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Susan Lee Albin is an American industrial engineer known for her research in quality engineering, queueing theory, and industrial process monitoring. She is a professor of industrial engineering at Rutgers University, the former president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the former editor-in-chief of IIE Transactions (now IISE Transactions), the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. [1]

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Education and career

Albin is a 1971 graduate of New York University (NYU), in industrial engineering, and earned a master's degree from NYU in 1973. [1] She completed a doctorate in engineering science from Columbia University in 1981, [2] specializing in operations research and industrial engineering. [1] Her dissertation was Approximating queues with superposition arrival processes, [3] and was supervised by Ward Whitt. [4] She was a researcher at Bell Labs and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine before becoming a faculty member at Rutgers University. [1]

Albin has worked as a visiting professor in mechanical engineering at Peninsula Technikon, a predecessor institution to the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, where she helped found a program in quality engineering. She was president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2010, [1] and is also a founder of the INFORMS Section on Quality, Statistics and Reliability and of WORMS (Women in OR/MS). [1] [5]

Recognition

Albin is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. [1] In 2012, INFORMS gave her their George E. Kimball Medal in recognition of her service, particularly citing her work at Peninsula Technikon. [5] She was named a Fellow of INFORMS in 2020. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Susan L. Albin", Miser–Harris Presidential Portrait Gallery, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, retrieved 2019-10-21
  2. Susan L. Albin, Rutgers School of Engineering, retrieved 2019-10-21
  3. "Approximating queues with superposition arrival processes", Princeton University Library catalog, 1981, retrieved 2019-10-21
  4. Susan Albin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. 1 2 Professor Susan Albin to Receive 2012 George E. Kimball Medal from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Rutgers School of Engineering, 19 December 2012, retrieved 2019-10-21; Albin, Kleinmuntz receive Kimball Medals, INFORMS, retrieved 2019-10-21
  6. Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences , retrieved 2021-08-03