{"49735":{"#nid":"49735","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Earn Your Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Certificate Online","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) offers online versions of its entire Supply Chain Management Series, allowing busy executives to study course material at their own pace and schedule, while avoiding the travel costs generally associated with training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDesigned for logistics professionals from across the entire supply chain, the series includes four courses:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E--\u003Cstrong\u003EWorld-Class Inventory Planning and Management\u003C\/strong\u003E. Inventory availability is the most important aspect of customer service, and inventory carrying costs are typically the most expensive and riskiest aspect of logistics and supply chain management. In this course, participants learn how to manage inventories more effectively in order to increase fill rates and inventory turns.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E--\u003Cstrong\u003EWorld-Class Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy\u003C\/strong\u003E. World-class logistics systems improve customer service, reduce operating expenses, and minimize capital investments. In this course, participants will learn how to develop a comprehensive supply chain strategy to improve business performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E--\u003Cstrong\u003EWorld-Class Transportation and Distribution \u003C\/strong\u003E. Driven by more frequent and increasingly time-definite shipments, complex security and regulatory requirements, increased fuel and labor costs, and severe shortages in labor and capacity, transportation management has become a critical corporate function. In this course, participants learn how to interpret shipment activity, optimize routes, and manage total transportation for better service and reduced logistics costs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E--\u003Cstrong\u003EWorld-Class Warehousing and Material Handling \u003C\/strong\u003E. Warehousing minimizes the effects of supply chain inefficiencies, improves logistics accuracy and inventory management, and allows product accumulation, consolidation, and customization. This course focuses on ways to design warehouses to maximize supply chain efficiency and benchmark warehouse performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese courses can be taken individually or as part of a certificate program. Participants who complete all four courses will qualify for the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Certificate. By the end of the series, attendees will have received a broad but intense education covering:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E*Customer service and order processing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Inventory planning and management\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Supply chain integration and transportation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Warehousing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Distribution\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Logistics performance measures\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Benchmarking procedures\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Logistics information systems architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nand implementation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Third-party logistics strategies\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n*Logistics organization design\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;This online learning experience was a great way to expand into every aspect of logistics, and I was able to complete it at my own pace,\u0026quot; said Mark Lamarre, manufacturing manager at Raytheon. \u0026quot;It was straightforward and informative, not trying to be harder than it really is with tricky questions on the exams, like other programs I have done.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe series is taught by Edward Frazelle, PhD, who is known by his students for putting \u0026quot;logic back into logistics.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEach course is divided into nine to twelve sections with an online quiz at the end of each section.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The online format is perfect for the busy professional as it affords them the flexibility to progress though the course material at their own pace,\u0026quot; said Frazelle, author of the book \u003Cem\u003ESupply Chain Strategy\u003C\/em\u003E. \u0026quot;Our online participants have the option of starting and stopping a course as often as they like as long as they complete the course within a twelve-month period.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOnline course materials are presented using streaming video presentations synchronized with PowerPoint slides, extensive course notes, and photo galleries that highlight the operation of important logistics systems. The series is offered through a WebCT interface in a point-and-click format. It can be accessed from anywhere, by anyone capable of using a Web browser such as Internet Explorer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor an online course demo, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/online\u0022\u003Ewww.scl.gatech.edu\/online\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis article first appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of \u003Cem\u003EIndustrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E, the alumni magazine of the Stewart School of ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) offers online versions of its entire Supply Chain Management Series, allowing busy executives to study course material at their own pace and schedule, while avoiding the travel costs generally associated with training.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Earn Your Supply Chain \u0026 Logistics Certificate Online"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-01-06 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-11-22 20:14:59","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49736":{"id":"49736","type":"image","title":"Online Window","body":null,"created":"1449175408","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:28","changed":"1475894463","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:03","alt":"Online Window","file":{"fid":"127080","name":"tat92887.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tat92887_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tat92887_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":58212,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tat92887_0.jpg?itok=_1WhKI4e"}}},"media_ids":["49736"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170754","name":"SCL Online certification"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63196":{"#nid":"63196","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sensing For Logistics Throughout The Food Chain","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWriting\nfor the \u003Cem\u003ECool Insights\u003C\/em\u003E column in the November\/December\n2010 issue of \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics\u003C\/em\u003E magazine,\nGary McMurray, division chief for\nthe Food Processing Technology Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute,\npicks up a theme that John Bartholdi, Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply\nChain Management and research director for the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics\nInstitute, discussed in the September 2010 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodlogistics.com\/print\/Food-Logistics\/Cool-Insights\/1$4010\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECool\nInsights\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E column. According to McMurray, Bartholdi presented an excellent argument for\nhow economic value can be generated by the new trace back laws and how easily\nthis can be done by using data collected for trace back to predict forward in\ntime the quality of the product and its shelf life. Work being done by many\nresearch groups around the world, including Georgia Tech, shows that it is\npossible to develop sensor hardware and software to automatically grade natural\nproducts including citrus fruits, apples, corn and jalapenos at the packing\nhouses. The opportunity to apply new technology at the farm that enables\npredictive modeling of product quality and shelf life has the ability to\nrevolutionize the agribusiness community. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodlogistics.com\/publication\/article.jsp?pubId=1\u0026amp;id=4185\u0026amp;pageNum=1\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the article. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the sixth installment of the \u003Cem\u003ECool\nInsights\u003C\/em\u003E column in \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistic\u003C\/em\u003E\nmagazine hosted by Integrated Food Chain center at Georgia Tech. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ifc.scl.gatech.edu\/news\/article\/62767\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\nto read more about the column and to find links to all six installments. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWriting\nfor the \u003Cem\u003ECool Insights\u003C\/em\u003E column in the November\/December\n2010 issue of \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics\u003C\/em\u003E magazine,\nGary McMurray says that work\nbeing done by many research groups around the world, including Georgia Tech,\nshows that it is possible to develop sensor hardware and software to\nautomatically grade natural products including citrus fruits, apples, corn and\njalapenos at the packing houses. The opportunity to apply new technology at the\nfarm that enables predictive modeling of product quality and shelf life has the\nability to revolutionize the agribusiness community. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sensing For Logistics Throughout The Food Chain"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-12-15 13:43:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:54","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-12-15T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63195":{"id":"63195","type":"image","title":"November \/ December 2010 Issue","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"November \/ December 2010 Issue","file":{"fid":"191774","name":"Dec2010cover.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dec2010cover_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dec2010cover_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26789,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dec2010cover_0.jpg?itok=QUHtCcn4"}}},"media_ids":["63195"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11471","name":"Cool Insihgts"},{"id":"9684","name":"Food Logistics"},{"id":"11470","name":"Gary McMurray"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63198":{"#nid":"63198","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bill Cook, George Nemhauser and Bo Zhang Among ISyE Faculty\/Students Honored at INFORMS Annual Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year at its annual\nmeeting, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences\n(INFORMS) honors deserving members by electing them as\nFellows and recognizes outstanding research and life-time achievement through\nits various and highly prized awards. Among the most prestigious of these are\nthe George Nicholson Student Paper award and the newly created Khachiyan Prize.\nTwo faculty members and one graduate student from the H. Milton Stewart School\nof Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) were among those receiving these\nprestigious honors and join other ISyE faculty and students recognized at the\nmeeting. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=62894\u0022\u003EGeorge Nemhauser\u003C\/a\u003E, the A. Russell Chandler Chaired Professor, was honored as the first recipient\nof the newly established Khachiyan Prize, created to recognize an individual or\na team for life-time achievements in the area of optimization. The award, named\nfor Leonid Khachiyan, serves as an esteemed recognition of innovativeness and\nimpact in the area of optimization, including theory and applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENemhauser\u2019s remarkable academic career spans nearly a half-century, during\nwhich time he has grown into one of the world\u0027s foremost experts in discrete\noptimization and become one of the most recognized members of the INFORMs\ncommunity. The basis for Nemhauser\u2019s outstanding position as an operations research\nscientist is his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of\ninteger programming and combinatorial optimization. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=62946\u0022\u003EBill Cook\u003C\/a\u003E, Chandler Family Chair and professor, is another ISyE faculty member honored\nat this year\u2019s meeting. Cook was elected INFORMS Fellow, an honor reserved for\ndistinguished individuals who have demonstrated outstanding and exceptional\naccomplishments and experience in operations research and the management\nsciences. Their service to the profession and to INFORMS has culminated in\nelection to the INFORMS Fellow Award. Cook, known widely for his work with the\nTraveling Salesman Problem and his research in combinatorial optimization and\ninteger programming, was elected for his research contributions in both\nareas.\u0026nbsp;Cook joins a distinguished list, including twelve other ISyE\nfaculty members who have achieved this recognition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, arguably the most\nprestigious student award in the operations research community, was awarded to\nISyE PhD student \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=62988\u0022\u003EBo Zhang\u003C\/a\u003E. The George Nicholson Student Paper Competition is held each year to honor\noutstanding student papers in the field of operations research and the\nmanagement sciences. Zhang received the Nicholson Award for his paper, \u201cRefined\nSquare-Root Staffing for Call Centers with Impatient Customers,\u201d which he\nco-authored with Johan van Leeuwaarden and Bert Zwart, ISyE adjunct associate\nprofessor and Zhang\u2019s thesis advisor. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOther ISyE faculty and students who received recognition for their\noutstanding work include:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELi Xu, a third-year PhD student, won the 2010 INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment best student paper competition for his paper, \u0022Carbon Emission Permit Price Volatility Mitigation via Financial Options.\u0022 Xu\u2019s thesis advisor is Shijie Deng.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPinar Keskinocak, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash professor\nand co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian\nLogistics, and PhD student Hannah Smalley were finalists for the Daniel H.\nWagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice for their paper,\n\u0022Universal Tool for Vaccine Scheduling - Applications for Children and\nAdults.\u0022 Keskinocak and Smalley co-authored the paper with Dr. Larry\nPickering of the Centers for Disease Control and Faramroze Engineer (PhD IE\n2009).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPhD student Ran Jin was a finalist for the best student\npaper award of Quality, Statistics and Reliability section of INFORMS. Ran\nworked with Jan Shi, the Carolyn\nJ. Stewart Chair professor. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOzlem Ergun and Julie Swann, associate professors and\nco-directors of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics; Keskinocak;\nand PhD students Monica Villarreal and Paul Kerl won third place at the\nINFORM-ED Case Competition for their paper, \u0022A Leader Home Improvement\nRetailer Commitment to Disaster Response.\u0022 \u0026nbsp;Former students Matthew J. Drake (MS IE 2005,\nPhD IE 2006) and Gonca Karakus (MS IE 2008) co-authored the paper. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPhD student Kelly Bartlett won the Monday poster session for\nher poster titled, \u201cAsset\nAllocation and Routing in a Recruiting Organization.\u201d Bartlett\u2019s advisors are George Nemhauser and Joel Sokol. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EUndergraduate students Rene Alvarenga, Dani Slaton, and\nJordan Stone won second place in the INFORMS\u0027 \u201cDoing Good with Good OR\u201d student\ncompetition. Ergun was the advisor.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJames Wade (IE 2010) won an honorable mention in the INFORMS\nundergraduate student paper competition for his paper \u0022Supply Chain Improvements for the World Food Programme.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\nOzlem Ergun was the advisor. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EINFORMS,\nthe\nlargest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations\nresearch, management science, and business analytics, serves the scientific and professional needs of operations\nresearchers and those in the management sciences including educators,\nscientists, students, managers, and consultants. The Institute serves as a\nfocal point for operations research professionals, permitting them to\ncommunicate with each other and reach out to other professional societies, as\nwell as the varied clientele of the profession\u0027s research and practice.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEach year at its annual\nmeeting, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences\n(INFORMS) honors deserving members by electing them as\nFellows and recognizes outstanding research and life-time achievement through\nits various and highly prized awards. Among the most prestigious of these are\nthe George Nicholson Student Paper award and the newly created Khachiyan Prize.\nTwo faculty members and one graduate student from the H. 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This installment, the Latin American\nresidence, began in Panama City, Panama, included a first-time visit to Lima,\nPeru, and then concluded with site visits in Sao Paulo, Campinas and Santos,\nBrazil. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe class began its residence in Panama City with a course\nin fundamental theory about the region.\u0026nbsp; Patrice\nFranko, Grossman Professor of Economics and International Studies at Colby\nCollege, presented an overview of Latin America from a geopolitical and socio-economic\nperspective.\u0026nbsp; Once the regional framework\nwas set, the class heard from John Bartholdi, Manhattan Associates chair and\nprofessor of supply chain and logistics at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; Bartholdi lectured on warehouse optimization,\nfacility design, IT systems, and software to enhance order fulfillment and\ndistribution.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing the two days of intense lecture, the class was ready\nto get out and experience Panama City and the Colon Free Trade Zone.\u0026nbsp; First visiting was Manzanillo\nInternational Terminal (MIT) Logistics Park site, the class learned the\nimportance of MIT throughout Central America with an emphasis on port\noperations and performance metrics, rail integration and its support of the\nPanama Canal and the canal railway, and intermodal truck operations.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom the MIT offices, the class traveled\nto J.Cain \u0026amp; Company, a third-party warehouse service provider located\non the campus of MIT.\u0026nbsp; J. Cain presented\nan overview of the facility and discussed the benefits of being located within\nthe MIT Logistics Park and the benefits and challenges of being inside the\nColon Free Trade Zone.\u0026nbsp; The last\nessential site visit in Panama was the Panama Canal Authority, where the\nstudents learned the rich history of building the Panama Canal, as well as the\ndetailed future plans to expand the canal by 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThat evening the class boarded a plane to Lima, Peru,\na first-time visit for the EMIL-SCS program.\u0026nbsp;\nThe class began its Lima visit in the classroom with part two of Bartholdi\u2019s\nwarehouse optimization discussion. Following the lecture, the class made its first\nsite visit in Lima to Ransa, an integrated logistics service provider.\u0026nbsp; Ransa provided an overview of its port\noperation logistics services, with a focus on facilitating trade into and out\nof Lima in support of the mining, retail, consumer, and cold chain\nindustries.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe class began its second day in Lima with a lecture from\nMaria Rey Marston, senior lecturer in the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics\nInstitute at Georgia Tech and executive director of the Center for Emerging Logistics\n\u0026amp; Supply Chains. Marston spoke on logistics and supply chain management in\nLatin America, with a specific focus on infrastructure needs and understanding\nthe Latin American consumer.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThat afternoon the class went to Alicorp, a company dedicated to the preparation of mass\nconsumption products, industrial supplies, and animal nutrition food.\u0026nbsp; The company presented an overview and then\ntook the class on a tour of the plant and distribution center.\u0026nbsp; The final site visit in Lima was to Jorge\nChaves International Airport for an operational overview of their import -\nexport processes, custom regulations, and the cold chain supply chain\nsupporting fresh fruits, vegetables, and flowers. The class left Lima and flew\nto Cuzco, Peru, where they visited Machu Picchu over the weekend to tour the\nInca ruins.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe class began the second week of its residence in Sao\nPaulo, Brazil, with Lars Meyer Sanches, PhD, LALT\/UNICAMP, Laboratory of Apprenticeship\non Logistics and Transportation. Sanches gave an overview of Brazil,\nspecifically addressing logistics and supply chain challenges and\nopportunities, contract logistics, and managing corporate taxes in Brazil.\u0026nbsp; Later that day the class met with Antonio\nGrandini, Brazilian supply chain and logistics consultant, who presented an\noverview on tax strategies in Brazil, as well as case studies on Landed Cost Models used\nto offset the impact of the Brazilian Tax Regime.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom Sao Paulo, the class took a bus trip to Campinas,\nBrazil, to meet with Dell Hortolandia for a site visit and a discussion on\nlogistics issues and opportunities working with customs in Brazil, outbound\nshipping to other countries within Latin America and to non-Latin American\nregions, and ocean\/air inbound and outbound shipments.\u0026nbsp; Following the Dell visit, the class toured\nViracopos\/Campinas Airport Infraero, a customs bonded import-export\nfacility.\u0026nbsp; As a major hub, Viracopos\nutilizes express lanes for courier traffic, which are exceptionally quick and\nless-bureaucratic for Brazilian standards.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe third day in Brazil included a visit to the Port of\nSantos for a harbor tour and overview of the Port of\nSantos and its role in support of containerized ocean cargo into and out of\nBrazil.\u0026nbsp; While visiting the Port of\nSantos, the class got the chance to board an incoming ocean vessel out\nin the harbor and transit with the ship into the Port of Santos.\u0026nbsp; The class also visited with ELOG-Columbia,\nwhere they received an overview of EADI Bonded\nWarehousing and took a look at the 3PL industry in Brazil.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the last day of the residence,\nthe students visited GM Automotive Industrial Complex in Sao Paulo.\u0026nbsp;\nThe class learned about the economic foot print of GM in Sao\nPaulo - Brazil- Latin America, as well as: factors influencing GM\u2019s choice of\nSao Paulo as a location and the current advantages\/disadvantages of being\nlocated in Sao Paulo; the participation of suppliers in the site and how that\ninfluences logistics and procurement practices; the sales process (internet vs.\ndealers); how the internet process influences the production processes; finished\nvehicle distribution including modes of transportation and tax considerations;\nand post sales and service, highlighting which models they run in Brazil and where\nand how they serve Latin America.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe next destination for the EMIL-SCS Class of 2011 is\nResidence IV in Asia.\u0026nbsp; The class will be traveling to Seoul, South Korea;\nShanghai, China; and Hong Kong from February 20 \u2013 March 3, 2011.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003Efor\nmore on the EMIL-SCS program or contact Erin Howlette at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:erin.howlette@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eerin.howlette@isye.gatech.edu.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMoving quickly through its eighteen-month program, the\nEMIL-SCS Class of 2011 recently completed its third residence.\u0026nbsp; This installment, the Latin American\nresidence, began in Panama City, Panama, included a first-time visit to Lima,\nPeru, and then concluded with site visits in Sao Paulo, Campinas and Santos,\nBrazil\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"2011 EMIL-SCS Class Studies Latin American Logistics"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-12-16 13:55:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:54","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-12-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63250":{"id":"63250","type":"image","title":"Class tours Alicorp in Lima, Peru","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Class tours Alicorp in Lima, Peru","file":{"fid":"191790","name":"EMIL_2011_Res_III_Alicorp.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Alicorp_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Alicorp_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3734054,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Alicorp_0.jpg?itok=eHqE1lj4"}},"63251":{"id":"63251","type":"image","title":"Inca ruins in Machu Picchu","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Inca ruins in Machu Picchu","file":{"fid":"191791","name":"EMIL_2011_Res_III_Inca_Ruins.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Inca_Ruins_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Inca_Ruins_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3543220,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Inca_Ruins_0.jpg?itok=JAR_Gqaa"}},"63253":{"id":"63253","type":"image","title":"Class visiting the Miraflores Locks in Panama City, Panama.","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Class visiting the Miraflores Locks in Panama City, Panama.","file":{"fid":"191792","name":"EMIL_2011_Res_III_Miraflores.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Miraflores_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Miraflores_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1923348,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/EMIL_2011_Res_III_Miraflores_0.jpg?itok=o2eLOMsl"}}},"media_ids":["63250","63251","63253"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11474","name":"2011 EMIL-SCS"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"11475","name":"Residence III"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63100":{"#nid":"63100","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ergun and Swann Discuss the Role of IEs in Disaster Response","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent issue of \u003Cem\u003EIndustrial\nEngineer\u003C\/em\u003E, Professors Julie Swann and Ozlem Ergun were among a number of\nindustrial engineers (IE) interviewed about the logistics of disaster response\nand the role of IEs in humanitarian relief. Recognizing that there is a lot of\nuncertainty when a disaster strikes, Swann and Ergun agree that you have to be adaptable\nin the humanitarian sector, even more so than in a traditional supply chain, because\n\u201cyou just have to figure out creative ways to get stuff where it needs to go\u201d\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iienet2.org\/details.aspx?id=21082\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the entire article. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a recent issue of \u003Cem\u003EIndustrial\nEngineer\u003C\/em\u003E, Professors Julie Swann and Ozlem Ergun were among a number of\nindustrial engineers (IE) interviewed about the logistics of disaster response\nand the role of IEs in humanitarian relief. Recognizing that there is a lot of\nuncertainty when a disaster strikes, Swann and Ergun agree that you have to be adaptable\nin the humanitarian sector, even more so than in a traditional supply chain, because\n\u201cyou just have to figure out creative ways to get stuff where it needs to go\u201d\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iienet2.org\/details.aspx?id=21082\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the entire article. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ergun and Swann Discuss the Role of IEs in Disaster Response"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-12-08 16:18:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:54","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-09-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"11428","name":"Health and Humaniatrain Logistics"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1237","name":"Julie Swann"},{"id":"1238","name":"Ozlem Ergun"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63010":{"#nid":"63010","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III Shares Parting Thoughts","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EI have been asked to share with you\nparting thoughts on having been chair of the Stewart School for the five-year\nperiod ending June 30, 2010. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The thought that immediately comes to\nmind is how uniquely remarkable ISyE is as an academic unit in higher education in the United States and\nthroughout the world. Rankings are not necessarily accurate indicators of\nquality.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, having both our graduate and\nundergraduate programs consistently ranked first by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp;\nWorld Report \u003C\/em\u003Ein industrial and\nmanufacturing engineering is a source of great pride to us all. That our\ngraduate program has been ranked first for twenty consecutive years is simply\nextraordinary. To paraphrase an external review of ISyE written three years\nago: \u003Cem\u003EISyE is the\nnation\u2019s\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003Eflagship academic\nunit in industrial engineering and operations research and\nplays a leading role in shaping the strategic directions of the discipline. \u003C\/em\u003ESuch recognition\ndoes not come without\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Esignificant\ninvestments in time, effort, and money by Georgia Tech\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eas an institution\nand the School\u2019s alumni, faculty, staff, students,\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eand friends over\na long period of time. Let me thank all of you for\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eyour many\ncontributions that have made ISyE the premier academic\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Eunit that it is.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOver the last five years, we strived\nto ensure continued and increased strength of the School\u2019s foundation\ndisciplines (optimization, stochastics and\nsimulation, and statistics) and to broaden the School\u2019s applied research\nhorizons through continued support of supply chain and logistics initiatives,\nefforts to revive traditional strengths in health, and new initiatives in\nhealth and humanitarian logistics, sustainability and natural systems, and\nsystems informatics and control. ISyE also expanded its international\nactivities beyond those in Singapore to include programs in Shanghai and Latin\nAmerica. During this period, the faculty strove hard to continuously improve\nthe quality of incoming students and faculty, the mentoring process for junior\nfaculty, and the evaluation processes for faculty reappointment, promotion, and\ntenure.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2006, ISyE received a $20 million\ncommitment from H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart that enabled, and will\ncontinue to enable, ISyE to have greater impact on its academic and research\ncommunities and on challenges of economic and societal importance. Overall,\nISyE foundation accounts more than doubled from endowment gifts and commitments\nduring the last five years, helping to ensure the School\u2019s financial stability\nand health during the economic downturn and providing\nresources to help ISyE increase its dominance among its academic peers in the\nfuture. Let me end by expressing my appreciation for being given the opportunity\nto have served as ISyE chair and for the chance it gave me to get to know so\nmany of the fine people\u2014alumni, faculty, staff,students, and friends\u2014who have contributed to ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EChelsea \u201cChip\u201d\nWhite, the Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and former\nH. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of Georgia Tech\u2019s H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering, will be spending next year in Abu\nDhabi helping to launch an industrial and systems engineering department at\nKhalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research (KUSTAR). In his new\nrole, White will help establish the curriculum for KUSTAR\u2019s systems engineering\nprogram and recruit systems engineering faculty members. He will also be\nproviding leadership for the Logistics Institute, as well as support in the\nenrollment of personnel. He will be based at the university\u2019s Abu Dhabi campus.\nAbu Dhabi, the richest and largest of the seven city-states in the United Arab\nEmirates, approached Georgia Tech to help them build the educational base Abu\nDhabi needs to reduce its economy\u2019s dependence on oil. White is not the only\nGeorgia Tech professor at KUSTAR; professors in Tech\u2019s biomedical engineering\nand aerospace engineering schools will also be spending the 2010-2011 school\nyear helping KUSTAR build curricula and recruit faculty.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article\nfirst appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of Industrial and Systems Engineering:\nthe Alumni Magazine for the Stewart School of ISyE at Georgia Tech. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the Fall 2010 issue of Industrial and Systems Engineering, former ISyE Chair Chelsea \u0022Chip\u0022 C. White III shared parting thoughts. 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White III","file":{"fid":"190231","name":"White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":257712,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/White_Chelsea_-_Bust_0_0.jpg?itok=96zcedH5"}}},"media_ids":["55103"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11371","name":"Chelsea C."}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63017":{"#nid":"63017","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Executive Master\u0027s Program Helps Find the Right Balance at MercaSID","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn\nthese difficult economic times, any innovation that aims to improve a company\u2019s\nefficiency while saving money is bound to\nbe given serious consideration. At MercaSID S.A., a seventy-three-year-old food\nproducts company based in\nSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic, Emile Simon\u2019s approach to inventory\nmanagement is proving right on\ntarget.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimon, a logistics manager at MercaSID, is a 2009 graduate of Georgia\nTech\u2019s Executive Master\u2019s in International Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain\nStrategy program (EMIL-SCS). The eighteen-month,\nresidence-based program prepares executives to manage a multitude of global\nlogistics and supply chain\nissues. Working either individually or as a team, EMILSCS participants develop\na solution to a real-world\nproblem instead of writing the traditional master\u2019s thesis. Simon chose to\nfocus on a new approach to the product demand\nplanning process as a means of achieving inventory reduction.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA producer of cooking\noils and other agricultural-based products, MercaSID is also a major Caribbean\ndistributor for\nconsumer-product giants, including Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Kellogg, and Clorox.\nIts inventory is massive\u2014too much so, Simon thought\u2014resulting not only in\nexcessive financial and warehousing costs, but also in less-than-optimal customer\nservice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe key is to\nstrike a closer balance between demand and inventory while maintaining as high\nan order fill rate as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\nneeded to understand the demand side better,\u201d said Simon. \u201cWe had a lot of the\nright information, but we weren\u2019t using it properly.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis approach is\ncomprised of two parts. The first involves data collection\u2014basic number\ncrunching\u2014to come up with the projected demand for each product category, and\nthen determine demand estimates for individual products. That information subsequently\nundergoes a value assessment by representatives of the company\u2019s sales,\nmarketing, and operations departments.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe group arrives\nat a consensus on final product forecasts, which are used to determine the\nnumber of any given item to be\nmaintained in inventory. This final number does not necessarily match the\nanalytical forecast provided by a computer\nprogram, because it takes into account factors including market information,\nmarket situation, and the company\u2019s marketing plans.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u201cThis process has\nhelped us streamline our inventories and improve our service levels as well,\u201dSimon noted.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe results so far\nare impressive. While maintaining or exceeding a 90 percent fill rate level\nacross all product categories,\ninventory was reduced 15 percent last year and an additional 5 percent in the\nfirst half of 2010. Further reductions\nare likely when MercaSID\u2019s suppliers are brought fully into the planning\nprocess, probably next year, Simon\nsaid.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe did get some\nsupplier collaboration in the first phases of this new process, but we know we\ncan take it further,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s going to be a little more difficult\nbecause it involves the participation and buy-in of other companies, not just\nourselves.\u201d Simon expects MercaSID\u2019s finance department to become more active\nin the process as it evolves.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBuy-in within\nMercaSID itself was also crucial for the project\u2019s success, Simon added,\npointing out that many people have to believe in the process for it to work.\n\u201cIt has taken discipline, but we did a lot of consensus building about how the\nprocess should take place,\u201d he explained. \u201cAfter we proposed something, we\ndidn\u2019t take it to the next level until all sides of the team\u2014marketing,\nsales\u2014were in agreement that that\u2019s the way we should go.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E \u201cWe\u2019ve had a\nthousand percent support from the highest levels of the company, and that\u2019s\nmade a lot of difference too,\u201d he\nadded.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimon\u2019s experience\nis not uncommon among EMIL-SCS graduates. \u201cIt\u2019s the only program of its kind,\u201d\nsaid Greg Andrews,\nmanaging director of the EMIL-SCS program. Students, typically sponsored by\ntheir employers, participate in five\ntwo-week semesters spread out over eighteen months. The first semester is an \u201cacademic boot camp\u201d held at Tech, where students\nare exposed to the \u201cconcepts of industrial engineering as applied to supply\nchains,\u201d Andrews said. Subsequent semesters are spent traveling to countries in\nEurope, Asia, and the Americas for a combination of academic study, practical\napplication, and real-world problem solving.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe 2009 class\nthat Emile Simon is a part of had seven global projects with a combined savings\nof about $250 million if\nimplemented,\u201d Andrews continued. \u201cThat\u2019s a pretty good payback.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a fast-moving\nconsumer goods company, finding the right balance between customer service and\nthe cost of doing business\nmakes the difference between success and failure, noted Renato Cantarelli,\nMercaSID\u2019s vice president of\noperations. \u201cKey to achieving this balance is to have a robust yet simple\ndemand planning process where sales, marketing, procurement, manufacturing, and\ndistribution are integrated, along with a consolidated operational plan. This was\nEmile\u2019s project\u2014to conceptualize and implement our demand planning process.\nNow, after more than one year in operation, this process is fully operational\nand is well accepted by all levels of our organization. Furthermore, it is\ndelivering the benefits we expected from the outset.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe knowledge Emile\nbrought with him from his experience at Georgia Tech was fundamental for him to successfully finish\nhis project and for the business to accrue the benefits. It was money and time\nwell spent\u2014we are very happy!\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGary\nGoettling is a freelance writer who writes\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003Efor\nGeorgia Tech\u2019s \u003C\/em\u003EResearch Horizons \u003Cem\u003Eand other\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003Ealumni\npublications.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Executive Master\u2019s Program Helps Find the Right Balance at MercaSID"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-12-01 16:59:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:50","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-11-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63040":{"id":"63040","type":"image","title":"Emile Simon","body":null,"created":"1449176409","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:00:09","changed":"1475894552","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:32","alt":"Emile Simon","file":{"fid":"191713","name":"Emile2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Emile2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Emile2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":882983,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Emile2_0.jpg?itok=xarKOh5T"}}},"media_ids":["63040"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7861","name":"EMIL-SCS"},{"id":"11397","name":"Emile Simon"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62894":{"#nid":"62894","#data":{"type":"news","title":"George Nemhauser Selected First Recipient of the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorge Nemhauser, the A.\nRussell Chandler Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\nand Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been honored as the first\nrecipient of the newly established INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan\nPrize, created to recognize an individual or a team for life-time achievements\nin the area of optimization. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe award is named for Leonid Khachiyan, famous in the optimization\ncommunity for his use of the ellipsoid algorithm to demonstrate that linear\nprogramming, in the Turing machine model, has a polynomial-time algorithm. The Khachiyan Prize recognizes\na sustained career of scholarship from nominees who are still active at the\nyear of the nomination. The prize serves as an esteemed recognition of\ninnovativeness and impact in the area of optimization, including theory and\napplications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENemhauser\u2019s remarkable\nacademic career spans nearly a half-century, during which time he has grown\ninto one of the world\u0027s foremost experts in discrete optimization and become\none of the most recognized members of the INFORMs community. The basis for\nNemhauser\u2019s outstanding position as an OR scientist is his fundamental contributions\nto the theory and practice of integer programming and combinatorial\noptimization. His integer programming books have guided the field for more than\nthirty years, each introducing a host of new techniques for handling IP models\nin theory and practice. As well, Nemhauser\u2019s nearly two hundred research papers\nin the field are unmatched in their breadth of coverage. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThough he has shown a\nunique ability to find, solve, and present applied work in Operations Research,\nNemhauser is first and foremost a superb contributor to the theory underlying\noptimization techniques. This is evident from his publications throughout his\nwhole career, starting with traveling-salesman-problem work in 1962 and\ncontinuing through his recent papers on piecewise-linear optimization.\nFundamental models and techniques covered by Nemhauser include Lagrangian\noptimization, dynamic programming, capital budgeting, set partitioning, cutting\nplanes, branch-and-price, transportation problems, graph coloring, vertex\npacking, submodular functions, facility location, cutting stock, and stochastic\nprogramming\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENemhauser is\na founding partner of the Sports Scheduling Group, a company that does\nscheduling for various college conferences and major league baseball. He has served ORSA as council member, president,\nand editor of \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E,\nand he is past chair of the Mathematical Programming Society. Nemhauser is the\nfounding editor of \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\nLetters\u003C\/em\u003E, and co-editor of \u003Cem\u003EHandbooks\nof Operations Research and Management Science\u003C\/em\u003E. \u0026nbsp;He has also served various governmental\nagencies, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of\nStandards and Technology, and the National Research Council.. His other honors\nand awards include the Kimball Medal, the Lanchester Prize (twice awarded),\nMorse lecturer of ORSA, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/35925\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to view Nemhauser\u0027s acceptance speech. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorge Nemhauser, the A.\nRussell Chandler Chaired Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\nand Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has been honored as the first\nrecipient of the newly established INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan\nPrize, created to recognize an individual or a team for life-time achievements\nin the area of optimization. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"George Nemhauser Selected First Recipient of the INFORMS Optimization Society Khachiyan Prize"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-11-22 11:15:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:50","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62896":{"id":"62896","type":"image","title":"George Nemhauser","body":null,"created":"1449176409","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:00:09","changed":"1475894549","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:29","alt":"George Nemhauser","file":{"fid":"191599","name":"Nemhauser_001.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Nemhauser_001_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Nemhauser_001_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1653316,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Nemhauser_001_0.jpg?itok=De3UiDk6"}}},"media_ids":["62896"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4742","name":"George Nemhauser"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"6204","name":"INFORMS"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"11313","name":"Khachiyan Prize"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62946":{"#nid":"62946","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bill Cook Elected INFORMS Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor\nin the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was\nelected INFORMS Fellow at the 2010 INFORMS annual meeting in Austin, Texas, in November.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe INFORMS Fellow\nAward is reserved for distinguished individuals who have demonstrated\noutstanding and exceptional accomplishments and experience in operations\nresearch and the management sciences. Their service to the profession and to\nINFORMS has culminated in election to the INFORMS Fellow Award. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECook,\nknown widely for his work with the Traveling Salesman Problem and his\nresearch in combinatorial optimization and\ninteger programming, was elected for his research contributions in both areas.\u0026nbsp; Cook is one of eleven Fellows elected this\nyear. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his research\ninterests in combinatorial optimization and integer programming, Cook is also\nheavily involved in research dealing with computational issues involved in\ntreating hard discrete problems such as large instances for the celebrated\ntraveling salesman problem. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECook is the author or editor of\nseven books, the latest due out in 2011, and the current editor-in-chief of the\n\u003Cem\u003EMathematical\nProgramming Computation\u003C\/em\u003E journal. His\nawards, in addition to his election as INFORMS Fellow, include the I.E. Block Community Lecturer prize from the Society for\nIndustrial and Applied Mathematics and the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize for\nExcellence in Computational Mathematical Programming.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECook joins a\ndistinguished list, including the following twelve other ISyE faculty members\nwho have achieved this recognition: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jan Shi\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. John Bartholdi \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Jim Dai\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Augustine Esogbue\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. John Jarvis \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Ellis Johnson \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. George Nemhauser \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Donald Ratliff \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. William Rouse\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Michael Thomas \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Chelsea White III\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDr. Jeff Wu\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWilliam J. Cook, Chandler Family Chair and professor\nin the H. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering (ISyE), received both the George Nicholson Student Paper award at\nthe INFORMS annual meeting and the Best Student Paper award at the 28th\nInternational Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and\nEvaluation (Performance) 2010 conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe George Nicholson Student Paper Competition,\narguably the most prestigious student award in the operations research\ncommunity, is held each year to honor outstanding student papers in the field\nof operations research and the management sciences. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EZhang received the Nicholson Award for his paper, \u201cRefined\nSquare-Root Staffing for Call Centers with Impatient Customers,\u201d which he\nco-authored with Johan van Leeuwaarden and Bert Zwart, ISyE adjunct associate\nprofessor and Zhang\u2019s thesis advisor. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn\nthe paper, Zhang studied how to solve for the minimum staffing level subject to\ndifferent service-level constraints for call centers with impatient customers. The\nauthors developed an approximate solution procedure, which they named\n\u0022refined square-root staffing,\u201d and then demonstrated that this approach\npreserves the insightfulness and computational scalability of the celebrated\nsquare-root staffing principle and yet is provably more accurate. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout\nthe paper, Zwart said that it is a \u201cwell-written, solid theoretical basis that\nprovides relevant practical insights for the most popular model out there for\ncall centers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EZhang\nwrote the paper while a guest at Bell Labs, but also worked with Sem Borst and Martin Reiman at Alcatel-Lucent and Josh Reed (PhD IE 2007) at NYU.\nReed also received the Nicholson Award while a student at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the Nicholson Award,\nZhang also received the Performance Best Student Paper award for his paper\n\u201cOptimal Server Scheduling in Hybrid P2P Networks,\u201d which he co-authored with\nBorst and Reiman. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this paper, the authors studied how to manage server capacity in hybrid\npeer-to-peer networks, an increasingly popular type of Internet content\ndistribution paradigm in which each user plays a dual client-server role. According\nto Zhang, \u201cwe find that the structure of optimal server scheduling policies in\nsuch systems depends intricately upon the altruism level of users (i.e., users\u0027\nwillingness to stay in the system and continue helping others after their\ndownload completion). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout\nthis recent accomplishment, Zhang said that \u201ca lot of credit should go to the\nfour coauthors of the two papers, who are also great mentors, especially my\nthesis advisor, Bert Zwart.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EZwart and Zhang\u2019s co-advisor Hayriye Ayhan, ISyE professor, are proud of Zhang,\nnoting that he is exceptional in that he has broad research interests and is\nable to work on diverse research projects simultaneously. In addition to his\nwork with Zwart and Ayhan, Zhang has collaborated with top researchers in and\nout of the country, which, according to Ayhan, is very unusual for a PhD\nstudent. With Ayhan, Zhang has been\ndeveloping optimal admission control policies in two-stage loss networks. \u201cTo\nthe best of our knowledge,\u201d states Ayhan, Zhang\u2019s \u201cwork is the first one that\ncompletely characterizes the optimal admission policies in this setting.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo read Zhang\u2019s research papers,\nvisit his webpage at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/%7Ebzhang34\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/~bzhang34\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWithin the span of one week in November, Bo Zhang, a\nPhD student in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering, received both the George Nicholson Student Paper award at\nthe INFORMS annual meeting and the Best Student Paper award at the 28th\nInternational Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and\nEvaluation (Performance) 2010 conference.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bo Zhang Wins Prestigious George Nicholson Student Paper Competition and Performance Student Paper Award"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-11-30 13:02:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:50","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63033":{"id":"63033","type":"image","title":"Bo Zhang","body":null,"created":"1449176409","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:00:09","changed":"1475894552","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:32","alt":"Bo Zhang","file":{"fid":"191708","name":"BoPicResize.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BoPicResize_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/BoPicResize_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":22684,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/BoPicResize_0.JPG?itok=y8CUbo_l"}}},"media_ids":["63033"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11361","name":"Bo Zhang"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"11362","name":"Georgie Nicholson Student Paper Competition"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"63002":{"#nid":"63002","#data":{"type":"news","title":"First in Its Class: Graduate Study at the Stewart School","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe cover story in the Fall 2010 issue\nof \u003Cem\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\nfocuses on ISyE\u2019s graduate program and celebrates its string of twenty\nconsecutive number one rankings in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E. While there is no\nshortage of surveys assessing and comparing academic programs, it remains that\nthe results published annually by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003EReport \u003C\/em\u003Eprobably\nconstitute the most visible source of such rankings and certainly the source\nmost often mentioned. The feature article, \u201cFirst in Its Class,\u201d describes some\nattributes that form the underpinnings of a\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Egreat graduate program and, in that\nregard, underscores how the program in ISyE measures up in comparison to\nothers. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/issuu.com\/georgiatech\/docs\/b11c3002_isye_magazine_issuu\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the article.\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/issuu.com\/georgiatech\/docs\/b11c3002_isye_magazine_issuu\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe cover story in the Fall 2010 issue\nof \u003Cem\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E\nfocuses on ISyE\u2019s graduate program and celebrates its string of twenty\nconsecutive number one rankings in \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E. While there is no\nshortage of surveys assessing and comparing academic programs, it remains that\nthe results published annually by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003EReport \u003C\/em\u003Eprobably\nconstitute the most visible source of such rankings and certainly the source\nmost often mentioned. The feature article, \u201cFirst in Its Class,\u201d describes some\nattributes that form the underpinnings of a\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Egreat graduate program and, in that\nregard, underscores how the program in ISyE measures up in comparison to\nothers. