, 2011, Angers, France.
Dr. Elsayed A. Elsayed, Keynote Speaker,
“Basics and Foundations of Reliability
Engineering Education,” The 1st International
Education Forum on Reliability and Systems
Engineering, IEFRSE’2010, October 15–16,
2010, Beijing, China.
Dr. Hoang Pham, Keynote Speaker,
“Challenges and Perspectives in Reliability
Engineering,” International Conference on
Reliability, Infocom Technology and
Optimization, ICRITO’2010, November 1–3,
2010, Delhi, India.
Dr. Hoang Pham, Keynote Speaker,
“Perspectives and Challenges in Reliability,”
The 1st International Education Forum on
Reliability and Systems Engineering,
IEFRSE’2010, October 15–16, 2010, Beijing,
China.
Dr. Hoang Pham, Commencement Speaker,
The HCMC International University’s Third
Anniversary Commencement, October 12,
2010, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Patents and Licenses
Dr. E. A. Elsayed and Dr. B. B. Basily,
Technology For Continuous Folding of Sheet
Materials into a Honeycomb-Like
Configuration, Patent 7,758,487, July 20,
2010.
Dr. Tugrul Özel, Invention Disclosure RU
2011-161, “Polymer-Based Micro-Needle
Array Design and Fabrication for Drug
Delivery”, June 2011.
Dr. Hoang Pham

3. 3 RUTGERS ISE news • Fall 2011
RESEARCH NEWS
Faculty Named IIE Fellows
Dr. Tayfur Altiok, Dr. Jim Luxhøj and Dr. Hoang
Pham from the Department of Industrial and
Systems Engineering at Rutgers University
were named Fellows of the Institute of
Industrial Engineers. The IIE Fellow Award rec-
ognizes outstanding leaders in the profession
who have made significant, nationally recog-
nized contributions to industrial engineering.
Dr. Tayfur Altiok is a Professor of Industrial
and Systems Engineering and Director of the
Laboratory for Port Security at Rutgers
University. He served as the Chair of ISE,
Rutgers University from 2001 to 2007. Dr.
Altiok’s research and teaching activities
include queueing theory, performance analy-
sis, risk analysis and simulation modeling
with applications to homeland security,
marine ports logistics, safety and security,
production lines and supply chain logistics.
Dr. James T. Luxhøj is Professor of Industrial
and Systems Engineering at Rutgers
University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial
Engineering and Operations Research from
Virginia Tech. His research in aviation safety
risk analysis has been funded by both the
FAA and NASA. He is also a three-time recip-
ient of the Rutgers Engineering Governing
Council’s Excellence in Teaching Awards. Dr.
Luxhøj has long-served as the IIE Faculty
Advisor at Rutgers University.
Dr. Hoang Pham is a Professor and Chair of
the Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering at Rutgers University. The author
or coauthor of five books and more than 110
journal articles, and the editor of 8 books, he
studies software reliability, system reliability
modeling, and maintenance modeling. He is
a Fellow of the IEEE.
Jeong Promoted
Dr. Myong Jeong was promoted to Associate
Professor with tenure in July 2011. He
received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems
Engineering from Georgia Institute of
Technology in 2004. Before joining Rutgers in
2008, Dr. Jeong was an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Industrial and Information
Engineering at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. His research interests include data
mining, health monitoring, quality and relia-
bility engineering, stochastic processes, and
sensor data analysis. He received the Freund
International scholarship and the National
Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in
2002 and in 2007, respectively.
Elsayed named ASME Fellow
and Senior Fulbright Scholar
Dr. E. A. Elsayed is Professor of the
Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, Rutgers University, and was
named Fellow of American Society of
Mechanical Engineers. He served as the Chair
of ISE, Rutgers University from 1983 to 2001.
His research interests are in the areas of qual-
ity and reliability engineering and Production
Planning and Control. He is a co-author of
Quality Engineering in Production Systems,
McGraw Hill Book Company, 1989. He is also
the author of Reliability Engineering,
Addison-Wesley, 1996. These two books
received the 1990 and 1997 IIE Joint
Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award respec-
tively. He has received many awards and
honors and was the keynote speaker of many
international conferences. He is a Fellow of
IIE. Dr. Elsayed was also named a Senior
Fulbright Scholar to conduct research on reli-
ability and quality engineering in oil and gas
industry in Qatar during the Fall semester
2011. Dr. Elsayed (with co-inventors B. Basily
and D. Kling) has also been awarded The
2011 Thomas Alva Edison Award in
Manufacturing for US Patent 7,115,089 B2 by
The Research and Development Council of
New Jersey. This award recognizes the inno-
vation and impact of the application of the
patent.
rofessor Kang Li has been working
on evidence-based musculoskele-
tal injury treatment and prevention
with his collaborators in the med-
ical schools at UMDNJ and
University of Pittsburgh. Evidence-based med-
icine is a widely accepted clinical decision
making approach, which seeks to evaluate the
strength of evidences of the risks and benefits
of different treatment strategies so that the
best available evidence gained from scientific
research studies can be applied to clinical
decision making smoothly. Although this
approach has been used in many healthcare
specialties, it is not well adopted in muscu-
loskeletal injury treatment.
Many current treatment guidelines lack explic-
it evidence-based recommendation for treat-
ing various musculoskeletal injuries and disor-
ders. One of the major obstacles is the diffi-
culty of accurate characterization of the conse-
quences after injuries and treatments. Dr. Li is
applying the fluoroscopic image-guided
method, which is able to estimate the bone
kinematics with sub-millimeter accuracy, to
study both upper and lower extremity injuries
and associated treatment strategies. Such a
high accuracy could advance the understand-
ing of musculoskeletal disorders and injuries
by identifying the subtle but important
injury/treatment induced changes. One of Dr.
Li’s working problems is to evaluate the clini-
cal outcomes of two rehabilitation protocols
for elbow instability with an image-guided
motion capture system. Dr. Li’s research has
been supported by the Charles and Johanna
Busch Memorial Fund and NIH NIAMS. Visit
http://ise.rutgers.edu/people/li_kang.html for
more information on Dr.Li’s research.
Image-guided Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Disorder and Surgery
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTSISE Welcomes
New Faculty
he Industrial and Systems Engineering
Department welcomed two new fac-
ulties: Dr. Kang Li and Dr. Honggang
Wang who joined us in January 2011
in July 2011, respectively.
Dr. Kang Li received his Bachelor of Science
degree in Mechanical Engineering (Precision
Instruments and Mechanology) from Tsinghua
University, China, in 1999, and completed a
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
from Mississippi State University in 2004. He
received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Industrial
engineering from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in 2009. His research
interests are in the areas of healthcare engi-
neering, occupational biomechanics,
orthopaedic biomechanics, rehabilitation
engineering, and human factors/ergonomics.
Dr. Li has published more than ten journal arti-
cles and 20 conference papers. His work has
been funded by NIH NIAMS and the Charles
and Johanna Busch Memorial Fund. He is a
finalist for the New Investigator Recognition
Award (NIRA) by the Orthopaedic Research
Society (2011) and a co-recipient of the 2011
O’Donoghue Sports Injury Research Award.
Dr. Honggang Wang received his B.S. in
Power Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, Shanghai, China, in 1996, an M.S.
in Manufacturing Engineering from University
of Missouri-Rolla, in 2004, and a Ph.D. in
Industrial Engineering from Purdue University
in 2009. He has worked as a Postdoc Scholar
in Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford
University for two years before joining Rutgers
in 2011. Dr. Wang's research and teaching
interests lie in system uncertainty modeling
and analysis, stochastic optimization, opera-
tions research, and their applications in ener-
gy production, supply chains, and manufactur-
ing systems.
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4. 4 RUTGERS ISE news • Fall 2011
ALUMNI CORNER
Dr. Nozer Singpurwalla, M.S. ’64
Dr. Nozer Singpurwalla (M.S. ’64) is a profes-
sor at the George Washington University and
is recognized worldwide as a leader in relia-
bility engineering, enhancing our safety and
wellbeing in countless ways. He has extend-
ed and unified reliability in areas beyond
classical engineering sci-
ences to biology, the
environment, medicine,
economics, national
security and public poli-
cy. Along with over thirty
honors in his field, Dr.
