The COVID-19 pandemic prevented the IMSE Department from holding its annual IMSE Awards Banquet this year. Each year we award an alumni with our Distinguished Industrial Engineering Award. This year’s recipient was Dr. G. Don Taylor.
Dr. G. Don Taylor is a distinguished alumni here at UTA, having received both M.S and B.S degrees for the IMSE department. Dr. G. Don Taylor is now Vice Provost for Learning Systems Innovation and Effectiveness, and Charles O. Gordon Professor in ISE at Virginia Tech. He is also a Fellow and a Past-President and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Amongst many accomplishments, Dr. G. Don Taylor has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on more than 60 externally funded projects. His research has led to the publication of 10 edited books, more than 75 journal articles and book chapters, more than 120 conference papers and technical reports.