The IMSE Dept. Celebrates the Fourth Annual Awards Banquet

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The Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department hosted the 4th Annual Awards Banquet to honor graduating students as well as outstanding undergraduate and graduate students with awards and scholarships on Thursday, April 28th at 6pm in the Nedderman Hall Rady Room. The approximately 100 guests included the faculty, staff and members of the advisory board.  All guests enjoyed a formal, catered dinner. The wonderful evening concluded with a few brief comments from our graduating seniors and a final congratulation to award winners and graduates of the past year. Below are the six scholarships and names of awarded students.

The G. T. Stevens, Jr. Endowed Alumni Scholarship which was established in 1998 to honor the IMSE Department’s former Chair is awarded to outstanding Industrial Enginnering students. Dr. Stevens passed away this year therefore his children Mr. Bob Stevens and Ms. Bartlett Barry presented the scholarships. This year’s recipients were Ms. Tyka Do (Senior), Ms. Jasmine Lucero (Senior), Mr. Anoop Kulkarni (Graduate) and Mr. Alexander Thomas (Graduate).

 

The Keith and Carolyn Weiss Industrial Engineering Scholarship, which is given to deserving Industrial Engineering undergraduate students who are working to support their education. This year’s awardee is a senior, Ms. Griselda Sanchez.

The Weiss Family Endowed Scholarship is an award distributed by the UT Arlington Alumni Association to award a junior or senior undergraduate who have been working to support their education. This year’s recipient is senior Mr. Joshua Bolton.

The John and Pat Priest Family Endowed Scholarship is awarded to Industrial Engineering undergraduate students that have an interest in manufacturing. This year we have two awardees, Mr. Patrick Coursey and Ms. Mary Rangel.

The RFID and Auto ID Labs Outstanding Research Scholarship recognizes students conducting outstanding research in RAID Labs. This year’s recipients were Ms. Mary Rangel (Undergraduate), Ms. Isra Elamin (Graduate) and Mr. Raghavendra Punugu(Graduate).

The newest scholarship, The COSMOS Scholarship recognizes a student for his/her voluntary contribution to COSMOS research. This year’s awardee is Mr. Rajesh Sugumar.

Senior Design Capstone Presentations: Fall 2015

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At the end of every semester, the Senior Design Capstone class presents their semester-long projects.

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This semester’s projects included:

Allflex: Waste Time Reduction

Self-Sustaining Organic Gardening System

Triumph Aerostructures: Consolidated Business Systems Toolkit

Universal Trucking Inc.: Making it Fit

Siemens: Kitting Area Optimization

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The Allflex team: Aaron Alagar and Lennett Cruz

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Self-Sustaining Organic Gardening System Team: (LtoR Gabriella Tchombe, Mitra SIngh, Suat Kucukay, and Murat Kucukay

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The Triumph Aerostructures Team: April Shortt, Cailin Bertucci, Rania Malkawi and Yara Hussein

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The Universal Trucking Team: Stephen Holcomb, Justin Janiga, Khubaib Bari, and Davis Hoang

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The Siemens Team: Sabu Kandel, Sarmila Acharya, Priyadarsini Subramanian, Bryan Shiroma, and Quy Nguyen

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PhD Seminar Series

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Every week, the IMSE Department hosts a PhD Seminar Series with featured presenters, including professors, industry leaders, and our own PhD students.

This semester, the seminars have included:

