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U-M HFES Student Chapter and IOE students recognized at HFES annual meeting

U-M INFORMS Student Chapter and Ruiwei Jiang awarded at INFORMS Annual Meeting

What humans want, in an automated car

U-M researchers, including IOE's Jessie Yang, examined how a person’s perception of safety in an autonomous vehicle was influenced by its “personality” traits.

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U-M IOE alum Corinne Joachim-Sanon consults a list of farmers who need to get paid for their harvest. Sannon helped create jobs for local farmers by building Haiti’s first bean-to-bar chocolate operation in her hometown.

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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.

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