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Features Donna Novitsky, venture partner at Mohr, Davidow Ventures. Educational and career background; Her comments on how she does her job without alienating the partners of the business; Information on how Novitsky applies her industrial engineering skills with her work at Valdero company. INSET: Donna NOVITSKY.

Argues that, to remain competitive, the U.S. must close the gender gap in science. Ways to encourage women to enter engineering and science; Observation that the gender gap emerges when it comes time to apply a science or engineering education; Advantages of mentoring; Need for colleges to actively recruit women; Issue of how science is perceived by young men and women.

The article profiles several women systems engineers in the U.S., highlighting their effort to boost global connectivity. It profiles Belinda Fortin, the manager of completions and customer design engineering at Bombardier Learjet, Beverly Harbin, who directs data management of all ground and flight test events at the Missile Defense Agency, and Donna Mirabella, a systems engineer at GA-ASI. It also profiles Gina Callender of Con Edison and Erin Wakefield of Intel Corp.

The article features veteran healthcare executive Mary Ellen Skeens. Topics mentioned include her appointment as president of the Society for Health Systems (SHS), nonprofit organization, for 2019, the importance of volunteer service, and her interest in healthcare and medical technology. Also mentioned are her education in industrial engineering (IE) and her job in the Northeast Georgia Health System's management engineering department.

The article presents an interview with Oluwakemi Adio, a doctoral candidate in the Louisiana State University's (LSU) interdisciplinary engineering science degree program. Topics discussed include Adio's reasons for studying industrial engineering (IE), how she applies her IE skills to the community outreach program of LSU, and her advice to industrial and systems engineering (ISE) doctoral candidates.

The article features Diana Berry, a native of Colombia and a supply chain specialist at Harsco Rail who keeps learning through volunteering as an Annual Conference Applied Solutions track chair and founder and secretary for the Logistics and Supply Chain Division. Information about the role of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers on Berry’s career is presented.

An interview with Elizabeth Gentry, an industrial engineer and Six Sigma training instructor at Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is presented. When asked about her career, she claims that she loves to apply industrial engineering tools to improve healthcare and she researches decision analysis. Gentry explains the importance of decision analysis tools in Six Sigma and being a member of IISE. She also offers advice to industrial engineering graduates.

The article focuses on Marwa Hassan, assistant professor of construction management and industrial engineering at Louisiana State University. Hassan and colleagues are testing asphalt and concrete photocatalytic pavement constructed of nanotitanium dioxide that accelerates the decomposition of pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), into their base elements. Topics include how an increasing awareness outdoor and indoor air pollution by facility planners and construction companies has led to the development of sustainable infrastructure, Hassan's work to enhance sustainability by integrating advanced materials into various processes and practices, and comments from Hassan regarding the use of photocatalytic pavement to reduce pollution.

An interview with Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) member and volunteer Joan Wagner is presented. Topics covered include factors that led her to an industrial engineering (IE) career in aerospace, her involvement as a runner and fundraiser for Team in Training (TNT), which raises funds for blood cancer research through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS), and ways in which she applies her IE skills to TNT.

The article profiles Patricia Friend-Pereira, pipeline engineer at Atteris highlighting the things she learned while working as a pipeline engineer for various gas industries and offers her advice to young aspiring industry professionals.

The article offers information on Energetic Women, an organization of women in the energy operations and engineering industry in the U.S. It notes the objectives of the group as well as explains the implication of its pilot conference. Details on the second annual Energetic Women Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, is also presented.

Presents question and answer regarding women in engineering in the U.S. Ratio of women engineer in science and engineering; Comparison of the abilities and achievements between women and men engineer; Competitiveness of woman engineer in science and engineering education.

The article features 23-year-old Erin Morris, project engineer for L'oréal USA who holds a degree in industrial engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Topics discussed include the nature of Morris' work, her work on Baby Lips, which she and a small team entered in Beauty Shakers L'oréal's internal innovation competition, and her goal of becoming the company's head of operations.

Features Arlene Shapiro, an industrial engineer, and talks about her work as manager of the industrial system group of the Torrington Company's manufacturing development center. Work experience before acquiring the managerial position; Views on the mentoring aspect of her job; Job description.

