Alumni Merit Award
ALUMNI RESOURCES
Each year U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering recognizes an alum who personifies the College of Engineering’s tradition of excellence.
2022 Alumni Merit Award Honoree: Harriet B. Nembhard
Harriet B. Nembhard, Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa and U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering alum, has won the 2022 Alumni Merit Award.
Nembhard is widely published in leading professional journals, and has co-authored a textbook, Healthcare Systems Engineering. She also works to develop an inclusive community in STEM fields focused on diversity, equity and opportunity. She has worked with numerous professional societies to further these efforts including NSF ADVANCE, NSF LATTICE, NSF TECAID, National Academy of Engineering and Society of Women Engineers.
Nembhard’s work has been recognized with election as a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE), as a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Learn more about Harriet B. Nembhard
| Previous recipients: | |
| 2020 (awarded 2021) | Anne Shen Smith |
| 2019 | Craig Russell |
| 2018 | Robert G. Sargent |
| 2017 | Gary Verplank |
| 2016 | Norman Harbert |
| 2015 | Bill Johnson |
| 2014 | Betty Chao |
| 2013 | Julia Higle |
| 2012 | Chakor Doshi |
| 2011 | Ranvir Trehan |
| 2010 | Marlin Thomas |
| 2009 | David H. Gustafson |
| 2008 | Kedrick Adkins |
| 2007 | Mary Petrovich |
| 2006 | Wally Hopp |
| 2005 | Lawrence D. Burns |
| 2005 | Donald C. Graham (Alumni Society Medal) |
| 2004 | Karl G. Bartscht |
| 2003 | W. Peter Cherry |
| 2002 | Erhan Cinlar |
| 2001 | Roger Kallock |
| 2000 | John A. Muckstadt |
| 1999 | Robert M. Brown |
| 1998 | Ralph E. Reins |
| 1997 | John E. Utley, Jr. |
| 1997 | Robert J. Vlasic (Alumni Society Medal) |
| 1996 | J. Dann Engels |
| 1995 | C. Robert Kidder |
| 1994 | Myun Woo Lee |
| 1993 | Richard Carl Jelinek |
| 1992 | Thom Hodgson |
