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Gavriel Salvendy, Professor of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University, and Chair Professor and Head of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University in the Peoples Republic of China, received the John L. Imhoff Award for 2008. Salvendy is recognized as a distinguished educator, researcher and administrator of industrial engineering academic programs, who has had a major impact on industrial engineering education and practice worldwide.
He has lectured and interacted with students and faculty at universities in over 30 countries. He has graduated more than 40 Ph.D. students, most of whom are teaching industrial engineering in universities in the USA, Europe, and Asia, thus further influencing global industrial engineering education.
He helped develop the Industrial Engineering Program at the Danish Technical University in Lyngby, Denmark. As a Fulbright Distinguished Professor, he helped initiate and develop the Industrial Engineering Program within the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Belgrade University in former Yugoslavia. In 2001, at the invitation of the Chinese government, he established and heads the Industrial Engineering Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. This department is now ranked number one out of over 150 such departments in China. He has also established the first Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Chapter and the first IIE Student Chapter with over 200 members at Tsinghua University. He received an honorary doctorate from the Chinese Academy of Science (1995).
Salvendy has introduced many educational innovations to stimulate students’ creativity and international collaborations, such as a one-year study each year by 30 master’s students in Aachen, Germany, and collaborative senior design projects with students from the Netherlands, Germany, USA, and Korea.
He is a distinguished researcher with over 400 publications, some of which appear in seven languages. His handbooks, the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, received the IIE Book of the Year Award (1988), and the Handbook of Industrial Engineering received the American Publishers Association Best Book in Engineering Award (1982). He founded four major journals in Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics.
The founding chair of the International Commission on Human Aspects in Computing, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, he was one of the early pioneers of the field of human-computer interaction. He developed a more efficient and accurate selection test for industrial workers, called the one-hole test, which is now used worldwide.
Salvendy is a member of ASEE; the National Academy of Engineering; fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers; member of the International Ergonomics Association; Human Factors and Ergonomics Society; and the American Psychological Association. He received the 2006 American Association of Engineering Societies John Fritz Medal. Following a meeting in September 2006 with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in the Great Hall of the People at Tiananmen Square, Salvendy was recognized with the 2006 Chinese Friendship Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Chinese government on a foreign
expert.
He is a recipient of the USSR Academy of Sciences’ Lomonosov Medal; two past Fulbright “Distinguished Professor” Awards; Outstanding Educators Award 2003); and President’s Award (2003), International Ergonomics Association; Paul M. Fitts Educator Award, The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2004). Among his degrees, Salvendy received a Ph.D. (1968) and M.Sc. (1966) degrees in Industrial Psychology, and Diploma in Industrial Engineering (1961) from External Technion, Israel.
The John L. Imhoff Award recognizes an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the industrial engineering discipline, who exemplifies the highest standards of the professorate in industrial engineering, and has demonstrated global cooperation and understanding through leadership and other initiatives.
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