Linkan Bian was appointed to serve a 3-year term as an Associate Editor of the Design and Manufacturing focus area of the IISE Transactions journal.

Associate Professor Linkan Bian was named Associate Editor (AE) for the Institute for Industrial Engineers (IISE) Transactions- Design and Manufacturing Focus Area. The journal has four focus areas: Design and Manufacturing, Operations, Quality and Reliability Engineering, and Scheduling and Logistics. Linkan will serve a 2-year appointment in this role.

Mojtaba Khanzadehdaghalian’s paper entitled “Establishing the Process-Structure Relationship Using Tensor Decomposition of Thermal Images” was selected to receive the 2018 IISE Manufacturing & Design Division Best Student Paper Award. Mojtaba, an ISE PhD student, presented the paper at the IISE Annual Conference in Orlando this past May with the award being presented at the Honors & Awards Banquet at the conference.

Mojtaba Khanzadehdaghalian