STUDENT NEWS
The Ratner Senior Design Project Award
Each semester the ISyE department presents the Ratner Senior Design Project Award to the three best projects from an ISyE senior capstone design course. Each winner receives an award certificate and a share of their team’s prize money.
For the spring 2009 semester, first place and $800 went to Advait Raje, Andreas Roenning, Kemaleddin Farrokhnia, Majid Aksari, Vishal Labade and Zariat Rahman for their project, titled “Reducing delivery lead times for aftermarket parts at P&H Mining Equipment.”
Second place and $600 went to Lucas Bohac and Ronald Uglow for “Spine clinic access project.”
Third place and $475 went to Debon Dyreson and Tom Thorvaldson for “Peds speciality clinics template optimization.”
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PhD student Safa Erenay, who works under Assistant Professor Oguz Alagoz, has won the best PhD scientific poster award in the PhD colloquium at the recent Industrial Engineering Research Conference. The conference was held in Miami, Florida, on June 1, 2009. Erenay won the best poster award among a total of 40 submissions for his dissertation, which is titled “Optimal screening policy for colorectal cancer prevention and surveillance.”
Richard Holden, lecturer and PhD student under Associate Professor Ben-Tzion Karsh, has been named the first recipient of the IBM scholarship from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). HIMSS is an international organization focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of healthcare. Its philanthropic arm, the HIMSS Foundation, awards scholarships to student members who have achieved academic excellence and have the potential to be future leaders in the healthcare information and management systems industry. The scholarship carries a $7,000 cash award and a sponsored invitation to the annual HIMSS conference and exhibition.
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) chose a paper by graduate student Liang Pi, alumnus Yunpeng Pan (PhD ’06) and Professor Leyuan Shi for its Best Paper Award. In “Hybrid nested partitions and mathematical programming approach and its applications,” published in the October 2008 issue of T-ASE, the researchers presented a new approach to hybrid nested partitions and mathematical programming, which can provide approximate solutions and handle different kinds of constraints for many types of problems. The award includes a certificate for each author and a $1,000 honorarium.
During the spring 2009 semester, a group of industrial and systems engineering students volunteered to redesign the Democratic caucus room at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The students worked with State Representative Kelda Roys (D-Madison) and her aides. The caucus room had been designed like a classroom, and the students proposed a U-shape design to better facilitate communication and group work among representatives. The legislators quickly adopted and praised the new design. Student Matt Myers led the group, which included Ben Borsuk, Mark Cigich, Jake Gafner, Ji Shun Liu, Joe Madden and Arjun Mishra. ISyE Lecturer Terry Mann advised the group.
ISyE scholarship recipients
In the 2008-2009 academic year, 27 ISyE students were awarded 40 scholarships from alumni and industry totaling $47,000. Undergraduate scholarships were awarded in fall, while graduate students received their awards in the spring.
Victor W. Bergenthal Scholarship
Andrea Hilliker, Maia Jacobs, Paul Swanson
Lewis Raymond Brown Scholarship
Tyler Haag, Allison Newman, Jayne Sammons, Jayme Udvare
Gilbert and Genevieve Buske Scholarship
Angelene Bauch, Elizabeth Richards, Tracy Schumitsch
Fred W. & Josephine Colbeck Scholarship
Jayne Sammons, Paul Swanson, Tom Thorvaldson, Ronald Uglow
Antoinette Derjani-Bayeh Scholarship
Bonnie Paris
Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship
Ryan McAsey
Carl and Henry Grotophorst Scholarship in Engineering
Martin DeZell, Andrea Hilliker
Richard S. and Harriet K. Fein Scholarship
Richard Holden
Donald Liechty Scholarship—Engineering
Tyler Haag, Tom Thorvaldson, Jayme Udvare
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Robert J. Mensel Scholarship
Allison Newman, Benjamin Rissman, Yodsadhorn Vinitwatanakhun
Robert A. Ratner Scholarship
Jacquelynn Lamb, Mariama Morrison, Yodsadhorn Vinitwatanakhun
Robert A. Rohn Scholarship
Kristine Juno, Colin Wiesner
Dr. Vinod K. & J. Gail Sahney Scholarship
Debjit Roy
Jeanne and Thomas Snodgrass Scholarship
Angelene Bauch, Jennifer Gerschke
Roland E. Stoelting Scholarship
Thomas Davich, Maia Jacobs
Erich Victor Streich Memorial Scholarship
Martin DeZell
Anthony and Alice Thistlethwaite
Lin Yu, Elizabeth Richards, Tracy Schumitsch
University League—Rosa B. Fred Endowed Scholarship
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