Engineers Nominated By Institute of Industrial Engineers Emma Fulton, P.E.
 Emma Fulton, P.E., an industrial engineer at Intel Corporation’s Fab 12/22/32 in Chandler, Arizona, focuses on capacity analysis and Lean Manufacturing. She partners with process experts to identify and reduce waste in operations and equipment maintenance. Her efforts have resulted in up to 64% reduction in time spent doing routine maintenance activities, allowing more product to be run through the tools. She has been one of the leaders on her site in Lean Manufacturing efforts. Emma qualified early to take the Practice and Principles Professional Engineering exam in 2006 and expects to complete the work experience requirement in June 2008. Prior to joining Intel, Fulton was team leader for a multidisciplinary engineering project sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that sought to design a low-cost solar oven that could be mass-produced in Latin America using local resources, thereby reducing deforestation. Her team was one of seven, beating 65 others, to win the 2005 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) Award and $75,000 to continue the research.
emma.s.fulton@intel.com Lindsey Kirtley
 Lindsey Kirtley is one of only five young engineers nominated by the Institute of Industrial Engineers to receive this special recognition. Ms. Kirtley, a consultant at Accenture in San Francisco, California, is involved in one the largest global software implementations within the industry, traveling to Brazil, the Philippines, and South Africa. She has applied industrial engineering theories through standardization in creating a global methodology and adapting it regionally as is culturally appropriate. A main focus for Kirtley is to streamline Accenture’s testing processes and continually seek out further process efficiencies while adapting to ever-changing business and technical environments. The challenge then is to deploy this methodology to hundreds of people spread across four continents. In this work she has created and assisted in managing various project deliverable methodologies, such as integrated testing and defect management, customizing a tool used by 500+ individuals.
Lindsey.k.kirtley@accenture.com Melissa Maday, E.I.T.
 Melissa Maday, E.I.T., a management engineer with Alegent Health in Omaha, Nebraska, took a pioneering approach to obtaining patient feedback regarding the hospital’s labor and delivery process. Previously, the typical way of getting patient viewpoints was by surveys or focus groups, both of which are after-the-fact and have narrowly defined parameters. Instead, Maday not only conducted before and after interviews but also actually accompanied the volunteer mothers-to-be through the hospital process, enabling her to observe first-hand the often cumbersome hoops that patients had to jump through. As a result, she was able to identify eight main themes, which were further broken down into process improvement projects. These ranged from some “quick wins” all the way to new facility designs, which will benefit women who deliver at Alegent Health in the future.
mmaday@alegent.org Kalyan Pasupathy, Ph.D.
 Kalyan Pasupathy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the University of Missouri’s Health Management and Informatics Department in the School of Medicine in Columbia, Missouri. He is engaged in a pioneering effort funded by the National Science Foundation to develop an undergraduate curriculum in Health Systems Engineering. Dr. Pasupathy believes that through a synergistic combination of industrial engineering approaches with health systems transformation, the current health care crisis in the U.S. and elsewhere can be overcome. A multidisciplinary professional, Dr. Pasupathy has been funded by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to identify at-risk breast cancer populations who have a low likelihood of being screened. He also works with the Missouri Cancer Registry to improve cancer incidence surveillance systems. Dr. Pasupathy has published research articles on service operations, chaired and presented in conferences, and currently teaches industrial engineering techniques to health professionals and administrators.
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