ISE Department Timeline
| 1987-88 |
DSES Established as Interschool Department; New England Manufacturing Technology Center (NEMTC) Funding (Simons), $6M for 6 Years; Acting DSES Chair (Wallace)
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| 1988-89 | DSES Chair (Tien) |
| 1989-90 |
Center for Services Research and Education (CSRE) Established (Berg, Director); ABET Accreditation
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| 1990-91 |
Two Annual Karger Awards Established for Best Ph.D. Thesis and Best MS Thesis; DSES Doctoral Degree Approved
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| 1991-92 |
CSRE's First Workshop; IMS Fellow (Raghavachari); IIE Fellow (Graves)
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| 1992-93 |
Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MFSE) Masters Program Approved; Acting DSES Chair (Raghavachari, While Tien Serves as Acting SoE Dean)
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| 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)
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| 1994-95 |
New York Academy of Sciences Fellow (Berg); J. C. Georg Endowed Professor (Grabowski)
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| 1995-96 |
Rensselaer Statistical Consulting Center (RSCC) Established; ABET Accreditation
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| 1996-97 |
DSES Becomes A School of Engineering Department Only; Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien is on Sabbatical)
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| 1997-98 |
IEEE J. G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award (Tien); Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien Serves as Acting SoE Dean)
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| 1998-99 |
Biotech Funding (Embrechts), $1.2M for 3 Years; Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien Serves as Acting SoE Dean)
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| 1999-00 |
IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award (Tien)
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| 2000-01 |
Elected to National Academy of Engineering (Tien))
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| 2001-02 |
Material Handling Reed Apple Award (Graves); INFORMS Fellow (Berg, Tien); Acting DSES Chair (Malmborg, While Tien is on Sabbatical), ABET Accreditation.
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| 2002-03 |
School of Engineering Research Award (Graves); Yamada Corporation Professor (Tien); Retired (Graves)
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| 2003-04 |
AAAS Fellow (Tien); IIE Fellow (Heragu); First Chipless Identification Workshop (Heragu); School of Engineering Excellence in Engineering Education Award (Malmborg)
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| 2004-05 |
IEEE Norbert Wiener Award (Tien); INFORMS President’s Award (Wallace); IBM Faculty Award (Tien); Trustees Outstanding Teacher Award (Malmborg)
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| 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. |