  • Dr. Shouyi Wang, IMSE Assistant Professor: “Data Mining and Pattern Learning for Personalized Healthcare Decision-Making Systems” and “An Efficient Time Series Subsequence Pattern Mining and Prediction Framework with an Application to Respiratory Motion Prediction”
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Dr. Shouyi Wang presents at the first IMSE PhD Seminar for Fall 2015.
  • Dr. Jay Rosenberger, IMSE Associate Professor and director of COSMOS: “Mixed integer linear programming approaches for land use planning that limit urban sprawl”
  • Dr. Sheik Imrhan, IMSE Associate Professor: “Ergonomics Research, focusing on the kinematics of manual tasks”
  • Dr. Nedialko Dimitrov, UT Austin Assistant Professor in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering: “Mapping Risk of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in Texas”
  • Dr. Brian Huff, IMSE Associate Professor: “The Use of Auto Model Generation Techniques to Support the Modeling and Analysis in Discrete-Event Systems”
  • Dr. Aera LeBoulluec, IMSE Senior Lecturer
  • Antonia Alanis, IMSE PhD student under Dr. Rosenberger: “Mathematical Optimization Techniques for Selective Catalytic Reduction for a Fleet of Power Plants”
  • Yeqing Li, CSE PhD student: “Iterative Data Imputation for Adaptive Pain Management”
  • Rohit Rawat, EE PhD student: “Two-stage Feature Selection for Efficient Modeling of Pain Management Data”
  • Dr. Bill Corley, IMSE Professor: “A Brief Introduction to Game Theory Old and New”
  • Sam Okate, IMSE PhD student: “Evaluating the Impacts of the “Internet of Things” to Reduce Runway Incursions and Understanding the How, Why, and When”
  • Steve Kiester, an industry leader from Bell Helicopter: “Essentials of Entry-level Project Management”

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    Steve Kiester, an industry leader from Bell Helicopter, presents at the last IMSE PhD Seminar for Fall 2015

IE Senior Wins National Scholarship

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Congratulations to one of our Industrial Engineering seniors, Khanh (Tyka) Do, for winning a national Tau Beta Pi scholarship.

For this honor, she was featured in the national Tau Beta Pi and IIE magazines.

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Student Rooms Remodeled

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IE Lab, Woolf Hall, room 400
A note from our Department Chair, Dr. Paul Componation:
The fall semester is just around the corner, and we’re ready for the students to once again fill the rooms of Woolf Hall.  Our returning students will see several changes in our department.
IE Lab, Woolf Hall, room 400
IE Lab, Woolf Hall, room 400

The industrial engineering computer lab, Woolf Hall 400, has been updated with brand new furniture to make it easier for student to study or just relax with your classmates.

IE Lab, Woolf Hall, room 400

IE Lab, Woolf Hall, room 400

IE Lab, Woolf Hall, room 400
IE Lab, Woolf Hall, room 400

Our Multi-Purpose room, Woolf Hall 425-A has also been converted to a student study room.  It’s right across the hall from the IIE store so you can pick up a quick snack while your working on class projects.

Multi-purpose Room, Woolf Hall, 425-A, University of Texas at Arlington
Multi-purpose Room, Woolf Hall, 425-A
We hope students enjoy the renovations and new furniture!
The faculty and staff are looking forward to seeing you all again soon.  Enjoy your summer and best of success with your studies this fall.
-Dr. Paul Componation

Dr. Li Zeng’s Last Day

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Dr. Zeng's Last Day // Photo by: Cassandra Toney
(L to R) Dr. Componation, Dr. Ferreira, Dr. Rosenberger, and Dr. Zeng enjoy a farewell lunch for Dr. Zeng’s last day // Photo by: Cassandra Toney

After serving our department as an Assistant Professor for the past five years, Dr. Li Zeng will be leaving UT Arlington.  During her time at UT Arlington, she was very involved in COSMOS (Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, and Statistics).  Her research focused on statistical modeling, applied statistics and analysis and control of complex manufacturing processes.  She also taught classes on Engineering Probability, Applied Regression Analysis, and Statistical Process Control.  We wish her all the best in her future endeavors and career.

Students participate in Medical Quality Improvement at UT Southwestern

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UT Arlington Industrial Engineering students joined UT Southwestern medical students and nurses in a Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Boot Camp this summer.  The week-long program was focused on developing team-based problem solving skills focused on improving patient care.

The Industrial Engineering students participating include Christopher Leonhard, Priyadarsini Subramanian, Abira Syed, Ashkan Farahani, Jasmine Lucero, and Davis Hoang.  The Boot Camp was hosted by the faculty from UT Arlington and UT Southwestern.

