Professional Activities
Registered Professional Engineer (Alabama and Pennsylvania, Industrial Engineering).
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) - Fellow
Educational Foundation Member (2002-05)
Senior Vice President - Academics and Board of Trustees Member (2002-04)
Judge, Golomski RAMS/IIE Best Paper Award Committee (2003)
Chair, IIE Transactions Design & Manufacturing Best Paper Award (2003)
Member, PE Exam Committee (2001-present)
Director, Division of Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (2000-02)
Member, IIE Outstanding Publication Award Committee (2000-01)
Director-Elect, Division of Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (1999-2000)
Newsletter Editor, Division of Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (1997-98)
IIE Transactions Editorial Board (1996-present)
Society of Women Engineers (SWE) - Senior Member
National Upward Mobility Award Judge (1999-2005, 2007)
National Career Guidance Committee Regional Representative (1995-96)
National Chair of Women in Academia (1991-93)
National Chair of Awards Committee (1986-87)
University of Pittsburgh Student Section Faculty Advisor (1991-99)
Pittsburgh Section Student Coordinator and Executive Council Member (1992-99)
Pittsburgh Section Speaker's Bureau Chair (1991-1992)
St. Louis Section President (1987-89), Section Representative (1985-87), Treasurer (1984-85), Secretary (1983-84).
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Senior Member
IEEE Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (2007-09)
IEEE Technical Committee on Evolutionary Computation (1999-2000)
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Editorial Board (1998-present)
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
ACORD President (2002-03)
ACORD Vice President and Secretary (2001-02)
INFORMS Journal on Computing Associate Editor (1995-present)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CIC-MHE) Member (1999-2003)
Academic Activities
Editorial Board, Computers & Operations Research (Elsevier), 2005 - present.
Editorial Board, International Journal of General Systems (Taylor & Francis), 2004 - present.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE), 1998 - present.
Design and Manufacturing Editorial Board, IIE Transactions (IIE), 1996 - present.
Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing (INFORMS), 1995 - present.
Advisory Committee, International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design (Taylor & Francis), 2002 - 04.
Editor, Eastern United States, International Journal of Smart Engineering System Design (Gordon & Breach), 1997 - 2001.
Associate Editor, Engineering Design and Automation Journal (John Wiley & Sons), 1995 - 98.
Newsletter Editor, IIE Division of Quality Control and Reliability Engineering, 1997 - 98.
Co-Guest Editor, Journal of Engineering Valuation and Cost Analysis, Special Issue on Engineering Valuation and Computational Intelligence, vol. 2, no. 2, 1999.
Co-Guest Editor, Engineering Design and Automation Journal, Special Issue on Intelligent Engineering Design, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 1997.
Co-Guest Editor, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Special Issue on Genetic Algorithms and Industrial Engineering, vol. 30, no. 4, September 1996.
External Ph.D. Examiner, The National University of Singapore.
External Ph.D. Examiner, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy