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ISE Professor Inducted into the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers
Dr. Kari Babski-Reeves, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been inducted into the Bagley College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Teachers. She was selected for the honor by a committee of engineering faculty and students based on the following selection criteria: –Outstanding teachers engage students in the learning process and motivate students to…
ISE Professor Kari Babski-Reeves Wins National Design Award
Dr. Kari Babski-Reeves received the Alexander C. Williams, Jr., Design Award at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting in New York this fall. The national award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to the conception or design of any product, service, or system that has had a significant impact on users…
ISE Professor Burak Eksioglu Wins National Teaching Award
Dr. Burak Eksioglu received the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) 2008 Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research. The award was presented to him at the international conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Eksioglu has provided leadership in ISE through his dedicated service as the chair of the Operations Research and Statistics…
ISE Professor and Student Win MSU Office of Research Awards
Congratulations are in order for Dr. Mingzhou Jin and Joyce Zhang. Professor Jin received the 2008 Faculty Research Award and Ms. Zhang received the 2008 Graduate Student Award. Both awards are from the Mississippi State University Office of Research. Dr. Jin and Ms. Zhang research and develop new methodologies important to operations research in logistics…
Fred Buie Named 2008 Distinguished Fellow
Fred Buie, an alumnus of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was honored with the 2008 Distinguished Fellow Award. Fred Buie is president and owner of Keystone Electrical Manufacturing Company in Des Moines, Iowa. Serving electric utilities throughout the nation, the company manufactures elements used in the generation, transmission and distribution of electric power. Buie’s professional career…
ISE and SSRC Helping to Improve Highway Watch Program
Researchers from the Social Science Research Center (SSRC) and ISE faculty members Lesley Strawderman, Mingzhou Jin, and Kari Babski-Reeves are serving as co-principal investigators on an approximately $1.7 million project entitled “The National Highway Watch Analysis and Improvement Program.” The project is a joint effort by SSRC and ISE, with Art Cosby and Royce Bowden…
ISE Professor Named Associate Editor
Dr. John Usher, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has been named associate editor of the International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise (IJCEnt). The IJCEnt provides a global forum for exchanging research findings on new concepts for the systematic integration of methods dealing with people, process and technology that can lead to the development of capability…
ISE and CAVS Helping to Improve Prospective Automotive Plant Sites
Professors Burak Eksioglu, Sandra Eksioglu, and Mingzhou Jin of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) are Co-Principal Investigators with Clay Walden and Steve Puryear from CAVS Extension of a $131,000 grant from the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT). Their goal is to assist MDOT with preliminary site planning for prospective automotive manufacturing plants….
ISE and CAVS Helping Iowa to Build Virtual Soldier
Dr. Kari Babski-Reeves, Assistant Professor of ISE, is co-principal investigator on a project entitled “Validation of Optimization-Based Formulations and Performance of Dynamic Human Models: A comparison of real and simulated design assessments”. This $1.2 million CAVS initiated project is being performed in conjunction with the University of Iowa’s Virtual Soldier Research program for the U.S….
ISE Professors Determine True Value of Outsourcing
Dr. Burak Eksioglu, Assistant Professor of ISE, is principal investigator of a grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration to study aspects of the furniture industry in Mississippi. The $62,000 grant was facilitated by MSU’s Franklin Furniture Institute directed by Dr. Steve Taylor. Dr. Eksioglu and co-principal investigators Dr. Jilei Zhang from Forest Products, and…