DEPARTMENT HIGHLIGHTS:

1987-88
DSES DSES Established as Interschool Department; New England Manufacturing Technology Center (NEMTC) Funding (Simons), $6M for 6 Years; Acting DSES Chair (Wallace)
1988-89 DSES Chair (Tien)
1989-90
Center for Services Research and Education (CSRE) Established (Berg, Director); ABET Accreditation
1990-91
Two Annual Karger Awards Established for Best Ph.D. Thesis and Best MS Thesis; DSES Doctoral Degree Approved
1991-92
CSRE's First Workshop; IMS Fellow (Raghavachari); IIE Fellow (Graves)
1992-93
Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MFSE) Masters Program Approved; Acting DSES Chair (Raghavachari, While Tien Serves as Acting SoE Dean)
1993-94
Electronics Agile Manufacturing Research Institute (EAMRI) Funding (Graves), $11M for 5 Years; Acting DSES Chair (Berg, While Tien Serves as Acting SoE Dean)
1994-95
New York Academy of Sciences Fellow (Berg); J. C. Georg Endowed Professor (Grabowski)
1995-96
Rensselaer Statistical Consulting Center (RSCC) Established; ABET Accreditation
1996-97
DSES Becomes A School of Engineering Department Only; Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien is on Sabbatical)
1997-98
IEEE J. G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award (Tien); Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien Serves as Acting SoE Dean)
1998-99
Biotech Funding (Embrechts), $1.2M for 3 Years; Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien Serves as Acting SoE Dean)
1999-00
IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award (Tien)
2000-01
Elected to National Academy of Engineering (Tien))
2001-02
Material Handling Reed Apple Award (Graves); INFORMS Fellow (Berg, Tien); Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien is on Sabbatical), ABET Accreditation.
2002-03
School of Engineering Research Award (Graves); Yamada Corporation Professor (Tien); Retired (Graves)
2003-04
AAAS Fellow (Tien); IIE Fellow (Heragu); First Chipless Identification Workshop (Heragu); School of Engineering Excellence in Engineering Education Award (Malmborg)
2004-05
IEEE Norbert Wiener Award (Tien); INFORMS President’s Award (Wallace); IBM Faculty Award (Tien); Trustees Outstanding Teacher Award (Malmborg)
2005-06
Rensselaer Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research (Embrechts); Department Chair Steps Down (Tien)
2006-07
New Department Head Appointed (Malmborg); NSF Career Award (Chan); External Review by Academic Visiting Committee
2007-08
New Long Range Strategic Plan Adopted, IEEE Educator of the Year Award (Berg), ABET Accreditation.
2008-09
Center for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management (Wallace), New Master's Degree in Systems Engineering and Technology Management.
2009-10
Professor William A. Wallace is appointed as Yamada Corporation Professor of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems.


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