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/issuu.com\/georgiatech\/docs\/b11c3002_isye_magazine_issuu\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the article.\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/issuu.com\/georgiatech\/docs\/b11c3002_isye_magazine_issuu\u0022\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"First in Its Class: Graduate Study at the Stewart School"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-11-30 16:00:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:50","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-11-30T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11267","name":"First in Class"},{"id":"11369","name":"Georgia Tech. Alumni Magazine"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62752":{"#nid":"62752","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Supply Chain Flexibility Focus of Fall 2010 Supply Chain Executive Forum","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EConsidering the challenges confronting today\u2019s supply chain\nexecutives, the ability to be flexible ranks among the most critical of needed\ncapabilities. But what is supply chain flexibility, why is it important, and\nhow do you achieve it? These were among the important questions covered at the fall\n2010 meeting of Georgia Tech\u2019s Supply Chain Executive Forum.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWith the theme, \u201cSUPPLY CHAIN FLEXIBILITY: Critical Changes\nMay Require Expanded Flexibility,\u201d the two-day meeting, sponsored by the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u2019s (ISyE) Supply\nChain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), featured prominent speakers and\nfacilitated discussions to help stimulate thought and dialogue to address these\nquestions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Welling, vice-president of Wal-Mart Innovation; Eric\nPeters, CEO of FoodLink Online; Jack Allen, director, Global Logistics, Cisco\nSystems; and John Bauer, director, Global Transportation, Supply Chain Operations\nfor Starbucks Coffee Company all gave presentations tackling the topic of\nsupply chain flexibility in their own companies. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, Dr. John Langley,\nSCL professor of Supply Chain Management and Executive Forum faculty director; Dan Gilmore,\neditor, \u003Cem\u003ESupply Chain Digest\u003C\/em\u003E;\nand Gene Tyndall,\nexecutive vice president \u2013 Global, Tompkins Associates, facilitated an\ninteractive session revealing the results of a member survey on supply chain\nflexibility. A unique feature of this afternoon session was the graphics\nrepresentation of the discussion facilitated by Martha McGinnis, president of\nVisual Logic, Inc., a graphic facilitation firm. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe key questions and issues the presenters were asked to\naddress with respect to supply chain flexibility included:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat is your definition of supply chain\nflexibility?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhy is flexibility important to your supply\nchain?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat are some objectives and priorities you have\nset for supply chain flexibility?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHow do you measure supply chain flexibility?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhat are some examples of supply chain\nflexibility that you have experience with at your company?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHow to achieve supply chain flexibility (e.g.,\nprocess, organizational challenges, etc.)?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBarriers to greater success with supply chain\nflexibility?\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJohn Welling of Wal-Mart was\nthe first to address these questions in his Wednesday keynote presentation,\n\u201cSupply Chain Flexibility at Wal-Mart.\u201d Quoting from the article \u201cPerspectives, practices and future of supply\nchain flexibility\u201d by Dileep More and A. Subash Babu, Welling defined\nsupply chain flexibility as the \u0026nbsp;inherent\nability or characteristics of the supply chain and its partners to be sensitive\nto minor and major disturbances in the business environment; to correctly\nassess the actual situation; to quickly respond, adjust and adapt with little\ntime, effort and cost; and to effectively control the organization; and to keep\nthe performance stable. Expanding that definition with his own, Welling said that\na flexible supply chain supports multiple, evolving business models by\nleveraging common physical assets and inventory and collaborates with suppliers\nto remove waste, reduce cost, and improve service levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EContinuing the theme on\nThursday, FoodLink\u2019s CEO, Eric Peters, in his talk, \u201cCold-Chain Solutions to\nCreate Supply Chain Flexibility,\u201d said that the produce supply chain is unique\nin both the way in which product is delivered from farm to consumer, as well as\nthe communication required across links in the chain. Flexibility in that\nsupply chain is important because perishables, unlike dry goods, have a short\nshelf life and fragmented vendor base, are subject to commodity pricing and purchase\norder changes, and require multiple pickup locations. For Peters, flexibility\nstarts with the flow of information. \u201cWithout an effective trading partner\ncommunication channel that is integrated with back-end systems,\u201d Peters points\nout in his presentation, \u201cperishable procurement becomes extremely difficult.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his presentation, \u201cFlexibility at Cisco in Unusually Uncertain\nTimes,\u201d Jack Allen defines supply chain flexibility as the \u201cpromptness\nand degree to which our supply chain can respond with proactive and reactive\nadaptations of our speed, processes,\nnetwork locations, and volume\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ein order to handle changes in demand volume (up or down) and mix, operating\ncosts, and business needs.\u201d Continuing, he explains that Cisco\u2019s objective is\nto satisfy the customer, reduce cost and amount of unsatisfied demand, and\nimprove utilization, all with little or no penalty in response time. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo achieve this, Allen\nrecognizes that there are multiple layers to flexibility, which he describes\nas: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESupply Flex -- The ability of suppliers to flex\nup and down through multiple levels of the supply chain \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETactical Flex -- The ability of the supply chain\nto respond to immediate unexpected events\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECapacity Flex -- The ability of the production\ncapacity to change up or down in time\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELeadership Flex -- The ability of the management\nteam to change for events and trends\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESystems \/ Process Flex \u2013 The ability of the\nprocesses and systems delivering the supply chain to change in time to new\nrequirements. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERounding out the presentations\nwas Starbuck\u2019s John Bauer, with his talk titled, \u201cSupply Chain Flexibility: The\nStarbuck\u2019s Coffee Story.\u201d \u0026nbsp;Bauer\ndiscussed Starbuck\u2019s uplifting mission - to inspire and nurture the human spirit\n\u2013 one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time.\u0026nbsp; The Starbucks Coffee story reinforced the\nneed to build flexibility into today\u2019s supply chains, in both the short- and\nlong-term.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe spring 2011 Executive Forum will meet on April 6 - 7,\n2011. To learn more about Georgia Tech\u2019s Supply Chain Executive Forum, visit\nthe website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/professional-education\/scef\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/professional-education\/scef\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EConsidering the challenges confronting today\u2019s supply chain\nexecutives, the ability to be flexible ranks among the most critical of needed\ncapabilities. But what is supply chain flexibility, why is it important, and\nhow do you achieve it? 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Milton\nStewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and executive\ndirector of ISyE\u2019s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, \u201c\u2018quality sell-time\u2019\nis the critical performance driver with respect to perishable food products. In\nhis article, \u201cQuality Sell-Time of Perishables,\u201d which appeared in the\nOctober 2010 \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics\u2019\u003C\/em\u003E column \u003Cem\u003ECool Insights\u003C\/em\u003E, Ratliff explains that quality sell-time is \u201cthe period of time when the seller has a product\navailable to sell while it is at the peak of its quality life and with enough\nremaining \u2018quality-consume-time\u2019 to meet customer\u2019s expectations.\u201d This is\nimportant at every stage of the food supply chain, but is particularly critical\nfor retailers. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.foodlogistics.com\/publication\/article.jsp?pubId=1\u0026amp;id=4083\u0026amp;pageNum=1\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the article. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the October 2010 issue of \u003Cem\u003EFood Logistics\u003C\/em\u003E, Don Ratliff, UPS and Regents\u2019 Professor in the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and executive\ndirector of ISyE\u2019s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, authored the fifth\ninstallment for the \u003Cem\u003ECool Insights\u003C\/em\u003E\ncolumn, titled \u201cExtending\n\u2018Quality Sell-Time\u2019 Of Perishables.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cool Insights: Extending \u0022Quality Sell-Time\u0022 Of Perishables"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-11-03 13:06:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:42","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-11-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-11-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62519":{"id":"62519","type":"image","title":"October 2010 Issue","body":null,"created":"1449176369","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:29","changed":"1475894541","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:21","alt":"October 2010 Issue","file":{"fid":"191486","name":"1287423228667_FLOG-1010-Cover_LG[1].jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1287423228667_FLOG-1010-Cover_LG%5B1%5D_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1287423228667_FLOG-1010-Cover_LG%5B1%5D_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":29644,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1287423228667_FLOG-1010-Cover_LG%5B1%5D_0.jpg?itok=OvIRIStO"}}},"media_ids":["62519"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10852","name":"Cool Insights"},{"id":"7977","name":"Don Ratliff"},{"id":"9684","name":"Food Logistics"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62525":{"#nid":"62525","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Offers New Master of Science in Supply Chain Engineering: A Faster and More Focused Path to a Global Supply Chain Career","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo meet the growing demand for business-savvy engineers who can\ndesign and synchronize highly complex global supply chains, the H. Milton\nStewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) is launching a new,\none-year professional graduate degree program, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sce.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMaster of Science in Supply\nChain Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe listened carefully to the industry community and to the students at \nGeorgia Tech to design a program that meets the needs of the supply \nchain professional of the 21st century,\u201d said Harvey Donaldson, \nassociate chair of industry and international programs at ISyE. \u201cWith \nthis degree, students now can pursue a highly focused graduate education \nexperience in supply chain engineering and explore immediate career \nopportunities with global enterprises.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe program\u2019s intensive 12- month curriculum delivers\nacademic\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Eknowledge\u003C\/em\u003E in\nanalytic methods, supply chain engineering, and enterprise management while\nbuilding \u003Cem\u003Eprofessional\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Epractice\u003C\/em\u003E skills and real-world \u003Cem\u003Eindustry\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Eexperience\u003Cstrong\u003E, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Eall leading to a respected\ngraduate degree from the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/release.php?nid=55538\u0022\u003E#1-ranked Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems\nEngineering\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents, who may come from a wide range of academic,\nbusiness, and geographical backgrounds, will move through the program\u2019s courses\ntogether as a cohort, creating strong connections and networks. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program\u2019s innovative curriculum, which is true to ISyE\u2019s\ntraditions and standards and adaptable to international students and global\nuniversity partners, is designed to be a new model for a highly focused\ngraduate professional education in supply chain engineering.\u0026nbsp; The curriculum:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELeverages the traditions and rigorous academic\nstandards of Georgia Tech\u2019s Stewart School of ISyE;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBalances ISyE\u2019s strengths in analytical methods\nwith enhanced resources in supply chain engineering applications, enterprise\nmanagement, and professional development;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOffers new courses and instructional approaches\nthat place more emphasis on integrative and experiential learning; and\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EProvides smaller class sizes, more non-classroom\nlearning activities, and a capstone industry problem-solving experience.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe curriculum is structured around classroom courses (eight\nrequired and two elective) offered during the fall and spring semesters and the\ncapstone industry experience, which is completed during the summer term. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplications for the August 2011 class are already being\naccepted. Visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.sce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ewww.sce.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E for\nmore information on joining this class.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo meet the growing demand for business-savvy engineers who can\ndesign and synchronize highly complex global supply chains, the H. 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Morris (BIE 1965) and his wife, Cherie, were on\ncampus October 21, 2010, to meet and dine with some of the current ISyE\ngraduate students who are recipients of the Morris Fellowship. Morris\nestablished the graduate fellowship, which has helped ISyE leverage its\nstrength in attracting many of the best and brightest students to Georgia Tech,\nas part of the Campaign for Georgia Tech in 2000. This year, the Fellowship is\nproviding support to ten graduate students. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of those students, Jessica Heier-Stamm, said that the\nMorris Fellowship has afforded her the opportunity to focus on the research\nthat interests her most, namely applying quantitative industrial engineering\nmethodologies to the challenges of humanitarian relief, disaster response, and\npublic health.\u0026nbsp; Because of the\nfellowship,\u201d states Heier-Stamm, \u201cI have also had time to devote to service\nactivities that reach future engineers and scientists.\u0026nbsp; All of these have increased my awareness of\nthe broader research community, including professional development\nopportunities, contacts, and funding agencies.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMorris, who stays in touch with the fellowship program,\nstates that he owes a great deal of his success to Georgia Tech and ISyE. \u201cI am\nvery proud and thankful to be able to help ISyE stay number one by helping to\nattract top graduate students. I am very impressed by the quality and breadth\nof the students and know they will be successful.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMorris is retired co-chair of StoneCreek Capital, a merchant\nbanking firm that sponsors leveraged acquisitions and leveraged buildups in\npartnership with management teams. He is a former trustee of the Georgia Tech\nFoundation and an emeritus member of the ISyE Advisory Board. Additionally,\nMorris is a member of the ISyE Hall of Fame and the ISyE Academy of Distinguished\nAlumni, and he was honored with the College of Engineering Distinguished\nAlumnus Award in 1996.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn H. 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Current enrollment numbers for\nISyE include 1,183 undergraduate students, 231 master\u2019s students, and 171 PhD\nstudents. \u0026nbsp;Thomas introduced the fall\n2010 issue of\u003Cem\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/eemag\/pdfs\/20101Fall.pdf\u0022\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Emagazine, which was hot off the press.\u0026nbsp; The\nfeature story focuses on ISyE\u2019s graduate program, which \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News and World Report\u003C\/em\u003E ranked first for the 20\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E consecutive\nyear.\u0026nbsp; The feature article, \u201cFirst in Its\nClass,\u201d describes some of the attributes that form the underpinnings of a great\ngraduate program and underscore how the program in ISyE measures up in\ncomparison to others.\u0026nbsp; Thomas also\nreported that the Campaign Georgia Tech, which originally was slated to raise\n$1 billion and run through 2010, is now most likely going to have a goal of\n$1.5 billion and run through 2015. Georgia Tech, as a whole, has raised $916.3\nmillion from July 2004 to date, and ISyE, which had an original goal of $50\nmillion, has raised $40.2M to date.\u0026nbsp; Nancy Sandlin, ISyE director of\ndevelopment, and Thomas will work closely with central development as they\ndetermine ISyE\u0027s new goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJane Ammons, ISyE professor and associate dean\nof engineering, hosted a discussion on what industrial engineers do today and\nwhere they are headed tomorrow.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;Ammons opened her session by showing a video\ntitled \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZpPDoLX_9K4\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIndustrial Engineers Make a Difference\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Sponsored by the Council of Industrial Engineering Academic Department Heads,\nthe video features industrial engineers talking about the jobs they do, the satisfaction\nthey experience, and the impact they make in people\u0027s lives. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmmons then\nfocused her discussion on some of the trends and drivers in engineering (\u003Cem\u003Eclimate change; energy needs; middle class\ngrowth; consumer demand; transportation; healthcare; waste; information\nparadigm shifts; shortage of food, clean water, and housing; growth of\nmegacities; \u0026nbsp;and changes in sea levels\u003C\/em\u003E),\ngrand challenges in engineering \u003Cem\u003E(re-engineering\nhealthcare delivery; engineering a sustainable society; developing better\ndecision-making tools for a dynamic world; mitigating and responding to\ndisasters; point-of-use manufacturing; infrastructure construction; and engineering\nfor a safe, available, and affordable water supply),\u003C\/em\u003E and strategic\ndirections within the field.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E In summary,\nshe stated that we are now seeing global opportunities in the field of\nindustrial engineering and management, that the grand challenges are strategic\nimperatives for our research and education, and that we must position our\nstudents to achieve maximum impact by exploiting the unique strengths of\nindustrial engineering.\u0026nbsp; For those\ninterested in more information, she recommended reading NAE\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.members.nae.edu\/nae\/naepcms.nsf\/weblinks\/MKEZ-5Z5PKL?OpenDocument\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering\nin the New\u003C\/em\u003E Century\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Following this discussion, two\nundergraduate students (Anna Smoak and Chelsea Sanders) and one graduate\nstudent (Animesh Garg) provided their personal perspectives on how they view\nindustrial engineers and where they are in the program. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESmoak is a second-year industrial engineering student who is a part of the co-op program.\u0026nbsp; She is currently working in a hub\ndistribution center for a company that makes and distributes healthcare\nproducts.\u0026nbsp; This experience has given her\nsome practical knowledge and skills beyond her years studying in the field.\nSmoak, in her nascent stage of becoming an industrial engineer,\u0026nbsp; has already formed a working definition of\nindustrial engineering,\u0026nbsp; \u201cIE is about\ncreating processes and systems and having the ability to think outside the box.\n\u201c\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EChelsea Sanders\nis a third-year ISyE student who spent the summer in Chile where she\nparticipated in the study and work abroad program.\u0026nbsp; \u201cWhat really sets Georgia Tech apart is its\nglobal focus,\u201d said Sanders.\u0026nbsp; \u201cAnd ISyE\nis really pushing us to be prepared to work in this global community.\u201d\u0026nbsp; She went on to say that learning in\nclassrooms with ISyE\u2019s top faculty is great, but you also need to get out in\nthe world to continue your growth.\u0026nbsp; \u201cYou\nhave to experience some things for yourself, and spending the summer working in\nanother country required me to step, even further, out of my comfort zone and\nforced me to learn and grow outside the classroom.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Sanders is not sure what she will do after\ngraduation, but feels her options are infinite.\u0026nbsp;\n\u201cISyE has taught me how to think and problem solve; no matter what\nproblem is presented to me, I can solve it.\u0026nbsp;\nI feel I have endless possibilities in the field of industrial\nengineering.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAnimesh Garg is a first-year graduate student who comes from a background in\nmanufacturing, production, and automation.\u0026nbsp;\nWanting to pursue his graduate degree, he decided to come to Georgia\nTech\u2019s Stewart School of ISyE \u201cnot only because it has been ranked number one\nfor the last twenty years, but mostly because it has a large faculty who are\npioneers in their fields, and I would have so many opportunities to do a\nvariety of research.\u201d\u0026nbsp; Garg feels that\nTech is giving him an unparalled multicultural experience and continues to open\nmany windows of opportunity for him.\u0026nbsp;\n\u201cGeorgia Tech has given me my wings and is telling me to spread them out\nand do what I want to do.\u0026nbsp; I am sure I\nwill realize my potential here and come out with flying colors.\u0026nbsp; With an IE degree, I think I will be able to\nchose where I want to go.\u201d\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEd Rogers discussed Georgia\nTech\u2019s new 25-year strategic vision and plan that President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d\nPeterson launched in August.\u0026nbsp; The plan,\n\u201cDesigning the Future,\u201d has five main goals and ten Institute-wide initiatives,\nwhich can be found in the full report at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/vision\u0022\u003Ewww.gatech.edu\/vision\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; An alumni\nsubcommittee, led by Rogers, was formed to begin discussions on drafting ISyE\u2019s\nstrategic vision and plan.\u0026nbsp; Rogers\nconcluded the meeting with advisory board business updates and wrap ups.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe spring advisory board\nmeeting will be held on April 22, 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn October 27\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ELogistics Viewpoint\u003C\/em\u003E addressed hiring IE\u2019s\nin their article, \u201cSupply Chain Teams Should Consider Hiring Industrial\nEngineers.\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/logisticsviewpoints.com\/2010\/10\/27\/supply-chain-teams-should-consider-hiring-industrial-engineers\/.\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the article.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) hosted its fall advisory board meeting on October 22, 2010.\u0026nbsp; 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Bartholdi III, Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain\nManagement and research director, the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute,\nand Steven Hackman, associate professor, as first place winners of the 2010 Outstanding\nMaterial Handling \u0026amp; Facility Logistics Research Paper Award for the paper they co-authored,\ntitled \u003Cem\u003EAllocating space in a forward pick\narea of a distribution center for small parts\u003C\/em\u003E. \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECICMHE\nannounced the winners at the Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA)\nannual meeting on October 5, 2010. MHIA and CICMHE created the award to\nencourage the development of, and recognize excellence in, material\nhandling-related research. The 2010 award is based on papers published during\nthe 2008 and 2009 calendar years.\u0026nbsp; Bartholdi\nand Hackman\u2019s paper was published in \u003Cem\u003EIIE\nTransactions\u003C\/em\u003E, Vol. 40 (2008).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The competition is open to any active researchers\nand educators in the field of material handling and facility logistics from\nengineering, business, and other allied schools or colleges.\u0026nbsp; MHIA and CICMHE are interested in\ngroundbreaking papers in a broad sense on material handling in the fields of\nmanufacturing, distribution, warehousing, supply chain, and logistics.\u0026nbsp; A mix of academic and industry judges\nevaluate the contributions based on educational value, innovation in research\nmethodology, and contribution to the material handling industry.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe College Industry Council on\nMaterial Handling Education (CICMHE) recognized John J. Bartholdi III, Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain\nManagement and research director, the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute,\nand Steven Hackman, associate professor, as first place winners of the 2010 Outstanding\nMaterial Handling \u0026amp; Facility Logistics Research Paper Award for the paper they co-authored,\ntitled \u003Cem\u003EAllocating space in a forward pick\narea of a distribution center for small parts\u003C\/em\u003E. \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Bartholdi, Hackman Receive CICMHE Outstanding Paper Award"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-10-18 15:03:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:38","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62224":{"id":"62224","type":"image","title":"John J. 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P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson\nsaid that as Georgia Tech defines the research university of the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E\ncentury, it will lead in influencing major technological, social, and policy\ndecisions that address critical global challenges. Recognizing that\ntechnological change is fundamental to the advancement of the human condition,\nGeorgia Tech is committed to improving the human condition at home and around\nthe globe. To achieve this vision, five strategic goals were developed, one of\nwhich is to expand Georgia Tech\u2019s global footprint and influence to ensure that\nwe are graduating good global citizens. