GAINESVILLE, FL: Optym, formerly Innovative Scheduling, recently announced an expansion in Gainesville, adding one hundred jobs and a capital investment of nearly $5 million. Founded in 2000 by Industrial & Systems Engineering professor Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja, Optym provides planning… Read More

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

The University of Florida offers an Engineering Management master’s degree program in an outreach format for full-time working professionals. Students meet only one weekend per month for 20 months, taking five engineering and five business courses. Classes begin in August,… Read More

There will be an undergraduate town hall forum on Wednesday, 1/14/14, at 6:15 PM in MCCC 100. All undergraduate students are encouraged to attend.

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, FL:  Dr. Rafael Munoz-Carpena, UF Research Foundation Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, will present his lecture entitled Dynamic Factor Analysis of Environmental Systems: Introduction, Challenges and Advances in Complex Systems on Thursday, September 26, 2013, from 4-5PM in Florida Gym 265.… Read More