Category: Industrial and Operations Engineering
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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.
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Celebrating the IOE graduate class of 2024
This spring 58 students graduated from the U-M IOE PhD and master’s program. Many of whom were honored with awards.
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IOE hosts its annual Senior Design Expo
The IOE Senior Design Expo highlights the research of its graduating seniors before they go off into the world to solve real world problems in industrial engineering and operations research.
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Amy Cohn named as IISE and INFORMS Fellow
These designations are exceptionally prestigious and only awarded to the best in systems engineering and operations/management research.
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University of Michigan Hosts Optimaize Day to Spark Interest in Engineering Among Detroit High School Students
In partnership with the Detroit Educational Takeover Team, Optimaize Day bridges theoretical understanding of engineering with everyday applications, leaving a lasting impression on the minds of potential future engineers.
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Shifting power operations to reduce wildfires
New method can help avoid public safety power shut-offs during fire-prone climate conditions
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University of Michigan IOE PhD Student Yifan Li honored with teaching awards
Yifan Li has been honored with the 2024 Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement, the Distinguished Leadership Award from the College of Engineering and the Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Award
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IOE PhD student Jianhao Ma awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports PhD students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing
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Nick Tran selected for the Aviation Week Network’s 2024 20 Twenties Class
These top 20 students are poised to make significant strides in the arenas of aviation, aerospace or defense.
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New statistical tool to distinguish shared and unique features in data from different sources
Personalized PCA method overcomes the challenges of heterogeneous data analysis
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An augmented reality assessment designed to test astronaut adjustment to gravity changes
It’s not safe to assume astronauts are ready for mission tasks following spaceflights.
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$4.5 million renovation approved for U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
The IOE Building, last updated in 1998 will undergo a 8,850-square-foot renovation to increase spaces for collaboration, learning, research and community building.
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Researchers identify behaviors that lead to interprofessional collaboration within intensive care units
Through observations, clinician shadowing, and interviews with ICU personnel, the research team from the University of Michigan identified 18 distinct behaviors, which they divided into two categories labeled ‘enablers’ and ‘collaborative activities’.
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Two U-M IOE faculty members given an MLK Spirit Award
Assistant Professors Albert S. Berahas and Salar Fattahi each won a North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Award. The awards are given annually to individuals who exemplify the leadership and vision of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Michigan Engineering Professors to develop novel federated learning algorithms for distributed 3D printing
Kontar and Okwudire have received a grant from Cisco Systems Inc. to develop novel federated learning algorithms that address descriptive, predictive and prescriptive machine learning opportunities in large-scale distributed 3D printing.
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Salar Fattahi receives NSF CAREER Award for work in nonconvex problems in machine learning
Salar Fattahi discusses his award-winning CAREER proposal which aims to close the current gap between optimization and statistical learning.