John D. Tickle Professor Mingzhou Jin has been selected as the next editor-in-chief of The Engineering Economist.
The Engineering Economist is a quarterly refereed journal published jointly by the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). The journal publishes articles, case studies, surveys, and book and software reviews that represent original research, current practice, and teaching involving problems of capital investment, life-cycle cost assessment, techno-economic analysis, and other economic analysis of engineering projects and systems.
Jin, an IISE Fellow and head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at UT, will assume his new role in January 2025. Jin has served as an editorial board member for the journal since 2014 and has filled similar editorial posts with several other publications.
“It is an honor to be selected as editor-in-chief of a prestigious IISE journal with a rich history,” said Jin, who is also the director of UT’s Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE). “I plan to broaden the journal’s scope and enhance its impacts by fostering the development and adoption of innovative engineering technologies and systems that promote sustainable development of our societies. These technologies—spanning cleaner energy, green building, low-carbon manufacturing, future mobility, and sustainable environmental systems—often involve significant capital investment. Ensuring their economic feasibility is essential for achieving market acceptance and long-term growth.”
The Engineering Economist, which was founded in 1955 and is one of two major IISE journals, is indexed by the Sciences Citation Index (SCI) and Social SCI.
IISE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial and systems engineering profession. IISE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial and systems engineering.
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Rhiannon Potkey (865-974-0683, rpotkey@utk.edu)