Professor Keith Gardiner to receive service award
from Society of Manufacturing Engineers

Keith M. Gardiner, professor of industrial and systems engineering and director of the Center for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, has been chosen to receive the Joseph A. Siegel Service Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Gardiner, a 31-year member of SME, is being honored for “making unique contributions” to the society and for “exemplifying the meaning of service to others.”

In a written statement, SME said Gardiner “has demonstrated broad versatility in the many ways he has served manufacturing, from leading chapters, to editing publications, to spearheading educational conferences, to judging Future City entries during National Engineers Week.”

SME also praised Gardiner’s “deep involvement” in elementary, middle-school and high-school activities.

Gardiner has served SME as vice president and as secretary and treasurer, and has completed three terms as SME’s international director. He has served as faculty adviser to Lehigh’s student chapter of SME since 1990, and has represented SME on the National Steering Committee since 2000.

Gardiner will be recognized at SME’s annual awards banquet in Dearborn, Mich., on May 30, 2003.

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the world's leading professional society for manufacturing education, has chapters in 70 countries around the world.