AFIT handbook wins engineering book-of-the-year award

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The Military Industrial Engineering Handbook, authored and co-edited by two Air Force Institute of Technology professors, Dr. Adedeji Badiru, head of AFIT's Department of Systems and Engineering Management, and Dr. Marlin Thomas, the dean of the AFIT Graduate School of Engineering and Management, have won the 2010 Institute of Industrial Engineers/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award.

"This recognition represents an affirmation of the acclaimed status of the handbook within the industrial engineering community as well as the defense community" said Cindy Carelli, senior acquisitions editor for CRC Press.  CRC Press is a worldwide publisher of technical and scientific work and a member of the Taylor & Francis publishing group.

The Military Industrial Engineering Handbook is made available internationally and presents a collection of chapters on the applications of the tools and techniques of industrial engineering to various aspects of military operations. It presents models and approaches for looking at military operations more critically in terms of process design, planning, management, improvement and control.

The Military Industrial Engineering Handbook presents a focused collection of the applications for ease of reference. Examples of the roles that industrial engineering plays in military operations can be seen in many present operational strategies of the military. Industrial engineering is well versed and appropriately positioned to create, adapt, use and disseminate new knowledge and tools for direct applications to defense-related challenges.

The chapters in the handbook are contributed by well-known researchers, educators and practitioners. Military and civilian members of DOD also contributed to the handbook. The contents of the book help defense organizations to effectively evaluate operational constraints of time, cost, and performance. The contents also cut across all services: Air Force, Navy, Army, Marines and Coast Guard.

"The book-of-the-year honor establishes this handbook as a valuable reference material for students, educators, researchers, policy makers, project sponsors, consultants, managers, operations supervisors and general practitioners, while providing testimony to the excellence and esteem of AFIT academics," said Don Green, executive director of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

(Courtesy of 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs)