Awards

Faculty

Dr. Jeya Chandra
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE, 1995.
  • Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, Penn State, 1994.
  • College of Engineering, Outstanding Teaching Award, 1986.
  • College of Engineering, Outstanding Advisor Award, 1988.
  • College of Engineering, Premier Teaching Award, 1989.

Dr. Natarajan Gautam
  • Best Paper Award in the Computers and Information Systems Category at the IERC, May 2004.
  • Best Invited Paper Award in the Operations Research Division of IIE at the IERC, May 2004.
  • PSU-IIE Outstanding Faculty Award, April 2003.
  • PSES Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2003.
  • Who's Who in America, Marquis Who's Who, August 2002.
  • Faculty Marshall for College of Engineering, Penn State Commencement, December 2000.
  • Outstanding Faculty in Engineering, Yearbook 1999 (La Vie), July 1999.
  • IBM Cooperative Dissertation Fellowship Award, December 1996.

Dr. Kumara

  • Faculty Scholar Medal, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
  • Premier Research Award , Penn State Engineering Society (PSES), 2001
  • Penn State University Graduate Faculty Teaching Award, 1998
  • Certificate of Achievement, Awarded by General Scales Jr., Army War College, 1998
  • Best Paper Award, (2nd place - applications), "Fractal Dimension Based Estimation of Tool Wear in Turning," by Bukkapatnam, S.T.S., Kumara, S.R.T., and Lakhtakia, A., Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering 94, an International Conference, St. Louis November 1994 (2nd place out of 184 Papers)
  • Outstanding Research Award , Penn State Engineering Society (PSES), 1994
  •  Active Member of International Institute of Production Research (CIRP) since August 1996 (one of the 125 active members representing 36 different countries: membership through nomination and election)
  • Corresponding Member of International Institute of Production Research (CIRP) since January 1990 (one of the 300 active and corresponding members representing 36 different countries: membership through nomination and election)

 Students
  • Second Place in Graduate Research Award for MS thesis, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1992: Kao, C.Y.
  • Second Place in Graduate Research Award for Ph.D thesis, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1995: Kamarthi, V.S. (Co-Advisor).
  • SME Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 1999: Kamarthi, V.S.
  • SME Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2005: Bukkapatnam, Sathish.
  • NRW Undergraduate Science Award- for Production Logistics and Networks (One award given in a world wide competetion), 2005: Thadakamalla, Hari.
  • First runner-up award at the IEEE Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE05) Web Services Challenge, 2005: Oh, Seogchan.
  • Best Paper Award in Computer and Information Systems, Industrial Engineering Research Conference, 2005: Gnanasambandam, Nathan.
  • Doctoral Mentoring Program & Student Scholarship @ Autonomus Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 2005: Gnanasambandam, Nathan.