Jane Ammons

Jane Chumley Ammons (born 1953)[1] is an American industrial engineer known for her research on supply chain engineering and on the recycling of industrial goods, including carpet. She is the former chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, the former president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a professor emerita at Georgia Tech.[2]

Education and career

Ammons was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, in 1982.[3] Her dissertation, A Generation Expansion Planning Model For Electric Utilities, was supervised by Leon McGinnis, and concerned generation expansion planning.[4]

After completing her doctorate, she remained in industrial engineering at Georgia Tech as a faculty member, the department's first faculty member to be a woman.[3] She was president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for 2009–2010.[5] When she was named chair of industrial engineering at Georgia Tech in 2011,[6] she became the first woman to chair an engineering department at Georgia Tech. She retired in 2014.[3]

Recognition

Ammons was selected to become a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 2003. In 2014 she was given the institute's top honor, the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award.[7]

References
  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2019-09-13
  2. Jane Ammons, Professor Emerita, Georgia Tech College of Engineering, retrieved 2019-09-13
  3. ISyE School Chair Jane Ammons to Retire at End of Academic Year, Georgia Tech College of Engineering, January 23, 2014, retrieved 2019-09-13
  4. WorldCat catalog entry for A Generation Expansion Planning Model For Electric Utilities, accessed 2019-09-13
  5. Past Presidents, Institute of Industrial & System Engineers, retrieved 2019-09-13
  6. Jane Ammons Named Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech College of Engineering, June 3, 2011, retrieved 2019-09-13
  7. Award Winners, Institute of Industrial & System Engineers, retrieved 2019-09-13
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