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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
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports PhD students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing
On November 3, 2023, the University of Michigan Industrial and Operations Department hosted its inaugural Undergraduate Research Symposium to highlight undergraduate success in research. This event was deemed a success with over 100 attendees and 16 poster presentations from students.
Bilevel optimization is used not only in research, but also in business to identify the best solutions for a variety of hierarchical problems. A U-M researcher aims to develop a comprehensive software package that will enable many industries to use this in everyday decision-making.
Alonzo Wilson graduated from the University of Michigan in 2013 with a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering. He started his career working at Goldman Sachs and now works as a Project Controls Specialist for a commercial construction company in Kalamazoo, Mich. And if that isn’t enough Wilson is now running for a seat in the Kalamazoo City Commision.
IOE faculty and students bring in awards from the 2023 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting.
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
The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports PhD students who have achieved candidacy and are actively working on dissertation research and writing
These top 20 students are poised to make significant strides in the arenas of aviation, aerospace or defense.
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.
Salar Fattahi discusses his award-winning CAREER proposal which aims to close the current gap between optimization and statistical learning.
Dr. Gusikhin was recognized for his contributions to the applications of cyber-physical systems in automotive engineering and connected vehicles.
Recent News
University of Michigan Hosts Optimaize Day to Spark Interest in Engineering Among Detroit High School Students
Shifting power operations to reduce wildfires
University of Michigan IOE PhD Student Yifan Li honored with teaching awards
IOE PhD student Jianhao Ma awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Nick Tran selected for the Aviation Week Network’s 2024 20 Twenties Class
New statistical tool to distinguish shared and unique features in data from different sources
An augmented reality assessment designed to test astronaut adjustment to gravity changes
$4.5 million renovation approved for U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Researchers identify behaviors that lead to interprofessional collaboration within intensive care units
Two U-M IOE faculty members given an MLK Spirit Award
Michigan Engineering Professors to develop novel federated learning algorithms for distributed 3D printing
Salar Fattahi receives NSF CAREER Award for work in nonconvex problems in machine learning
Chandra Shukla: Expanding horizons with a degree in IOE
Oleg Gusikhin awarded as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow
Bernard Martin to retire from the University of Michigan
U-M IOE hosts its inaugural Undergraduate Research Symposium to showcase student research
Standardizing bilevel optimization for future researchers and practitioners
“It’s a cheat code”: Alonzo Wilson speaks on his experiences as a U-M IOE alum
U-M IOE members take home awards from the HFES annual meeting
U-M IOE takes home awards from the INFORMS Annual Meeting
Q&A with new Department Chair Julie Simmons Ivy
U-M IOE welcomes Saif Benjaafar to the department
U-M IOE welcomes new assistant professors to the department
University of Michigan students wins competition to improve infrastructure within the Federal Aviation Administration
Julie Simmons Ivy named as next chair of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Two U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering faculty members receive promotions
Students celebrated at U-M IOE Graduation Reception
Zhongzhu Chen awarded a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
Letter from the Chair
Leonora Lucaj wins the Outstanding Advisor Award
The University of Michigan welcomes local high school students to explore real-life applications of machine learning in engineering
University of Michigan’s Amy Cohn wins Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year Award
Jacqueline Hannan awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to further neonatal ventilation research
Gemline Executive Chairman & CEO Jonathan Isaacson speaks about corporate sustainability during the IOE Wilbert Steffy Lectureship.