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For\nmore than twenty years, Georgia Tech has fostered international alliances to\nenhance learning experiences, build research collaborations, and promote\neconomic development. In that same period, the H. Milton Stewart School of\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) has been ranked the number one\ngraduate school for industrial and manufacturing engineering by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News and World Reports\u003C\/em\u003E. Drawing top\nstudents and faculty from around the world and fostering its own international\nrelationships through operations research to logistics and supply chain\ninnovation and strategy, ISyE has proven itself a true global academic unit. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo\nillustrate this, ISyE tracked some faculty and student activity during a four-month\nperiod, from May to August 2010, and found that they moved back and forth\nbetween six of seven continents \u2013 Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North\nAmerica, and South America. \u0026nbsp;In that time,\nISyE faculty and students conducted applied research projects around the world,\nparticipated in a variety of educational opportunities, gave invited keynote presentations,\ntook part in conference leadership roles, and performed outreach that has a\npositive international health and humanitarian impact. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;ISyE\nengaged in numerous ongoing international programs. The \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EExecutive Masters in\nInternational Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain Strategy\u003C\/a\u003E (EMIL-SCS) held its\nEuropean residence this summer, visiting the Netherlands, Poland, and\nGermany.\u0026nbsp; Professors were in Shanghai to\nteach the Dual Masters with Shanghai Jiao Tong University.\nThirty-two undergraduate students participated in the Beijing\/Singapore study\nabroad program\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003Ealong with fifteen students from the National University of\nSingapore and twenty-four students in Tsinghua University\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003EIncreasingly\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Einternational\ninstitutions are seeking ISyE faculty experts to assist them in developing\ntheir programs.\u0026nbsp; For instance\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003Eone faculty\nmember traveled to Israel to chair an international review team, commissioned\nby the Israel Council of Higher Education, to evaluate each of the industrial\nengineering and management programs at universities and colleges throughout\nIsrael. Another was selected to spend a year as the founding department chair\nfor the industrial engineering department at the University of Science, Technology\nand Research in Abu Dhabi.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile\nsome of ISyE\u2019s faculty and students were invited speakers and teachers, others\ncollaborated on a variety of research projects and collaborations from supply\nchain optimization in Australia to a project in Abu Dhabi evaluating renewable\nand distributed energy options for countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE,\nthrough the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESupply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (SCL), added\nPanama to the established networks of Logistics Innovation Centers in Latin\nAmerica.\u0026nbsp; The new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.panama.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Panama\nLogistic Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E has three core thrusts -- applied\nresearch, education, and competitiveness -- and three primary objectives -- to\nimprove the logistics performance in Panama, to establish Panama as the trade\nhub of the Americas, and to increase human capital with regards to logistics\ncompetency.\u0026nbsp; The SCL team continued their\nresearch as part of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.tip.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Trade, Innovation \u0026amp; Productivity\nCenter \u003C\/a\u003Ein Costa Rica and began work to add two more centers to the Latin\nAmerica network \u2013 one in Mexico, scheduled to open at the end of this year, and\none in Chile, scheduled to be launched in 2011.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESome\nhighlights on ISyE\u2019s efforts in international health and humanitarian response\ninclude teams working in Haiti on debris collection and management issues, in\nCentral Africa on efforts to distribute five million textbooks to schools\nthroughout the county, in Singapore on issues in hospitals, and in Italy\nworking with the World Food Programme.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs\nthey engage in these global activities, ISyE faculty gain a broader understanding\nsurrounding different world issues, which they can covey to their students who\nare heading into the global economy.\u0026nbsp; These\nfaculty not only teach their students what is in the text book, they also tell\nthem from personal experience how to apply the methodologies, frameworks, and\nstrategies they teach in the classroom. \u0026nbsp;ISyE\nfaculty also bring back a world of personal networks that they share with their\nstudents in both classroom lectures and through Skype. This sharing of\nknowledge and experience helps students prepare to lead effectively in an\nincreasingly global marketplace. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;And\nthose students learning, working, or living in a foreign country gain a\ndistinct advantage, having many opportunities to conduct real-world global\nresearch that better positions them to contribute early on to the international\ncompanies that will employ them. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor\nan ISyE global tour featuring activities from May through August 2010, read the\nlist below, which is divided into four sections (Global Logistics; Health \u0026amp;\nHumanitarian Outreach; International Education and Outreach; and Scholarly\nWork, Presentations and Collaboration):\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlobal Logistics\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Africa\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\n     Bartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management and Research\n     Director, The Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, was in Zimbabwe in\n     June as part of a UNICEF effort to distribute five million textbooks to\n     schools throughout the country. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of North America \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH.\nDonald Ratliff\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of the Supply Chain\n\u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) and UPS and Regents\u0027 Professor, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJaymie Forrest\u003C\/strong\u003E, SCL managing director,\ntraveled to Panama City, Panama, in preparation for the inauguration ceremonies\nof the newly established Georgia\nTech-Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center.\u0026nbsp; They also began strategic meetings to\nestablish a third Logistics Innovation Center, this time in Mexico. This center\nis scheduled to open at the end of this year.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH.\nDonald Ratliff and Jaymit Forrest \u003C\/strong\u003Ebegan two research\nprojects as part of the Georgia Tech Trade, Innovation \u0026amp; Productivity\nCenter in Costa Rica \u2013 the Produce Traceability Initiative and the Global\nProcurement Analysis Global Trade Initiative.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nThe Produce Traceability Initiative was designed to demonstrate the\nsignificance of leveraging value chains to facilitate participation of small\nand medium sized enterprises, the challenges they face in the food export\nmarket, and the need for supporting infrastructure to standardize processes in\norder to remain competitive in global markets.\u0026nbsp;\nThe purpose of the Global Procurement Analysis research project was to\ndevelop metrics for the Costa Rica Digital Government Technical Secretary for\nassessing the implementation of a new system providing a mechanism to assess\nthe improvements expected as a result of system implementation. The research\nfocused on the definition and quantification of key performance indicators,\nalong with summary statistics on government spending. The study also focused on\nthe potential savings opportunities arising from more efficient procurement\nprocesses, including price variability analysis.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of South America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH.\nDonald Ratliff\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of the Supply Chain\n\u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) and UPS and Regents\u0027 Professor, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJaymie Forrest\u003C\/strong\u003E, SCL managing director, began\nwork to establish a fourth Logistics Innovation Center in Chile.\u0026nbsp; This center is scheduled to be launched in\n2011.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHealth \u0026amp; Humanitarian Outreach \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Asia\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim\n     Dai\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     Edenfield Professor, was in Singapore visiting NUS while working on a\n     hospital project.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Europe\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMallory\n     Soldner\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     a PhD student working with \u003Cstrong\u003EOzlem\n     Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor and co-director of the Center for Health\n     and Humanitarian Logistics, worked as a consultant in Rome, Italy, at the\n     headquarters of the United Nations\u2019 World Food Programme.\u0026nbsp; Her work\n     was funded through a partnership with the UPS Foundation.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Continent of North America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOzlem\n     Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate professor and co-director of the Center for Health and\n     Humanitarian Logistics, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJulie\n     Swann\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor and co-director of the Center for Health\n     and Humanitarian Logistics, traveled to Haiti in May to investigate debris\n     collection and removal issues that are blocking the road to recovery in\n     Haiti. Ergun and Swann were joined by ISyE graduate students \u003Cstrong\u003EJessica Heier Stamm\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003EKael Stilp\u003C\/strong\u003E, as well as Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EReginald DesRoches\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of\n     Civil \u0026amp; Environmental Engineering (CEE), and CEE graduate student \u003Cstrong\u003EJosh Gresha\u003C\/strong\u003E. The team is currently\n     putting together their findings and will actively begin the process of\n     lobbying for more strategic leadership in this area.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternational Education and\nOutreach\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Asia\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJane\n     C. Ammons\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     professor and associate dean of engineering, spent two weeks in Israel in\n     May as chair of an international review team commissioned by the Israel\n     Council of Higher Education to evaluate each of the industrial engineering\n     and management programs at universities and colleges throughout\n     Israel.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\n     Bartholdi,\u003C\/strong\u003E\n     Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management and Research\n     Director, The Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, was in residence at\n     the University of Stellenbosch (near Cape Town) in South Africa where he\n     holds an honorary appointment as \u201cExtraordinary Professor of Operations\n     Research\u201d in the Department of Logistics within the Faculty of Economics.\n     Bartholdi will hold the title for the next three years.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EShijie\n     Deng\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate professor, was in Shanghai teaching Financial Engineering at\n     Jiao Tong University as part of the GT-SJTU Dual Masters Program.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllis\n     Johnson\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     Coca Cola Chair and professor, is in Shanghai teaching at Shanghai Jiao\n     Tong University as part of the GT-SJTU Dual Masters Program. Johnson\n     teaches both Deterministic Optimization and Computational Methods. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChelsea\n     C. \u201cChip\u201d White\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics, is in Abu Dhabi\n     where he is spending the year as the founding department chair for an\n     industrial engineering department at the University of Science, Technology\n     and Research (KUSTAR). While there, White will also help develop a\n     logistics institute similar to ISyE\u2019s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics\n     Institute. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChen\n     Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate chair for undergraduate studies and associate professor,\n     participated in the 9\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E Beijing \/ Singapore summer study abroad\n     program from May until August. Thirty-two ISyE juniors and seniors\n     participated in the program, along with fifteen students from National\n     University of Singapore and twenty-four students in Tsinghua University. \u003Cstrong\u003EValarie DuRant-Modeste\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE\n     academic advisor, was also on-site for two weeks. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Europe\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe\n     Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute team \u003C\/strong\u003Edesigned a\n     company-specific executive education program for Coca-Cola Spain that\n     responded to the unique needs of the company and provided them with\n     specific and in-depth knowledge of supply chain engineering and\n     management.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie\n     Swann\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate professor and co-director of the Center for Health and\n     Humanitarian Logistics, taught in a humanitarian master\u0027s program in\n     Lugano, Switzerland, in August.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\n     Vande Vate\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     professor and executive director of EMIL-SCS, led the 2011 Executive\n     Master\u2019s in International Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain Strategy class on\n     its European residence, visiting the Netherlands, Poland and Germany. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of North America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlan\n     Erera\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate professor, was invited to lecture on the topic of\n     \u0022Stochastic and Robust Optimization in Logistics\u0022 at the Spring\n     School on Combinatorial Optimization in Logistics held at the University\n     of Montreal in May. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe\n     Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistic team \u003C\/strong\u003Elaunched a master\u2019s program in\n     Panama where students will come to Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; They also developed a professional education\n     Lean Supply Chain Professionals Program in Panama for executives.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe\nSupply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics team\u003C\/strong\u003E,\nin collaboration with the College of Management, designed an on-line international\nexecutive education curriculum to assist the Coca-Cola Company in developing\nleaders in the fields of logistics, manufacturing, supply chain and demand\nmanagement across its base of experts and professionals in the bottling system.\n\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EScholarly Work, Presentations and\nCollaborations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Asia\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim\n     Dai\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     Edenfield Professor, participated in two conferences, one in Beijing and\n     another in Tokyo.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EXiaoming Huo\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate\n     professor, has been working with researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong\n     University\u2019s Institute of Image Communication and Information Processing.\n     He co-authored the conference paper, \u201cImage denoising using local tangent\n     space alignment,\u201d for the 2010 Visual Communications and Image Processing\n     in Huang Shan, An Hui, China.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAlex\n     Shapiro\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     professor, was an invited speaker at the prestigious Congress of Mathematicians\n     (ICM) held in Hyderabad, India, August 19-27, 2010. Convening once every\n     four years, the ICM is the largest meeting of mathematicians from around\n     the world.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESobeil\n     Shayegh\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     a PhD student being supervised by \u003Cstrong\u003EValerie\n     Thomas\u003C\/strong\u003E, Anderson\n     Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems, was in Abu Dhabi for the\n     summer for a project evaluating renewable and distributed energy options\n     for countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This project is in\n     collaboration with INSEAD, the French business university, and is based at\n     INSEAD\u2019s Abu Dhabi campus. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Australia\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMartin\n     Savelsbergh\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     Schneider Professor, worked in Australia this summer on a project related\n     to optimizing the export coal supply chain.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of Europe\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETon\n     Dieker\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     assistant professor, spent the month of May at the University of Cambridge\n     where he was a visiting fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute for\n     Mathematical Sciences, a national and international visitor research\n     institute. While in the UK, Dieker also delivered talks at the University\n     of Warwick and in Edinburgh. Dieker and his student, \u003Cstrong\u003EXuefeng Gao\u003C\/strong\u003E, who traveled with him, are working on service\n     allocation rules in networks of queues. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOzlem\n     Ergun\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate professor and co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian\n     Logistics, was in Troms\u00f8, Norway, in June for the Seventh Triennial\n     Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN), an international\n     scientific conference that provides a high-quality forum for the\n     presentation of mathematical models, methodologies, and computational\n     results, and for the exchange of ideas and scientific discussions on\n     advanced applications and technologies in transportation. Ergun gave a\n     talk titled, \u201cManaging Debris Collection and Disposal Operations,\u201d which\n     she co-authored with \u003Cstrong\u003EJose Antonio\n     Carbajal; Pinar Keskinocak, \u003C\/strong\u003Eprofessor, co-director of the Center for\n     Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and associate director of Research for\n     the Health Systems Institute;\u003Cstrong\u003E Kael\n     Stilp; \u003C\/strong\u003Eand\u003Cstrong\u003E Monica Villarreal\u003C\/strong\u003E.\n     \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPinar\n     Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E\n     presented the \u201cCatchup Scheduling for Childhood Vaccinations\u201d paper at the\n     EURO INFORMS conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in July. The paper won the\n     EURO Excellence in Practice Award 2010. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEva\n     Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     professor and director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and\n     Healthcare, was in France and Sicily in June and July presenting talks at\n     two conferences. In June she spoke at the International Workshop on the\n     Role and Impact of Mathematics in Medicine, which was held in Paris. Lee\u2019s\n     talk was titled, \u0022Operations Research in Medicine and\n     HealthCare.\u0022 In July, Lee gave the keynote talk, titled \u0022Machine\n     Learning Framework for Classification in Medicine and Biology,\u0022 at\n     the International School of Mathematics\u2019 52nd Workshop: Nonlinear\n     Optimization, Variational Inequalities and Equilibrium Problems in Erice,\n     Sicily.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie\n     Swann\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate professor and co-director of the Center for Health and\n     Humanitarian Logistics, and \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar\n     Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E participated in the invitation-only Supply Chain Thought\n     Leaders Roundtable in Breda, Netherlands in July. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERoshan\n     Joseph Vengazhiyil\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, gave an invited\n     presentation titled \u0022Multi-Layer Designs for Computer\n     Experiments\u0022 at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Institute of\n     Mathematical Statistics\u201d in Gothenberg, Sweden, from August 9-13, 2010. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of South America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\n     Bartholdi\u003C\/strong\u003E, Manhattan Associates Chair of\n     Supply Chain Management and Research Director, The Supply Chain \u0026amp;\n     Logistics Institute and \u003Cstrong\u003EGreg\n     Andrews\u003C\/strong\u003E, managing director of EMIL-SCS, spoke at the SALA Logistics\n     Conference in Bogota, Columbia, in August. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJulie\n     Swann\u003C\/strong\u003E,\n     associate professor and co-director of the Center for Health and\n     Humanitarian Logistics, attended the ALIO\/INFORMS Conference in Buenos\n     Aires, Argentina, in June. Swann gave a talk titled, \u201cModeling Seasonality\n     and Strain Mutation in a Pandemic Influenza,\u201d which she co-authored with\n     ISyE professor \u003Cstrong\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor, co-director of the Center for Health and\n     Humanitarian Logistics, and associate director of Research for the Health\n     Systems Institute as well as \u003Cstrong\u003EBruce\n     Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E from the University of Pittsburgh and \u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EPengyi Shi\u003C\/strong\u003E from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH.\nDonald Ratliff\u003C\/strong\u003E, executive director of the Supply Chain\n\u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) and UPS and Regents\u0027 Professor, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJaymie Forrest\u003C\/strong\u003E, SCL presented to the Inter-American Development\nBank and IIRSA committee in Lima, Peru, on the design and development of\ntraining programs for public sector logistics and hosted a technical discussion\non data collection and analysis for regional sector studies in May.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EH. Donald\n     Ratliff\u003C\/strong\u003E collaborated with the WorldBank and forum on\n     creating a new methodology for developing a Logistics Performance Index\n     Global Indicator.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EContinent of North America\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristos Alexopoulos\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate\nprofessor, and \u003Cstrong\u003EDave Goldsman\u003C\/strong\u003E,\nprofessor, attended IIE Annual Conference and Expo in Canc\u00fan, Mexico, in June,\nwhere they received the \u003Cem\u003EIIE Transactions\u0027\u003C\/em\u003E Best Paper Prize in\nOperations Engineering and Analysis for their paper \u201cArea Variance Estimators\nfor Simulation Using Folded Standardized Time Series.\u201d Alexopoulos and Goldsman\nco-authored the paper with their former doctoral student, \u003Cstrong\u003EClaudia Antonini\u003C\/strong\u003E, tenured associate professor at Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar\nUniversity in Caracas, Venezuela, and \u003Cstrong\u003EJames\nR. Wilson\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering at North Carolina State University. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECarlo Davila\u003C\/strong\u003E, PhD student, gave a talk\nin at the Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference in Mexico. \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJoel Sokol\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, attend\nthe Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference in Mexico and presented\nthe talk \u201cA New Paradigm for Higher Quality and More Consistent Senior\n(Capstone) Design,\u201d which he co-authored with \u003Cstrong\u003ESteve Hackman\u003C\/strong\u003E, associate professor, and \u003Cstrong\u003EChen Zhou\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003Eassociate chair for Undergraduate Studies and\nassociate professor\u003C\/strong\u003E. While there, he received the Award for Excellence\nin the Teaching of Operations Research.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistic Institute\nteam \u003C\/strong\u003Eassisted the Cold Chain Secretariat of Panama to develop a cold chain\nstrategy in June.\u0026nbsp; They will continue to\nsupport this initiative throughout the year.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE\ntracked faculty and student activity during a four-month period, from May to\nAugust 2010, and found that they moved back and forth between six of seven\ncontinents \u2013 Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South\nAmerica.\u0026nbsp; In that time, they conducted applied research projects around the world, participated in\na variety of educational opportunities, gave invited keynote presentations, took\npart in 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Coca-Cola Mexico\u0027s sixty-three bottling plants supply 358 distribution centers, from which 28,500 vehicles fan out across the country along 11,000 distribution\n  routes, traveling 237 million kilometers to 1.4 million customers at small family stores and other outlets.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIt involves a highly efficient logistics and distribution model, but revisions and continuing education are necessary to keep up with changing business conditions. For help with these, Coca-Cola turned to the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESupply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u0027s\u003C\/a\u003E (SCL) Executive Education Program offered by the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\n  (ISyE).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Our portfolio is growing, and we are trying to reach more customers by expanding our line of beverages,\u0022 according to Salvador C\u00e1rdenas Escare\u00f1o, Coca-Cola\u0027s commercial leadership supply chain senior manager. \u0022That\u0027s why we need to revisit our current service\n  models\u2014to make sure that our portfolio is in place and perfectly executed\n  through our different distribution channels, one store at a time.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Executive\n  Education Program is \u0022a comprehensive curriculum in supply chain and logistics\n  operation management and\n  technology,\u0022 according to Jaymie Forrest, SCL managing director. Participants\n  receive a certificate upon completion of\n  the intensive series. In addition to the traditional program model conducted on\n  the Georgia Tech campus, online\n  programs are available. Most recently, Georgia Tech has begun to offer a\n  focused curriculum tailored to a\n  specific company\u0027s needs and problems. These customized programs \u0022respond to\n  the unique needs of companies and\n  provide them with specific and in-depth knowledge of supply chain engineering\n  and management, \u0022Forrest explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the first\n  customized programs was developed for Coca-Cola Mexico and selected Central\n  American bottlers and was held over\n  four weeks spanning late 2008 and early 2009. Another four-week program\n  involving Coca-Cola Mexico was held\n  later in 2009. Aspects of these programs were assembled into a new program held\n  this summer for Coca-Cola bottlers\n  in Spain and Portugal. The education program for Coca-Cola Mexico teaches supply\n  chain management for beverage delivery in conjunction with the implementation\n  of a specific delivery framework that was\n  developed by an outside consulting firm expressly for The Coca-Cola Company and\n  its bottlers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We decided to hire an institution that leads in the thinking and development of value-chain\n  processes to defragment the consultant\u0027s development process and put it in an educational program for\n  high-potential executives of our bottling system,\u0022 C\u00b4rdenas said. \u0022The Georgia\n  Institute of Technology leads all this thinking on what we were looking for in\n  the demand-driven value-chain execution.