Author: Jessalyn Tamez
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Alexander Salazar
Alexander Salazar is an engineer at Blue Origin, a privately funded American company building Space Rockets and a Space Station.
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Estrada-Garcia awarded 2025 IES graduate and postdoctoral fellowship
Juan-Alberto Estrada-Garcia, a PhD student in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering has been awarded a 2025 U-M Institute for Energy Solutions Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship for his work in power systems amidst wildfires.
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Berahas named member of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research 2025 Young Investigator Program
Albert S. Berahas will use this opportunity to develop, analyze and implement algorithms for solving noisy constrained derivative-free optimization problems, prevalent in fields such as engineering design, medicine and machine learning.
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U-M IOE Building Grand Opening: A Celebration of Community
The newly renovated University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Engineering Building was unveiled on January 22, marking the completion of a $4.5 million transformation aimed at making it a hub for connection and progress in engineering excellence.
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Laura Glick
Laura Glick is the Chief Investment Officer for the Spencer Foundation and manages their $700 million endowment.
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Lanie Dixon
Lanie Dixon is the Executive Director of Patient Experience at Atlantic Health System.
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Kevin Gilligan
Kevin Gilligan is the President of Food and Nutrition at Graham Packaging where he manages a $700 million business.
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Jackie Lapinski
Jackie Lapinski is the Vice President of Performance Excellence at Trinity Health.
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Ilka Vázquez
Ilka Vázquez is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Technology and Transformation practice department where she specializes in finance transformation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.