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Esma Gel to receive top industrial engineering award
Esma Gel, associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, will receive the Hamid K. Eldin Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer in Education Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) at its annual conference in May in Vancouver, Canada. The award recognizes young IIE members who have demonstrated leadership and professionalism in industrial engineering education. Since joining the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering in 2000, Gel has been teaching graduate and undergraduate course in operations research and production systems. Her research focuses on the use of applied probability techniques for modeling, design and control of prduction systems and supply chains, with emphasis on workforce engineering. Her work has been published in leading journals and funded by the National Science Foundation and industrial partners such as Intel, IBM and Infineon. Gel earned her masters of science and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in 1995 and 1999, respectively.... Read more »
Industrial engineering student to speak about women in science
Jennifer McNeill Bekki, a doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Engineering, will speak at the Science Café, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. March 21 at the Arizona Science Center, Seventh Street and Washington in downtown Phoenix. She will participate in the discussion “Women in Science: Various Issues and Viewpoints,” joined by Ann Hibner Kobitz, professor of Women and Gender Studies in Arizona State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Priscilla Greenwood, a research professor with the Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science at ASU. The Science Café is organized by the Center for Nanotechnology and Society at ASU. Admission is free. For more information, call the center at (480) 965-7074.... Read more »
J. Stuart Hunter, preeminent statistician, teaching industrial engineering course
One of the most prominent statisticians in industrial engineering is teaching this semester at Arizona State University. J. Stuart Hunter is “among the most influential industrial statisticians of the last 50 years,” says longtime Hunter colleague Douglas Montgomery, an ASU Regents’ Professor in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Students in Hunter’s graduate-level course, “Analysis of Time-Dependent Data,” are getting an opportunity to benefit from the experience of “a pioneer of industrial experimental design,” Montgomery says. Hunter retired in 1988 as professor emeritus in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, but spent many years since as an industry consultant, continuing his work on defining and quantifying such basic industrial engineering concepts as efficiency, quality, reliability and safety. His ideas have been applied to a wide spectrum of pursuits in manufacturing, product design, and production systems development and improvement. Hunter “has made fundamental contributions,” to research... Read more »
Industrial engineering students show how downtown Phoenix can be remade for shade
Shade is no trivial matter in the sun-drenched desert climate of Phoenix. That’s why Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon lauded the “bright young talent” of a group of Arizona State University engineering students who took on challenges to devise methods for increasing and optimizing shade cover in city’s urban core. At a recent City Hall press conference, Gordon presented $1,000 prizes to each of two teams of graduate students in the Department of Industrial Engineering in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering for their shade solutions. Entries in the competition to solve the shade planning and design questions were received from students at Arizona’s three state universities. Sharing the prize for the best cost-efficient algorithm to provide shade was the team of doctoral students Ozgur Araz, Shanshan Wang and Liangjie Xue, and master’s program student Onur Senman. The top prize for an algorithm and a computer software program that could be used... Read more »
Responding to emerging demands of the global economy
TEMPE, Arizona An expanding global marketplace is creating greater demand for expanded education and expertise. Arizona State University's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and W. P. Carey School of Business are combining forces to respond to that emerging need. In January, the schools will begin classes for a second online program offering graduate degrees in both business and engineering. Earlier this year the schools launched a online program offering a master's of business administration and a master's of science in engineering with a focus on electrical engineering. The new program offers the same MBA degree with a master's of science degree with a focus on industrial engineering. It will enable students to earn the degrees in a shorter amount of time and at a lower cost than if the two degrees are pursued separately. The program is designed for working professionals with undergraduate engineering, science or mathematics degrees and at least one year... Read more »