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe bilingual,\n  120-hour program is based in the concepts of demand-driven supply networks as a\n  way to innovate service delivery\n  models. \u0022We cover the fundamentals of demand sensing, demand shaping, and\n  demand response while using the Blue Ocean Strategy framework to find new ways\n  to compete in the market via differentiated service delivery models,\u0022 said\n  Maria Rey, SCL senior lecturer. \u0022The program has different tracks where\n  students understand the strategic imperative to innovate their service delivery\n  strategies, a competencies track to acquire new knowledge and tools to lead the\n  process, and an applied knowledge track for their experimental projects.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe projects, where\n  students solve a business problem that\u0027s specific to their company, is a key\n  part of the program, which is structured\n  around four on-site residences that enable participants to build their\n  innovation experiments progressively. Classes\n  and projects are held typically at a local university or executive education\n  facility. The faculty is drawn from Georgia Tech and local universities. Guest\n  speakers provide perspectives on different industries and geographies on topics\n  such as segmentation, innovation, and project management. \u0022It\u0027s a two-way\n  learning process, for program attendees and for the faculty involved,\u0022 Rey\n  noted. Most important from Coca-Cola Mexico\u0027s point of view, the program has a\n  significant bottom-line payoff.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022We trained and certified\n  fifty-five high-potential executives around the new delivery system,\u0022 C\u00b4rdenas\n  said, \u0022and we have the\n  opportunity to experiment with twenty new service models touching more than\n  10,000 customers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It helped us to\n  change our bottlers\u0027 mindset to what\u0026nbsp; we\u0027re\n  looking for: execute the picture of success one perfect store at a time.\n  Now the RTM [route-to-market] is part of the processes within their\n  organizations,\u0022 he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDesigning and\n  delivering customized education programs may be one of the most important\n  capabilities of universities now and in the future, said Rey. \u0022Customized\n  executive education sits at the crossroads of consulting and education.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProgram designers\n  must understand the needs of the client company and translate a solution for\n  those needs in ways of teaching content\n  and real-life projects that corporate attendees can execute. At the Supply\n  Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, we believe we have a good competency in\n  designing customized executive education programs, and we look forward to\n  creating value for more firms.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EContact \u003Ca href=\u0022mail to info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ecustom programs\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Efor more information.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGary Goettling authored this article, which originally appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering: The Alumni Magazine for the Stewart School of ISyE at Georgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESupplying the world\u2019s\nmost popular soft drink to its second largest consumer market is a huge job.\nCoca-Cola Mexico\u2019s sixty-three bottling plants supply 358 distribution centers,\nfrom which 28,500 vehicles fan out across the country along 11,000 distribution\nroutes, traveling 237 million kilometers to 1.4 million customers at small\nfamily stores and other outlets. It involves a\nhighly efficient logistics and distribution model, but revisions and continuing\neducation are necessary to keep\nup with changing business conditions. For help with these, Coca-Cola turned to\nthe Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp;\nLogistics Institute\u2019s Executive Education Program offered by the H. Milton Stewart School\nof Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCL Designs Company-Specific Executive Education Program: Coca-Cola Mexico Implements New Strategy for Bottlers"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-10-27 10:57:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:38","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63229":{"id":"63229","type":"image","title":"Coke Spain Group","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894554","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:34","alt":"Coke Spain Group","file":{"fid":"191785","name":"CokeSpain-GroupPhoto_2011.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CokeSpain-GroupPhoto_2011_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CokeSpain-GroupPhoto_2011_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":149794,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CokeSpain-GroupPhoto_2011_0.jpg?itok=E5dgSzKx"}}},"media_ids":["63229"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"11072","name":"Coca Cola Mexico"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"62377":{"#nid":"62377","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Kobi Abayomi Interviewed in The Whistle","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Kobi Abayomi [assistant professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering] set foot on Georgia Tech\u2019s campus as an\nunder\u0026shy;graduate, he was thinking about how to land a job that involved cars \u2014\nnot about becoming a statistician. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAbayomi\nstarted off as a physics major but soon realized that the curriculum wasn\u2019t for\nhim. After visiting an optometrist who had a really nice car, Abayomi decided\nto try his hand at optometry. \u201cStatistics was a prerequisite for the program,\nand I loved it,\u201d he added. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOver\nthe years, Abayomi\u2019s inter\u0026shy;est in statistics continued to grow, and he now\nholds a master\u2019s, master\u2019s of philosophy, and a Ph.D. in Probability and\nStatistics from Columbia University. \u0026nbsp;Abayomi\nhas also held positions as a visit\u0026shy;ing professor at Duke University and as a\nvis\u0026shy;iting fellow at Stanford University. These days, he is an assistant\nprofessor in the statistics group at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\nand Systems Engineering. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Recently,\n\u003Cem\u003EThe Whistle\u003C\/em\u003E sat down with Abayomi for\na conversation about research, teaching, and his favorite lunch spot. Here\u2019s\nwhat he shared: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EExplain\nyour research in statistics in one sentence\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI work with data\nthat doesn\u2019t match the bell curve and focus on a lot of sustainability-related\nissues. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETell\nme about your current research.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019m\nanalyzing data related to environmental hazards and what areas of the world are\nmost vulnerable. I\u2019m\nalso collaborating with people at Georgia State University\u2019s Law School and the\nGeorgia Innocence Project to determine factors that can identify the wrongfully\ncon\u0026shy;victed. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\nis your greatest challenge when it comes to teaching, and how have you dealt\nwith it?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI\nfeel like I want to teach to the student that I was. But, I\u2019ve realized that\neveryone doesn\u2019t learn the same way, and everyone doesn\u2019t have the same goals\nas I did (i.e., they don\u2019t want to go to graduate school). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA\nfew things I\u2019ve done to address this issue is I\u2019ve tried to slow down how\nquickly I go through the course material. I also try to be very clear about\nwhat information will be covered on tests, so students know what they should be\nstudying. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWho\nare your teaching mentors? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMaria\nMontessori because she wrote about student self-determination, and Andrew\nGelman because he taught me a few tricks for teaching statistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\nis your teaching philosophy? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI\nwouldn\u2019t assign grades if I didn\u2019t have to. The whole point of grading and\ntesting is to get students to engage themselves in study. The best classes\noccur after tests when every\u0026shy;one has spent time learning the material. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\nis one thing all faculty and staff should do while working at Tech? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESwim\nin the Olympic Pool at the Campus Recreation Center and the pool at the Georgia\nTech Hotel and Conference Center. They\u2019re both impressive.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere\u2019s\nthe best place to grab lunch (on or off campus), and what do you order? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESpoon.\nI like to order tofu pad king. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ETell\nus something unusual about yourself. \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI\nhave Siberian huskies named \u201cSasha\u201d and \u201cTrooper\u201d that I rescued using the\nwebsite \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.petfinder.com\u0022\u003Ewww.petfinder.com\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EIf\nyou weren\u2019t in your current line of work, what would you be doing? \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019d\nbe living in Encinitas, California, and I\u2019d have a performance shop where I would\nchange automatic transmissions to manual\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\n\u003Cem\u003EAmelia Pavlik, new editor for The Whistle,\nauthored this article, which appeared in the October 25, 2010 issue.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen Kobi Abayomi set foot on Georgia Tech\u2019s \ncampus as an\nunder\u0026shy;graduate, he was thinking about how to land a job that involved \ncars \u2014\nnot about becoming a statistician. Abayomi\nstarted off as a physics major but soon realized that the curriculum wasn\u2019t for\nhim. After visiting an optometrist who had a really nice car, Abayomi decided\nto try his hand at optometry. \u201cStatistics was a prerequisite for the program,\nand I loved it,\u201d he added.\u0026nbsp; He now\nholds a master\u2019s, master\u2019s of philosophy, and a Ph.D. in Probability and\nStatistics from Columbia University. 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This year\u2019s report, released\nlast month, reveals that 3PLs continue to provide important strategic and\noperational value to shippers throughout the world. However, significant\nuncertainty about the global economy has impacted spending, with an average of\n11 percent of company sales revenues devoted to logistics, and an average of 42\npercent of that directed to the outsourcing of logistics services, a decrease of\n10 to 15 percentage points from recent years. At the same time, 65 percent of\nshippers reported an increase in the use of outsourced logistics services\nrelative to total logistics services, suggesting that while outsourcing may\nhave increased, expenditure on 3PL services overall has decreased\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EThe 2010 Third-Party\nLogistics Study is based on almost 1,900 responses from both shippers and\nlogistics service providers in regions including North America, Europe,\nAsia-Pacific and Latin America, and also\nprovides an in-depth look at the life sciences and fast-moving consumer goods\n(FMCG) industries. Supplemented with a significant number of focus interviews\nwith industry observers and experts, findings of the web-based survey reveal\ncontinued progress and improvement in the shipper-3PL relationship, with 89\npercent of shipper respondents overall viewing their 3PL relationships as\ngenerally successful and 68 percent indicating that 3PLs help provide them with\nnew and innovative ways to improve operations. However, the report\u2019s findings\nshow that shippers continue their tendency to outsource transactional,\noperational, and repetitive activities and less so those that are strategic,\ncustomer-facing, and IT-intensive despite a large proportion of 3PLs offering\nmore advanced services.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Many\nshippers regard logistics and supply chain management as key components of\ntheir overall business success. Increased use of outsourcing and high\nsatisfaction levels suggest that 3PLs can certainly take some credit for\nhelping shippers to weather the economic storm,\u201d said C. John Langley Jr., professor\nof Supply Chain Management at Georgia Tech\u2019s H. Milton Stewart School of\nIndustrial and System\u2019s Engineering (ISyE). \u0026nbsp;\u201cDespite a challenging environment, 3PLs have\nan opportunity to continue to mature and grow by offering an increasing number\nof value-added services for shippers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the\ncritical capabilities most highly valued by shippers in their 3PL provider is\naccurate reporting and analysis of total landed cost (TLC) \u2013 the sum of all\ncosts associated with making and delivering products to the point where they\nproduce revenue. The benefits of solid TLC calculations include more agility\nand confidence in decision making, better insight into the financial performance\nof products and partners, and improved supply chain visibility. However,\ndespite the relatively high number of shipper respondents reporting an\nextensive use of TLC (45 percent), the precision and level of detail of those\ncalculations differ widely.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECalculating\nthe TLC of materials and finished goods is not always an easy task. Difficulty\nin defining all the factors contributing to total cost, and then obtaining all\nthe necessary data, can be challenging. Too often, businesses rely on only\npartial data or inaccurate estimates that can lead to incorrect results, with\n58 percent of 3PLs reporting a hesitance from shippers to share information\nwith them. That might be the reason why, despite the high value of TLC\ncalculations, just 23 percent of 3PL respondents reported providing extensive\nTLC analysis to their customers. This level of interaction requires a high\nlevel of trust, and considerable discussion is required among 3PLs and their\ncustomers to better understand the factors, roles, and KPIs to be used in a shared end-to-end\ncalculation effort. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cTLC enables companies to capture both the\nobvious and hidden costs associated with product movement, revealing the true\ncost of sourcing and logistics decisions,\u201d said Dennis Wereldsma, Global Transportation\nSector Lead, Capgemini. \u201cTransforming from basic to more sophisticated TLC\napplication requires C-level leadership, process change, and systems\ntransformation. However, while TLC is highly important, because of the\ncomplexities, TLC adoption must be approached as an evolutionary, rather than\nrevolutionary process.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ESpotlight: 3PL in the Life Sciences Industry:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWithin the\nLife Sciences industry, careful and expedient handling is often critical for\nproduct safety and because of this, control and visibility is essential.\nLogistics challenges here include product integrity and compliance\nrequirements, an inherently complex trading partner ecosystem, and demanding\ncustomer service and cost requirements. Fifty-four percent of life sciences\nshippers surveyed felt the complexity of the supply chain model represents a\nsignificant challenge, but 87 percent felt 3PLs could add significant value\nhere by linking together the various different parties involved. In addition,\n62 percent of shippers within the Life Sciences industry cite ensuring product\nquality as a significant challenge and rank quality procedures highly (70\npercent) as a service they want 3PLs to provide. Shipment visibility, quality\nand compliance procedures, stringent inventory control, temperature control\ncapabilities, and security are important steps to ensure product integrity,\nprevent counterfeiting, and ensure safe delivery, and momentum is moving\ntowards the use of RFID\ntags here. Indeed, around half of shipper and 3PL respondents agree that there is\na strong business case for RFID in Life Sciences. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESpotlight: 3PL in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods\nIndustry:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELarge\nvolumes and low margins mean FMCG companies must respond quickly to deliver\nin-demand, on-trend products to increasingly demanding shoppers. After cost\nreduction, FMCG companies\u2019 biggest priorities for logistics include perfect\norder fulfillment (87 percent), rapidly sensing and responding to changes in\nconsumer demand (83 percent) and shortening new product time-to-market and\nsupply chain integration (81 percent). Also, as sustainability grows in\nimportance for consumers, shippers\u2019 interest in strategies such as improving\nshipment density and load utilization has also increased. Shippers within the\nFMCG industry value the role 3PLs play here, as well as with reducing costs and\ndealing with supply chain disruption, although they are less likely to see 3PLs\nplaying a key role in shortening new product time-to-market and supply chain\nintegration. FMCG shippers\u2019 efforts to reduce logistics costs include warehouse\nand transportation sharing. Two-thirds of those engaging in these strategies\nhave recognized cost savings but this has been limited, with 58 percent of\nrespondents recognizing less than 5 percent cost savings.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe\ndifferences in the priorities reported by shippers in the Life Sciences and\nFMCG industries show how important it is for 3PL providers\nto\u0026nbsp;provide\u0026nbsp;industry-specific solutions and to work closely with their\ncustomers to really understand their needs and\u0026nbsp;provide the best possible\nservice, ultimately helping contribute to their overall business success,\u201d said\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Sven\nHoemmken,\u0026nbsp;Global Head of Sales, Panalpina. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout\nCapgemini\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.capgemini.com.\u0022\u003ECapgemini,\u003C\/a\u003E\none of the world\u0027s foremost providers of consulting, technology, and\noutsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through\ntechnologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities\nthat boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of\nworking, the Collaborative Business Experience\u003Csup\u003ETM\u003C\/sup\u003E. The Group relies\non its global delivery model called Rightshore\u003Csup\u003E\u00ae\u003C\/sup\u003E, which\naims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple\nlocations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for\nclients. Present in more than 30 countries,\nCapgemini reported 2009 global revenues of EUR 8.4 billion and employs 95,000\npeople worldwide. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/consulting\u0022\u003ECapgemini Consulting\u003C\/a\u003E is the Global Strategy and\nTransformation Consulting brand of the Capgemini Group, specializing in\nadvising and supporting organizations in transforming their business, from the\ndevelopment of innovative strategy through to execution, with a consistent focus\non sustainable results. Capgemini Consulting proposes to leading companies and\ngovernments a fresh approach which uses innovative methods, technology and the\ntalents of over 4,000 consultants world-wide. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout The Georgia Institute of\nTechnology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology,\nlocated in Atlanta, is a leader in supply chain and logistics education.\nThrough its \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu \u0022\u003ESchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESupply\nChain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech is committed to serving\nlogistics educational needs through its degree programs and its comprehensive\nprofessional education program. Georgia Tech also conducts a fully accredited\nExecutive Masters in International Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy (EMIL\n-SCS ) program, a Supply Chain Executive Forum, and a Leaders in Logistics\nResearch Program and will soon commence a Georgia Tech M.S. Degree in Supply\nChain Engineering. Global involvement is facilitated through The Logistics\nInstitute Asia Pacific, a program in partnership with the National University\nof Singapore, and the SCL \u2019s recently developed network of Logistics Innovation\nCenters in Latin America helping countries to improve logistics performance and\nfacilitate trade. SCL currently has centers in Costa Rica and Panama and is\ndeveloping plans for Mexico, Chile, and Brazil.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Panalpina Group\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.panalpina.com\u0022\u003EPanalpina Group\u003C\/a\u003E is one of the world\u2019s leading suppliers of forwarding and\nlogistics services, specializing in end-to-end supply chain management\nsolutions and intercontinental air freight and ocean freight shipments. Thanks\nto its in-depth industry know-how and state-of-the-art IT systems, Panalpina\nprovides globally integrated door-to door services tailored to its customers\u2019\nindividual needs. The Panalpina Group operates a close-knit network with some 500\nbranches in over 80 countries. In a further 80 countries, it cooperates closely\nwith partner companies. Panalpina employs over 14,000 people worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Panalpina\nhas extensive experience with customers in many key industries. With dedicated\nexperts in key global markets, Panalpina has the people, products, skills, and\ncapabilities to meet the demanding needs of its global customers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Panalpina\u2019s\nbusiness is Global Supply Chain Management. Panalpina delivers compelling\nsolutions that provide value to all customers - every time. Panalpina has a\npassion for solutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/research\/supply-chain\/20103PLReport.pdf\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E to read the entire study. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the\nfifteenth year, Georgia Tech\u2019s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u0026nbsp; in cooperation with Capgemini Consulting, the\nglobal strategy and transformation consulting brand of the Capgemini Group, and\nglobal logistics provider, Panalpina, has compiled the findings from its Third-Party\nLogistics Study ,\nwhich examines the global market for 3PL services.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"15th Annual Third-Party Logistics Study Examines the Global Market for 3PL Services"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-10-11 12:18:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:34","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-11T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"61482":{"id":"61482","type":"image","title":"2010 Third-Party Logistics Study","body":null,"created":"1449176337","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:57","changed":"1475894536","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:16","alt":"2010 Third-Party Logistics Study","file":{"fid":"191365","name":"2010_cover.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2010_cover_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2010_cover_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":665016,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2010_cover_0.jpg?itok=5zkZjTuO"}},"57771":{"id":"57771","type":"image","title":"C. 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Stein Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at Stanford\nUniversity\u2019s School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Health\nResearch and Policy with the School of Medicine, was the third distinguished\nlecturer in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering\u2019s Distinguished Lecture Series. Efron presented his talk, titled\n\u201cLearning from the Experience of Others,\u201d to a standing-room-only audience on\nSeptember 23, 2010. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIf\nyou were not able to attend the lecture or would like to listen to the lecture\nagain, Dr. Efron\u2019s lecture can be viewed at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/35125\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/35125\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EStating\nthat some statistical estimates are obtained by direct observation, Efron said\nthat sometimes we learn from the experience of others. Efron used several\nexamples, including the likelihood of having identical twins, to show how this\nworks in practice, indicating some of the surprising theoretical ideas involved.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EStarted\nin 2008, the annual Distinguished Lecture Series brings in highly prominent\nspeakers who have made a significant contribution to society through research\nareas of interest to ISyE faculty and students and to provide a forum for the\nstudents, faculty, staff, and alumni from the Georgia Tech community to\ninteract with the distinguished lecturer. The two previous distinguished\nlecturers were Dr. William \u0022Bill\u0022 Pulleyblank, vice president of the Center for Business\nOptimization at IBM Global Business Services, and Dr. Lawrence\n\u0022Larry\u0022 Wein, professor at the Graduate School of Business at\nStanford University and a Philip McCord Morse Lecturer. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor more\ninformation, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/dls\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/dls\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBradley\nEfron, the Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at Stanford\nUniversity\u2019s School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Health\nResearch and Policy with the School of Medicine, was the third distinguished\nlecturer in the H. 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The catch-up scheduler is available for\nfree download from CDC\u2019s website \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/recs\/scheduler\/catchup.htm\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/recs\/scheduler\/catchup.htm\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Keskinocak, \u201cour\napproach is unique in methodology, information, strategy, and advice it offers\nto the user.\u201d The tool is being advocated by the Centers for Disease Control\nand Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak presented the paper at\na special session of the EURO INFORMS 2010 conference in Lisbon, Portugal in\nJuly. EURO is the Association of\nEuropean Operational Research Societies\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Ewithin IFORS,\nthe International Federation of\nOperational Research Societies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWith\nthe goal of recognizing outstanding accomplishments in the practice of\noperations research, the Excellence in Practice Award is given based upon scientific quality; relevance to operational research; originality\nin methodology, implementations and\/ or field of application; a real impact to\npractice; and appreciation by the organization involved with the application. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAfter\nbeing selected as one of six finalists out of a pool of seventy-three\nsubmissions from all over the world, the paper titled \u201cCatch-Up Scheduling for Childhood Vaccination\u201d was\nawarded the 2010 EURO Excellence in Practice\nAward. 