Susan Albin
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]
Education and career[edit]
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[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g "Susan L. Albin", Miser–Harris Presidential Portrait Gallery, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, retrieved 2019-10-21
- ^ Susan L. Albin, Rutgers School of Engineering, retrieved 2019-10-21
- ^ "Approximating queues with superposition arrival processes", Princeton University Library catalog, 1981, retrieved 2019-10-21
- ^ Susan Albin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, retrieved 2021-08-03
- Living people
- American industrial engineers
- American women engineers
- New York University alumni
- Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
- Scientists at Bell Labs
- Rutgers University faculty
- American women academics
- Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- 21st-century American women scientists