Singpurwalla’s work has
been recognized by the
United States Depart-
ment of Defense which
awarded him its Wilks
Award for signal contributions to life testing
which resulted in substantial savings in the
number of nuclear missiles and warheads
tested in the European theater; by the Los
Alamos National Laboratory where he
chaired two Division Review Committees;
and, by the United States Food and Drug
Administration where he was asked to serve
on the Committee for Pharmaceutical
Science. Dr. Singpurwalla has consulted to
leading organizations such as the United
States Post Office, Lockheed Aircraft, the
Environmental Protection Agency, the United
States Department of Health and Human
Service, the United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Ford Motor Company, and
Communs Engine Company. He has also
been an expert witness in a number of
important cases. Professor Singpurwalla has
authored and co-authored over 200 publica-
tions in reliability that define and expand the
statistical and mathematical science base of
the subject. He has received numerous
awards, including the Fellowship in The
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, The American Statistical
Association, The Institute of Mathematical
Statistics, and numerous Visiting
Professorships including Stanford University,
Carnegie Mellon University, Oxford University,
VPI and State University, and the Santa Fe
Institute—to name just a few. Professor
Singpurwalla holds an M.S. in Industrial and
Systems Engineering from Rutgers and a
Doctor of Philosophy from New York
University.
Tong Fang, Ph.D. 2000
Tong Fang is a Program Manager of Visual and
Solid Modeling at Siemens Corporate
Research, Princeton, New Jersey.
Dr. Tong Fang received his Ph.D. in Industrial
and Systems Engineering from Rutgers
University in 2000. He holds a B.S. in
Electronic Engineering from Hefei University
of Technology, China. He also holds M.S. in
Management from University of Science &
Technology of China, and M.S. in Computer
Engineering and M.S. in Industrial
Engineering both from Rutgers University.
At Siemens Corporate Research, he leads
Visual & Solid Modeling R&D Program and
Real Time Systems and Optimization
Competence Group to conduct research and
development in the fields of computer vision,
industrial and medical image processing, pat-
tern recognition, 3D geometric modeling and
visualization. Under his leadership, his group
has made significant contribution on Siemens
medical imaging devices including
Ultrasound, MRI, CT and X-ray by developing
advanced technologies to improve image
quality for better clinical diagnosis. In addi-
tion, he built the 3D Geometric Modeling
technology field at
Siemens and devel-
oped the world’s first
automated 3D model-
ing system for Siemens
hearing aid digital man-
ufacturing. He has suc-
cessfully introduced 3D
geometric modeling
technologies to person-
alized implant design
and surgical pre-opera-
tive planning applica-
tions. He has 25 patents awarded, more than
50 papers published and more than 50
patents pending.
Currently, he also serves as President of
Chinese Association for Science &
Technology, USA, the largest non-profit
501(c)(3) Chinese-American professional
organization in US with 12 local chapters and
over 8,000 scientists and engineers.
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT IN ACADEMIA
“Being a graduate student at the department
of industrial & systems engineering at Rutgers
is the most rewarding experience in my life.
Fitting into IE department at Rutgers is easy;
the department offers a lot of help to the inter-
national students, and I was made to feel wel-
come from my first day at Rutgers. The profes-
sors in the IE department at Rutgers are won-
derful. They are so knowledgeable and pas-
sionate about what they teach. They not only
care for your academic performance, but also
devote tremendous consideration for your
career, future, social life, family, and more.
These people truly want to build healthy and
meaningful relationships with their students.
By the time I left Rutgers, they were not only
my advisors and committee members, but
also my friends and family.”
Zhe Liang is now an assistant professor in the
Department of Industrial Engineering &
Management at Peking University, China.
—Zhe Liang, Ph.D. ‘11
(now at Peking University, China)
“Studying Industrial and Systems Engineering
at Rutgers was a unique experience for me.
The courses taught me a great deal of working
in groups to reach a project goal, something I
feel will be a great asset when I join the work-
force. Working with the ISE professors and my
fellow classmates, I learned very quickly how
to break down a project into components to
work on, make a timeline to reach goals in a
sensible manner, and figure out the best
approach out of many to handle complex
tasks. These abilities, combined with the vari-
ety of material I learned as an IE student, make
me feel I am well placed to enter any sort of
market segment and apply the unique skills
gained at Rutgers to any task.”
—Kevin Tang, BS ’11
(now at Stanford University Graduate School)
“Choosing Industrial and Systems Engineering
as my undergraduate major, was one of the
wisest decisions I have ever made. The ISE cur-
riculum here at Rutgers really developed me
into a better and more professional person.
The vast amount of group projects that I have
gone through with my peers, allowed me to
have a great deal to talk about with my inter-
view with Verizon Communications. It was
because of all the concepts, projects, and dif-
ferent experiences that I attained throughout
my time in the ISE department, that I was able
to obtain that job with Verizon. The professors
in the ISE department are just amazing, they
are not your ‘typical’ professors, they genuine-
ly care for their students and will always do
their best to make time for them. Even the TA's
of the ISE department are amazing, they too
were always willing to help out the students as
well. Rutgers ISE is definitely one of the best
ways to help launch one's career and future. It
got me to where I am today and I am very
grateful for that!”
