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Walt Hancock receives IEOM Global Engineering Education Award

by Rod Capps
Michigan Engineering
September 29, 2016
IOE Professor Emeritus Walt Hancock has been awarded the Global Engineering Education Award by the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society (IEOM).| Short Read

The IEOM Society promotes and encourages critical thinking in the field of Industrial Engineering (IE) and Operations Management (OM), provides means to communicate and network among people enthused with similar interests through yearly conferences / seminars / workshops across the globe, and illustrative research publications to disseminate the earned knowledge and experience.

Please join the department in congratulating Walt on this award!

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