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Carolyn Heising
Professor of industrial engineering
cheising@iastate.edu
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Since August, 1993, Carolyn Heising is Professor of Industrial, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Iowa State University of Science and Technology. Prior to this appointment, she was Professor of Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston(1984-93), and Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)(1980-84). She also served as Visiting Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Florida(1990-1991) on her sabbatical leave. She is serving a second term as an elected member of the national Board of Directors (BoD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) (1992-1998).

Dr. Heising's research areas include: reliability and quality engineering, probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), statistical quality control (SQC), total quality managment (TQM), and technology safety assessment. In particular, she is a well-known expert in nuclear power plant safety, condition monitoring, and predictive maintenance.