—Chris Lui, BS ’11
(now at Verizon Communications)
Let’s Hear from Our Recent Graduates

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Force Captain Isaac Goldberg. In his naval assignment,
Koshman managed technicians who maintain ship-
board weapons, sensors, and communications systems
on Canadian patrol frigates. He will use his Rutgers
knowledge to implement preventive maintenance
practices on newly designed and refurbished ships.
The Hellenic Air Force graduated its first two officers
from the program at the end of the fall semester.
Captain Stasinos Karampatsos, a production control
manager at an aircraft overhaul facility, credited
Rutgers with teaching him to think more scientifically.
He has applied lessons in database optimization from
one of his first Rutgers courses to a project he began
upon returning to Greece in February.
“You learn useful things that can be immediately
applied to your work,” said another program graduate,
George Papanikolaou. “I found efficient ways to make
the procedures within the Hellenic Air Force better.”
While the students value Rutgers’ expert instruction,
Albin sees it as a two-way street. “The students enrich
our classes with their experience. It’s quite a respon-
sibility to be the teachers of such people,” she said,
recalling an earlier Canadian Forces student who
supervised 150 aircraft maintenance workers before
he enrolled at Rutgers.
Ph.D.
Youngseon Jeong
Zhe Liang
MinJae Park
Christina Schroepfer Young
Yada Zhu
M.S.
Kenneth Clasper
Amir Ghafoori
Isaac Goldberg
Halil Gultekin
Stasinos Karampatsos
Pooyan Kazemian
Scott Koshman
Niloufar Mirhosseini
Livonia Mitchell
Dean Moakler
Michael Morton
Sui Ouyang
Georgios Papanikolaou
Hooman Parvardeh
Richie Patel
Georgiy Presnyakov
Thanongsak Thepsonthi
Askhat Turlybayev
Shaun Wolski
Amir Zahiredin Rezvani
B.S.
Davy Andrew
Carl Barreau
Wadner Brizeus
Blake Cignarella
Andrew Dickler
John Dotoli
Stephen Dudek
Alyssa Gentz
Damaus Harper
Michael Holenstein
Robert Kosaka
Warren Lam
Jen-Chieh Lee
Chris Lui
Stephen Miano
Asa Roper
Zachary Shands
Kevin Tang
GRADUATING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS

6. Fall 2011 • RUTGERS ISE news 5
AWARDS
The Outstanding Senior, Junior and
Sophomore Awards are given to students
who have demonstrated exceptional per-
formance in senior year, junior year and
sophomore year, respectively.
This year the department is proud to present
the Outstanding Senior Award to Kevin J.
Tang, the Outstanding Junior Award jointly
to Allanah G. Miller and Sean B. Sklios,
and the Outstanding Sophomore Award to
Tarun V. Jada.
The Alfred A. Kuebler Award was estab-
lished in memory of Prof. Kuebler, who pro-
vided the inspirational force for the establish-
ment of industrial engineering at Rutgers.
The annual award, provided by a fund that
was established by Mrs. Eleanor Kuebler, is
given to a student with high academic stand-
ing and involvement in a sports activity.
Allanah G. Miller and Nelson Yeung were
jointly the recipients this year.
The Robert & Carole Michna Award is
given to a full-time undergraduate student
with the initial award being made to a rising
sophomore. A. Governale and S. Posada
were the joint recipients of this scholarship
in the amounts of $4,000 and $3,000,
respectively.
The 2010 Roy Chen Award is given to
Avinash Arora.
The Outstanding Graduate Student
Award is given to a graduate student who is
has demonstrated exceptional performance
in research. Zhe Liang was the recipient of
the award this year.
ISE juniors win Institute of Industrial
Engineers’ Scholarships
Allanah Miller (ISE junior) received the IIE’s
Benjamin Willard Niebel Scholarship in the
amount of $600.
ISE students received scholarships from
the Material Handling Education
Foundation
The Material Handling Education Foundation
Scholarship Program promotes the study of
material handling and the exposure of stu-
dents to the material handling industry.
Allanah Miller (ISE junior), Tomas
Rodriguez (ISE junior) and Jeet Dattani
(ISE junior) are recipients of Material
Handling Education Foundation Scholarships
in the amount of $3,000, $1,500 and $1,500,
respectively.
