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 The Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department in UT Arlington’s College of Engineering graduated 99 students on May 16, 2015 at the College Park Center.
Among the graduates, 4 scholars earned their Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, 72 earned their graduate degrees, including 48 earning M.S. in Industrial Engineering, 18 earning M.S. in Engineering Management, 4 earning M.S. in Logistics and 2 earning M.S. in Systems Engineering and 23 undergraduate students earning B.S. in Industrial Engineering. The students’ names are listed below.
Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering
Maysaa M. Hamdan (see Mother’s Day/Graduation Tribute to Maysaa)
Na Wang
Sunny Paraskumar Jain
Zirun Zhang
M.S. in Industrial Engineering
Abhimanyu Pothula
Abhishek Joshi
Aditya Dilip Sawant
Albert Nnadili
Amaraja Sunil Dalvi
Aniesh Sampathkumar
Aniket Ulhas Kadam
Ankit Surkutwar
Arpen Tusharbhai Punch
Aviesh Anand
Bharath Rajagopal
Chandra Shekar Gangaswamy
Danny Thomas John
Gaurav Yuvraj Mahajan
Harshita Reddy Hari Hara Reddy
Jithin Krishna Guduru
Jobi Thachemperil
Kaushic Devaraj
Neelam Chatterjee
Parkavan Tamilarasan
Pavan Bogram Mohan
Poojitha Kotha
Pradeep Gopalakrishnan
Pradyumna Mohanram Raja
Pranav Mukund Hegde
Pranay Reddy Akepati
Pranthik Produtur
Preethi Baskar
Rahul Krishnan
Rohit Varma Manthena
Sai Krishna Puppala
Saket Manoj Pundlik
Sandhya Chilakalapudi
Sanjay Bala Balasubramanian
Sanjeev Pudasaini
Santosh Roy Sampath Kumar
Saurabh Raghunath Shidhore
Senthilnathan Arunachalam
Shashankavarma Mantena
Suchismita Nibhanupudi
Varun Kolli
Venkata Sai Santosh Prabha
Vignesh Chandra Mohan
Vikas Hinge
Vikram Vivek Mohrir
Vivekananda Basavananda Devarahosahalli
Yusuf Durbar Shabbir
M.S. in Engineering Management
Abhishek Reddy Kuchikula
Avinash Gidugu
Bhavya Thumma Guntha
Edwin Pimentel
Kesav Kasukurthi
Krishna Dev Vala
Mayur Anil Bhosale
Melvina Lobo
Mohammed Khan
Mrunal Satishchandra Gedam
Narongrit Boonthunyaluk
Naveen Rajagopal Reddy
Nikhil Appasani
Pratiksha Datta Autade
Ramsundar Sundar
Rashesh Rajeshkumar Shah
Shivam Atulkumar Patel
Syed Ahmed
M.S. in Logistics
Nayana Basur Shankarappa
Ranjit Bangalore Shamanna
Ryan Dietrich
Uday Giridhar
M.S. in Systems Engineering
Kayla Marshall
Michael Knab
Angelo Decena-Guzman
Anthony Kallas
Blessing Chima
Cody Smith
Colin Brisco
Cynthia Rodriguez
Greta Leza
Hashini Wanniarachchi
Jason Lawson
Jeffrey Williams
Joshua Howard
Kadiamba Mukala
Kevin Garza-Magana
Kevin Joseph
Kristopher Leonhardt
Lan Nguyen
Leila Khalaf
Marco Torres
Menglin Qiu
Michael Reeves
Ngoc Vuong
Oscar Ibezim
Tangwa Nembo
*Some names withheld
Watch the full ceremony:
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Download a full copy of the 2015 College of Engineering Commencement (click here)
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on The College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony was held on Saturday, May 10 at College Park Center to honor the Spring 2014 graduating class. Krish Prabhu, President and Chief Technology Office of AT&T Labs, presented the commencement address. In honor of all the Spring 2014 IE graduates, the IMSE Department would like to congratulate each one of them for a job well done. The Spring 2014 IE graduates, as published in The Shorthorn are:
Ph.D in Industrial Engineering
Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering
Master of Science in Engineering Management
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering
Master of Science in Logistics
Master of Science in Systems Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering
Congratulations to all these graduates!
