Highlights
ISE's and the Hokie Nation rally around Paul Torgersen
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ISE Faculty Generate 3 Best Paper Awards
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R.H. Bogle Professor Fellow awarded
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H.G. Prillamen Professor Fellow awarded
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2008 Academy of Distinguished Alumni inducted at the Academy of Distinguished Alumni Banquet
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The ISE Department has moved to #7 (from #8) in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of graduate engineering programs.
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Mission/Vision/Values
ISE Department Vision Statement
The vision of the ISE Department is to utilize innovative and creative systems, technology, and processes to:
- Achieve the highest quality of instruction and advising that are integral to comprehensive curriculum review now underway.
- Improve degree productivity and enhance students' likelihood of degree completion.
- Enhance the educational experience to encompass a global outlook.
- Accommodate the needs of nontraditional students.
- Implement and maintain a continuous improvement program for faculty, staff, curriculum, and facilities.
- Establish and maintain high academic standards commensurate with the long-standing reputation of excellence of Virginia Tech.
ISE Department Mission Statement
The faculty of the ISE department is committed to advance the state-of-the-art of the discipline and to communicate existing and new subject matter to undergraduate and graduate students. The faculty is also responsible for both the broader education and the intellectual growth of students.
Objectives: The field of industrial engineering embraces a broad spectrum of technical activities including the classical techniques of work methods, production and facilities planning, quality control, and safety. It also embraces the fields of human factors,operations research, manufacturing systems, and organization and management systems, with the latter four fields having well-defined graduate level programs.
Within this framework, the major objectives of our educational programs are as follows:
- To provide a high quality education that will prepare our undergraduate and graduate students for a life-long learning experience in this rapidly changing field, and to prepare these students to be future leaders in the industrial engineering profession, in business, in industry, and in academia.
- To conduct high quality basic and applied research to advance the frontiers of engineering and to support the industrial and economic growth of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation as a whole.
- To provide service to the profession, industry, and society to contribute to the advancement of civilization and the betterment of all.
Values:
- Faculty are committed to the highest quality teaching of students.
- The total education of the student, as he or she prepares to enter the profession and society, is also an obligation.
- Monitoring and improving the quality of instruction and verifying the relevance of our curricula, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, will be an ongoing responsibility. Our students are entitled to no less.
- Faculty are committed to the highest quality research both for their own professional development and to advance our understanding of the discipline of industrial engineering.
- Research funding provides opportunities to support students, fund laboratories, attract outstanding scholars, and ensures the financial wellbeing of the department.
- Faculty disseminate their research results and facilitate instruction across the discipline through presentations at national and international conferences, and publications in scholarly journals, widely-read professional magazines, and textbooks.
- Public service is an obligation and a specific component of the land grant mission of the institution.
- An intelligent, competent, and articulate nationally and internationally recognized faculty will be a continuing priority. Toward that aim, the recruitment, development, and retention of faculty colleagues will be a shared responsibility.
- The attraction of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students of high academic potential is important to the well being of the department and the discipline.
- The department is committed to comply with Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity policies of the university.
- Modern and well-equipped laboratories are important to our success in instruction and research.
- Funds from the private and federal sectors are necessary to supplement state appropriations.
- To be a part of a learned profession is a high calling and includes, in addition to upholding principles of morality and ethics and a commitment to seek out truth, a shared respect for colleagues and a diversity of points of view, collegiality, and collaborative efforts, along with a genuine interest in and support for the students entrusted to our care and education.
- Faculty have a strong belief in laboratory- and computer technology-based education.
