Alumni Assembly Rewards Success

ISyE recognizes successful graduates at the annual Alumni Assembly, held in conjunction with Homecoming each autumn. In 2002, the ISYE Academy of Distinguished Alumni welcomed Dr. Jane Chumley Ammons, NSF ADVANCE Professor of Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering; and H. Bruce McEver, chairman and founder of Berkshire Capital Corporation. David McKenney, chairman and chief executive officer of McKenney's, Inc., entered the ISyE Hall of Fame.

Dr. Jane Ammons accepts her award from Doyle Miller, Chairman of the ISyE Advisory Board.

ISYE Academy of Distinguished Alumni

Jane Ammons earned her Ph.D. in ISyE from Georgia Tech and her MSIE and BSIE cum laude from the University of Alabama. Her academic interests are in production systems design and analysis, manufacturing systems, reverse logistics, and continuous quality improvement. She is an active researcher who has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. Among her honors are: Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, given by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; and Young Engineer of the Year, as named by the Metro Atlanta Engineering Societies. ISyE undergraduates named her outstanding teacher five times, and the top women engineering students awarded her the MERITOR Faculty Excellence Award. She also received the Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teacher Award.

Dr. Ammons serves as co-advisor of the Georgia Tech Tau Beta Pi student chapter. She has held several leadership positions with NSF and IIE, she has served as a consultant to the Army Science Board, and she is a member of IIE, SME, INFORMS, and the American Society of Engineering Education. In addition to her academic career, Dr. Ammons' worked as a plant engineer for an industrial manufacturer, is a registered Professional Engineer, and provides consulting services for a number of companies.

Bruce McEver earned his BIE from Georgia Tech in 1966 and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He began his career as a venture capital analyst at Bessemer Securities, Inc., later serving as assistant vice president of Corporate Finance at Chemical Bank; vice president for Mergers and Acquisitions with Blyth Eastman Dillon Inc. (acquired by Paine Webber Group in 1981); and assistant to the Chairman of Paine Webber Group. He founded Berkshire Capital Corporation in 1983, pioneering the concept of providing independent merger, acquisition, and strategic advisory services for investment managers and securities firms. He supports a number of the company's long-standing client relationships and advises on various strategic and tactical issues related to Berkshire Capital's transaction assignments.

McEver often speaks at industry-related forums. He is a corporate trustee of Trustees of Reservations and is a member of both the board and the finance committee of the Salisbury Association. He is a member of the board of directors of the Connecticut Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, and a member of the advisory boards at Georgia Tech and Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory. He has a great love of the environment and regularly participates in conservation efforts on behalf of natural woodlands near his Berkshires' home in Connecticut. McEver is also an avid reader and published author.

Doyle Miller presents the ISyE Hall of Fame Award to David McKenney.

ISyE Hall of Fame

David McKenney earned his BS in Physics in 1960 and a BIE in 1964 from Georgia Tech, followed by an MBA from Georgia State University in 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps before beginning graduate school, after which he joined The Trane Company as a sales engineer/account executive. In 1972 he joined McKenney's, Inc., a mechanical contracting firm, as vice president. He was appointed president in 1973 and chairman and chief executive officer in 1997. McKenney holds a number of professional qualifications, including Licensed HVAC Contractor and Registered Engineer in several states. He is a member of ASHRAE, SMACNA, MCAA, and the American Arbitration Association; and has been an active in all of these. He has twice been named GSPE Greater Atlanta Engineer of the Year in Construction. He is also active in the community: as vice president and board member of Bobby Dodd Industries, an Elder at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church, a member of the ISyE Alumni Board of Advisors, past-president and member of the board of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, and trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation. He was inducted in the Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni in 1994. McKenney and his wife, Sarah, have been married 39 years and have three grown children.

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