Editorial for May 2013 Issue

This issue of the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management includes 18 articles, including seven regular research articles, a guest editorial, and ten articles that, along with five articles published in the November 2012 (Volume 59, Number 4) issue, comprise a special issue on Engineering Management and Sustainability. This timely and highly successful special issue was edited by J. Sarkis, T. D. Bruijn, and Q. Zhu, and has led to the creation of a new department on Social Issues and Sustainability in Engineering Management (please see http://ieee-tem.uark.edu/depts.html for further information and links for this and other departments of the journal). The guest editors of the special issue have prepared an editorial that examines the history and current state of research on sustainability in engineering management and discusses the contributions of the ten sustainability articles included in this issue. The author then summarizes the contributions of the first seven articles from this issue, which were selected through a regular review process.