The article presents commentary from Soma Nayak on her job as industrial engineering team leader at tire manufacturer Bridgestone Americans Tire Operations' plant in Graniteville, South Carolina. In the course of a typical day she draws upon a variety of skills including benchmarking and kaizen. She is passionate about continuous improvement and enjoys imparting that enthusiasm to others. She hopes to obtain a degree in business administration.

Industrial engineer Anita Rabieyan explains how a lack of Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) offices in the United Kingdom impacts engineering students and engineers in the country. IIE director of membership Heather Bradley explains how the IIE is making efforts to expand its presence in countries outside the United States.

The article profiles industrial engineer Casimira Federspiel at Tween Brands Inc., a division of the Ascena Retail Group Inc., in Pataskala, Ohio. Part of her job at the company is supporting the retail distribution center, creating and refining labor standards. She uses troubleshooting and communication on a daily basis in her work. She recognizes the people at her company as the best part of her job.

The article profiles Lisa Claussen, manager of Invensys Controls for supplier quality and development. She is an administrator of a web-based supplier performance portal that provides suppliers with information and a scorecard based on quality, delivery, response to corrective action requests, inventory turns and cost improvements. Claussen is also working with supply chain, training and development, internal audit, and health and safety.

The article reports on the continuing support of United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) of minorities and women engineers by funding Institute of Industrial Engineers' (IIE) UPS Women and Minority Industrial Engineer Outreach Program in the U.S. The outreach program assists IIE in nourishing the minds of those who wish to pursue a career in industrial engineering. UPS has contributed to the program for more than a decade. Art Muniz, region engineering manager for UPS, delivered a donation of $15,350 to IIE's headquarters in December 2007.

The article profiles industrial engineer Debra Gore-Mann, athletic director at the University of San Francisco in California. She has been assigned to various corporate assignments, including materials science, investment banking and international business. Being a college athlete while studying industrial engineering, she pursued sports broadcasting as a hobby. Gore-Mann noted that her excellent professional foundation enables her to perform in a way that people cannot use her gender and race as an excuse. She believes that being in an area which is predominantly male, she needs to do the process and do her share to establish a driving solution.

The article shares the story of Carolyn Meinel whose article "For Love of a Gun" is featured within the issue. Meinel, who was a former newsletter editor, got hooked with guns after she witnessed the first public demonstration of the coilgun called Mass Driver I in 1976. She then met Harry D. Fair, a physicist and an electric gun researcher, who later hired her to be his advisor after he landed a job at the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency overseeing a program on electromagnetic guns. Meinel, an IEEE member with a master's degree in industrial engineering, discussed her experience after 20 years of working in the agency in her article included in this issue.

The article presents an interview with industrial engineer Debbie Tomko. She mentioned her job as an engineer at the Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Dust Division in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Part of her routine is to visit coal mines and collect dust samples and make recommendations to get their dust concentrations into control. She reiterated that it is her job to create a healthy environment in mines and help miners in good shape.

Presents a letter to the editor regarding female industrial engineers.

Presents the book "Be Happy at Work: 100 Women Who Love Their Jobs, and Why," by Joanne Gordon on the profiles of the five members of the Institute of Industrial Engineer.

Profiles industrial engineer Melissa Rancourt of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). Relocation from U.S. to Europe to join EFQM; Rancourt's development of marketing strategies for products and services, and presentations on quality program implementations; Career highlights; Personal comments on life in Europe.

Reports on the painting of the most neglected schools in New York City by industrial designer Linda Lande Shurman through her nonprofit agency, Publicolor. Belief in the power of colors to change lives; Initial testing of the ideas about the impact of colors in 1994; Process by which the painting of schools is conducted.

Reports on the increasing number of women who are deciding to become industrial engineers (IE), according to an analysis by the Employment Policy Foundation. Factor needed for the increase in the number of women in IE; One prominent female mentor in the field; Estimated number of jobs that will be created in engineering and technology by 2008.

Reports that Eva K. Lee is the only industrial engineer (IE) ever to win the Whitaker Foundation Grant for her automated planning procedure that binds magnetic resonance spectroscopy imaging and treatment to fight prostate cancer. Essential ability of an IE, according to Lee; What Lee's system offers.

Profiles Kari Novatney, industrial engineer and general manager of Metreon. Academic background; Career highlights; Her attitude towards work.

The article focuses the lack of skills in the engineers and less number of women's moving to the engineering industries.

Presents a news update in the field of industry. Appointment of Patricia D. Galloway as first woman president of American Society of Civil Engineers (ACE).