The USC Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial Engineering seeks a nationally prominent scholar to fill a second Daniel J. Epstein endowed faculty chair. The department has academic and research programs in all major IE sub-disciplines. Epstein faculty members are leading research projects in optimization, risk and economic analysis of terrorism events, health care delivery, predictive control and performance assessment, industrial ecology, network performance, rapid prototyping, automated construction, scheduling, risk analysis, music cognition, and cognitive engineering.  Details on the department’s research and education programs can be found at http://www.usc.edu/dept/ise/. Candidates must have an exceptional research record, and a strong interest in teaching.  Applications must include a letter indicating the area of specialization, a curriculum vitae, a one-page statement on current and future research, and names of at least four professional references.

With approximately $170 million in research expenditures annually, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering ranks first nationally in research funding per faculty member.  The School’s graduate program is ranked 7th nationally according to US News and World Report.  The School’s 166 tenured and tenure track faculty members include holders of 49 endowed chairs and professorships, five members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28 members of the National Academy of Engineering, seven winners of Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 43 winners of NSF CAREER Awards, four winners of the Shannon Award, and a co-winner of the Turing Award.

The Epstein ISE Department is ranked 13th nationally according to US News and World Report.  The current tenured, tenure-track, and full-time teaching faculty complement includes chaired Professors Barry Boehm, Stephen Lu, Sheldon Ross, and F. Stan Settles; Professors Maged Dessouky, Randolph Hall (Vice-provost for Research Advancement), Behrokh Khoshnevis, Najmedin Mehskati, James Moore II, Joe Qin, and Detlof von Winterfeldt; Associate Professors Elaine Chew and Mansour Rahimi; Assistant Professors Yong Chen, Fernando Ordonez, Shinyi Wu, and Maria Yang; Associate Professor of the Practice Kurt Palmer; and Senior Lecturers Geza Bottlik and Dana Sherman.  Professor Emeritus Gerald Nadler remains active in the department.

The Epstein department has 550 graduate students and 150 undergraduate students.  The Epstein ISE Department offers two bachelors degrees, six masters degrees (Systems Architecting and Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, Operations Research Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Systems Safety and Security), several graduate certificates, and maintains a selective doctoral program.

The department is home to the first University Center of Excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security, the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE); and, along with the USC Department of Computer Science, The Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE).  Mail applications, including curriculum vitae, to:


Candidates may contact department chair James Moore for further information at 213-740-4885. Please do not provide letters of reference or copies of publications until requested. The review process will begin immediately and continue until these positions are filled.

The University of Southern California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented groups.