Modern manufacturing runs on precision, speed, and data. Industry needs it secure, high-yield, and increasingly AI-enabled. ISEN faculty and world-class labs tackle this challenge across sectors like semiconductors, aerospace, energy, and advanced materials, developing smarter quality control, cyber-secure sensing, and robust process control for manufacturing systems including 3D printing, precision machining, and solid-state production.
Additive and Hybrid Manufacturing
This area covers a range of 3D printing processes for metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites — including FDM, LPBF, DED, binder jetting, and DLP — combined with multi-axis machining, forming, and finishing. The goal is to fabricate, repair, and qualify complex, high-performance components with tailored properties and shorter lead times.
Precision Manufacturing Processes
Focuses on ultra-precision machining, micro-fabrication, laser-assisted processing, and surface integrity engineering to achieve extreme dimensional accuracy and tight tolerances — critical for microelectronics, optics, and aerospace applications.
Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0
Uses cyber-physical systems, real-time sensor networks, physics-informed data analytics, and digital twins to enable automated process control, reduce defects, and support resilient, cyber-secure production environments.
Nano Bio Manufacturing
Studies scalable methods for synthesizing, processing, and integrating nanomaterials, biomaterials, nanocomposites, and bio-derived systems — with applications in healthcare, electronics, energy, sustainable infrastructure, and space exploration.
Amarnath Banerjee
- Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4041
- Phone: 979-458-2341
- Email: Banerjee@tamu.edu
Satish T.S. Bukkapatnam
- Department Head, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Sugar and Mike Barnes Department Head Chair, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Regents Professor
- Rockwell International Professor
- Director, TEES Institute for Manufacturing Systems
- Office: ETB 4029
- Phone: 979-845-5535
- Email: satish@tamu.edu
Alaa Elwany
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Mike and Sugar Barnes Career Development Fellowship I, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Kincaid Professorship in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M Engineering
- Chancellor EDGES Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: ETB 4045
- Phone: 979-458-2365
- Email: elwany@tamu.edu
Richard M. Feldman
- Senior Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Professor Emeritus
- Office: ETB 4011
- Phone: 979-845-5585
- Email: richf@tamu.edu
Joe Geunes
- Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor
- Office: ETB 4024
- Phone: 979-862-9114
- Email: geunes@tamu.edu
Jihoon Jeong
- Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4033
- Phone: 979-458-2356
- Email: jihoonjeong@tamu.edu
Mark Lawley
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- I. Andrew Rader Professorship III, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Deputy Director, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems
- Office: ETB 4058A
- Phone: 979-845-5531
- Email: malawley@tamu.edu
Jaesung Lee
- Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4016
- Phone: 979-458-2373
- Email: j.lee@tamu.edu
Lewis Ntaimo
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4008
- Phone: 979-458-2360
- Email: Ntaimo@tamu.edu
Hamid R. Parsaei
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Director, College of Engineering Accreditation and Assessment
- Office: ETB 4068A
- Phone: 979-458-2353
- Email: hamid.parsaei@tamu.edu
Zhijian "ZJ" Pei
- Professor, Associate Department Head, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor II, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4006
- Phone: 979-458-2334
- Email: zjpei@tamu.edu
Dinakar Sagapuram
- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Mike & Sugar Barnes Faculty Fellow, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: ETB 4068
- Phone: 979-458-2370
- Email: dinakar@tamu.edu
Donald R. Smith
- Senior Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4038
- Phone: 979-458-2346
- Email: dr-smith@tamu.edu
Rui Tuo
- Associate Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- 2022 Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Career Initiation Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Department of Statistics
- Office: ETB 4012
- Phone: 979-458-2345
- Email: ruituo@tamu.edu
Shiren Wang
- Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Jill & Charles F. Milstead '60 Faculty Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
- Office: ETB 4039
- Phone: 979-458-2357
- Email: s.wang@tamu.edu
Shixuan Zhang
- Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- Office: ETB 4031
- Phone: 979-458-2362
- Email: shixuan.zhang@tamu.edu
