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Deborah Nightingale

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Deborah J. Seifert Nightingale is an American management scientist, industrial engineer, and enterprise transformation consultant. She is University Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems at the University of Central Florida, past president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a former professor of Engineering Systems and of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nightingale was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1993 for contributions to the expanding field of computer-integrated manufacturing as an instrument of industrial competitiveness.[1] She is the 2020 winner of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award.[2]

Nightingale is a graduate of the University of Dayton, and has a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio State University.[3] She was president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for 1995–1996,[4] served on the MIT faculty from 1997 to 2014, and joined the University of Central Florida faculty in 2017.[1]

Nightingale is the author of books including Lean Enterprise Value: Insights from MIT's Lean Aerospace Initiative (with 12 other authors, 2002),[5] Beyond the Lean Revolution: Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation (with Jayakanth Srinivasan, 2011)[6] and Architecting the Future Enterprise (with Donna H. Rhodes, 2015).[1]

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  1. ^ a b c Deborah Nightingale: University Distinguished Professor, Member, National Academy of Engineering (NAE), University of Central Florida, retrieved 2020-11-17
  2. ^ "Deborah J. Nightingale", IISE Member Spotlight, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, retrieved 2020-11-17
  3. ^ Professor Deborah Seifert Nightingale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 10, 1998, retrieved 2020-11-17
  4. ^ Past Presidents, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, retrieved 2020-11-17
  5. ^ Reviews of Lean Enterprise Value: Phillip Beaumont (2002), European Management Journal, doi:10.1016/S0263-2373(02)00123-8; David Bennett (2003), R&D Management, [1]; Heinz Stoewer (2003), Space Policy, doi:10.1016/S0265-9646(02)00069-3, Bibcode:2003SpPol..19...73S
  6. ^ Review of Beyond the Lean Revolution: Bill Baker (2012), Quality Progress, ProQuest 1076410427