ISE seniors win Excellence Awards from
Material Handling Society of New Jersey
The Material Handling Society of New Jersey
(MHSNJ) Award of Excellence is presented to
a group project that has used theoretical
knowledge in the design and construction of
a successful working model. This year’s
award is presented to Jeet R. Dattani,
Robert C. Goodacre, Jeffrey D. Meltzer,
and Tomas C. Rodriguez.
ISE student win the Regional
IIE Technical Paper Competition
Michael Holenstein, Kevin Tang and
Avinash Danashekar won the IIE Region 1
Student Technical Paper Competition held at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in March.
Their technical paper is based in the senior
design project “Water Hazard Golf Ball
Collector”. The objective of this project was to
design a fully automated golf ball collector
that improves upon the designs and capabil-
ities of collectors available on the market
today.
Institute of Industrial Engineers Gold
Award
Rutgers IIE Chapter #841 was the recipient
of a 2011 Chapter Recognition Gold Award!
The award was earned under the leadership
of Tomas Rodriguez as student president,
under the direction of Dr. Jim Luxhøj as fac-
ulty advisor. This is the sixth consecutive year
that the Rutgers Chapter has earned the IIE
Gold Award.
STUDENT NEWS
FACULTY NEWS
RESEARCH
Dr. Thomas O. Boucher, “Non Destructive
Test Method for Residual Gas, Phase 1,”
Defense Logistics Agency, Phase 1 funding to
Center for Advanced Food Technology,
(Co-PI), $65,284.
Dr. Thomas O. Boucher, “Railroad Platform
Gap Air Pillow, Transportation Coordinating
Committee/Federal Transportation Admin-
istration (TCC/FTA), $49,976.
Dr. Elsayed A. Elsayed, “Optimum
Condition Based Maintenance Schedules,”
National Priorities Research Program (NPRP),
Qatar, $919,869 (E. A. Elsayed, Lead PI, K. N.
Al-Khalifa, Co-Lead PI of Qatar University and
PI A. S. Hamouda Co-PI David Coit), Rutgers
share is $289,017.
Dr. Elsayed A. Elsayed, “Investigation and
Monitoring of Aircraft Data Link
Communication and Aircraft Altimetry and
Altitude Measuring Systems,” FAA, $268,742.
Dr. M. K. Jeong, “Analysis of the Market
Trends of Mobile Communications Industry
Using Data Mining Approach,” Electronics and
Telecommunications Research Institute
(ETRI), Sole-PI, $12,000.
Dr. M. K. Jeong, “Development of
Automated Spatial Defect Patterns
Classifications on Semiconductor Wafers,” PI,
Samsung Electronics, Inc., $45,000.
Dr. Kang Li, “Dynamic Evaluation of
Rehabilitation Protocols for Elbow Instability,”
Charles and Johanna Busch Memorial Fund,
$35,000.
Dr. Tugrul Özel, “Predictive Modeling and
Optimization of Machining Induced Surface
Integrity with Applications in Titanium and
Nickel-Based Alloyed End Products,” National
Science Foundation, $388,345, Sole PI.
Dr. Tugrul Özel, “EAGER: Pulsed Laser
Assisted Exfoliation of Single Crystalline SiC
Thin Layers for Cost Effective Micro-Device
Fabrication,” National Science Foundation,
$130,000, (with Co-PI G. Celler).
AWARDS
Dr. Kang Li is a recipient of the 2011
O’Donoghue Sports Injury Research Award,
the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports
Medicine (with Kanu Goyal, Scott Tashman,
Albert Lin, Xudong Zhang, Christopher
Harner), January 2011.
Dr. Jim Luxhøj is the recipient of the
2010–2011 Rutgers Engineering Governing
Council’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Tugrul Özel is the recipient of the Most
Cited Articles 2005–2010 Award by The
Journal of Materials Processing Technology,
Elsevier, September 2010.
Dr. Hoang Pham has been awarded the
International Leadership Award by the
Computer Society of India “For International
Leadership and Pioneering Research in
Software Reliability Engineering,” at the
International Conference on Reliability,
Infocom Technology and Optimization
(ICRITO 2010), Delhi, November, 2010.
BOOKS
Dr. Tugrul Özel (coauthor: M. Koc) edited
Micro-Manufacturing: Design and Manu-
facturing of Micro-Products (John Wiley &
Sons, 2011).
Dr. Hoang Pham coauthored Software
Reliability Assessment with OR Applications
(Springer, 2011).
Dr. Hoang Pham edited Safety and Risk
Modeling and Its Applications (Springer,
2011).