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Duke (IE 1971),\npresident and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., was recently inducted into the\nprestigious National Academy of Engineers (NAE) in a ceremony that took place\non Saturday, October 2, 2010, in Washington, D.C. One of sixty-eight new\nmembers and nine foreign associates, Duke was recognized by his peers for his leadership and contributions to the design and\nimplementation of innovative logistics and retail technologies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EElection\nto the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional\ndistinctions accorded to an engineer. The procedure for nominating and electing member and foreign\nassociate candidates involves a search in all fields of engineering for\noutstanding engineers with identifiable contributions or accomplishments in one\nor both of the following categories:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEngineering research, practice,\n     or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to\n     the engineering literature.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPioneering of new and\n     developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional\n     fields of engineering, or developing\/implementing innovative approaches to\n     engineering education.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMembers,\nwho are recognized by their peers for their professional integrity, have\ndistinguished themselves in business and academic management, in technical\npositions, as university faculty, and as leaders in government and private\nengineering organizations.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDuke\nwas named president and chief executive\nofficer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc, in February 2009. 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Duke (IE 1971),\npresident and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., was recently inducted into the\nprestigious National Academy of Engineers (NAE) in a ceremony that took place\non Saturday, October 2, 2010, in Washington, D.C. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Mike Duke Elected to the National Academy of Engineers"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-10-05 14:07:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:34","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"61462":{"id":"61462","type":"image","title":"Mike Duke","body":null,"created":"1449176337","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:57","changed":"1475894536","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:16","alt":"Mike 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href=\u0022http:\/\/www.senacyt.gob.pa\/loUltimo\/index.php?idNoticia=1227\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.senacyt.gob.pa\/loUltimo\/index.php?idNoticia=1227\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center was \ncreated with the support of the National Secretariat of Science, \nTechnology and Innovation (SENACYT) and its strategic objectives to \nimprove the logistics performance of Panama, both private and public \nsector, from studies and research that will enable the country to become\n the center of trade in the Americas.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2010-09-23 02:38:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:27","author":"Andy 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Alvarado\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nJefa de Relaciones P\u00fablicas y Publicidad\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSecretar\u00eda Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnolog\u00eda e Innovaci\u00f3n\/SENACYT\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCiudad del Saber | Edif. 233 | Panam\u00e1\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n507.517.0014 Ext. 1004 | Directo 507.517.0004\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["malvarado@senacyt.gob.pa"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"60826":{"#nid":"60826","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Georgia Tech-Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026 Research Center Launched","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech celebrated the inauguration ceremonies for the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.panama.gatech.edu \u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech-Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center\u003C\/a\u003E in Panama City, Panama, on September 7, 2010. The center is the latest addition to the Georgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESupply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute\u2019s \u003C\/a\u003E(SCL) logistics innovation network of centers that focus on improving country-level logistics performance and increasing trade competitiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder an agreement negotiated with the Panama\u2019s National Secretariat of\nScience, Technology and Innovation, SCL has established and will operate the Georgia Tech \u2013Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center located in Panama City, Panama.\nThe center has three core thrusts -- applied research, education, and competitiveness -- and two primary objectives 1) to improve the logistics performance of Panama and 2) to establish Panama as the trade hub of the Americas. The center will establish education programs to increase human capital in logistics with both formal degree programs and through executive education; develop repositories and models to support trade analytics; develop performance, integration and visibility systems; facilitate stronger industry and infrastructure linkages to improve Panama\u2019s competitiveness; provide leadership for the development of a National Logistics Plan and National\nLogistics Council; and provide innovation for logistics leading to new logistics\nservices and jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHolding a vision of Panama as a logistics, communications, education, research, and scientific tourism hub, Dr. Dario Solis, former director of research and professor of mechanical and electrical engineering at Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Panam\u00e1 (UTP)\/Technological University of Panama, has been tapped as the center\u0027s managing director. Solis\u0027 many projects have been strategically and synergistically oriented around efforts to improve national infrastructure in transportation, to exploit Panama\u0027s competitive advantage in telecommunications, and to exercise its potential as an academic and research destination. Solis sees this as \u201ca historical opportunity for the country of Panama to develop its huge potential and to become a dominate player in global trade.\u201d He believes this opportunity can generate the resources necessary to improve the quality of life for all Panamanians.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPaying close attention to the center\u2019s development is Panamanian President \u003Cstrong\u003ERicardo Martinelli and Georgia Tech President \u003C\/strong\u003EG. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, both of whom spoke at the center\u2019s opening program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Panama is a natural place for a trade hub,\u201d said Don Ratliff, SCL executive director.\u0026nbsp; It is well suited for free enterprise growth with convenient air and sea transportation to the rest of Latin America, has an outstanding financial district, and good commercial development infrastructure.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd there\u0027s the canal, presently undergoing a multi-billion-dollar expansion. When completed in 2014, the waterway\u0027s capacity will be doubled and allow much bigger cargo ships.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Panama possessive an entrepreneurial spirit and a vision for becoming the trade hub of the Americas,\u0022 explains Jaymie Forrest, SCL managing director. \u0022Panama is poised for growth and development in the required supporting logistics services.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA bilingual workforce is another plus, she added, along with Panama\u0027s Colon Free Zone, a manufacturing, warehousing, and re-export center that is the second-largest free-trade zone in the world after Hong Kong.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBut for all of Panama\u0027s hard assets, it lacks the high level of integration necessary for trade-hub status. There is lack of logistics services and supporting infrastructure such as public warehousing, temperature controlled faculties, logistics technology and the human capital experienced in supply chain operations. This is a good opportunity for Georgia Tech to transfer knowledge and apply value.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA value assessment to determine priorities in terms of infrastructure improvement will be one of the center\u0027s top orders of business. Ongoing improvements in logistics and the application of relevant new technologies will ensure Panama\u0027s competitiveness and build its stature as a trade hub.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBesides the immense economic advantages for Panama, a world-class trade hub,  there is also expected to provide new opportunities for U.S. companies serving the logistics industry and, perhaps most importantly, boost American exports.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We manufacture more products by value than any other country in the world,\u0022 said Ratliff. \u0022Many of these products are exportable, but they\u0027re made by small- and medium-size enterprises that simply don\u0027t have the capabilities to export to small countries.\u0022 Nor is it economically worthwhile for these companies to develop and maintain individual trade relationships with separate Latin American countries representing markets of just four or five million people each, he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETypically, government-sponsored trade assistance is limited to marketing and\ndoes not address logistics needs, transportation, value-added product-support\nservices and a host of key elements that constitute the practical demands of\ninternational trade. The Panama Center will be designed to meet these needs\nwhile providing, in effect, a single point of access for these smaller markets.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If we\u0027re going to increase exports, which everyone believes is a good\nidea, then we have to make it so that exporting to a number of small countries\nis the same as exporting to one large country,\u0022 Ratliff explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the largest research group in the world focused on supply chain and\nlogistics, SCL is the ideal partner for Panama\u0027s trade-hub development. In\nrecent years, SCL has leveraged its traditional expertise to embrace issues\nsurrounding international trade. SCL founded The Logistics Institute (TLI)\nAsia-Pacific in 1998 at the request of the government to improve logistics\neducation. Based in Singapore, the center supports Singapore\u0027s Asian trade hub\nwith research, education, and consulting expertise in global logistics and\nsupply chain management. The learning\u2019s from TLI-Asia Pacific offers a template\nfor Panama in many ways. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Central America, SCL established a regional presence in 2009 with its\nTrade-Chain Innovation and Productivity Center, which opened in Costa Rica to\nsupport increasing trade exports and improving logistics performance while\nsupporting some of the countries strategic initiatives and planning\ninvestments. In particular this center is focused on food exports and preparing\nfor the challenges of traceability and meeting the forthcoming US food safety\nregulations. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Panama center is expected to serve as a springboard for logistics\ninnovation, education and research throughout the Americas, according to\nForrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESCL\u0027s emerging leadership role in international trade also dovetails with\nGeorgia Tech\u0027s 25-year strategic plan, which calls for leveraging Tech\u0027s global\nengagement as a means of securing a larger international footprint. Logistics\nwas identified as one of four high-potential industry sectors warranting\nparticular emphasis in research and industry partnerships. The other sectors\nare energy, healthcare, and transportation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What Panama wants to do and\nwhat we want to do are very compatible,\u0022 Ratliff said. \u0022They have all\nthe right pieces -- we\u0027ll help bring them all together.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech celebrated the inauguration ceremonies for the Georgia\nTech-Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center in Panama City, Panama,\non September 7, 2010. 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In the nearly fifty years since, Johnson, now the Coca Cola\nchair in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\n(ISyE), has sealed his own place in the discipline of Operations Research (OR),\nhaving made significant contributions to the field both in academia and while\nworking at IBM\u2019s T.J. Watson Research facility. For his efforts, Johnson has\nbeen recognized with numerous awards, including the George Dantzig Prize, and\nan IBM Corporate Fellow, which was responsible for bringing him back to his\nGeorgia roots.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA\nnative of Georgia, Johnson grew up on a farm near Athens. Though Johnson\u2019s\nfather initially wanted his sons and daughter to attend the University of Georgia,\nJohnson\u2019s older brother, Fred, prevailed in coming to Georgia Tech, and Johnson\nfollowed in his footsteps. The deciding factor for their father was Tech\u2019s\nco-op program, which provided the opportunity to pay for college while gaining\nvaluable work experience. \u0026nbsp;Johnson,\nwho was initially an aerospace engineering major, spent two quarters as a co-op\nstudent at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became\nNASA, at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter\nchanging his major to math, Johnson was able to piece together a small\nscholarship, summer and part-time jobs, parental support, and previous savings\nto complete his degree. He excelled as an\nundergraduate math major and was encouraged to continue his education at the\nUniversity of California at Berkely. At a summer job between completing his\nmasters in math and starting his PhD program, Johnson discovered operations\nresearch, and that discovery changed the trajectory of his education and career\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThough he had gone to UC Berkeley to\nstudy probability theory, Johnson said that \u201coperations research just seemed to\nme to be a much better thing for me to do than what I was doing.\u201d So Johnson\nchanged his major. He registered for his first OR course, which the director of\nthe program was teaching. As it turned out, that director was George Dantzig, a\nname which meant little to Johnson at the time; however, Johnson soon learned\nthat Dantzig was \u201csort of the leading light\u201d in OR. As that first year\nprogressed, a mutual respect developed between the teacher and student, and a\nbond formed between the two that lasted through the remainder of Dantzig\u2019s\nlife. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECrediting Dantzig with setting his\ncareer for him, Johnson explains that his first job after completing his PhD\nwas teaching in the industrial administration program at Yale University. During a\njunior faculty sabbatical at ETH [the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology] in\nZurich, Johnson discerned\nthat he wanted to go into a research environment rather than return to\nYale.\u0026nbsp; Though Dantzig, by then at Stanford University, courted\nJohnson to join him at Stanford, Johnson declined, instead accepting an offer\nhe had received from IBM. However, Johnson explains that had it not been for\nDantzig, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have known those people at IBM, and they would not have\nknown [of] me.\u201d In the end, that experience gave Johnson the chance to work\nwith OR luminaries such as Phil Wolfe, Alan Hoffman and Ralph Gomory.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter nearly a quarter century with\nIBM, Johnson decided that he wanted to return to Georgia Tech as a member of\nits faculty, but in 1990, IBM offered him a prestigious IBM Fellow. Such\nappointments entitled Fellows to a five-year period of relative freedom in\ntheir work. Johnson thought, \u201cIf I\u2019ve got that kind of freedom, I want to\ncontinue to work with the software we\u2019ve developed at IBM, but I also want to\ncome to Georgia Tech and set up a Computational Optimization Center with George\nNemhauser,\u201d the A. Russell Chandler III chaired professor in ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs an\nIBM employee, Johnson worked with Nemhauser in setting up classes at Georgia\nTech as well as establishing collaborative relationships with users of the\nsoftware. Then, in 1995, after the five years ended, Johnson retired from IBM and\njoined the Georgia Tech faculty as the newly endowed Coca Cola chaired\nprofessor in ISyE. With that title, Johnson shared the distinction with\nNemhauser of being the first two endowed chair-holders in ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For Johnson, however, returning to\nhis roots did not just mean returning to Georgia Tech. As a farm boy, Johnson\u2019s\nroots grow deep in Georgia\nsoil. When he\u2019s not in Atlanta,\nor teaching in Georgia-Tech\u2019s Dual Masters program in Shanghai, Johnson is at home on his 100-acre\nfarm in Madison,\n Georgia.\nAppropriately called the 100- Acre Farm, Johnson\u2019s land, eighty-six acres of\nwhich has been set aside as a conservation easement,\u0026nbsp; is situated where the Apalachee River runs\ninto Lake Oconee. Miles of trails run through woods and alongside creeks and\nponds. And so that others can enjoy the land, Johnson also established the\nFarmhouse Inn Bed \u0026amp; Breakfast, which in addition to serving eggs from their\nown farm-raised chickens, is also one of the top ten bird watching B\u0026amp;Bs in\nthe country. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Bringing his worlds together, for the\npast three summers Johnson has hosted Chinese exchange students at his farm and\nshown them Madison\u2019s\nsouthern charm. Though, as Johnson explains, it\u2019s the student\u2019s choice about\nhow to spend their time, many like to make this trip to Madison. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOffering students the opportunity for\na shared learning experience is consistent with Johnson\u2019s teaching\nphilosophy.\u0026nbsp; One of the things Johnson\ncares about is collaboration. \u201cI use the analogy of a tapestry,\u201c he explains.\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got threads, and some of the threads break, and it weakens the whole\nthing.\u201d Continuing, Johnson says that he tells his students: \u201cDon\u2019t be the\nthread that breaks; be the thread that fills in and makes it work.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe thread that runs continuously\nthrough Johnson\u2019s own tapestry brought him back to Georgia.\nThough coming home was an important consideration for Johnson, the real tug was\nbeing at Georgia Tech and holding the Coca Cola chair.\u0026nbsp; In Johnson\u2019s experience, Tech is a positive\nplace, and there\u2019s a degree of flexibility in making things happen that is\nunusual for a state school. According to Johnson, people know what they are\ndoing, they know what they have to do, and they feel they can do it. At the end\nof the day, Johnson said, \u201cIt just makes me feel better to be here.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile\nstudents were coming to California\nfrom all over the world to study in the same program with the man considered\nthe father of linear programming, the esteemed George Dantzig, Ellis Johnson\nstumbled upon the great teacher, who recognized Johnson\u2019s gift and took him on\nas his student. In the nearly fifty years since, Johnson, now the Coca Cola\nchair in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\n(ISyE), has sealed his own place in the discipline of Operations Research (OR),\nhaving made significant contributions to the field both in academia and while\nworking at IBM\u2019s T.J. 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This issue marks the sixteenth year that\nISyE has ranked as the foremost program of its kind in the nation at the\nundergraduate level within industrial\/manufacturing engineering category. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology ranks\n7th among public universities in the 2011 edition. Georgia Tech has ranked in\nthe top 10 of public universities for more than a decade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering moved up one spot in the undergraduate\nrankings to fourth for engineering programs at universities where the highest\ndegree is a Ph.D.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the Stewart School maintained its top ranking, Aerospace Engineering\nranked second in its discipline.\u0026nbsp; Mechanical Engineering moved up one spot\nto join Biomedical Engineering, and Civil Engineering with all ranked\nthird.\u0026nbsp; Electrical and Environmental Engineering both ranked 5th among\ntheir peers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the first time, U.S.\nNews \u0026amp; World Report polled high school guidance counselors.\u0026nbsp; Georgia\nTech ranked 2nd among public institutions, tied with the University of North\nCarolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan. In rankings including both\npublic and private universities, Georgia Tech tied for 22nd with Boston\nCollege, Emory University, Rice University, University of North Carolina-Chapel\nHill, University of Southern California, University of Michigan and Washington\nUniversity-St. Louis.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u2019s\n(ISyE) undergraduate program maintained its top ranking in the 2011 edition of\nAmerica\u2019s Best Colleges by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp;\nWorld Report\u003C\/em\u003E released in August. 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Providing\na historical overview of European integration, Staab\u2019s objective was to help\nthe students understand the historical, political, and cultural factors that\nshaped the integration and evolution of relationships among European countries\nand between the European Union (EU) and its members.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe next day the class heard from Professor Owen Darbishire,\nfrom Pembroke College in Oxford, who lectured on different labor and employment\nmodels in the US, EU, and Japan with a focus on the different constraints they\nimpose and opportunities they create. \u0026nbsp;Following Darbishire\u2019s presentation, Jeanny\nWildi-Yune, managing director of the recently launched Kuehne Logistics\nUniversity in Hamburg, provided an overview of the new program.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter two intense days of theory, the class had their first\nbus trip and site visit to the Rotterdam Port Authority where they received a\npresentation on intermodal and rail connections and toured the ECT Delta\nContainer Terminal.\u0026nbsp; On their last day in\nCologne, the\nclass visited Kraftverkehr Nagel, a German family-owned food-logistics company.\u0026nbsp; The company presented on over-the-road transportation and cold\nchain in Europe. Focusing on the competitive landscape, the presentation\nincluded national carriers and European players and the influences of Central\nand Eastern European (CEE) competitors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThat evening\nthe class flew to Munich, where they met with Norbert Jungmichel from Systain\nConsulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Otto Group, a major German\nretailer.\u0026nbsp; Jungmichel discussed environmental issues in the\nsupply chain, such as the extent to which customers are willing to pay more for\nmore sustainable products and services, as well as the lack of a single\ninternational standard for measuring carbon footprint and the uncertainty and\ncomplexity this imposes on investment and sourcing decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELater that afternoon\nthe class traveled to Audi in Ingolstadt, where they learned about\nAudi\u2019s order-to-delivery process and were treated to a tour of the plant. Their\nvisit included an open discussion of in-bound logistics with examples from\nlocal sequenced suppliers, as well as suppliers in CEE and North Africa and as\ndistant as Asia and America. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMany of the evenings and weekend days were spent watching\nthe World Cup.\u0026nbsp; This was especially\nenjoyable with a class from all parts of the world.\u0026nbsp; After a weekend of soccer, the class traveled\nto Krakow, Poland, where they re-visited Dr. Staab for a review of their\nprevious session and a discussion of the financial crisis, sovereign debt\nissues, as well as other political and economic issues.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom there the class took a bus to Krakowski Park\nTechnologiczny, a company that supports\ntechnological and entrepreneurial development of Ma\u0142opolska Region and promotes\ninnovativeness and new technologies.\u0026nbsp;\nWhile there, the class met with two additional companies: UPM,\none of the world\u2019s leading forest products groups, which discussed their\nbusiness processes for outsourcing, and Sabre Holdings, a merchandising and\nretailer of travel products that provides distribution and technology solutions\nfor the travel industry, which discussed their latest in research and\ndevelopment. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETheir final site visit was taken by train to WSK \u0022PZL \u2013\nRzesz\u00f3w,\u0022 one of the leading players in the Central Europe aerospace\nindustry. They presented an overview\nof one of the most remarkable stories of enterprise transformation and\nleadership \u2013 the evolution and restructuring of WSK\n\u0022PLZ-Rzesz\u00f3w\u0022 S.A from the \u201cSolidarity\u201d movement of 1980 and the\nsubsequent break with Soviet Union through today.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They also discussed the development of the\nAviation Valley in southeastern Poland.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe next destination for the EMIL-SCS Class of 2011 is\nResidence III in Latin America.\u0026nbsp; The class will be traveling from September 10\n\u2013 24, 2010.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EFor more on the EMIL-SCS Program, contact Erin\nHowlette at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:erin.howlette@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eerin.howlette@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\nor visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs World Cup Soccer was capturing the attention of people\naround the globe, the internationally diverse Executive Masters in\nInternational Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain Strategy class of 2011\nwas globe-trotting through Eastern Europe on its second residence, June 13 through June 24, 2010.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"EMIL-SCS Class Studies European Logistics"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-08-25 13:13:30","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:19","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-08-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60555":{"id":"60555","type":"image","title":"2011 EMIL Class visits Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany, during its second residence","body":null,"created":"1449176281","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:01","changed":"1475894525","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:05","alt":"2011 EMIL Class visits Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany, during its second residence","file":{"fid":"191157","name":"CO2011-Europe-Group-Audi.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CO2011-Europe-Group-Audi_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CO2011-Europe-Group-Audi_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":105178,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/CO2011-Europe-Group-Audi_1.jpg?itok=Uos-6T1f"}}},"media_ids":["60555"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10478","name":"EMIL ISyE"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"60641":{"#nid":"60641","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Remembering Former ISyE Professor, Harrison Morton Wadsworth, Jr.","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHarrison Morton Wadsworth, Jr. died\nAugust 3, 2010. He was 85. Wadsworth was a professor of statistics in the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech for\nthirty-one years and taught in China and Turkey. Following his retirement \u0026nbsp;from Tech in 1991, Wadsworth operated his own\nquality auditing consulting business. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWadsworth served in the U.S. Army in World\nWar II and the Korean Conflict. He was a U.S. delegate and subcommittee chair\nto the International Standards Organization and the American National Standards\nInstitute. He authored or co-authored several textbooks and served as editor of\nthe \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Quality Technology\u003C\/em\u003E. Wadsworth\nreceived numerous awards and medals, including the American Society for\nQuality\u0027s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, and he was a Fellow\nof the American Statistical Association. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWadsworth is survived by his wife of fifty-nine\nyears, Irene Hawkins Wadsworth; son, Harrison Morton Wadsworth, III, and his\nwife Toni Wadsworth; daughter, Alice Eleanor Wadsworth; and grandchildren,\nRenee Wadsworth, Harrison Morton Wadsworth, IV, William Wadsworth, Harrison\nRitchie, Benjamin Lunsford, Matthew Lunsford, and Alison Lunsford. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor those wishing to honor Wadsworth,\nhis family has requested that contributions be made to the Leukemia and\nLymphoma Society, P.O. Box 4072, Pittsfield, MA 01202. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHarrison Morton Wadsworth, Jr. died\nAugust 3, 2010. He was 85. Wadsworth was a professor of statistics in the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech for\nthirty-one years and taught in China and Turkey. 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Lee, professor\nin the H. 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Scientists in the new Center will employ the modern analytic\ntools of systems biology to understand the immune responses vaccines stimulate\nin humans and will use this knowledge to guide design of vaccines against HIV,\nmalaria and other global pandemics\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBali Pulendran, the\nCharles Howard Candler professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory\nMedicine at Emory University, the Emory Vaccine\nCenter, and Yerkes Research Center, is principal investigator of the center.\nRafi Ahmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center and a Georgia Research\nAlliance Eminent Scholar, will serve as co-principal investigator.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELee and other\nresearchers at the center will address a major challenge thus far in the\ndevelopment of vaccines \u2013 that the effectiveness of vaccination can only be\nascertained after vaccinated individuals have been exposed to infection. To\nstudy vaccine-induced immunity in humans, they will use a multidisciplinary\napproach Pulendran developed, which involves immunology, genomics and\nbioinformatics to predict the immunity of a vaccine without exposing\nindividuals to infection. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers working in the new Center for\nSystems Vaccinology will determine whether Pulendran\u2019s approach can be used to\npredict the effectiveness of other vaccines, including common vaccines against\ninfluenza, pneumococcal disease and shingles. The ability to successfully\npredict the immunity and efficacy of vaccines would facilitate the rapid\nevaluation of new and emerging vaccines and the identification of individuals\nwho are unlikely to be protected by a vaccine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u2019s initial work will focus on two\nmajor projects on innate immunity and adaptive immunity that ultimately will\nfacilitate vaccine development in several ways: (1) by enabling a strategy to\nprospectively predict the immunogenicity of vaccines; (2) by offering new and\nfundamental insights into the genes, cells and networks that orchestrate\nvaccine-induced immunity in the young and elderly; and (3) by facilitating the\ngeneration of an open access database of vaccine-induced molecular signatures.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center\u2019s\ninterdisciplinary team comprises researchers and clinicians in areas as diverse\nas immunology, vaccinology, clinical medicine, computational modeling, and\nmathematics. In addition to Lee, the team includes Nick Haining (Dana Farber\nCancer Institute, Boston), Shankar Subramaniam (University of California, San\nDiego), Alex Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla),\nMark Mulligan (Hope Clinic, Emory Vaccine Center,; and Myron Levine and Adriana\nWeinberg (University of Colorado, Denver).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELee,\nalong with Haining and Subramaniam, co-direct the \u0022Genomics and\nComputational Biology\u0022 core of the initiative. The Core will provide\nexpertise, analysis, and experimental platforms to systematically interrogate\nthe immune response to the inactivated trivalent influenza vaccine, the\npneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, and the live attenuated varicella-zoster\nvaccine. Two major goals in this Core involve development of gene\nexpression-based predictors of vaccine response in humans and use of genomic techniques\nas discovery tools to better understand the innate and adaptive immune response\nto vaccines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESupport for the first\nyear of the Center initiative will come from the American Recovery and\nReinvestment Act (ARRA).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEva K. Lee, professor\nin the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at\nGeorgia Tech and director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/%7Eevakylee\/medicalor\u0022\u003ECenter for\nOperations Research in Medicine and HealthCare\u003C\/a\u003E,\njoins a highly integrated and interdisciplinary team conducting research in the\nnewly established Center for Systems Vaccinology at Emory University.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eva Lee Joins Interdisciplinary Team at Emory\u2019s New Center for Systems Vaccinology"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-08-24 09:07:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:15","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-08-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55544":{"id":"55544","type":"image","title":"Eva K. 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The center\u0027s activities will\nbe built around three main areas: applied research, education and\ncompetitiveness.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe center will gather data pertaining to\nlogistics and trade and develop analytics to facilitate showing the value and\ncapabilities of Panama. This knowledge base will also drive educational\nprogramming in logistics for students and professionals. In addition, the\ncenter will facilitate stronger industry and infrastructure linkages, leading\nto new logistics services and jobs. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWith its strategic location, multi-modal\ntransportation access, and deep-water ports situated on each coast,\n\u0022Panama is a natural place for a trade hub,\u0022 said SCL Executive Director\nDon Ratliff. \u0022It is well suited for free enterprise growth with convenient\nair and sea transportation to the rest of Latin America, has an outstanding\nfinancial district, and good commercial development infrastructure.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd there\u0027s the canal, presently undergoing a\nmulti-billion-dollar expansion. When completed in 2014, the waterway\u0027s capacity\nwill be doubled and allow much bigger cargo ships.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022There\u0027s a lot of entrepreneurial spirit in\nPanama,\u0022 said Jaymie Forrest, SCL\u0027s managing director. \u0026nbsp;\u0022Panama is poised for economic growth in\nthe area of logistics and supporting services.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA bilingual workforce is another plus, she added,\nalong with Panama\u0027s Colon Free Zone, a manufacturing, warehousing, and\nre-export center that is the second-largest free-trade zone in the world after\nHong Kong.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBut for all of Panama\u0027s hard assets, it lacks the\nhigh level of integration necessary for trade-hub status. There is lack of\nlogistics services and supporting infrastructure such as public warehousing,\ntemperature controlled faculties, logistics technology and the human capital\nexperienced in supply chain operations. This is a good opportunity for Georgia\nTech to transfer knowledge and apply value. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA value assessment to determine priorities in\nterms of infrastructure improvement will be one of the center\u0027s top orders of\nbusiness. Ongoing improvements in logistics and the application of relevant new\ntechnologies will ensure Panama\u0027s competitiveness and build its stature as a\ntrade hub.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBesides the immense economic advantages for\nPanama, a world-class trade hub, there is also expected to provide new\nopportunities for U.S. companies serving the logistics industry and, perhaps\nmost importantly, boost American exports.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We manufacture more products by value than\nany other country in the world,\u0022 said Ratliff. \u0022Many of these\nproducts are exportable, but they\u0027re made by small- and medium-size enterprises\nthat simply don\u0027t have the capabilities to export to small countries.\u0022 Nor\nis it economically worthwhile for these companies to develop and maintain\nindividual trade relationships with separate Latin American countries\nrepresenting markets of just four or five million people each, he added. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETypically, government-sponsored trade assistance\nis limited to marketing and does not address logistics needs, transportation,\nvalue-added product-support services and a host of other topics that constitute\nthe practical demands of international trade. The Panama Center will be\ndesigned to meet these needs while providing, in effect, a single point of\naccess for these smaller markets.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022If we\u0027re going to increase exports, which\neveryone believes is a good idea, then we have to make it so that exporting to\na number of small countries is the same as exporting to one large\ncountry,\u0022 Ratliff explained.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the largest research group in the world focused\non supply chain and logistics, SCL is the ideal partner for Panama\u0027s trade-hub\ndevelopment. In recent years, SCL has leveraged its traditional expertise to\nembrace issues surrounding international trade. \u0026nbsp;SCL founded The Logistics Institute (TLI)\nAsia-Pacific in 1998 at the request of the government to improve logistics\neducation. Based in Singapore, the center supports Singapore\u0027s Asian trade hub\nwith research, education, and consulting expertise in global logistics and\nsupply chain management. The learning\u2019s from TLI-Asia Pacific offers a template\nfor Panama in many ways. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn Central America, SCL established a regional\npresence in 2009 with its Trade-Chain Innovation and Productivity Center, which\nopened in Costa Rica to support increasing trade exports and improving\nlogistics performance while supporting some of the countries strategic initiatives\nand planning investments.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Panama center is expected to serve as a springboard\nfor logistics innovation and research throughout the Americas, according to\nForrest.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESCL\u0027s emerging leadership role in international\ntrade also dovetails with Georgia Tech\u0027s 25-year strategic plan, which calls\nfor leveraging Tech\u0027s global engagement as a means of securing a larger\ninternational footprint. Logistics was identified as one of four high-potential\nindustry sectors warranting particular emphasis in research and industry\npartnerships. The other sectors are energy, healthcare, and transportation.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022What Panama wants to do and what we want to\ndo are very compatible,\u0022 Ratliff said. \u0022They have all the right parts\n-- we\u0027ll help bring them all together.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPanama is edging closer to its longtime ambition\nof becoming a trade hub for the Americas \u2014 with key assistance from the Supply\nChain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL), a unit of Georgia Tech\u0027s Stewart School\nof Industrial and Systems Engineering. Under an agreement negotiated with the Panamanian\ngovernment, SCL will establish and operate a Logistics Innovation and Research\nCenter in Panama by the fall of this year. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech Extends Global Reach with Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-07-26 09:38:43","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:11","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-07-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60139":{"id":"60139","type":"image","title":"New Logistics Innovation and Research Center in Panama","body":null,"created":"1449176253","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:33","changed":"1475894520","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:00","alt":"New Logistics Innovation and Research Center in Panama","file":{"fid":"191067","name":"PanamaCountry_Map2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PanamaCountry_Map2_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PanamaCountry_Map2_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":108899,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PanamaCountry_Map2_0.jpg?itok=YpJ9a9Rg"}},"60242":{"id":"60242","type":"image","title":"Cargo ship travels through Panama Canal","body":null,"created":"1449176253","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:33","changed":"1475894523","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:03","alt":"Cargo ship travels through Panama Canal","file":{"fid":"191084","name":"Cargo_in_canal.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cargo_in_canal_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Cargo_in_canal_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":265303,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Cargo_in_canal_0.jpg?itok=lVGdxIWk"}}},"media_ids":["60139","60242"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"10306","name":"Panama"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"59910":{"#nid":"59910","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Supply Chain Trends to Watch","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the July 4, 2010, issue of \u003Cem\u003EWorld Trade Magazine, \u003C\/em\u003Etop academic researchers including Chip White, Don Ratliff, and John Langley, weigh in on trends that will\nchange supply chain operations and management. The arrticle, \u0022Supply Chain Trends to Watch,\u0022 points out\u0026nbsp; that the operation and\nmanagement of today\u2019s global supply chain continues to challenge\nexecutives worldwide. While the extended supply chain can make the\nworld seem a whole lot smaller, its changeability, lengthy complexity,\nand vulnerability can baffle the most astute of operations managers\ntrying to tame it. Many describe the long chain as a constantly moving\ntarget in continual flux as U.S. companies do things like continue to\nmerge with other companies and move from one overseas sourcing and\nmanufacturing locale to another in the constant quest for the\nlowest-cost labor and materials.\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.worldtrademag.com\/Articles\/Feature_Article\/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000000856033\u0022\u003ERead more\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the July 4, 2010, issue of \u003Cem\u003EWorld Trade Magazine, \u003C\/em\u003Etop academic \nresearchers including Chip White, Don Ratliff, and John Langley, weigh \nin on trends that will\nchange supply chain operations and management.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Supply Chain Trends to Watch"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-07-06 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and former provost of Georgia Tech, has been appointed interim school chair for ISyE beginning July 1, 2010. Thomas, who served as ISyE\u2019s third school chair from 1978 to 1989, will fill the position being vacated by Chelsea C. \u201cChip\u201d White III until a permanent school chair is in place.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cI am grateful that Mike Thomas has agreed to take on the responsibility of leading the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering as interim school chair in order to assure a smooth transition through the upcoming search for a new school chair,\u201d said Don Giddens, Dean of the College of Engineering. \u201cI know that his faculty colleagues will work closely with him to ensure that we maintain and build on the momentum ISyE has established. We are incredibly fortunate to have a person of this caliber step in to this position.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas has extensive knowledge of ISyE teaching and research initiatives and has a good rapport with the faculty, staff, and students in ISyE and across campus. \u201cWhen Mike was ISyE school chair, he brought in and retained key faculty members and placed an emphasis on developing a strong research program that helped propel the Stewart School to the role of national prominence it maintains today,\u201d said White. \u201cWe are delighted to have him back with us.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas also strengthened connections with ISyE alumni. His efforts brought ISyE its first endowed chair, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair, which he later used to attract George Nemhauser, one of the premier operations research faculty in the Unites States, to Georgia Tech. Thomas also recruited ISyE\u2019s second endowed chair, the Coca-Cola Chair, held then and now by Ellis Johnson. And it was during his tenure that the ISyE Alumni Advisory Board was formed to help guide the Stewart School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In 1989, Thomas joined the President\u2019s office at Georgia Tech as acting executive vice president, responsible for overseeing Tech\u0027s academic restructuring, which resulted in the formation of three new colleges and numerous new degree programs. In addition, he helped to oversee the implementation of many of these degree programs; created new promotion, tenure and reappointment standards; and managed the Institute\u0027s budgeting process. In 1996 his title was changed to Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, overseeing all academic and most administrative areas. Thomas retired in 2002, but came out of retirement soon thereafter to serve as interim chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering while a search was underway for a new chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThomas received a BSChE and MSChE from the University of Texas-Austin. In 1965, he received his Ph.D. in operations research from Johns Hopkins University. He was also president of the Operations Research Society (now INFORMS) and elected as a fellow of INFORMS and AIIE.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Mike and his wife Pat have five children: Michelle Barber, Kevin Gue (MS OR 1992, DR IE 1995), Teresa Genoway, Kathee Pappa and Rebecca MacLean. The Thomas\u2019 also have twenty-two grandchildren, one of whom graduated from Tech with a degree in Mechanical Engineering this past May, and one who will be entering in the fall, also pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Vigor Yang, chair of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, is chairing a search committee that has been charged with actively soliciting candidates; evaluating qualifications; and through a screening and interview process, recommending finalists for the position. According to Dean Giddens, this will be an international search to select the best possible person for this important position.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Michael \u0022Mike\u0022 Thomas, former school chair and professor in the H. 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A bag of potato chips, according to Thomas, involves decisions\nabout growing potatoes, the materials to make the bag, and where the waste from\nthe potatoes and bag goes.\u0026nbsp; She clarified, \u0022Consumption and\nproduction affect not just the immediate use of products but have a past and a\nfuture.\u0026nbsp; Products do not appear out of nothing and they do not disappear\nwhen we throw them away.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/swe\/spring10\/#\/0.\u0022\u003ERead more:\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring 2010 issue of \u003Cem\u003ESociety\nof Women Engineers\u003C\/em\u003E magazine featured an article titled \u0022Industrial \nEcology:\nMoving beyond Traditional Engineering Borders.\u0022\u0026nbsp;\nIn the article, Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor\nof Natural Systems in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems \nEngineering,\ndiscusses how a bag of potato chips illustrates the far-reaching \nimplications\nof industrial ecology.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-06-14 11:35:29","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:47","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49873":{"id":"49873","type":"image","title":"Valerie Thomas","body":null,"created":"1449175366","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:46","changed":"1475894451","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:51","alt":"Valerie Thomas","file":{"fid":"126988","name":"tpd91861.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpd91861_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpd91861_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32508,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpd91861_0.jpg?itok=OQEwZvh3"}}},"media_ids":["49873"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1135","name":"valerie thomas"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n\n \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57935":{"#nid":"57935","#data":{"type":"news","title":"EMIL-SCS Welcomes the Class of 2011, Its Most International Class","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs the 2010 Executive Masters in International Logistics \u2013\nSupply Chain Strategy (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEMIL-SCS\u003C\/a\u003E) class was completing its final residence in\nMarch and preparing for graduation in May, the 2011 class met for its first\nresidence in April.\u0026nbsp; Meeting for\nResidence I on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta, Georgia, the all-male class is\nthe most international in the history of the EMIL-SCS program.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Of the sixteen students that comprise the class, twenty-five\npercent are from Europe, twenty-five percent are from Latin America, six\npercent are from Asia, and forty-four percent are from the United States.\u0026nbsp; The EMIL-SCS program views the class diversity as a benefit to the program and the class itself as students face the global\nlogistics and supply chain issues they are expected to encounter during their\nEMIL-SCS journey.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Residence I, which some EMIL-SCS alumni affectionately refer\nto as the \u201cboot camp\u201d residence, was taught by several members of Georgia Tech\nfaculty and adjunct faculty with expertise in specific logistics and supply\nchain strategy areas pertinent to the industries the student body represents.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;During week one, the\nclass received instruction from Stephen Timme and Ed Frazelle, adjunct professors\nin the \u0026nbsp;H. 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Savelsbergh and John Vande Vate introduced the class to\nAnalytics. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Balancing coursework with play, the class met over the\nweekend for a Braves game. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;This made\nfor great fun since one of the students from Jakarta, Indonesia, had never\nheard of baseball (though he is an avid NASCAR fan).\u0026nbsp; The class bonded instantly upon meeting each\nother and enjoyed their first outing together.\u0026nbsp;\nThe EMIL-SCS experience will provide the class with many more\nopportunities to socialize during the eighteen-month program. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Week two brought its share of theoretical intensity. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, was invited to lecture on the topic of \u0022Stochastic and Robust Optimization in Logistics\u0022 at the Spring School on Combinatorial Optimization in Logistics held at the University of Montreal from May 17 - 20, 2010. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecognized by the organizers as a top researcher in his field, Erera conducts research primarily on transportation and logistics systems planning and control, with a focus both on innovative modeling and solution methodologies, and on challenging application areas including dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing and scheduling, robust asset management, logistics service network design, integrating security and efficiency in logistics systems, and highway traffic network analysis.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Spring School on Combinatorial Optimization in Logistics draws students and researchers interested in the area of Combinatorial Optimization, in particular the latest advances in mixed-integer programming and its applications to various classes of problems arising in logistics, including network design, vehicle routing, routing\/scheduling, routing\/inventory, and location\/routing, among others. For more inforamtion about the Spring School, visit the website at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/symposia.cirrelt.ca\/COLogistics2010\/en\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/symposia.cirrelt.ca\/COLogistics2010\/en\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAlan Erera, associate professor in the H. 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Ergun, along with Julie \nSwann, ISyE associate professor and Center co-director; Reginald DesRoches, \nSchool of Civil \u0026amp; Environmental Engineering (CEE); and students Jessica \nHeier Stamm (ISyE), Kael Stilp (ISyE), and Josh Gresha (CEE) traveled to Haiti \nin May to look at debris collection and removal issues there. What they found \nwas that most Haitians are using little more than their own hands to remove \ndecimated homes and buildings.\u0022Although essential,\u0022 states Ergun, \u0022debris \ncollection is an afterthought.\u0022 \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wabe\/news.newsmain\/article\/1\/0\/1656579\/Atlanta\/Ga.Tech.Professors..Students.Gauge.Debris.Cleanup.in.Haiti\u0022\u003EListen to the entire segment:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, May 28, 2010, Jim Burress, reporter\/ host with WABE\/NPR 90.1,\n \ninterviewed Ozlem Ergun, associate professor in the School of Industrial\n and \nSystems Engineering (ISyE) and co-director of the Center for Health and \nHumanitarian Logistics, about her recent trip to Haiti.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Professors, Students Gauge Debris Cleanup in Haiti"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-06-02 12:49:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:39","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57810":{"id":"57810","type":"image","title":"Debris collection in Haiti.","body":null,"created":"1449176187","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:27","changed":"1475894468","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:08","alt":"Debris collection in Haiti.","file":{"fid":"190667","name":"Haiti_WABE_image.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Haiti_WABE_image_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Haiti_WABE_image_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5586429,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Haiti_WABE_image_0.jpg?itok=msIFkjhL"}}},"media_ids":["57810"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8042","name":"Ergun"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"8247","name":"haiti"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167213","name":"swann"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57762":{"#nid":"57762","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Professors, Students Gauge Debris Cleanup in Haiti","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, May 28, 2010, Jim Burress, reporter\/host with WABE\/NPR 90.1, interviewed Ozlem Ergun, associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, about her recent trip to Haiti. 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What they found was that most Haitians are using little more than their own hands to remove decimated homes and buildings.\u0022Although essential,\u0022 states Ergun, \u0022debris collection is an afterthought.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026gt;\u0026gt; Listen to the entire segment: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wabe\/news.newsmain\/article\/1\/0\/1656579\/Atlanta\/Ga.Tech.Professors..Students.Gauge.Debris.Cleanup.in.Haiti\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wabe\/news.newsmain\/article\/1\/0\/1656579\/Atlanta\/Ga.Tech.Professors..Students.Gauge.Debris.Cleanup.in.Haiti\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, May 28, 2010, Jim Burress, reporter\/ host with WABE\/NPR 90.1, interviewed Ozlem Ergun, associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, about her recent trip to Haiti.