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6 ISE Magazine | www.iise.org/ISEmagazine editor's desk To reach me, email mhughes@iise.org or call (770) 349-1110. After 50 (plus?) years, we're greedy for more Anybody want to buy me a bunch of gold? After all, 2018 is the 50th year of ISE magazine, and the shiny metal is the traditional gift for such an anniversary. But maybe that's not appropriate, because we're only kind of 50 years old. You see, the American Institute of Industrial Engineers started The Jour al of dustrial E gi eeri g in 1949, one year after the inauguration of the institute itself. In 1969, that journal was retired, replaced by the journal AIIE Tra actio (now IISE Tra actio – and congrats on its 50th year as well). This magazine, dubbed I dustrial E eeri in January 1969, was designed to keep IEs informed about the profession's developments, thinking and trends with a more popular style of presentation – a magazine, not a journal. IISE now publishes four additional journals (while The E eeri Eco omist has been around more than 60 years, IISE Tra actio o Healthcare Systems E eeri , the Jour al of E terprise Tra sformatio and IISE Tra sactio s o ccupatio al Ergo omics a d Huma actors are less than a decade old). I dustrial M agem t magazine, published by IISE's Society for Engineering and Management Systems, is kicking off its 60th year. (Since I manage that publication, perhaps diamonds are also in order?) I reckon we've done well to last so long. Hopefully we will contin- ue, grow and keep turning the profession's improvement tools onto the problems of the age. Which brings us to this month's cover story, "Re-engineering an IISE Chapter." Scott Sink of The Ohio State University has turned an ISE's yen for improvement to the Columbus professional chapter. Principles and strategies surrounding the stakeholder value exchange optimization model helped boost membership from about 80 mem- bers to more than 180 in a couple of years. Along the way, Columbus became a virtual chapter (call it Chapter 1), welcoming members outside its geographic region and offering improved online engage - ment, appropriate for this digital millennium. So turn to Page 26, check out the transformation and see what you can do back home. Replicating the Ohio renaissance across the institute's 57 professional chapters would revitalize IISE and bring the power of industrial and systems engineering to bear on larger segments of society. That's just as good as a pot of gold or a diamond or two.