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  • U-M IOE community excels at 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting

    U-M IOE community excels at 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting

    The University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering Department walked away with numerous awards, including an INFORMS Fellow Award for Amy Cohn and Magna Cum Laude status for the U-M INFORMS student chapter.


  • Ivy named the Vivian L. Carpenter Professor of Engineering

    Ivy named the Vivian L. Carpenter Professor of Engineering

    Department Chair of the University of Michigan Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Dr. Julie Simmons Ivy is honored for her new appointed as the Vivian L. Carpenter Professor of Engineering.


  • IOE Symposium Highlights Undergraduate Research

    IOE Symposium Highlights Undergraduate Research

    The U-M IOE Undergraduate Research Symposium highlights undergraduate student research projects each fall. These include topics like AI in human factors engineering, exam room utilization at Michigan Medicine and much more.


  • U-M IOE Earns Top HFES Honors

    U-M IOE Earns Top HFES Honors

    The U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering community made a significant impact at the 68th Annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Meeting. Members of our community won awards ranging from the prestigious President’s Distinguished Service Award, the Gold HFES Chapter Recognition Award, as well are many others.


  • Berahas Receives ONR Grant to Develop Advanced Optimization Algorithms

    Berahas Receives ONR Grant to Develop Advanced Optimization Algorithms

    The grant will fund the development of cutting-edge algorithms for solving complex nonlinear constrained stochastic optimization problems. Albert Berahas, and Micheal O’Neill will lead the research to advance optimization methods and address real-world challenges.


  • U-M IOE welcomes new faculty

    U-M IOE welcomes new faculty

    The University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering department welcomes two outstanding faculty members; Drs. Uday Shanbhag and Amelia Warden.


  • CHEPS finds new home in U-M IOE Department

    CHEPS finds new home in U-M IOE Department

    The Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) officially joined the University of Michigan’s Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) Department, further enhancing its mission to improve healthcare systems through systems engineering and interdisciplinary collaboration.


  • Department adds a systems engineering and design program

    Department adds a systems engineering and design program

    The University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) Department has expanded to include a systems engineering focused degree program that can be taken online or in-person.


  • Viswanath Nagarajan Awarded NSF Grant

    Viswanath Nagarajan Awarded NSF Grant

    The awarded project focuses on developing advanced algorithms for stochastic optimization, tackling a fundamental challenge in algorithm design: uncertainty in input parameters.


  • Saif Benjaafar Named Distinguished Fellow of MSOM Society

    Saif Benjaafar Named Distinguished Fellow of MSOM Society

    The University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering Professor has been named a Distinguished Fellow by the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).


  • Industrial and Operations Engineering alum speaks at aviation conference

    Industrial and Operations Engineering alum speaks at aviation conference

    Sinan Abdulhak is presenting two research papers at the 2024 International Conference on Research in Air Transportation at the University in Singapore.


  • Meet the female engineers leading the field of industrial and operations engineering research

    Meet the female engineers leading the field of industrial and operations engineering research

    The female engineers of the University of Michigan’s Industrial and Operations Engineering Department stand out for their profound impact on both academia and industry. As the world celebrates International Women in Engineering Day, we turn the spotlight to the women in our department reshaping the frontiers of industrial engineering, systems research, optimization and human ergonomics to create better…


  • Saif Benjaafar to succeed Larry Seiford as co-director of the Tauber Institute

    Saif Benjaafar to succeed Larry Seiford as co-director of the Tauber Institute

    The Institute, a joint effort of the U-M College of Engineering and School of Business, provides students from both engineering and business with a unique educational and industry experience that prepares them for leadership positions in industry.


  • Eunshin Byon has been promoted to Professor with tenure at the University of Michigan

    Eunshin Byon has been promoted to Professor with tenure at the University of Michigan

    Since joining the U-M IOE Department in 2011 she has spearheaded a strategic effort to modernize the data analytics curriculum in order to prepare students for the contemporary workforce and advanced studies.


  • University of Michigan Faculty Members Recognized with Prestigious IISE Awards

    University of Michigan Faculty Members Recognized with Prestigious IISE Awards

    Albert Berahas, Amy Cohn, Eunshin Byon and Raed Al Kontar have all been honored with awards from IISE for their work in the field of industrial and systems engineering.


  • Raed Al Kontar receives promotion to associate professor with tenure

    Raed Al Kontar receives promotion to associate professor with tenure

    Since joining the U-M IOE department he has developed and taught data analytics courses that impact students and secured $1.75 million in research funding.