Sarker receives David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award at IIE 2006 Solutions Conference

April 20, 2006

Bhaba Sarker, Elton G. Yates Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering at the LSU College of Engineering, has been chosen to receive the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award to be presented at this year’s Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Solutions 2006 Conference in Orlando, Florida, on May 21, 2006.

The IIE Board of Trustees selects one individual each year to receive the Baker Award, which "...recognizes significant contributions to the advancement and progress of the industrial engineering profession through outstanding research. It is given for a career of accomplishments that have broadly benefited practitioners, organizations or other researchers, rather than for a single activity or application…" in industrial engineering research. The award will be presented at the IIE Annual Conference Honors and Award Banquet hosted by this year’s IIE President Susan Sinclair.

Sarker’s areas of specialization and research includes mass production and cellular/flexible manufacturing systems, material handling, scheduling, inventory systems, location theory, operations research, sequencing and scheduling, supply chain management, lean production systems, army logistics, and industrial distribution.