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McGinnis Receives Courtesy Appointment in ME

Atlanta (May 15, 2009) — Leon McGinnis, Eugene Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing Systems and Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received a courtesy appointment in the George Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (ME).

For many years, McGinnis has collaborated with ME faculty in research and education projects and has served on the committees of MS and PhD students. This appointment now enables him to supervise ME students directly, and recognizes his contributions to the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

McGinnis is a leader in interdisciplinary education efforts. He serves as the Director of the Manufacturing Logistics Center of Focused Research within the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute. He is also the founding Director of the Keck Virtual Factory Lab, serves as Associate Director of the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC), and Research Director of the Tennenbaum Institute. In his administrative duties, he oversees the integration of computer modeling techniques with manufacturing technologies. McGinnis also teaches a "Systems Modeling with SysML" course jointly with Chris Paredis, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, that introduces a model-driven approach to systems engineering.

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.