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Leon F. McGinnis, Ph.D. PE
Professor Emeritus
Contact Information
Email:
Campus Phone: 404-894-2312
Fax: 404-894-0957
Office Location: ISyE Main Building, Room 108
Personal Homepage
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~lfm/
Bio
Leon McGinnis is a Professor Emeritus at Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Dr. McGinnis
received the BSIE from Auburn University, and the MSIE and PhD from
North Carolina State University. He is a registered Professional
Engineer in the state of Georgia.
Dr. McGinnis has been a leader in developing and administering
industry-focused and interdisciplinary education and research programs
at Georgia Tech. He helped establish the Material Handling Research
Center in 1982 and managed one of five research programs over the next
decade. He also helped establish the Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Systems Program in 1983, which received a LEAD Award from ASME for
excellence in graduate-level interdisciplinary manufacturing education,
and served as Director from 1988 to 1998. As CIMS Director, he lead a
team that competed for and won a $1 million TRP grant, resulting in the
establishment of the Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute
within the Manufacturing Research Center. In 1994, he led a team of
Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering faculty to win over $2 million in grants from the W. M. Keck
Foundation to create the Keck Virtual Factory Lab as a focal point for
IE systems design and control research.
Dr. McGinnis enjoys teaching students how to think like industrial
engineers, particularly in developing and using mathematical and
computational models to support design of facilities and control
systems. His research focuses on fundamental representation issues in
discrete event logistics systems, on performance assessment models, and
on the development of integrated computational tools. The Institute of
Industrial Engineers has recognized Dr. McGinnis with the Outstanding
Publication Award, the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award, and
the Fellow Award. He has given the Inyong Ham Lecture at Penn State,
the Jones Lecture at Dartmouth, and the Schantz Lectures at Lehigh.
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