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ISyE Welcomes 2008 GT/NUS Dual Degree Students

Atlanta (January 10, 2008) — To celebrate the arrival of the seventh group of GT/NUS Dual MS program students and the selection of the fourth group of Global Logistics Scholar, the Stewart School of ISyE's Supply Chain & Logistics Institute hosted a dinner in their honor on January 8. Before dinner the group gathered to hear welcoming comments from the Stewart School of ISyE School Chair Chelsea C. White III, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute Executive Director Don Ratliff, and Director of the GT/NUS Dual Degree Program Chen Zhou.

Students and faculty share stories and get to know each other over dinner.

"We are delighted with both groups of students," said Zhou. "These are exceptionally bright students and it is a great pleasure to lead them through the Georgia Tech portion of the program. At Georgia Tech, these students will participate in courses in supply chain engineering. To provide a link between what they learn in class with real world practice, we schedule about 10 tours throughout the semester of various manufacturing, distribution, and transportation facilities."

The Dual Master Program (DMP) is a prestigious 18-month program pioneered in collaboration between the NUS and Georgia Tech. Drawing on the academic resources of both NUS and GT, the DMP is tailored to train logistics professional for strategic and management roles in their respective organizations. The DMP is taught by top academics from the faculty of Engineering, Business and Computing at NUS as well as the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The program leads to two degrees: a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Stewart School Chair Chelsea White welcomes students selected to participate in the 2008 GT/NUS Dual Degree program and Global Logistics Scholars program.

ISyE students selected to be Global Logistics Scholars, a certificate program sponsored by the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, take classes alongside the GT/NUS Dual Degree Program students. The Global Logistics Scholar program is designed for MSIE students and includes logistics seminars and tours, professional education short courses, and other special events. Selected students participate in academic and extra-curricular activities with students enrolled in other international programs, allowing them to interact with logistics faculty, industry professionals, and potential employers.

After dinner, several students took time to pose for a photograph.

2008 GT/NUS Dual Degree Program students include:
Sohail Butt (Pakistan)
Yin-Tung "Lynn" Lin (Taiwan)
Krishna Kumar Natarajan (India)
Rajeswari Niraipandian (India)
Dezhan Pi (China)
Srinivasan Ramasubramanian (India)
Rajupalle Chaitanya Reddy (India)
Joo Sheng Tan (Singapore)
Zheyi Wang (China)
Biying Weng (China)
Fang Xie (China)
Lilin Yang (China)
Budi Yanto (Indonesia)
Botao Zou (China)

The 2008 Global Logistics Scholars are:
Robert Figiel (Germany)
Sumit Jalan (India)
Lisa Jose (India)
Cherian Joseph (India)
Vjekoslav Levacic (Croatia)
Ang Li (China)
Alejandro Mac Cawley (Chile)
Jeyanth Muthukrishnan (India)
Manoharan Narayanan (India)
Daniel Park (U.S.)
Krutin Shah (India)
Shuvam Tandon (India)
Emrah Uyar (Turkey)
Kezban Yagci (Turkey)

The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.