Fereydoun Aghazadeh

Fereydoun Aghazadeh is an American academic and engineer specializing in industrial engineering. He is a professor in the Industrial Engineering Program at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he holds the Georgia Gulf Distinguished Professorship of Engineering.

Education and career
Aghazadeh obtained his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University. After completing his doctorate in 1982, he joined the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Alabama. In 1984, he moved to LSU, where he established a program in Industrial Ergonomics and Safety Engineering.

At LSU, Aghazadeh played a role in shifting the Industrial Engineering program from a primarily teaching-focused curriculum to one that emphasizes research and graduate studies. As the graduate program coordinator, he has overseen the research of numerous master's and doctoral students. Additionally, he has served on various university committees and was involved in the development of LSU’s College of Engineering strategic plan in 2020. He has also been a member of the LSU Chancellor’s Realignment Task Force, which focuses on restructuring academic departments within the university.

Books
Advances in Industrial Ergonomics and Safety. Taylor and Francis Ltd, June 1994 (Aghazadeh, F., Editor).
Trends in Ergonomics/Human Factors V. Elsevier Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1988 (Aghazadeh, F., Editor)

Awards and recognitions
Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (2014)
Fellow of the Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors
Ralph R. Teetor Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers
Georgia Gulf Distinguished Professorship at LSU College of Engineering
Faculty Fellow at NASA Johnson Space Center (2003, 2004)

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Category:Living people
Category:American engineers