My leadership and service span graduate education, academic program development, student professional engagement, professional societies, editorial work, and university service.
Graduate Program Leadership
Director of Graduate Studies · Industrial and Systems Engineering
Supporting a graduate community of approximately 50–70 graduate students.
Coordinate graduate recruitment with faculty.
Conduct prospective-student webinars and direct outreach.
Build international pipelines through academic and research engagement in India and Germany.
Promote graduate programs, certificate opportunities, and recruitment priorities with faculty.
Coordinate graduate admissions workflows and faculty applicant review.
Encourage earlier, more structured review and timely communication of decisions.
Connect admissions planning with broader recruitment priorities.
Mentor incoming graduate students before advisor matching.
Help students identify research interests and connect with potential faculty advisors.
Coordinate graduate communication, advising support, orientation, and academic milestone planning.
Coordinate PhD qualifying examinations and related student communication.
Developed and implemented the department-wide annual PhD scholarly-performance evaluation process and faculty-approved rubric.
Use structured annual evaluations for advising, progress monitoring, and early identification of concerns.
Developed MS and PhD defense rubrics to support more consistent evaluation of graduate milestones.
Lead graduate seminar programming serving approximately 25–30 graduate students annually.
Integrate research development, professional development, and active student participation into seminar programming.
Bring speakers from universities and industry, including specialized training in areas such as Cloud DevOps and AWS.
Nominate students for Dean’s Fellowships, travel awards, and other professional opportunities.
Support implementation and expanded use of the MS-en-route pathway.
Strengthen promotion of the accelerated MS pathway.
Support graduate participation in the Decision and Operations Analytics certificate.
Track academic progress and help students navigate degree milestones efficiently.
Academic Program Development
Program design & direction
Decision and Operations Analytics Certificates
Conceived the programs, led proposal development and approval, and now direct both certificates, integrating analytics, optimization, decision modeling, and operations-oriented training.
Undergraduate Certificate
Director · Being integrated into advising for the current ISE undergraduate cohort.
Graduate Certificate
Director · 7 students currently enrolled.
Integrated Case Curriculum Framework
Connecting the Dots
Initiated and developed a cross-curriculum framework that connects ISE courses through a shared, evolving operational context. Students revisit the same system across successive courses, with validated outputs from earlier analyses becoming inputs to later engineering decisions.
Shared Operational ContextCommon data · evolving decisions · cross-course continuity
Integrated Engineering Decisions
Context
A coherent professional setting
Continuity
Outputs become inputs across courses
Data Fluency
Repeated work with shared operational data
Navigating Ambiguity
Students determine what information and methods are appropriate
Supported by a shared digital data environment that preserves artifacts and analytical continuity across courses.
Student Leadership & Professional Engagement
IISE regional conference · University of Arkansas
IISE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor
As faculty advisor to the University of Missouri IISE Student Chapter, I support student leadership, professional activities, annual participation in regional conferences, and student competitions.
Supported the 2023 regional conference hosted at Mizzou.
Ray Wood presenting student research at IISE.
IISE Regional Student Paper Competition
2018
Dustin Smith
2nd Place
2019
John Tocco
3rd Place
2024
Ray Wood
1st Place
2025
Matt Floyd
2nd Place
2026
Caden Davis
3rd Place
Mizzou Service
Contributions across the department, College of Engineering, and university.
Department
Graduate education, curriculum, and student development in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Director of Graduate Studies
MS and PhD advising, advisor matching, student mentoring, communication, and progress processes.
Graduate evaluation
Leadership of PhD qualifying exams and development of the annual PhD evaluation workflow and rubric.
Graduate seminar
Research development and professional development programming.
Curriculum and student engagement
Connecting the Dots cross-curriculum initiative and IISE Student Chapter faculty advising.
College of Engineering
Faculty service, engineering planning, and academic program development.
College Promotion & Tenure Committee
2025–present
AI Integration Committee
Member · 2026
MizzouForward Engineering Advisory Committee
Member · 2025–2026
Academic Program Contributions
Director of undergraduate and graduate Decision and Operations Analytics certificates.
Global Supply Chain Management Certificate Advisory Committee
2018–present
University / Graduate School
Graduate strategy, interdisciplinary programs, research policy, and teaching innovation.
Graduate School Strategic Plan Steering Subcommittee
Member · 2026
Quantum Information and Computing Certificate Committee
Core member · 2025–2026
Research Policies Committee
2025
AI Faculty Fellow
Teaching for Learning Center · 2026–2027
Applied Service at Mizzou
MU Emergency Department
Led a process-reengineering study focused on overcrowding and patient waiting.
MU Campus Dining Services
Advised a graduate Six Sigma process-improvement study focused on service responsiveness.
Professional Leadership
IISE Operations Research Division
2020–2022
Director
2022–2023
President-Elect
2023–2024
President
2024–2025
Immediate Past President
Current conference leadership
Program Chair
2027 IISE Annual Conference
Selected Professional Service
Conference Chair
IISE South Central Regional Conference · 2023
Lead Chair & Co-Organizer
Operations Research Track, IISE Annual Conference · 2022
Co-Chair & Co-Organizer
Operations Research Track, IISE Annual Conference · 2021
Additional service includes Operations Research Undergraduate Student Competition Chair and Operations Research Teaching Award Chair in 2022, along with selected IISE and INFORMS session organization.
Editorial & Scholarly Service
Current editorial appointments
2024–present
Transportation Research Part E
Editorial Board Member
2025–present
Scientific Reports
Editorial Board Member
2024–present
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Editorial Board Member
2021–present
Sustainability
Topic Editor
Ad hoc reviewer for 30+ journals across operations research, analytics, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, and AI.
Prior editorial service
Journal of Healthcare Engineering Academic Editor · May 2021–May 2023
