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Deborah J. Seifert Nightingale is an American management scientist, industrial engineer, and enterprise transformation consultant. She is University Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems at the University of Central Florida, past president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a former professor of Engineering Systems and of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nightingale was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for contributions to the expanding field of computer-integrated manufacturing as an instrument of industrial competitiveness. [1] She is the 2020 winner of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award. [2]

Nightingale is a graduate of the University of Dayton, and has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio State University. [3] She was president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for 1995–1996, [4] served on the MIT faculty from 1997 to 2014, and joined the University of Central Florida faculty in 2017. [1]

Nightingale is the author of books including Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative (with 12 other authors, 2002), [5] Beyond the Lean Revolution: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation (with Jayakanth Srinivasan, 2011) [6] and Architecting the Future Enterprise (with Donna H. Rhodes, 2015). [1]

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