ISSIP Ambassadors link ISSIP to other professional associations and as such help represent ISSIP in professionals associations with service SIGs and/or service innovation related conferences, publications, or other activities. ISSIP Ambassadors can propose ISSIP sponsored Student Best Paper awards in the top service-related sessions or conferences of the professional associations they represent. ISSIP Ambassadors also ensure that ISSIP members are aware of and have an opportunity to contribute to the other professional associations conferences, publications, and other service-related activities of the professional association they represent.
We are delighted to announce that effective April 26, 2013, Professor Ralph Badinelli, Virginia Tech, has been appointed to be the ISSIP Ambassador to The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and Professor Andrzej Rucinski,University of New Hampshire, has been appointed to be the ISSIP Ambassador to American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and IEEE Computer Society Design Automation Technical Committee.
Dr Ralph Badinelli is a professor in the Department of Business Information Technology, Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech. He received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Management from the Krannert Graduate School of Business of Purdue University, an M.S. degree in Physics from Purdue University, and a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Physics from Hofstra University.
Dr. Badinelli has published refereed articles in Operations Research, Management Science, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Service Science, International Journal of Production Research and other international journals. He has been an invited speaker at service science conferences in Cambridge, the Naples Forum on Service and INFORMS Annual Conferences.
Dr. Badinelli has been a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS, formerly ORSA/TIMS) since 1982. He has served in many roles within this organization including that of Chairperson of the INFORMS Service Science Section (2010) and editor of the INFORMS journal, Service Science. He has served as the Secretary of the Service Research & Innovation Institute (SRII) since 2010 and a Board Member of the International Society for Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) since 2012. He is also a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a certified member of the Association for Operations Management (APICS).
Professor Andrzej Rucinski represents a growing category of “transatlantic professors” defining the role of academia in the global engineering era and developing global innovation, technology, and education solutions. He was educated both in Poland and the former Soviet Union and has conducted his academic career in both the United States (University of New Hampshire, USA), Europe (France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine), and Asia (India, Kazakhstan). His service has been with high tech industry, NGOs, ranging from the state level (National Infrastructure Institute) to a global level (NATO, United Nations Organization). He is a member of the Executive Committee (Innovation Chair) of the IEEE Computer Society’s Design Automation Technical Committee. He chaired the 2009 Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE’09) in San Francisco. At the University of New Hampshire, he is the founding Director of the Critical Infrastructure Dependability Laboratory, the Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Space Science Center. He was the Member of the US State Department/Fulbright National Screening Committee, a Visiting Professor at the Gdansk University of Technology, a Professor of the Indo-US Coalition of Engineering Education (IUCEE), and he has been the Fulbright Senior Specialist. Currently, his interest is focusing on the development of a global engineering education platform based on the Internet of Things and disruptive technologies through a coalition of accreditation and certification organizations such as ASEE, IGIP, IFEES, IUCEE, and GEDC. This “last frontier” in education is classified as service science discipline emphasizing transformations from current localized education through globalization into the establishment of services by “global engineers.”