Awards & Honors
Jan 29 2015 | MS&E News
Ye has managed to solve one of the longest-running, most perplexing questions in optimization research and applied Big Data analytics. He has proved that two algorithms widely used in software-based decision modeling are, indeed, the fastest and most accurate ways to solve specific types of...
Oct 31 2014
Decisions can be difficult whether we make them as individuals or in boardrooms. But thanks to a Stanford Engineering professor’s landmark work, for the past 50 years people and companies have had a methodology for making tough choices. In 1964 Ronald A. Howard helped to pioneer a field that he...
Sep 26 2014 | NAE
During its recent annual meeting, the NAE recognized MS&E’s Sig Hecker with the Arthur M. Bueche Award "for contributions to nuclear science and engineering and for service to the nation through nuclear diplomacy.” The award recognizes an engineer who has shown dedication in science and...
Mar 28 2014
Kenneth Arrow was 51 years old when he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Economics and became the youngest person to receive that award, a distinction he retains to this day.
Now 92, Arrow is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and a professor emeritus of Management Science and Engineering. In...
Feb 19 2014
Michael May, professor emeritus, has been awarded the 2014 Joseph A. Burton Forum Award by the American Physical Society. May was honored “for his significant and sustained contributions to technical and policy issues pertaining to nuclear weapons, nuclear terrorism, energy and environmental impact...