UT Arlington IE Students participate in UT Southwestern program //photo provided
UT Arlington IE Students participate in UT Southwestern program //photo provided

IIE Student Chapter wins GOLD again!

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The UT Arlington Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) has been awarded the GOLD Student Chapter Recognition award for the chapter’s improvements, progress,and overall achievements in 2014-2015.

The faculty advisor, Dr. Jamie Rogers, said that the group has won many of the IIE GOLD awards before and continues to strive to maintain that standard.

This is the highest award given to student chapters and gives UT Arlington public recognition and visibility. The award is determined by a point system measuring improvement trends and progress tracking.

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Congratulations to the hard-working team!

President: Jason Lawson

Vice President: Kris Leonhardt

Secretary: Jashandeep Singh

Treasurer: Gonzalo Herrera

Outreach Officer: Marco Torres

Webmaster: Tyka Do

Historian: April Shortt

Professional Affairs Director: Cynthia Rodriguez

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jamie Rogers

IIE Student Chapter on a tour of the Trinity Trail //photo from www.uta.edu/studentorgs/iie
IIE Student Chapter on a tour of the Trinity Trail //photo from www.uta.edu/studentorgs/iie
IIE Student Chapter 2014-2015 Leadership //photo from www.uta.edu/studentorgs/iie
IIE Student Chapter 2014-2015 Leadership //photo from www.uta.edu/studentorgs/iie
IIE Student Chapter 2014-2015 Leadership //photo from www.uta.edu/studentorgs/iie
IIE Student Chapter 2014-2015 Leadership //photo from www.uta.edu/studentorgs/iie

Learn more about our IIE Student Chapter!

 

Father’s Day Tribute to Ph.D. Student

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In honor of Father’s Day, our department would like to honor Sam Okate, who is a father pursuing his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at UT Arlington.

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Sam Okate with son //Photo Provided

“I have lived in Arlington my whole life, so my choice for graduate school was not hard.  When I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, I knew I wanted to pursue a Master’s degree in Engineering at University of Texas at Arlington.

At this same time of starting my Master’s degree, my son was born into the world.  Once I completed my Master’s degree, I was apprehensive to move forward with the doctoral degree for the sake of spending time with my new bundle of joy because I knew the responsibility of juggling work, school, and my son would be great.

After consulting with the UTA IMSE faculty, they made me feel really comfortable and gave me priceless advice that enabled me to make the decision to continue on with my educational pursuits.

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Sam Okate with son // Photo provided

I am very thankful that I am able to follow my goals and dreams, and that UTA gave me the avenue to do so.”

–Written by Sam Okate, Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering Candidate

New Office Ushers in New Era

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Our office is ushering in a new era with a freshly renovated office.

So much has changed about the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department in the last few years, including a new Department Chair (click here to read more about Dr. Paul Componation), dramatically increased enrollment and graduation numbers, and now a new, modern office.

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IMSE Office Before //Photo by Cassandra Toney

Julie Estill, IMSE Senior Office Assistant said the main purpose of the renovation is to benefit the students because of the drastic student population increase.  She said the office’s new look matches the influx of new faculty and staff and processes that will be put into place.

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IMSE Office During Renovation //Photo by Cassandra Toney

The main office and the conference room got a whole new look, including replacing the old brown carpet with new, crisp blue carpet and  painting the walls white, which gives the office a very fresh, clean feel.

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IMSE Office After Renovation //Photo by Cassandra Toney

Additionally, we replaced the long, fluorescent bulbs with stylish, square, eco-friendly LED lights, which really brighten the space.

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Settling in to new office // Photo by: Cassandra Toney

Last but not least, all the old desks, chairs and couches were replaced by new, high-quality furniture to accommodate the high-traffic office.

New Office Waiting area
New Office Waiting area // Photo by: Cassandra Toney

As Julie Estill said, “It will be different and everyday is a new adventure.”