In November, deans from the Gallogly College of Engineering presented Cheryl Carney with the GCOE Superior Staff Award.
Carney has more than 30 years of service with OU, with most of those years dedicated to the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Carney is retiring from the School of ISE at the end of 2022.
Photo from left: John Klier, Carney, Randa Shehab, and Zahed Siddique.
After a competitive internal application process, the GCoE selected recipients for a chair and two professorships.
OU ISE Professor Kash Barker was awarded the John A. Meyers Professorship. Prof. Barker has been a faculty member in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering since 2008 and is a David L. Boren Professor and an Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Presidential Professor. He has an extensive publication record and is known for his work in operations research and risk analysis. He has served as an editor for several reputable journals and has recently received a Fulbright fellowship for spring 2023 in Finland. All of the PhD students he advised have gone on to positions in academia. He has received a significant amount of funding from multiple federal agencies and he also has an impressive number of collaborations with international universities.