In case you missed the ceremony, you can view the video and photos of the event online.
on The IMSE Department celebrated graduates from the Summer, Fall, and Spring semesters as well as award winners with a banquet Thursday evening. The event began with a reception as Advisory Board members, faculty, staff, and honorees and their friends arrived at the banquet inside the Hospitality Suite at UT Arlington’s College Park Center. A catered meal was served after the reception as guests took their seats for dinner.
After the meal, Dr. Chen introduced IMSE alumna and co-founder of TransSolutions, LLC Gloria Bender, as the keynote speaker. She spoke about the importance of getting your degree and giving back to the community and how IEs could use their degrees to serve.
After the keynote address, Dr. Brian Huff recognized the members of the Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society. The attendees gave the members in attendance a round of applause.
The first award given in the evening was the G. T. Stevens, Jr. Endowed Alumni Scholarship which was established in 1998 to honor the IMSE Department’s former Chair. This year’s recipients were April Shortt (Junior), Ting Xiao (Senior), and Ezeh Perpetua Ebere (Graduate).
Next, Dr. Bill Corley presented the Elinor Pape Endowed Scholarship Award, which was established in 2006 to honor the Professor Emeritus’s service and dedication at UT Arlington. The award winners were Cynthia Rodriguez (Junior), Gustavo Robles (Senior), and Vikas Hinge (Graduate).
The next two scholarships were established by IMSE alumnus Keith Weiss. Keith and Carolyn Weiss were on hand to award Dylan Slick with the Keith and Carolyn Weiss Industrial Engineering Scholarship, which is given to deserving Industrial Engineering undergraduate students who are working to support their education. Slick works as a Resident Assistant at UT Arlington Apartment and Residence Life. 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 was Greta Leza who works at Airbus Helicopters, Inc. (formerly known as American Eurocopter).
The next award given, the John and Pat Priest Family Endowed Scholarship, is the IMSE Department’s newest endowed scholarship. It was established by current IMSE professor John Priest and his wife in 2013. This year’s winner was Colin Brisco.
The next two scholarships were awarded by the RFID and Auto ID (RAID) Labs. Dr. Erick Jones presented the awards to the winners. This year’s recipient of the RFID and Auto ID Labs Research Excellence Scholarship, which recognizes students for his/her excellence in RAID research and published work, was Harrison Armstrong. His research paper, “A Framework for Detecting Hazardous Events Occurring in Transit with AutoID Technologies” was accepted by IIE Sensors in March 2014. The RFID and Auto ID Labs Outstanding Research Scholarship recognize students conducting outstanding research in RAID Labs. This year’s recipients were Mewan Wijemanne (Undergraduate) and Ryan Dietrich (Graduate).
The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Outstanding Student awards recognizes outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service to the IE profession. This year’s recipients were Cynthia Rodriguez (Junior) and Rachel Machbitz (Senior). After receiving their award, they were joined by previous Outstanding IIE Award winners.
The final award presented in the evening was the Texas Industrial Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award, which was created in an alliance between the Industrial Engineering departments at Texas public universities including UT El Paso, Texas A&M, Texas Tech University, the University of Houston, and Lamar University. Awardees are alumni selected by these universities based on the impact of their career on society. Gloria Bender presented the honor to this year’s awardee, Gloria Maceiko. Maceiko founded DirectNu Energy in 2009 with a vision to develop Energy Independence for commercial entities, nationally and globally, by focusing on solar and wind project development. She serves as its CEO and manages multimillion dollar projects from concept to contracts and worked over 25 years with high tech companies in Silicon Valley. She was also at the forefront of trend setting startups.
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.
Pictures of the event will be posted on our Facebook page soon!
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As part of the Engineers Week Activities, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) UTA Student Chapter held a joint meeting with the DFW Professional Chapter on Tuesday, February 18. Students were able to enjoy some slices of pizza and also had the opportunity to network with IE professionals. Guest speaker, Dr. Joseph Michels, presented the benefits of getting a Professional Engineering license. Dr. Michels is himself a licensed engineer who works with the international management/engineering consulting firm of Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC. Michels has extensive experience with businesses as well as non-profit and governmental organizations and is an active member of the local community. He serves as Co-Chair of the Young Engineers Committee and is a member of the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. In 2012, he was awarded the Montana Ambassador of the Year Award.
In addition to the guest speaker, winners of the annual Outstanding IIE scholarship were announced. Rachel Machbitz won for Outstanding Senior, and Cynthia Rodriguez, earned the Outstanding Junior Award. Congratulations to the both of them.
Even though the outstanding student scholarships were awarded, there are plenty of IIE events scheduled this semester. If you or anyone you know is interested in joining IIE, the professional organization for industrial engineers, you can join here.
Special Thanks to:
Marco Torres, IIE Outreach Director
for providing information and photo for this blog post
on The Fall semester came to a cold end as ice and snow blanketed the North Texas area, forcing the University to reschedule many final exams; but the freezing weather didn’t hang around long enough to spoil the College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, December 14 at College Park Center. The new University president, Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, who has a degree in engineering was the guest speaker at the ceremony which was attended by hundreds of families and friends. For all their achievements, the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Department would also like to congratulate all our graduates on this special occasion. Here is a list of our newest alumni, as published in The Shorthorn:
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering:
Degrees Conferred Summer 2013
M.S in Engineering Management
M.S. Industrial Engineering
M.S. in Logistics
M.S. in Systems Engineering
B.S. in Industrial Engineering
on Earlier this summer I attended the First Year Engineering Experience conference at the University of Pittsburgh. The conference afforded me an opportunity to meet with other engineering educators, discuss ideas, reflect on the topics and issues from the sessions, and chart new directions and collaborations. I met lots of great people and was inspired by what I heard. I’m already using many of the tips and techniques that I learned. At the conference I presented a paper about the correlation between being good at working in teams and being successful in graduating with an engineering degree at UTA.
Each semester a new batch of engineering students join one of UTA’s six departments offering an undergraduate degree in engineering. They all sign up for an interdisciplinary Introduction to Engineering course. Students in the class are assigned by the instructors to interdisciplinary teams of six students each. At the end of the semester, each student is required to submit a peer evaluation of each of his or her teammates as well as evaluate their own participation and contribution to the team’s activities. The instructors read each of the team members’ evaluations and note when a student consistently earns low marks from his or her peers. Those students rated low enough in peer evaluations for the instructors to reduce their project score are defined as “team underachievers.” Dr. Peterson and I hypothesized that there was a correlation between team performance in this first semester interdisciplinary group work effort and ultimate success in the College of Engineering. For this analysis we identified team underachievers from the Fall 2008 semester and tracked their academic career at UTA.
We compared the number of team underachievers in each of the categories to a randomly-selected group of students from the same peer group who were not deemed team underachievers to look for significant differences in their educational path. A chi-square test for association was performed to see if there was a relationship between team achievement in the Introduction to Engineering class and the current educational status of students who took the class in the fall 2008 semester. The results showed that the null hypothesis was rejected and there is a relationship between team achievement in the Introduction to Engineering class and educational status of the student population sampled.
These results suggest that while it not is necessary to be good at team work to be successful in university level education it is necessary to be successful in engineering education. So work on your teamwork skills students. It will be important to you now and later!
If you are interested in seeing the complete statistical analysis feel free to email me (boardman@uta.edu) for a copy of the paper presented.
Written by Dr. Bonnie Boardman
IMSE Faculty
on On May 12, 2013, the College of Engineering celebrated the graduating class of Spring 2013 with a commencement ceremony at College Park Center. The Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Department graduated many students, including four doctoral, twenty-one master’s, and twenty-seven undergraduates. Listed below are the names of the IMSE students who graduated in the Spring 2013. These names were published in the UT Arlington Shorthorn newspaper:
Ph.D in Industrial Engineering:
Master of Science in Engineering Management:
Master of Science in Industrial Engineering:
Master of Science in Logistics:
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering:
Congratulations to all our Spring 2013 graduates!
A recap of the graduation ceremony can be found on the College of Engineering website.
Video of there graduation ceremony can be found on the UT Arlington website.