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UTA IMSE Newsletter January 2023

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This new year brings many changes to the UTA IMSE department. Our swiss army knife Paul Componation has officially moved to the Dean’s office and will serve officially as the Associate Dean for Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies. Our very own Jay Rosenberger will step in and as interim department chair for IMSE and if his holiday party serves as a judge, it is a role in which he will excel.

The last few years have been busy ones in the IMSE department and amidst the various changes at the university and within the department (welcome Dr. Erick C. Jones Jr. and Dr. Md Mahmudur Rahman) we have managed to take on exciting projects and produce exciting work. This newsletter will highlight some of the many accomplishments produced by our department.

As always we appreciate support from alumni, company, and anyone wishing to support our students and our department. Please visit our donation page to support our departmental scholarships. Note: if a scholarship is not listed you can click other and write it in.

COE and IMSE Holiday Party at the Rosenberger Residence

PROJECTS

  • Professors Shuchisnigdha Deb and Emma Yang are “Enhancing Active Learning in Additive Manufacturing Using a Bilingual, Assisted Virtual-Reality Platform” with support from the NSF (Award Number 2202598).
  • Dr. Caroline Kreji has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award (Award Number 2046632) in order to investigate the “System Design of Crowd Logistics via Participatory Agent-based Modeling”. Dr. Bonnie Boardman will also provide support for this project.
  • Dr. Susan Ferreira, our Systems Engineering expert, has been tapped for her expertise by NASA to work on a project identifying Resilient Systems Engineering Strategies for the space government agency.
  • COSMOS faculty Professors Shouyi Wang, Victoria Chen, and Jay Rosenberger are working on two projects supported by the NSF, one in collaboration with the chemistry department focused on “On-Line Extraction and Separation Method Development using Surrogate Optimization and Machine Learning” (Award Number 2108767) and another led by our own Dr. Wang focused on “Probabilistic Modeling and Stochastic Optimization for Effective Demand Response Decision Management Under Uncertainty in Emerging Smart Energy Markets” (Award Number 1938895)
  • New professor Dr. Erick C. Jones Jr., the newest member of COSMOS, is developing the COSMOS Sustainability lab and has received support from ASEE to implement the Engineering One Planet (EOP) Sustainability framework in UTA Classrooms
  • Dr. Jamie Rogers has once again guided another group of graduating seniors through the capstone projects and we would like to thank all the companies who participated
  • If you are a company that would like to participate in our Capstone project, please contact Dr. Rogers Send Email
Dr. Rogers and the Spring 2022 Capstone Class

PRESENTING UTA WORK

Many of our faculty and students presented at one of the preeminent conferences in our field the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2022 Annual Meeting (Indianapolis, IN). Below is a list of some of the work that was presented at this event.

  • Dr. Erick C. Jones Jr. presented “Energy Resources’ Effect on Energy Poverty”
  • Dr. Yuan Zhou presented “A Proactive Approach for Operation Decision Support in Primary Care”
  • Dr. Chen Kan presented “Online Point Cloud Fusion for Quality Assurance of Additive Manufacturing”
  • Dr. Mohammad Jahanbakht presented “A Fuzzy AHP-DAMATEL MCDM Framework for Selecting Strategy for Agriculutral Firms’ IOT Adoption Based on Service Providers Readiness Level”
  • Dr. Victoria Chen presented “Green Building Sustainability Assessment Decision Optimization”
  • Dr. Jay Rosenberger presented “Globally Optimizing a Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines Approximation”
  • Dr. Bill Corley presented “Scalar Equilibria for Normal-Form Games”
  • Jie Han (PhD Student, Dr. Wang) presented “Electricity Price Forecasting”
  • Linh Ho Manh (PhD Student, Drs. Wang and Chen) presented “Molecules Classification from Ultra-Violet Spectra by Different Featurization Methods”
  • Marina Materikina (PhD Student, Drs. Chen and Rosenberger) presented “Estimation of State-based Appliance Signatures Using Nonlinear Programming for Non-intrusive Load Monitoring Algorithms”
  • Bahareh Nasirian (PhD Student, Drs. Chen and Rosenberger) presented “An Optimization Model for Prioritizing Organic Waste to Energy-Renewable (POWER)”
COSMOS members, alumni, and friends at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis

PUBLICATIONS

We are grateful for the support receive via grants, scholarships, and partnerships because they allow our faculty and students to create new scholarship, develop more effective teaching methods and courses, and serve our field and the community. Find a small subset of the peer-reviewed scholarship our faculty and students that have published in the last few months.

  • Jones, E. C., Yaw, S., Bennett, J. A., Ogland-Hand, J. D., Strahan, C., & Middleton, R. S. (2022). Designing multi-phased CO2 capture and storage infrastructure deployments. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2, 100023. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RSET.2022.100023
  • Jay M Rosenberger., Victoria CP Chen., Hui-Chiao Jen., Brian L Huff., Aera K LeBoulluec., Bahareh Nasirian., Seoung Bum Kim. (2022). A discrete-event simulation tool for airport deicing activities: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. https://doi.org/10.1177/00375497221101064
  • Yuan Zhou., Obiageli L., Ngwu., Anika Rimu., Shuchisnigdha Deb., James R. Lummus., Chen Kan. (2022). Teenage bicyclists’ perceptions toward automated vehicles and their associated traffic infrastructure: A focus group discussion. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 89, Pages 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2022.07.006
  • Mohammad Jahanbakht., Javad Samei., Hamed Asgari., Concetta Pelligra., Mehdi Sanjari., Saied Salavati., Ayda Shahriari., Maedeh Amirmaleki., Amir Hadadzadeh., Babak Shalchi Amirkhiz., Mohsen Mohammadi. (2021).A hybrid additively manufactured martensitic-maraging stainless steel with superior strength and corrosion resistance for plastic injection molding dies. Additive Manufacturing, 45, 102068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102068
  • Caroline C. Krejci., Amy Marusak., Narjes Sadeghiamirshahidi., Anuj Mittal., Sue Beckwith., Jaime Cantu., Mike Morris., Jason Grimm. (2021). Resilient regional food supply chains and rethinking the way forward: Key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic. Agricultural Systems, 190, 103101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103101
  • Chen Kan., Xin Liu., Zehao Ye. (2022). Real-time multiscale prediction of structural performance in material extrusion additive manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing, 49, 102503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102503
  • Shuchisnigdha Deb., Md Mahmudur Rahman., Lesley Strawderman., Brian Smith., & Reuben Burch. (2020). Evaluation of transportation alternatives for aging population in the era of self-driving vehicles. IATSS Research, 44, Pages 30-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iatssr.2019.05.004
  • Xin Liu., Fei Tao., Haodong Du., Wenbin Yu. (2022). Finite element coupled positive definite deep neural networks mechanics system for constitutive modeling of composites. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 391, 114548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2021.114548
  • V. C. P. Chen et al., (2022). An Optimization Framework to Study the Balance Between Expected Fatalities Due to COVID-19 and the Reopening of U.S. Communities, 19, 100023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.16.20152033
  • Yiran Yang., Lin Li., Muyue Han. (2022). Techno-economic modeling of 4D printing with thermo-responsive materials towards desired shape memory performance. Design & Manufacturing, Pages 1047-1059. https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2021.1989093

Produced by The Sustainable Equitable Allocation of Resources (SEAR) Lab, developed by “Shraddha Varekar (SEAR Lab, RA)”