Newsletter
January 2024
Happy New Year, Work Systems Division Colleagues
We hope you all had a safe and eventful Holiday Season. With the start of 2024, we wanted to provide you with a few updates:
First, some sad news
The Work Systems Division (and the entire ISE Profession) lost a caring and trusted colleague over the Holidays. Dr Miguel Gonzales passed away on December 27 after a short illness. He was only 63. 

A lifelong educator, Miguel was most recently the first Hispanic dean to lead the College of Science and Engineering at The University of Houston Clear Lake. Miguel also held the role of Work Systems Division President multiple times and was instrumental in our journey to evolve Work Systems from it’s traditional roots to the modernized environment we experience today. While we mourn the loss, we also celebrate the positive impact Miguel had on our profession. He will be greatly missed.
Annual Conference Planning

  • 24 Abstracts were submitted and reviewed for the Work Systems Track – thanks to all of you that submitted. Notifications have been made to authors – with instructions around paper submission and presentation formatting. Paper submission deadline is February 9.

  • Next steps include paper reviews, Special Session creation and organizing all content into our Track Schedule
Student Paper Competition
Once again, the Division is sponsoring a Student Paper competition. The best paper author will be awarded $250. Paper submission deadline is
February 9. Here is a link with details: https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=50011
Educator Recognition Award
Nominations are currently open for our annual Educator Recognition Award. Deadline is March 1. Visit https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=52243 for details.
Student Board Members
Introducing our two new student board members, Prisha Singhal (Purdue University) and Saleh Ateiwi (Wichita State University).

They will be representing the ~800 students in our Division – ensuring a value add for members and developing a roadmap to grow our student membership base. 
Welcome to the Team Prisha and Saleh!!
Prisha Singhal
Purdue University
Saleh Ateiwi
Wichita State University
Social Media
To keep you up to date on Work Systems Division activities and information, we invite you to join our LinkedIn Group at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12077160.
We also encourage you to share your innovative Work Systems related ideas/questions/notes/achievements/news either in the LinkedIn Group or at Ideas@allabouttime.org.
Thank You
Thank you for being part of the Work Systems Division – please feel free to share this update with any of your colleagues….
 
Work Systems Division Board
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