GAINESVILLE, FL: Ms. Tammi Gibson, a Program Assistant with Outreach Engineering Management (OEM), has been selected to receive a Superior Accomplishment Award (SAA) from the University of Florida. This highly contested award recognizes employees whose efforts and achievements go well… Read More

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida College of Engineering has named Panos Pardalos as the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering. Pardalos came to UF in 1991 and has been a distinguished professor since 2005. He is the… Read More

Engineering is considered by some to be a rigid academic discipline, but problem-solving requires creativity. Enter Elif Akcali, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, who expanded the mindsets of her students this past semester with two major projects… Read More

The student chapter of IIE has partnered with the national IIE office to offer a Six Sigma Green Belt training course, and it is open to all students and alumni. The course, which takes place January 10 through January 12, 2014,… Read More

Minneapolis, MN: Ruiwei Jiang (ISE PhD ’13) won first place in the 2013 George Nicholson Student Paper Competition at the 2013 INFORMS National Meeting.  His award was given for his paper entitled “Data-driven chance constrained stochastic program,” co-authored with his former adviser, Dr. Yongpei… Read More

A shining star of UF’s IIE organization, the Mentor & Mentee (M&M) program has released its new and improved application in time for the current round of recruitment. Since the program’s inception, students have been matched based on a simple questionnaire that… Read More

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Paul and Heidi Brown, both University of Florida graduates, have given $1.5 million to establish a faculty position in industrial and systems engineering, one of the nation’s top-ranked programs. The new position will further strengthen the department, currently ranked… Read More