Welcome From the Chair
Exploring the Use of Operations Research in Concussion Diagnosis
Assistant Professor Gian-Gabriel Garcia, who joined ISyE after a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, loves sports. Whether it’s watching American football or playing golf or tennis, he draws plenty of entertainment from those athletic diversions.
He also draws plenty of inspiration for his work.
“I was an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh trying to apply for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and I was trying to propose some work that was really unique,” he said.
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MARTA and Georgia Tech Team Up to Give Passengers a "First-Mile, Last-Mile" Solution
When LaQuetta Ferrell learned about MARTA Reach, an on-demand pilot ride-share service in Atlanta, she eagerly started using the service that same day.
Ferrell’s commute to and from work had become a slog. She was getting up at 4:30 a.m. on weekdays to catch a bus and train to get to her job in downtown Atlanta by 7. She had to walk uphill and several blocks to the bus stop, wearing a brace for a worsening knee issue. Her knee hurt, and on days when the heat descended on Atlanta like a stifling blanket, she’d arrive home soaked in sweat. The one-way trip took 45 minutes on a good day but sometimes up to an hour and a half, versus the 15 minutes it would take to drive to work if Ferrell had a car.
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Establishing Connections, Improving
Electrical Outcomes in Rwanda
A trio of research projects centered on electricity challenges in Rwanda were the beginning. Now, there are new projects that promise impact on cooking options and give ISyE students a chance to study abroad in the country.
ISyE Professor Valerie Thomas was working in her office one day when a man walked in to ask about the work that she and her students had been doing in Rwanda. The man, Paul Rugambwa, was a visiting research scholar at Georgia Tech and, as it turned out, part of the Ministry of Infrastructure in the country.
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Five ISyE Alumni Included
in GTAA’s 40 Under 40
Alex Berry, IE 2017
Technical Program Manager
Intel
Victoria Bertasoli, IE 2017
Operations Team
Softbank Latin America Fund
Sonia Sardana, IE 2012
Senior Vice President
ACS Solutions
Valerie Williams, IE 2006
Founder & Managing Partner
Converge Firm
Priya Boyington, IE 2011
Director, New Verticals Consumer
DoorDash
ISyE Helps Break Ground on its Future Home in Midtown Atlanta's Technology Square
The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is officially building a new home.
Georgia Tech kicked off construction on a Midtown Atlanta development that will further expand Georgia Tech’s footprint in the area. The groundbreaking ceremony for Tech Square Phase 3 happened in the shadow of structures like Coda, Centergy, and the Technology Square Research Building where Tech has rapidly cultivated one of the country’s fastest-growing business and technology ecosystems.
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Senior Design
ISyE Senior Design team “Provision with a Vision” won the Capstone Design Expo award for the Best ISyE project. They worked with the on-board services group at Delta Air Lines to develop a data-driven methodology that determines the optimal amount of beverage items to load on a flight. The project motivation came from unused items adding extra weight to the aircraft resulting in excess fuel costs and carbon emissions. The team delivered an optimization model that takes into consideration passenger demand as well as an impact analysis tool which allows Delta to visualize how small changes in beverage quantities can have significant economic and environmental impact across the system.
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Mitigating the Foster Care to Homelessness Pipeline
ISyE Ph.D. student Meghan Meredith and her partner, public policy master’s student Raine Sagramsingh, created a model that helps organizations predict how many youths aging out of the foster care system are in danger of becoming homeless.
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Undergraduate Putting Her Stamp on ISyE
Sydney Mudd was working her way through her junior and senior years at Parkview High in Lilburn, Ga., when she started to feel that pressure. It’s the same pressure most high schoolers begin to feel when the first of their friends start to make college selections, setting out plans for their majors and, it felt like, their entire lives.
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ISyE MentIE's Program
ISyE students, mentors look for a match at speed dating-style MentIE's kickoff event.
Just about a year ago, ISyE launched MentIE's, a mentorship program designed to connect undergraduates with ISyE alumni who can offer real-world practical insights students might not otherwise receive inside the classroom.
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K-12 Educational Outreach
In ISyE, our faculty and staff are committed to increasing exposure to industrial engineering (IE) for K-12 students, educators, and the community through an assortment of outreach opportunities and activities.
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