on At the end of every semester, the Senior Design Capstone class presents their semester-long projects.
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
on 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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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
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.
on 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.
on 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.
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
Learn more about our IIE Student Chapter!
on The IMSE department offers a limited number of very competitive graduate teaching and research assistantships. These positions are offered to students with a good academic background and very good GRE verbal and quantitative scores.
Fall 2015 applications are now available, and must be completed online by Friday, June 26 at 5:00 PM. Current GTAs should not reapply. However, IMSE graduate students who have submitted a paper application or emailed a faculty member are asked to reapply online. All selected GTAs must be on campus at least one week before classes begin.
Official offers will be made by early August.
To apply, fill out this form (UTA netid and password are required): https://www.uta.edu/php-lib/machform/view.php?id=1808#main_body
For more information, visit our website: https://www.uta.edu/ie/financial-aid/graduate-student-funding.php#GTA
To see the list of Spring 2015 GTAs, read our post here.
Want to know what former IMSE GTAs are like? Read about Ukesh Chawal and Maysaa Hamdan.
on Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) run the universities.
Without GTAs, most professors would be too swamped with grading exams and figuring out classroom details to focus on effective teaching and innovative research.
At the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department, our GTAs work hard for their professors and departments while also attending their own classes and performing their own research. In the process, they have valuable experience for the working world.
Here’s to you: Spring 2015 GTAs. Our department couldn’t have done it without you!
Ashkan Aliabadi Farahani
Hadis Anahideh
Soma Balasubramanian
Zahra Banakar
Christoph Bollgen
Juan Castillo
Mustafa Ghotwala
Shalini Gupta
Maysaa M Hamdan-Abuhelou (click to see Ph.D. dedication)
Khan Md Ariful Haque
Vikas Hinge
Rahil Hosseini
Gazi Md Daud Iqbal
Xinglong Ju
Melvina Lobo
Joyita Mostafa
Ashok Nagamuthu Muniyandi
Alireza Noroziroshan
Nilabh Sunil Ohol
Sanjeev Pudasaini
Fahimeh Rahmanniyaychomachaei
Rui Shi
Chotiya Sukchotrat
Supannee Sukjaijaroenporn
Peng Wan
Qian Wu
Some of the following have worked as GTAs for many semesters and will continue to work as GTAs this summer and fall. Others will be graduating.
IMSE GTA Directory for Summer 2015: https://www.uta.edu/ie/faculty-staff/GTA-Directory.php
on Students in the MS or PhD program who applied to graduate for the Spring 2014 must take a Comprehensive Exam as part of their degree requirements.
The exam location will be in Woolf Hall 404 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. An Exit Interview Questionnaire will be from 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PhD students must consult with their dissertation supervisor for Part 2 of the PhD Exam.
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Here are the newly elected 2013-2013 IIE Officers:
From left to right,
Dr. Jamie Rogers, Kristopher Leonhardt (Historian), Ting Xiao (Secretary), Dylan Slick (Treasurer), Rachel Machbitz (Webmaster), Walter Mulflur (President), Caitlin Webb (Vice President), Vanessa Duran (Senior Chapter Liaison), and Marco Torres (Outreach).
Congratulations to these newly elected officers. We hope to have another great year for IIE!
on The IMSE Department at UT Arlington offers degrees in Industrial Engineering at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels plus Masters degrees in Logistics, Engineering Management, and Systems Engineering. Since we only offer a doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering, students can focus their degree in areas of expertise such as Systems Engineering. In this blog, I’ll be focusing on one of those students and how she plans to apply her research to real-world needs.
Misagh Faezipour is a Ph.D. candidate at the Industrial Engineering department with a focus in Systems Engineering. She is also affiliated with the System Engineering Research Center (SERC). She has worked as a graduate research assistant on multiple projects in the SERC and is currently a graduate teaching assistant at the IE department. Her research interests lie in the areas of engineering complex systems, healthcare, sustainability, simulation, systems thinking & systems dynamics. The focus of her current research is in Systems Engineering with an emphasis on sustainability related to Systems Engineering and applied to the healthcare domain. Her dissertation is related to addressing water sustainability in hospitals. System dynamics is applied as a modeling approach to provide a better understanding of the water sustainability considerations & model key factors and interrelationships involved in hospitals. A simulator is being developed that simulates the interactions of the key factors from the model. The simulator will help decision makers realize the impacts of their decisions made related to some key factors and also help then make informed decisions. The hospitals are the main stakeholder in this research, and the goal is to help them with their water management process and support them to make informed decisions.