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The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has presented Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Professor Emmanuel S. Eneyo, PhD, with a 2016 Golden Torch Award for Lifetime Achievement in Academia.

A professor of industrial engineering, Eneyo has served the SIUE School of Engineering for more than 25 years. He joined the SIUE faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor in industrial engineering. He served as the program director of industrial engineering from 1999 to 2005. He also successfully guided the manufacturing engineering program through its first ABET accreditation visit in 2004.

“As one of the leaders of underrepresented faculty members on our campus, he has earned the respect of not only the faculty members in the School of Engineering, but also the SIUE campus community with his enthusiasm and support for minority causes,” said Cem Karacal, interim dean of the SIUE School of Engineering.  “At SIUE, he is a sought after individual because of his experience and wisdom to ensure proper functioning of many committees and processes.”

“I feel a deep sense of humility and gratitude,” said Eneyo. “While this award signifies a lifetime achievement in academia, it is by no means an end to my passion for educating and mentoring the next generation of students, especially underrepresented minorities in engineering education.

“The unsolicited expressions of gratitude I have received from former students are the drivers for the joy that I derive from what I do,” Eneyo continued. “As an advocate for quality engineering education, it is my fervent desire that as gatekeepers of the engineering profession, we as educators, raise our sights beyond the horizon of present-day knowledge and perfect the application of established principles and practices of touching lives and the future that we may not see.”

Eneyo’s areas of expertise include integrated production systems, supply chain management, methods engineering and work measurement, lean production, project management, engineering economic analysis, knowledge-based expert systems, computer simulation modeling and analysis, intelligent modeling of data mining applications and maintenance management systems.

Eneyo has more than 20 years of combined industrial work and consulting experiences with such companies as Bechtel Power Corp., Rockwell International, Rohr Industries, Roho International, American Steel Foundries, Sierra International and Shell Petroleum Development Co.-Nigeria Ltd. His consulting activities over the years have resulted in several professional journal publications and international conference presentations.

Eneyo is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and a member of Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering Honor Society), Tau Beta Pi (National Engineering Honor Society), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He advises the SIUE student chapter of National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

Eneyo earned both bachelor’s and master’s in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Southern California in 1980 and ’81, respectively. He achieved a PhD in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1991.

Photo:  Emmanuel S. Eneyo, PhD, professor of industrial engineering in the SIUE School of Engineering.