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Subir Chowdhury ('89) is first IITian to be awarded prestigious IISE Honorary Member Award

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Subir Chowdhury ('89), founder of the "Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability at IIT-Kharagpur", was recently awarded the Honorary Member Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He is the first IITian to win this award. The Institute released the following statement about Subir: 

                                                                                                                                                                     

"The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is honoring Subir Chowdhury for his lifetime contribution to quality engineering and management with 2021 IISE Honorary Member Award. The IISE Honorary Member Award is the highest honor IISE can grant an individual of acknowledged professional eminence. In IISE's 73 year history, Chowdhury is the 30th recipient of the Honorary Member Award. Past recipients include W. Edwards Deming, Lee Iacocca, W.J. Bentley and Herbert C. Hoover."

Congratulations to Subir on this esteemed honor!                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                         

 

                                                                                

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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Subir Chowdhury ('89) receives IISE Honorary Member Award

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