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Jul 17, 2023
MIE Alum Receives EuroSim Best Master’s Thesis Award
Sahil Belsare, MS’21, industrial engineering, received the Best Master’s Thesis Award at the EuroSim Conference in Amsterdam for his innovative thesis on adaptive job shop scheduling using deep reinforcement learning.
Jul 13, 2023
Developing a New Generation of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Advanced Manufacturing
MIE Assistant Professor Mohsen Moghaddam is leading a $850,000 NSF grant for “Accelerating Skill Acquisition in Complex Psychomotor Tasks via an Intelligent Extended Reality Tutoring System.”
Jul 06, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: Kirankumar Trivedi
Kirankumar Trivedi joins the MIE department in July 2023 as an Associate Teaching Professor in Seattle.
Jul 05, 2023
Faculty and Students Participate in Technical Exchange Meeting at U.S. Army DEVCOM DAC
Four project teams from across the country came together for the first time at the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry collection in Fort Moore, Georgia for a Technical Exchange Meeting. These projects assist the Army by increasing capabilities to assess AI in the future, while letting students and faculty learn directly from soldiers about the operation of ground combat vehicles.
Jun 12, 2023
Advancing Distributed Optimization for Non-Convex Problems
MIE Assistant Professor Shahin Shahrampour received a $500,000 NSF grant, in collaboration with Texas A&M University, to address “Consensus and Distributed Optimization in Non-Convex Environments with Applications to Networked Machine Learning.” The project will transform the understanding of consensus and coordination in non-convex environments, and will include educational components to introduce distributed optimization as a practical tool for the next generation of engineers.
Jun 01, 2023
Advancing Concentrated Solar Power Education
MIE Professors Hameed Metghalchi (PI), Yiannis Levendis, and Emeritus Associate Professor Gregory Kowalski were awarded a $265,000 grant to create “An Educational Program on Concentrated Solar Power and Heliostats for Power Generation and Industrial Processes” from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)’s Heliostat Consortium.
Jun 01, 2023
Levendis Receives AIAA STEM Educator Award
MIE Professor Yiannis Levendis received the 2023 STEM Educator Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) – New England “for tireless dedication and exceptional contributions to STEM […]
May 23, 2023
Melachrinoudis Receives IISE Fellow Award
MIE Professor Emanuel Melachrinoudis was selected to receive the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Fellow Award.