Alumni Merit Award
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Each year U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering recognizes an alum who personifies the College of Engineering’s tradition of excellence.
2023 Alumni Merit Award Honoree: Damon P. Williams
Damon P. Williams serves as the inaugural associate dean for inclusive excellence and chief diversity officer, advancing the Georgia Tech’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and supporting a climate of equity and belonging across Georgia Tech’s community. Williams is a member of the academic faculty in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), where he is a senior lecturer and director of ISyE’s Center for Academics, Success, and Equity, which he founded in 2020. He also speaks nationally on higher education and diversity in academia.
Williams earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech in 2002 and then a master’s and PhD in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. He returned to Georgia Tech as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Teaching and Learning and a part-time lecturer in ISyE in 2010. He turned his attention to teaching and advising full-time in 2014.
Williams also earned a Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and serves as senior pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist Church in southwest Atlanta.
Previous recipients
Previous recipients | |
2022 | Harriet B. Nembhard |
2020 (awarded 2021) | Anne Shen Smith |
2019 | Craig Russell |
2018 | Robert G. Sargent |
2017 | Gary Verplank |
2016 | Norman Harbert |
2015 | Bill Johnson |
2014 | Betty Chao |
2013 | Julia Higle |
2012 | Chakor Doshi |
2011 | Ranvir Trehan |
2010 | Marlin Thomas |
2009 | David H. Gustafson |
2008 | Kedrick Adkins |
2007 | Mary Petrovich |
2006 | Wally Hopp |
2005 | Lawrence D. Burns |
2005 | Donald C. Graham (Alumni Society Medal) |
2004 | Karl G. Bartscht |
2003 | W. Peter Cherry |
2002 | Erhan Cinlar |
2001 | Roger Kallock |
2000 | John A. Muckstadt |
1999 | Robert M. Brown |
1998 | Ralph E. Reins |
1997 | John E. Utley, Jr. |
1997 | Robert J. Vlasic (Alumni Society Medal) |
1996 | J. Dann Engels |
1995 | C. Robert Kidder |
1994 | Myun Woo Lee |
1993 | Richard Carl Jelinek |
1992 | Thom Hodgson |