UF Industrial and Systems Engineering

One of the country’s largest and most-advanced 3D construction printers – as in a printer that makes homes – has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and arrived at the University of Florida. 😲

Our department chair, Iris V. Rivero, has helped bring the two-story printer to campus, which was manufactured by COBOD International in Denmark and shipped in pieces to the Port of Savannah in Georgia earlier this month. It cleared U.S. Customs and pulled into UF’s East Campus in two semi-trucks this morning, and will eventually live in The Pit in Weil Hall. It will be incorporated into curriculum for multiple departments in UF’s College of Engineering! 👏 👏 👏

🎓 Fun fact: Since 2022, seven of our former Ph.D. students have taken various roles working in academia throughout the United States! 🇺🇸 🐊

Are you or someone you know interested in a Ph.D. in ISE? Our applications are now open! Apply here: bit.ly/3N9KHmN

Welcoming the newest member of the Gator Engineering family! 🎉

The first pieces of the state’s largest 3D construction printer arrived in Weil Hall yesterday! This has been ordered by our department chair, Iris V. Rivero, Ph.D., to help students and researchers explore affordable housing and sustainability. We are excited for the rest of it to show up! 🐊

Welcome to Gainesville, Suman! 🐊

We are proud to announce that Suman Chowdhury, Ph.D., will be joining our department as an Associate Professor this upcoming Fall semester! Prior to joining us, he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering at Texas Tech University. His research areas include computational biomechanics, traumatic brain injury, multiscale brain modeling, ergonomics, and helmets, exoskeleton, and prosthetic designs.

Help us in welcoming Suman to the UF ISE team! 🎉

Welcome to UF ISE! 🐊

We are proud to announce that Murwan Siddig, Ph.D., is joining our department as an Instructional Assistant Professor after completing a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. With his distinguished record of teaching Operations Research and Analytics courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, he is looking forward to contributing to the department's mission of providing a high-quality education for our students!

We are beyond excited to see that one of our Spring 2024 graduates, Franco Nazarian, was selected to the UF Hall of Fame by the UF Division of Student Life! 👏 👏 👏

This award, which is given to no more than 25 seniors and graduate students in a given year, is described as "the highest recognition given to student leaders at the University of Florida"! 🐊

🔗 Learn more about Franco's honor here: bit.ly/4bRztxL

ICYMI: 🐊💯 We are beyond excited to see that UF ISE alumnus Scott Bartnick was selected as a 2024 Gator100 honoree!

His company, Otter PR, ranked #4 among the world's fastest-growing Gator businesses on this year's list! 👏👏👏

🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3wNe4Gv

Dr. Robert Braswell was a major figure in our department and a significant contributor to its development until he departed UF in 1974.

To honor his legacy, Dr. David Kaber sat down and wrote a story to showcase his contributions to us.

🔗 Read the story here: bit.ly/3U1xfUB

Following his service as our department chair, Dr. David Kaber elected to take research leave and eventually received a prestigious Erskine Visiting Fellowship from the University of Canterbury! 🇳🇿

📖🔗 Read more about the work Dr. Kaber is doing in New Zealand ➡️ bit.ly/3TXB9hi

UF Information Technology's Tech Byte series continues this spring with a unique, student panel event. Current undergraduates from diverse majors, including UF Industrial and Systems Engineering and UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, will talk about how AI has become part of their education.

Specifically, the panelists will discuss their use of AI in coursework, how AI is showing up in their lives, and about AI’s impact on their career path and plans for the future.

This event will take place on April 18th at 2pm! For more information or to register for the event, please visit https://news.it.ufl.edu/education/student-perspectives-on-ai-live-event/!

Monday was the 2024 Spring Undergraduate Research Symposia held at the O'Connell Center! Congratulations to all our UF ISE students who had a chance to present their research at the event! 👏 👏 👏

📈 UPDATE: our 2024 Giving Day journey was way better than we originally thought! Thank you to everyone for the unbelievable support! 🐊

Giving Day was a huge success! We are so thankful for the great people who continue to support our department! 🧡 💙 🐊

Wake up Gators, it's Giving Day!! Let's give today for the better future of UF ISE!

🔗 ISE link to give: bit.ly/3UDe45o

Giving Day is almost here! Did you know you can earn a special edition Giving Day swag box with a donation of $25 or more from now through the 14th?

Support the future of UF ISE & give early at the link below!

🔗 bit.ly/3UDe45o

“I don’t think people are aware of how much they’re distracted and how much their situational awareness changes when they’re walking and using a phone"

UF ISE Assistant Professor Dr. Wayne Giang had a chance to provide deeper knowledge and research on the effects of distracted walking in this article by The New York Times

That Smartphone in Your Hand Changes How You Walk Hunching over a device can mess with your gait, slow you down and poison your mood. And that’s before you trip and fall.

Save the date, students! On February 7th, you will have a chance to meet our new department chair in Weil 406! Dr. Rivero brings decades of ISE experience to the University of Florida, and she is excited for this opportunity!

Our doctorate application deadline has been EXTENDED to January 15th!

Interested in our program? The link to apply is below! ⤵️

🔗 bit.ly/3N9KHmN

When disasters occur, life-saving responses are necessary 🚑 🚁

Using a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, our very own Dr. Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei will design a systematic data collection method that will help data agents collect reliable data under severe time and resource constraints!

🔗 bit.ly/3uNZ1LA

Yesterday, our department held the 2023 ISE Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium! This is a chance for our students to present their research and senior design projects while gaining valuable presentation experience! Students who attended had the chance to network and learn about the different research areas within ISE. Thanks to everyone who helped make this event a success! 🐊

Interested in earning your doctorate in ISE? 🤔

Look into joining us! Our priority admission deadline for the Fall 2024 semester is December 5th, so don’t miss your opportunity and apply today! 🐊

🔗 bit.ly/3N9KHmN

Our Fall 2023 ISE Undergraduate Research Symposium is next week! 🙌

Follow the link below by December 4th to register one of your posters today! ⤵️

🔗 bit.ly/46uEAQQ

🫵 Are you interested in pursuing a graduate degree in industrial & systems engineering? We've got you covered! Scan the QR code or visit the link below to learn more about our program! 🐊

🔗 ise.ufl.edu/academics/graduate

In its inaugural year of operation, our HFES Student Chapter was recently awarded the bronze award in the 2023 HFES Student Chapter recognition! This is a huge honor and we are proud of your hard work!! 🐊🥉

The 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting was a success! Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth and to all of our fantastic students & faculty who presented in front of crowds all week in Phoenix! 🌵 🐊

We are so excited to welcome Iris to the family!! 🐊

Our very own Yu Yang, Ph.D., is using a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program to develop measures and create a novel framework of analysis that can support policymaking for new infrastructure systems!

📖 Read more: bit.ly/44YRYf9

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🎉

We'll see you this evening in meeting rooms 2325 & 2330 at the Reitz Union for the in-person career fair!

Final details: bit.ly/3PI2Z0d

This semester, has recorded a significant increase in the number of students enrolled in both graduate and undergraduate programs offered through the department! 👏 👏 🐊

Read more about our growth: bit.ly/3Ph8PUJ