Lehigh ISE Alumni Lectures
The 2024 and 2025 Lehigh ISE Alumni Lectures are sponsored by David Burdakin '77 through the Lehigh ISE 100 Anniversary Program
Spring 2024 Lectures
March 21, 2024
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Scott Hartz
Highlighted Topics: "Leadership Action Steps, Importance of Broad Focus, SAP"
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
April 2, 2024
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: "Insights Into Being An Effective ISE"
Enterprise Systems Center Lecture Part 1
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
April 4, 2024
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: Insights Into Being An Effective ISE"
Enterprise Systems Center Lecture Part 2
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Fall 2023 Lectures
November 16, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Scott Hartz
Highlighted Topics: "Leadership Action Steps, Importance of Broad Focus, SAP"
Enterprise Systems Center Lecture Part 1
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory W. Zimmer
November 14, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: "Insights Into Being An Effective ISE"
Enterprise Systems Center Lecture Part 3
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
October 26, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: "Insights Into Being An Effective ISE"
Enterprise Systems Center Lecture Part 2
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
October 24, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: Insights Into Being An Effective ISE"
Enterprise Systems Center Lecture Part 1
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Spring 2023 Lectures
April 26, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Meltem Ozmadenci (ISE '13)
Highlighted Topics: "Guest lecture on supply chain optimization at Amazon"
ISE 362 Logisitics and Supply Chain Management
Professor Larry Snyder
April 14, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: "Insights Into Being An Effective ISE" (Part 2)
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory Zimmers
April 7, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: "Insights Into Being An Effective ISE" (Part 1)
ISE 254 Capstone Course
Professor Emory Zimmers
April 6, 2023
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Dylan Scheidle, Cameron Menna, Karyn Librader, Giavanna Tabacchino, Varad Narayanan, Arnella Margolin
Highlighted Topics: "Student Alumni Mixer"
ISE 321 Independent Study in Industrial & Systems Engineering
Professor Ana Alexandrescu
Past Lectures
FALL 2022
November 10, 2022
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Elizabeth Haines, Aiden Gales, Sarah Vaknin, Aaron Cohen, Winton Wong, Daniel Butensky, Michael Butensky
Highlighted Topics: "Student Alumni Mixer"
ISE 321 Independent Study in Industrial & Systems Engineering
Professor Ana Alexandrescu
October 18, 2022, October 25, 2022, and October 27, 2022
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE ’79)
Highlighted Topics: 3 Part Lecture Series - “Insights into Being an Effective ISE”
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
SPRING 2022
April 17, 2022
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Laura (Silvoy Moran) (ISE '11 & '14)
Highlighted Topics: "Paving the Path from Academia to Industry"
ISE 321 Independent Study in Industrial & Systems Engineering
Professor Ana Alexandrescu
April 26, 2022
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Aaron Cohen (ISE '20)
Highlighted Topics: "Paving the Path from Academia to Industry"
ISE 321 Independent Study in Industrial & Systems Engineering
Professor Ana Alexandrescu
March 31, 2022
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Michael Magent (IE'96)
Highlighted Topics: "Using Machine Learning to Affect Tractor/Trailer Rehabilitation Investment"
ISE 365/465 Applied Data Mining
Professor Brent Peterson
FALL 2021
Friday, November 5, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Christine Burke (IE '89)
Highlighted Topics: "Leadership Concepts with Lessons Learned Infused, Career Development Tips, Types of Good Leaders"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - John McGlade (IE '76)
Highlighted Topics: "Leadership Fundamentals, Cultural Diversity and Sensitivity, Guiding Values, Relationship Building, External Focus"
ISE 254 Senior Project (Online presentation - Asynchronous)
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Nicole Rivera McKinley ('01)
Highlighted Topics: "Software testing at Olympus's Medical Systems Development, focusing on traceability and compliance issues in practice"
ISE 356 Introduction to Systems Engineering and Decision Analysis
Professor Derya Pamukcu
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: 3 Part Lecture Series - "Insights into Being an Effective ISE, Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Tuesday, October 21, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: 3 Part Lecture Series - "Insights into Being an Effective ISE, Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: 3 Part Lecture Series - "Insights into Being an Effective ISE, Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Tuesday, October 6, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Dr. Joe Golob ('21) and Varun Joseph Andrews ('21)
Highlighted Topics: "A Strategy for Effective ICU Nurse Scheduling"
HSE Industry Webinar
Professor Ana Alexandrescu
Friday, September 17, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Scott Hart
Highlighted Topics: "Leadership Action Steps, Importance of Broad Focus, SAP"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Friday, September 10, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz (IE '79)
Highlighted Topics: "Leadership Principles, Core Elements and Lessons"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Friday, September 3, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Dr. Ray Glemser (Ph.D IE' 91)
Highlighted Topics: "Lessons in Business Leadership"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
SPRING 2021
Friday, April 30, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Clem Palevich, Advisor/Consultant, Energy and Sustainability
Highlighted Topics: "Career progression (with leadership insights incorporated), leader vs. manager, learning leadership, leadership philosophy, questions, and answers"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Lewis Chaselow, Associate Professor Emeritus of Business, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
Highlighted Topics: "Implementation examples utilizing probability methods, including a variety of application environments"
ISE 111 Engineering Statistics
Professor Eugene Perevolov
Wednesday, April 26, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Dr. Ruth Krywicki, Sr. Manager Quality Assurance, Molson Coors, Albany, GA
Highlighted Topics: "Interpreting quality descriptors, application of control charts in large scale production, quality control vs quality assurance, rational subgroups, Minitab usage in industry practice"
ISE 332 Product Quality
Professor Eugene Perevolov
Friday, April 16, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Eduardo Segovia, Enterprise Agile Coach, Office of the CIO IBM
Highlighted Topics: "Work culture evolution, various aspects of lean and agile applied to automation, personal insights involving the software delivery life cycle, leadership in the process of new IT developments, approaches to improve the speed of introduction of new strategies"
Special Presentation for Senior ISE Students
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Thursday, April 13, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Peter Christian, Retired (MSIE '77)
Highlighted Topics: "Project Charter, Work Breakdown Structure, Budgeting, Budget maintenance, Ethics, and Professional Responsibilities"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Friday, March 5, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Ray Hoving
Highlighted Topics: "Visioning as a Leadership Tool"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Ray Hoving
Highlighted Topics: "Visioning as a Leadership Tool"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Tuesday March 2, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz, President, Compass Technology Management
Highlighted Topics: Insights into Being an Effective ISE, Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz, President, Compass Technology Management
Highlighted Topics: Insights into Being an Effective ISE, Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Thursday February 25, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz, President, Compass Technology Management
Highlighted Topics: "Insights into Being an Effective ISE, Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Tuesday February 23, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz, President, Compass Technology Management
Highlighted Topics: "Insights into Being an Effective ISE, Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)"
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Friday February 19, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz, President, Compass Technology Management
Highlighted Topics: "Leadership Principles, Core Elements and Lessons"
ISE 382 Leadership Development
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Thursday February 18, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Keith Krenz, President, Compass Technology Management
Highlighted Topics: "Insights into Being an Effective ISE"; Market-Cash-Capacity-Speed (MCCS)
ISE 254 Senior Project
Professor Emory W. Zimmers
Friday February 12, 2021
ISE Alumni Lecture Series - Ray Glemser, CEO of Glemser Technologies
Highlighted Topics: "Lessons in Business Leadership"
ISE 382 Leadership Development (Has presented every year since 2012)
Professor Emory W. Zimmers