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Health and Human Safety

tamezjesAugust 30, 2022

Helping people get back to work using deep learning in the occupational health system

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University of Michigan researchers have produced a new prediction model using longitudinal information and deep learning to better predict the return to work time for people with occupational injuries.

tamezjesAugust 25, 2022

Preventing prescription dispensing errors using machine intelligence

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In the United States over four billion prescriptions are dispensed every year. Of those four billion around 2.4 million are incorrectly dispensed, which can be a fatal error. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan looks to machine intelligence to help humans reduce their dispensing errors.

frtlssNovember 11, 2021

Center for Ergonomics receives $1.1 million grant to study information automation vulnerabilities on modern flight decks

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The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Nadine Sarter and her Human-Automation Interaction and Cognition (THInC) Lab in the UM Center for Ergonomics a three-year, grant to study information management on the flight deck of highly automated aircraft.

Michigan EngineeringAugust 23, 2021

Brian Denton appointed Stephen M. Pollock Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering

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Brian Denton has been appointed the Stephen M. Pollock Collegiate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, named in honor of Stephen M. Pollock, a professor emeritus and former chair of U-M IOE.

Michigan EngineeringJuly 29, 2021

Kati Moug receives 2021 Generation Google Scholarship

U-M IOE PhD student, Kati Moug, has received a 2021 Generation Google Scholarship in recognition of academic performance, leadership, and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Michigan EngineeringAugust 18, 2020

The science behind campus bus changes during COVID-19

Engineers used smoke machines, physics-based modeling and route optimization algorithms to quantify risk.

Michigan EngineeringJanuary 24, 2020

Amy Cohn receives MDHHS funding to improve hospital staffing

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U-M IOE professor, Amy Cohn, has received funding from MDHHS to improve staffing and safety issues within Michigan’s state hospital system using simulation tools and optimization techniques.

Michigan EngineeringApril 17, 2019

Seth Guikema and Thomas Chen win U.S. Public Health Service Engineering literary award

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.

Michigan EngineeringJanuary 22, 2019

Mark Van Oyen elected President of the INFORMS Health Applications Society

U-M IOE Professor Mark Van Oyen has been elected 2019 Vice President and 2020 President of the INFORMS Health Applications Society.

Michigan EngineeringOctober 4, 2018

Using decision thresholds to improve medical diagnosis

U-M IOE PhD student, Gian-Gabriel Garcia receives student prize from the Society of Medical Decision Making.

Michigan EngineeringApril 4, 2017

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.

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