Alice E. Smith
Alice E. Smith is Professor and Chair of the Industrial and Systems
Engineering Department at Auburn University.
Previous to this position, she was on the faculty of the Department of
Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, which she joined in
1991 after industrial experience with Southwestern Bell Corporation. Dr. Smith has degrees in engineering and
business from Rice University, Saint Louis University and Missouri University
of Science and Technology.
Dr.
Smith holds one U.S. patent and several international patents and has authored
more than 200 publications which have garnered over 1000 citations (ISI Web of
Science). She won the E. L. Grant Best
Paper Awards in 1999 and in 2006, and the William A. J. Golomski Best Paper
Award in 2002. Several of her papers are
among the most highly cited in their respective journals including the second
most cited paper of IEEE Transactions on
Reliability. Dr. Smith currently
holds editorial positions on INFORMS
Journal on Computing, Computers &
Operations Research, International
Journal of General Systems and IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
Dr.
Smith has served as a principal investigator on over $4 million of sponsored research. Her research in analysis, modeling and
optimization of complex systems has been funded by NASA, NIST, DOT / FHWA,
Lockheed Martin, Adtranz (now Bombardier Transportation), the Ben Franklin
Technology Center of Western Pennsylvania and NSF, from which she was awarded a
CAREER grant in 1995 and an ADVANCE Leadership grant in 2001. Her industrial partners on sponsored research
projects have included DaimlerChrysler Electronics, Eljer Plumbingware, Extrude
Hone, Ford Motor, PPG Industries and Crucible Compaction Metals. International research collaborations have
been sponsored by the federal governments of Japan, Turkey, United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, Egypt, South Korea, Iraq and the U.S. and by the Institute of
International Education.
She
was awarded the INFORMS WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS in
2009. She was named an Auburn University
Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Distinguished Professor in 2001, received the Senior
Research Award of the College of Engineering at Auburn University in 2001 and
the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering Board of Visitors Faculty
Award in 1996.
Five
of her doctoral students are in tenured positions at U.S. universities and two
of these are NSF CAREER awardees. A
further three doctoral students are tenured or tenure track faculty at foreign
institutions. Dr. Smith is a fellow of
the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a senior member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers and of the Society of Women Engineers, a
member of Tau Beta Pi, the Institute for Operations Research and Management
Science and the American Society for Engineering Education, and a Registered
Professional Engineer in Industrial Engineering in Alabama and
Pennsylvania.
Dr. A.E. Smith
3301 Shelby Center
Auburn University, Al 36849-5346
Phone: 334-844-1400
Fax: 334-844-1381
Email: smithae@auburn.edu
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