Gainesville, FL (June, 2011): Dr. Yongpei Guan was promoted to Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2005 and worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma before moving to… Read More
Month: July 2011
Stanfill Promoted to Engineer
Gainesville, FL (June, 2011): Dr. Keith Stanfill, Director of the Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) program, an interdisciplinary, year-long senior design project course at UF, and ISE Faculty Member was promoted to the rank of Engineer. He received his… Read More
Bagiardi wins Gambrell Scholarship from IIE
Norcross, GA (May, 2011): ISE Junior Stephanie Bagiardi was awarded the C.B. Gambrell Scholarship by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). An ISE Ambassador, Bagiardi interned with HD Supply last summer and is working with Amazon this summer. In the… Read More
Brown wins IIE Student Award for Excellence
Reno, NV (May, 2011): ISE Senior Alex Brown was selected to receive the IIE Student Award for Excellence, 2nd Place, at the Honors and Awards Banquet at the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference held in Reno, Nevada. Brown is… Read More
Prince, Geunes and Smith Paper Named Best in OR at IERC
Reno, NV (May, 2011): The paper “Optimizing Exclusivity Agreements in a Three-Stage Procurement Game” by ISE doctoral student Mike Prince, ISE Professor Joseph Geunes and ISE Professor J. Cole Smith was named the 2011 Industrial Engineering Research Conference Best Paper… Read More
Uryasev Paper Wins Award for Excellence
Bingley, UK (May, 2011): The paper “Risk-return optimization with different risk-aggregation strategies,” authored by ISE Professor Stan Uryasev, Ursula Theiler of Risk Training, and Gaia Serraino of American Optimal Decisions, and published in The Journal of Risk Finance (Volume 11,… Read More
Spring Commencement Concludes Academic Year
Gainesville, FL (May, 2011): The College of Engineering recognized over 100 master’s, 60 bachelor’s and two Ph.D. degree recipients from ISE at ceremonies held on Friday, April 29 and Sunday, May 1 in the O’Connell Center at UF. The master’s… Read More
ett wins Leavenworth-McClaskey Scholarship
Gainesville, FL (April, 2011): ISE Senior Elizabeth Gillett was awarded the Leavenworth-McClaskey Scholarship at the ISE Spring Banquet held on Saturday, April 30. The award recognizes an outstanding undergraduate with interests in quality control and quality management. Gillett has served… Read More
Farshi Lands Patterson Award
Gainesville, FL (April, 2011): Shahrzad Farshi, an ISE master’s student with interests in operations research, won the Patterson Award as announced at the ISE Spring Banquet held on Saturday, April 30. The award, funded by a generous gift from Dr.… Read More
Graduate Students Fan, Shen and Vogiatzis Recognized
Gainesville, FL (April, 2011): ISE Ph.D. Students Neng Fan and Siqian Shen were named winners of the 2011 Graduate Student Research Awards. Fan will graduate this summer and hopes to work at Los Alamos National Lab, where he has been… Read More