U-M IOE’s Seth Guikema and Thomas Chen have won the 2019 Robert C Williams Engineering Literary Award from the U.S. Public Health Service.
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Seth Guikema and Thomas Chen win U.S. Public Health Service Engineering literary award
Siqian Shen receives funding from Ford to design integrated ridesharing and goods delivery system
U-M IOE associate professor, Siqian Shen, has received research funding from Ford to explore how mathematical optimization and operations research approaches can improve services that integrate ridesharing with goods delivery.
Jessie Yang receives funding from Dell for analysis of online user-generated data
U-M IOE assistant professor, Jessie Yang, has received research funding from Dell Inc. for sentiment analysis of online user-generated data for business intelligence enrichment.
Xiuli Chao and Ruiwei Jiang receive MCubed funding for data-driven optimization of online retailing
Two U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) researchers have received MCubed funding from the University of Michigan for work on data-driven optimization for online retailing.
Conference comes to my hometown
With Detroit hosting the National Society of Black Engineers conference, the chapter president reflects on what it means to him.
U-M receives U.S. Department of Transportation funding to reduce urban traffic congestion
Three U-M engineers receive funding from USDOT Center for Connected Automated Transportation (CCAT) for a two-year collaborative research project that aims to reduce traffic congestion.
Ruiwei Jiang receives National Science Foundation Career Award
Ruiwei Jiang, U-M IOE assistant professor, receives a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award for his work in operations research.
Three professors inducted into NAE
The new inductees join 33 other University of Michigan members.
Eunshin Byon elected 2019 Chair-Elect of the INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability section
U-M IOE Associate Professor Eunshin Byon has been elected 2019 Chair-Elect of the INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability section, an interdisciplinary group with members from over 50 countries.
STEM education: A taste of research for K-12 teachers
The REACT workshop pairs U-M researchers with K-12 science educators to introduce primary school teachers to new laboratory science and classroom-friendly activities.
Brian Denton named next Industrial and Operations Engineering Chair
Denton, who joined U-M’s IOE faculty in 2012, will be the twelfth chair of the department.
New grad program: Engineering education research
New program turns a researcher’s eye on engineering education in the service of better teaching, learning and diversity at U-M and beyond.
Brian Denton and Lauren Steimle awarded third place in SPRINT Data Challenge
U-M IOE professor, Brian Denton, and PhD student Lauren Steimle are part of the team that claimed third prize in the New England Journal of Medicine’s SPRINT Data Challenge.
U-M team’s power grid work earn kudos at national conference
Society for Risk Analysis recognizes Michigan researchers for work predicting storm damage.
High-tech robotics center coming to U-Michigan
The U-M Board of Regents approved the College of Engineering’s new robotics building project on April 16. The three-story, 100,000-square-foot facility is slated for Hayward Street just east of the Space Research Building on North Campus.
