Joe Mize
Joe Mize is a world-renowned IE educator and researcher who has made sustained and impactful contributions to the field of Industrial Engineering, especially in the areas of modeling and simulation, production control, computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), and lean enterprises over several decades. His contributions as the author/co-author of seven engineering texts and co-editor of the largest industrial engineering text series (over 200 texts) in the world for Prentice-Hall are a testament to his lasting influence on the industrial engineering education and profession nationally and internationally. At OSU, he helped establish the University Center for Energy Research and the Center for Local Government Technology. He founded the Center for CIM and established the Master of Manufacturing Systems Engineering (MMSE) program in the mid 1980s with funding from the AT&T Foundation. Under Prof. Mize’s leadership, the IE&M program at OSU was ranked among the ten best Industrial Engineering programs in the nation in 1976.
After retiring from OSU in 1994, Prof. Mize served four years at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the capacities of Dean of Engineering, Vice President for Research, and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. Dr. Mize is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, the World Academy of Productivity Sciences, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and the Institute of Production Engineers (U.K.). He is Past President of IIE (now IISE) and a recipient of IIE’s highest award, the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has served on the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design of the National Research Council.