Overview of U-M IOE Grad Student Workshop

This workshop is geared toward undergraduate students and others within 1–2 years of applying to graduate school. To apply, you do not have to be majoring in engineering; students with computer science, math, physics, statistics and other backgrounds are welcome.

This workshop offers direct access to faculty, staff and graduate students from the U-M IOE department, who are looking forward to providing you with information and answer your questions about our academic programs and career pathways in the field of industrial and operations engineering. We will cover topics of graduate school applications and admissions, research, life on campus, funding and much more!

Through presentations, panel discussions, and mixers for all participants you will have the opportunity to:

• Discover industrial and operations engineering as a field (educational, research and career opportunities).
• Meet fellow prospective U-M IOE students as well as U-M IOE faculty, staff and current graduate students.
• Learn what research activities our current faculty and current students participate in.
• Explore professional opportunities for U-M IOE PhD graduates.
• Tour the department and campus.
• Learn about the graduate student application and admissions process.
• Get advice on PhD applications such as;
  • What do faculty look for in an application?
  • What can you do to strengthen your application?
  • What should you think about when deciding where to apply and which offer to accept?
• Hear about graduate work and student life from current graduate students.

AGENDA

9 – 9:50 a.m. Opening remarks from Julie Simmons Ivy, Viswanath Nagarajan and Marina Epelman. Introduction to our PhD program and application processes.

9:55 – 11:15 a.m. Research talks by faculty in various areas:

• 9:55 – 10:15 a.m. Healthcare and Medical Decision Making presented by Mariel Lavieri.
• 10:15 – 10:35 a.m. Optimization everywhere presented by Albert Berahas.
• 10:35 – 10:55 a.m. Operations Research presented by Ruiwei Jiang.
• 10:55 – 11:15 a.m. Human Factors in IOE presented by Oshin Tyagi.

11:15 – 11:30 a.m. Break

11:30 – 12:15 p.m. Faculty panel Q&A presented by Raed Al Kontar, Albert Berahas and Amelia Warden.

12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch with U-M IOE faculty and students. (Also, a video about IOE, CHEPS, Center for Ergonomics, Tauber, and other initiatives will be shown.)

1:45 – 2:30 p.m. Introduction to our master’s program and career paths presented by Xiuli Chao and Yavuz Bozer.

2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Student panel Q&A from current U-M IOE PhD and master’s students.

3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Break

3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Social activities on north campus guided by U-M IOE graduate students.

5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Dinner and bowling at Revel and Roll.

ATTENDEES