Lavelle receives IIE Wellington Award

Dr. Jerome Lavelle, associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, received the Engineering Economy Division Wellington Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers on May 24.

Lavelle was recognized with the award at the IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2011 in Reno, Nevada. The Wellington Award was named after Arthur M. Wellington, the author of The Economic Theory of Railroad Location, in 1887. It recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of engineering economy.

Previous NC State Wellington Award recipients were Dr. John Canada, Lavelle’s former PhD advisor and a former associate dean in the College, and Dr. Dick Bernhard, professor of industrial and systems engineering.

Lavelle joined the College in 2000 as assistant dean for academic affairs. Prior to joining NC State, he served for seven years on the faculty of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Kansas State University. He was a member of the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1985 to 1988 and spent three summers at NASA Kennedy Space Center as an ASEE Faculty Fellow carrying out research in space shuttle and management flow processes.

Lavelle holds BS and MS degrees in industrial and systems engineering from Ohio University. He received his PhD in industrial and systems engineering from NC State in 1992.