SEOR ranked no. 31 by US News and World Report: Best Engineering Schools in Industrial & Manufacturing (2009). SEOR Senior Design teams win two of the five tracks in the 2009 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering and Design Symposium (24 April, 2009): New Ph.D. program in Systems Engineering and Operations Research begins Spring 2009. Kathy Laskey and Andy Loerch lead 7 million dollar contract for research and development to counter IED's New Sensor Fusion Lab established in SEOR under Directorship. of KC Chang Karla Hoffman won the first Harvey Greenberg Service Award for contributions to the INFORMS Computing Society. Dr. Hoffman was presented with the award at the 2009 INFORMS Computing Society Conference, Charleston SC. Mason named No. 1 University to watch Attention entering MS students: SYST 500 waiver exam Attention nondegree students: transfer credit limits