Dr. Jeffrey D. Tew will serve as ISyE's Edenfield Executive-in-Residence for the 2003-4 academic year. Tew is group manager of the e-Manufacturing and Alliances Group in the Manufacturing Systems Research Lab at General Motor's Research and Development Center in Warren, Michigan.

Tew's contributions to General Motors (GM) are many. He has served as a member of strategy teams that established GM's Order-to-Delivery Division and the GM India Research Lab; is a current member of the GM-Allison Transmission Channel Strategy Team; and he helped design GM's supply chain.

Tew received a B.S. in Mathematics, an M.S. in Statistics, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. His current research interests include the application of operations research and information technology tools to large-scale logistics systems and e-commerce.

While at Georgia Tech, Tew is expected to work with Dr. Rouse and ISyE faculty to develop a vision and strategy that enhances ISyE interactions across Tech's six colleges and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. The overall goal is to formulate a faculty recruiting and resource development plan that will enable substantial growth of ISyE's programs in research and education in enterprise aspects of the automobile industry. This includes attracting one or more endowed chairs, as well as a diversified base of funding for interdisciplinary research across engineering, management, computing, and behavior and social sciences.

Prior to joining GM, Tew was the director of Logistics Engineering at Schneider Logistics, Inc.; a senior systems engineer at Consolidated Freightways, Inc.; and an Adjunct associate professor of Computer Simulation at the Oregon Graduate Institute. He was also on the faculty in the ISyE Department at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is a visiting professor at Tsinghau University in Beijing. He is widely published and well known for his work in supply chain management, Six Sigma implementations, quality control, and operations research.

James C. Edenfield, BIE 1957, president of American Software, founded the Executive-in-Residence program to bring experienced and proven executives to campus each year, sharing research and education knowledge from industry. The endowment supports office space, computer equipment, software, secretarial and student support.



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