2015
In 2015, for the fourth year in a row, the Enterprise Systems Center (ESC) and the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., were honored as one of the top three finalists nationally in the INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Competition. INFORMS formally recognized the close collaboration between the ESC and the ISE Department to nurture a vibrant educational ecosystem producing effective young practitioners of operations research (0.R.) and analytics including industry project based, experiential learning.