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The team created a scheduling tool that provides custom fixed schedules for the six full-time doctors to be employed by their operations manager. The proposed solution provides a 20.4% reduction in patient wait time and a 23.5% reduction in doctor delay. To achieve the same improvement in these two metrics the clinic would have had to hire three additional doctors at an approximate $540,000 annual cost to the clinic. The team members include \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Angelucci, Mary Lynn Buchanan, Breona Jenkins, Beau Shinkle, Teckmon Siaw, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand \u003Cstrong\u003ENolan Thomson \u003C\/strong\u003Eand was led by ISyE faculty advisor,\u003Cstrong\u003E Dima Nazzal.\u003C\/strong\u003E \u0026nbsp;The team will now compete in the Undergraduate Technical Paper Competition Global Finals at the IIE Annual Conference \u0026amp; Expo in May 2014 in Montreal, QC, Canada.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second place team, comprised of four students, won for their paper titled \u003Cem\u003EResource allocation and optimization for advanced voting in Gwinnett County\u003C\/em\u003E. The objective of their project is to analyze the tradeoff between cost and voter service level for advanced voting in Gwinnett County, which they achieve by optimizing the allocation of resources among the four advanced voting locations. Applying and integrating simulation and optimization techniques, they developed a decision support tool to reduce overstaffing costs as well as to reduce voter waiting times for Gwinnett County voters. The team includes \u003Cstrong\u003EMehran D\u2019souza, Shi Gan, Andrew Luff, \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Peiqi Yang \u003C\/strong\u003Eand was led by ISyE faculty advisor\u003Cstrong\u003E Ton Dieker\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe IIE Southeastern Regional conference is an opportunity for industrial engineering students to network and explore the local industry in the Orlando area by touring local companies. Approximately 200 industrial engineering students attended the conference from schools across the Southeast.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo ISyE Senior design teams took first and second place at the IIE Southeastern regional conference for their student technical papers on March 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Two ISyE Senior design teams took first and second place at the IIE Southeastern regional conference for their student technical papers on March 2014."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-03-06 09:52:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:58","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"281151":{"id":"281151","type":"image","title":"The team members include Mehran D\u2019souza, Andrew Luff, Shi Gan, and Peiqi Yang and was led by ISyE faculty advisor Ton Dieker.","body":null,"created":"1449244184","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:44","changed":"1475894973","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:33","alt":"The team members include Mehran D\u2019souza, Andrew Luff, Shi Gan, and Peiqi Yang and was led by ISyE faculty advisor Ton Dieker.","file":{"fid":"198930","name":"image_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/image_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1472471,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/image_0.jpg?itok=mG72E4MB"}},"281161":{"id":"281161","type":"image","title":"Pictured here are team members Breona Jenkins and Beau Shinkle. 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