Dr. César O. Malavé, professor and holder of the Sugar and Mike Barnes Department Head Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been chosen as the featured speaker for the 2014 Undergraduate Convocation Aug. 31 in Reed Arena.
Undergraduate Convocation is a special welcoming program for incoming freshmen and transfer students and is a prelude to the start of fall semester classes the next day.
Malavé joined the Industrial and Systems Engineering faculty at Texas A&M in 1987 and has occupied several administrative positions in The Texas A&M University System, including associate dean of engineering in the Dwight Look College of Engineering.
He was named head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in June 2012 after serving as the department’s interim head for a year.
Malavé holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in operations research, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of South Florida.