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Leia Stirling joins the Industrial and Operations Engineering faculty
Leia Stirling will join the U-M IOE faculty as an associate professor this fall.
Two new IOE associate chair positions created
Two new associate chair positions have been created to provide oversight and administrative leadership to IOE’s undergraduate and graduate programs.
Talking with touch
Nadine Sarter is pioneering the use of tactile interfaces to build better conversations between machines and humans.
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more news »Industrial and operations engineers analyze data to improve decision making and shape systems comprised of humans, machines, and processes. Since its inception in 1956, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan (U-M) has advanced scientific and mathematical methods to help solve local and global challenges, expanding its research and teaching focus from the manufacturing industry into all sectors of the economy.