Sol Lim named Chachra Faculty Fellow
Sol Lim, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named the Chachra Faculty Fellow in Industrial and Systems Engineering by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The Vinod and Ranjana Chachra Fellowship was established through a generous endowment provided by Vinod and Ranjana Chachra. This faculty fellowship enables the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering to retain and attract excellent faculty, contributing to the scholarly and research productivity of faculty in the department and to advancing their external reputation.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2021, Lim has published 24 journal papers, including 18 since the start of 2023. She has published 28 refereed conference papers, and her work has been cited 520 times and has an h-index of 10. In addition, she has delivered 24 invited presentations, most of which were invited seminars at other universities.
Lim’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and multiple industry sponsors, including Ford and General Motors, totaling $3.3 million in funding, with a personal share of $1.37 million. She has received 21 external grants, serving as sole principal investigator on 14 of these awards.
Her teaching has been recognized with the Outstanding ISE Graduate Instructor Award from Alpha Phi Mu, the industrial and systems engineering honor society, and she has twice received the Faculty of the Year Award from the Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics student chapter for exemplary teaching and mentoring. Both awards are selected solely by students.
Lim is currently advising three Ph.D. students and has graduated two Ph.D. student and three master’s thesis students. She has also advised numerous undergraduate researchers and four senior design teams and currently serves on 13 graduate advisory committees.
Lim earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea and both a master’s degree and Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Michigan.
