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ISE Student Wins National Honor Society Scholarship
Congratulations to ISE senior Josie Smith. She competed nationally to receive one of nine scholarships from the industrial engineering honor society Alpha Pi Mu. Josie was also recently inducted into the Bagley College of Engineering Student Hall of Fame. The hall of fame award recognizes students who have made outstanding contributions to their departments, the…
ISE Student Takes 1st Place at IIE Regional Conference
MSU industrial and systems engineering student, James “Stan” Morelock, won 1st place in the Student Technical Paper Competition during the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Region 3 student conference held at Mississippi State University on February 28 to March 2. The Region 3 is composed of 16 universities in the southeastern United States including Georgia…
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 Students Honored by Alpha Pi Mu
Three Industrial and Systems Engineering students were inducted into the Mississippi Alpha Chapter of Alpha Pi Mu during an initiation ceremony held on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 in McCain Engineering Building. Amy Bullington, David Callahan, and Carl Morris all accepted invitations to join the industrial engineering honor society that recognizes outstanding students. To be considered…
ISE Student Selected for Congressional Internship
Elliott Flaggs has been selected for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation/Wal-Mart Emerging Leaders Internship Program. The emerging leaders program is designed to give students internship opportunities within the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of the Federal government. Elliott will be representing Congressman Bennie Thompson’s District, Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. Elliott was honored with…
SE Grad Student Receives SMART Scholarship
Jackson Rice, an ISE graduate student advised by Dr. Burak Eksioglu, is the recipient of the Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship from the Department of Defense. Jackson received one of approximately 100 awards from a pool of 1,500 applicants. The scholarship includes annual stipend, full tuition, book allowance, health insurance, paid summer…
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…