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NOTE:<\/strong> For ISE Graduate Director questions, email King at ise-grad-director@ncsu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russell King<\/strong> is the Dopaco Inc. Distinguished Professor at NC State University. He currently serves as the Director Graduate Programs for the ISE Department. He is both Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor and is Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. He has consulted for many companies including Ford Motors, The Gap, Dillards Department Stores, and the Institute for Defense and Business. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, advising, and research including the Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award and the Technical Innovation in Industrial Engineering Award from IISE. Previously, he served as Director of the Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics (CAMAL) and the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center (FMMC). Before coming to NC State, he worked as a Systems Analyst for Dynamac Corporation of Rockville, Maryland and as an Industrial Engineer at the Fleet Readiness Center Southeast, at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station.<\/p>\n

He and his daughter are Masters of Taekwondo under Grand Master K.S. 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