Seungho Lee (Ph.D. candidate) and Dr. Young-Jun Son (Associate Professor) took the Best Paper Award in the area of modeling and simulation at the 2009 IIE Annual Conference. Also, Nurcin Celik (Ph.D. candidate) took the Best MS Thesis Award as well as Best PhD Scientific Poster Award in the conference's PhD colloquium.
Michael J. Arnold, Director, and Jane Hunter, Associate Director, of the Engineering Management Program just arrived back from the annual American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) conference at the West Point Military Academy. It was there that our program won the Founders Award which nationally recognizes the Outstanding ASEM Student Section during the 2008 calendar year. Our student chapter put in a lot of work this year and congratulations to them for winning the best student chapter.
Brian Keller (Ph.D. candidate) and Dr. Guzin Bayraksan took the Best Case Study award at the 2008 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC, for their case study titled "Quantifying Operational Risk in Financial Institutions".
Dr. Liu recently received his joint PhD in Industrial & Operations Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He brings expertise in quality engineering and applied statistics, modeling and analysis of complex multistage processes and monitoring, diagnosis, and control of multistage processes. Welcome to SIE!
A paper "Conceptual Simulation Modeling: Patterns and Knowledge Representation" co-authored by Dr. Young-Jun Son has been selected as the Best Paper published in the International Journal of Industrial Engineering in the year 2007. The best paper award will be presented at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering 2008 on September 7-10, 2008 in Las Vegas.
Seungho Lee (Ph.D. candidate) and Dr. Young-Jun Son (Associate Professor) took the Best Paper Award in the area of homeland security at the 2008 IIE Annual Conference.
In 1965 the Army and Navy sent a group of officers to the Systems Engineering Program at the University of Arizona to learn about systems engineering and earn Master of Science degrees. On April 6, 2007 the group reunited after 40 years to visit the SIE department and share the success they have had as military and business professionals.
SIE and ECE have joined Team Scorpion together with Raytheon, Tucson Embedded Systems, Preferred Chassis, and iRobot to complete in the 2007 Urban Challenge by autonomously driving a vehicle 60 miles through an urban transportation system. Team scorpion was selected for $1M funding from DARPA for this exciting project. For more information about Team Scorpion click here.
Suvrajeet Sen (SIE Department, University of Arizona) was recently recognized as a Fellow of INFORMS. This award recognizes INFORMS members who made significant contributions to the advancement of the fields of Operations Research and Management Science. This is a very select group, consisting of a total of only 181 fellows, in a world-wide organization consisting of over 12,000 members.
The National Science Foundation released a report ranking the University of Arizona 21st among all US universities and 14th among public universities. The UA recorded almost half a billion dollars in research expenditure in 2004.
Seminar on Thursday, November 12, 2009
Emotion,
Decision and Risk: Betting on Gambles vs. Betting on People
Presented by Tamar Kugler
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