Oregon State University Professor Named Fellow of Institute of Industrial Engineers

Story Posted: Mon, May 4, 2009

Norcross, Ga. – Apr. 28. – R. Logen Logendran, Ph.D., has been named a fellow with the prestigious Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) professional association. Logendran will be honored at the IIE Annual Conference and Expo May 31 in Miami. The award recognizes outstanding leaders of the industrial engineering profession who have made significant contributions to the industrial engineering field.

Logendran is a professor and graduate program chair of the school of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering at Oregon State. For nearly 20 years Logendran has been well-known for his significant research contributions in two specific areas within manufacturing systems — design of cellular manufacturing and group scheduling.

He has been quite active in IIE. In 1996, he received the Most Favorite Teacher of the Year award by the IIE student chapter at Oregon State University. Prior to that, the IIE student chapter at Southern Illinois University gave him the Outstanding Industrial Engineering Faculty Member Award in appreciation of excellence in teaching for 1987-88. Besides teaching, he has held research fellowship positions with various organizations including Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), The Boeing Co., and NASA - Johnson Space Center and has made significant contributions aimed at solving industry-relevant problems. Logendran was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Science, Malaysia in 2000. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of IIE Transactions on Design and Manufacturing and the International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Logendran is a senior member of IIE and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), and faculty adviser for the Alpha Pi Mu industrial engineering honor society at Oregon State University.

He received his bachelor of science degree with honors in mechanical engineering from the University of Sri Lanka, master of engineering degree in industrial engineering and management from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and doctoral degree in industrial engineering and management from Oklahoma State University.

Logendran has co-edited a book titled Group Technology & Cellular Manufacturing: Methodologies and Applications, and has authored or co-authored more than 90 publications in archival journals, book chapters and refereed conference proceedings. His areas of research include cellular manufacturing, group scheduling, routing and scheduling, facilities layout design, manufacturing simulation and integration of design and manufacturing. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Oregon Metals Initiative, TransNow, Oregon Department of Transportation, Port of Portland, Oregon Economic Development Agency, and industry.

About IIE
IIE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, nonprofit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research and development of industrial engineering. With approximately 15,000 members and 280 chapters worldwide, IIE’s primary mission is to meet the ever-changing needs of industrial engineers, which includes undergraduate and graduate students, engineering practitioners and consultants in all industries, engineering managers and engineers in education, research and government.