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Professors, Students Gauge Debris Cleanup in Haiti"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-06-02 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:39","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8042","name":"Ergun"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"8247","name":"haiti"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167213","name":"swann"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57814":{"#nid":"57814","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Alexopoulos and Goldsman Receive IIE Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EChristos Alexopoulos, ISyE\nassociate professor, and Dave Goldsman, ISyE professor,\nwere selected to receive the \u003Cem\u003EIIE\nTransactions\u0027\u003C\/em\u003E Best Paper Prize in Operations Engineering and Analysis for\ntheir paper \u201cArea Variance Estimators for Simulation Using Folded Standardized Time\nSeries.\u201dAlexopoulos and Goldsman co-authored the paper with their former\ndoctoral student, Claudia Antonini, tenured associate professor at Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar University in Caracas, Venezuela,\nand James R. Wilson, professor in the Edward P. Fitts\nDepartment of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State\nUniversity.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe announcement letter\nstated that the awards committee selected the paper from\njournal issues for the one-year period from July 2008 through June 2009. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIIE\nTransactions \u003C\/em\u003Eis the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial\nEngineers (IIE).\u0026nbsp; The Best Paper Awards are being\npresented at the Honors and Awards Banquet during the IIE\nAnnual Conference and Expo in Canc\u00fan, Mexico, June\n5\u20139, 2010.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChristos Alexopoulos, ISyE\nassociate professor, and Dave Goldsman, ISyE professor,\nwere selected to receive the \u003Cem\u003EIIE\nTransactions\u0027\u003C\/em\u003E Best Paper Prize in Operations Engineering and \nAnalysis for\ntheir paper \u0022Area Variance Estimators for Simulation Using Folded \nStandardized Time\nSeries.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Alexopoulos and Goldsman Receive IIE Best Paper Award"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-06-04 11:57:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:39","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57813":{"id":"57813","type":"image","title":"Christos Alexopoulos, ISyE Associate Professor","body":null,"created":"1449176187","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:27","changed":"1475894508","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:48","alt":"Christos Alexopoulos, ISyE Associate Professor","file":{"fid":"190668","name":"Alexopoulos_Christos_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Alexopoulos_Christos_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Alexopoulos_Christos_-_Bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2871239,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Alexopoulos_Christos_-_Bust_0.jpg?itok=QRbdV8M2"}},"54736":{"id":"54736","type":"image","title":"Dave Goldsman, ISyE Professor","body":null,"created":"1449175474","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:34","changed":"1475894481","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:21"}},"media_ids":["57813","54736"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9730","name":"Alexopoulos"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"7991","name":"Goldsman"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n\n \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57733":{"#nid":"57733","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Your Opinion Counts: The 2010 3PL Market Survey","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their continuing research into supply chain issues, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Capgemini Consulting, and Panalpina is once again conducting its annual 3PL market study. Each year, many supply chain executives participate in this survey, and this year\u0027s study incorporates the views of users, non-users, and providers of third-party logistics services. Additionally, for those working in either the Fast Moving Consumer Goods or Life Sciences industries, the survey contains a short set of questions with direct applicability to those business issues. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe survey, which takes 15 minutes to complete, is being conducted exclusively using the Internet and can be accessed through the following link:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/DNBRRTZ \u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/DNBRRTZ \u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll participants are eligible to receive an advance copy of the 3PL Study final report prior to its general release in September of this year. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EClick here \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/ \u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/ \u003C\/a\u003Efor more information about Georgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their continuing research into supply chain issues, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Capgemini Consulting, and Panalpina is once again conducting its annual 3PL market study.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Your Opinion Counts: The 2010 3PL Market Survey"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-04-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:39","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7884","name":"3PL"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57767":{"#nid":"57767","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2010 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a year when the world\u0027s attention has focused on the vast and complex effort of humanitarian relief, more than 175 people committed to health and humanitarian support came together March 4-5, 2010, for the second annual Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, held at the Georgia Tech Conference Center in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, a unit of the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL) and a part of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, organized the conference, which had as its main objectives to articulate challenges and successes in preparing for and responding to health and humanitarian crises, including disasters and long-term development, particularly on issues related to logistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAn impressive gathering of participants from Canada, Croatia, Germany, India, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States came together with an ambitious mission: to encourage learning and collaboration within and across institutions; promote system-wide improvements in organizations and the sector as a whole; identify important research issues; and establish priorities for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), corporations, and the government in terms of strategies, policies and investments.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERepresentatives from the humanitarian sector, government and military, NGOs, foundations and private industry, and academia presented diverse perspectives in health and humanitarian challenges through keynote addresses, panel discussions, focused workshops, lunchtime group discussions, and interactive poster sessions (with over forty-five posters covering a broad set of research topics and applications).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDrawing on the success of last year\u0027s inaugural conference and from participants\u0027 feedback, ISyE professors Ozlem Ergun, Pinar Keskinocak, and Julie Swann, conference co-chairs and co-directors of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, expanded this year\u0027s conference from one day to one and a half days, adding a second keynote presentation and a third workshop.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak, who is also the associate director for research of the Health Systems Institute, describes the conference as having been very \u0022intense,\u0022 with attendees being engaged in various ways during the entire time. \u0022The panels provided a great overview of various topics,\u0022 Keskinocak explains, \u0022and the post-conference workshops allowed the attendees to go deeper in some of the topics, interact more closely, and exchange ideas with each other and the workshop presenters.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPanel discussions covered long-term development and sustainability; education, community preparedness, and capacity building; improving public health; and disaster preparedness, response, and post-disaster operations. Recognizing that global health is an area of great interest, the conference organizers added the public health panel this year and will continue to expand the Center activities in this area moving forward.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThose attending this year\u0027s conference were almost unanimous in their enthusiasm for the event and particularly liked the panels, citing the diversity of representatives and organizations and the different perspectives on a variety of topics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe agencies, organizations, and businesses represented on the panels include governmental organizations (the Department of Homeland Security, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USAID Food for Peace), nongovernmental organizations (CARE-USA, Doctors Without Borders\/Medecins Sans Frontieres, Focus Humanitarian Assistance, the Salvation Army, the World Food Programme), industry (Emergency Visions, Sterling Solutions, United Parcel Service, Walmart), academia (Disaster Resilience Academy of Tulane University, New England Center for Emergency Preparedness), and others (Clinton Foundation, U. S, Army Corps of Engineers).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of the perspectives covered within the panels include why collaboration matters, how to foster disaster-resilient communities, emergency management in the private sector, how disaster response can be a disaster within a disaster, warehousing for faster response, improving supply chains to meet people in need, and improving global health.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPublic health and disaster management were two themes picked up in the keynote addresses. The first of the keynote speakers was Rear Admiral Scott Deitchman, associate director for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response with the National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Rear Admiral Deitchman spoke about both the CDC\u0027s role in global health, highlighting the newly established Center for Global health, and shared insights from his own experience in Haiti.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EArmond Mascelli, vice president for Disaster Services, Operations, with the American Red Cross, presented the conference\u0027s second keynote. Mascelli spoke about the spectrum of disasters, which range from emergencies to catastrophic events, and how to better position supply chain technology with NGOs engaged is disaster relief.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe continuous thread throughout the conference was the ongoing poster presentations, which gave individuals and groups a venue for sharing and discussing their research, projects, and activities in health and humanitarian applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing the official conclusion of the conference, attendees were given the option of participating in one of three focused workshops that took place the afternoon of the second day. These workshops covered in greater detail pre-planning and response to large-scale domestic events, dynamic decision-making during emergencies, and preparedness and response in humanitarian logistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAlready looking forward to next year\u0027s conference, the three co-chairs are encouraged by the momentum the conference has gained among participating organizations and countries. Those participating this year have stated that not only would they return next year, but they would also recommend the conference to others. This can only be good news for Ergun, Keskinocak, and Swann, who are striving, through the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, to improve communications between NGOs, governments and private industry and present them with the research and practical applications to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center\u0027s goal is to improve health and humanitarian logistics and ultimately the human condition by system transformation and organization effectiveness through education, outreach, and solutions. The Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics is moving the organizers further in realizing that goal.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics received support through the following conference sponsors: UPS Foundation, Kuehne+Nagel,  Coca Cola Company, Focus Humanitarian Assistance, and several units from Georgia Tech including the Distance Learning and Professional Education Program, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, Health Systems Institute, College of Engineering, and College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about the Conference presentations and workshops and to view videos of the panels, speakers and workshops, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2010\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2010\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTo learn more about ISyE\u0027s work in health and humanitarian logistics, visit:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humanitarian.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/humanitarian.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a year when the world\u0027s attention has focused on the vast and complex effort of humanitarian relief, more than 175 people committed to health and humanitarian support came together March 4-5, 2010, for the second annual Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, held at the Georgia Tech Conference Center in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"2010 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-04-29 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:39","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57768":{"id":"57768","type":"image","title":"tqk67017.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176051","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:54:11","changed":"1475894506","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190654","name":"tqk67017.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqk67017_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqk67017_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":58392,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tqk67017_0.jpg?itok=mTiIkqzT"}},"57769":{"id":"57769","type":"image","title":"trx67017.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176051","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:54:11","changed":"1475894506","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190655","name":"trx67017.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trx67017_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/trx67017_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":62643,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/trx67017_0.jpg?itok=8bp6EPHB"}}},"media_ids":["57768","57769"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"9222","name":"Health and Humanitarian Logistics"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57763":{"#nid":"57763","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Spring 2010 Supply Chain Executive Forum  -- Rethinking Supply Chains","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Rethinking and Rebuilding Supply Chains\u0022 was the overall theme of the Spring 2010 meeting of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain Executive Forum (SCEF), which was held April 21 - 22, 2010, at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Global Learning Center in Atlanta. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe two-day biannual forum began with a joint meeting between the SCEF and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals\u0027 (CSCMP) Atlanta Roundtable. John Langley, professor of supply chain management at Georgia Tech and faculty director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain Executive Forum, joined Ben Cubitt of RockTenn and president of the Atlanta CSCMP in giving the Forum\u0027s opening remarks. The remainder of the day was divided between keynote presentations and a panel session focused on the theme of \u0022Supply Chain Innovation.\u0022  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERobert Martichenko, CEO of LeanCor, provided the Forum\u0027s first keynote address, speaking about building discipline for innovation in the lean supply chain.  Among the points he made in his presentation, Martichenko said that lean leaders lead from principles.  \u0022From principles,\u0022 he said, \u0022they ask questions, make observations, reflect, challenge thinking, teach, coach, and aid in the development of tools and processes to create value, solve problems, and grow people.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrinciples of the lean supply chain, according to Martichecko, include making customer consumption visible, reducing lead times, using pull systems, creating velocity and reducing variation, collaborating and focusing on process discipline, and measuring and managing Total Cost of Fulfillment. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo other presentations included technology-based presentations made by Scott Blatnica, director of Spend Management at Ariba, and Eddie Capel, EVP with Manhattan Associates. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBrian Hancock, VP - Supply Chain with Whirlpool Corporation, gave the closing keynote presentation to the joint SCEF-CSCMP session.   In this presentation, \u0022Supply Chain Innovation: Transforming Your Supply Chain,\u0022 Hancock discussed the challenges faced in managing supply chain activities at Whirlpool, catalysts for improvement, and the overall commitment of Whirlpool to sustainability.  His concluding comments suggested that the traditional \u0022functional\u0022 views limit the \u0022end-to-end\u0022 performance of supply chains and that \u0022leadership takes an end-to-end orientation emphasizing demand-pull, synchronization and lean operations.\u0022 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOn the second day, when the theme of the SCEF-only sessions evolved to \u0022Rethinking and Rebuilding Supply Chains,\u0022 Langley asked participants to consider the following key questions:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EWhat is supply chain innovation and what can companies do to become more involved in supply chain innovation?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EHow does one \u0022re-think\u0027 supply chains, and what are the roles of transportation and technology in rethinking supply chains?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EWhat are some good customer-related examples of how to rethink and rebuild supply chains?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EHow can we transform supply chains through shared services?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EWhat are the roles that can be played by technology providers in rethinking and rebuilding supply chains?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EHow cans supply chains become more demand-driver?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EWhat can supply chain executives do to live more positively in the supply chain?\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe meeting then proceeded with keynote and major presentations. Jim Kellso, senior supply chain master with Intel, gave the day\u0027s first keynote address. In a presentation titled \u0022Innovation and Operational Excellence in the Supply Chain,\u0022 Kellso presented details regarding Intel\u0027s \u0022Just Say Yes\u0022 initiative. The four pillars of this initiative are improved responsiveness, forecast accuracy, inventory reduction, and better delivery performance. Intel\u0027s recent expansion of this initiative included transitioning to standard metrics, employing VMI innovatively (with an equivalent focus on non-VMI customers), reducing order (backlog) horizons, enhancing demand processes, and simplifying the planning process. As a result of these initiatives, Intel\u0027s Customer Delight Scores went up by 17 percent between 2006 and 2008, and its Supply Chain Delight Score improved by 40 percent. Summarizing what this means, Kellso explained that Intel has improved CPU responsiveness by 300 percent in two years while reducing inventory; that \u0022Just Say Yes\u0022 has resulted in significant and tangible business benefits; and that the scope of the innovations has covered people\/culture, process, metrics, and tools. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EChris Gaffney, president of Coca-Cola Supply, presented the afternoon keynote, which was divided into two parts: \u0022The Journey to Demand Driven\u0022 and \u0022Living Positively in the Supply Chain.\u0022  A demand-driven supply chain, according to Gaffney, is a customer-centric supply chain. \u0022By adapting to make what we sell, rather than sell what we make,\u0022 Gaffney explained, \u0022supply chains can finally realize the goal of having their products arrive on the doorsteps of retailers and customers at exactly the right time and in exactly the right volume.\u0022 Continuing, Gaffney said that in a demand driven system, consumer demand triggers all activities in the value chain with clearly defined connection points to eliminate waste, reduce variation, and compress lead time. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the second part of his presentation, on a more personal note, Gaffney addressed issues of leadership, citing individuals and works that have helped shape him not just in business, but in all domains of his life - work, home, community, and self. In concluding his remarks, Gaffney listed three ways to be a good supply chain citizen in the community:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EGive back to education to grow the next generation of supply chain professionals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EGive back to industry to support the advancement of supply chain management.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cstrong\u003E*\u003C\/strong\u003EAdvocate with elected officials for efficiency and infrastructure. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMajor presentation sessions punctuated the two keynote addresses. George Abernathy, executive vice president and chief operating officer with Transplace, and Richard Douglass, global industry executive for Manufacturing and Logistics at Sterling Commerce, provided insightful presentations and then participated in a panel session focusing on \u0022Strategic Rethinking of Supply Chains.\u0022 Charlie Chesnutt, senior vice president of Technology and Process Improvement for Genuine Parts Corporation, and Jeff Cashman, senior vice president with Manhattan Associates, participated in a technology client-provider session focused on \u0022Transforming Supply Chains through Shared Services.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Supply Chain Executive Forum experienced a great turnout of members for the Spring 2010 meeting and is looking forward to the Fall 2010 meeting scheduled for October 6-7, 2010. Click here \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/professional-education\/scef\/ \u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/professional-education\/scef\/ \u003C\/a\u003Efor more information about SCEF.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Rethinking and Rebuilding Supply Chains\u0022 was the overall theme of the Spring 2010 meeting of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain Executive Forum (SCEF), which was held April 21 - 22, 2010, at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Global Learning Center in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Spring 2010 Supply Chain Executive Forum  -- Rethinking Supply Chains"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-05-24 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:39","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57764":{"id":"57764","type":"image","title":"tqk14855.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176051","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:54:11","changed":"1475894506","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190651","name":"tqk14855.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqk14855_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tqk14855_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":48237,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tqk14855_0.jpg?itok=1nBw-3L4"}},"57765":{"id":"57765","type":"image","title":"tjs14855.jpg","body":null,"created":"1449176051","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:54:11","changed":"1475894506","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:46","alt":"","file":{"fid":"190652","name":"tjs14855.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjs14855_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tjs14855_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":44609,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tjs14855_0.jpg?itok=p4bAfY0U"}},"57766":{"id":"57766","type":"image","title":"Jim Kellso","body":null,"created":"1449176051","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:54:11","changed":"1475894506","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:46","alt":"Jim Kellso","file":{"fid":"190653","name":"tyn14575.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tyn14575_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tyn14575_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":40260,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tyn14575_0.jpg?itok=T-y8-fLE"}}},"media_ids":["57764","57765","57766"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"169319","name":"Supply Chain Exectuive Forum"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57465":{"#nid":"57465","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NCAA Brackets: Win Your March Madness Pool","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECBSmoneywatch.com\u003C\/em\u003E - March 15, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003EThose probability models are where the really mathy folks have made their mark on this process. These guys rate teams according to scoreboard data: wins and losses, home court advantage, opponents\u0027 strength, and in some cases, margin of victory. Two of the most popular, which Poologic incorporates, are Jeff Sagarin\u0027s and Joel Sokol\u0027s. Sagarin, an M.I.T. grad, has been publishing ratings in various sports in USA Today since 1985, and you can see his college basketball picks here. Sokol, a Georgia Tech professor, makes his calculations based on a different formula, LRMC, which stands for logistic regression and Markov Chain. Sokol says he\u0027s analyzed data from 10 years of NCAA tournaments and \u0022it\u0027s statistically significant that our system predicts more winners.\u0022 Play around with that function, marvel at the brainpower behind them, and choose what you like.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/moneywatch.bnet.com\/economic-news\/article\/ncaa-brackets-how-to-win-your-march-madness-pool\/403055\/?tag=main;related-link-0\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-03-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57459":{"#nid":"57459","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Finding a Method to the N.C.A.A. Madness","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E - March 16, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe affliction is common at this time of year, perhaps even epidemic. It is short-lived, by necessity, but can seriously sap productivity, energy, the ability to focus on anything but the empty bracket staring back at you on the computer screen...  For the math-inclined, there is the system developed by three Georgia Tech professors, called LRMC.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/17\/sports\/17leading.html\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-03-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57460":{"#nid":"57460","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Filling out the Brackets","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EESPN - March 16, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech professor Joel Sokel (ISYE) shares his methodology for predicting Final Four teams. View the segment at the following link:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/9dZaD0\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/bit.ly\/9dZaD0\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-03-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57461":{"#nid":"57461","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech profs predict Kansas to beat Duke in final","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Business Chronicle\u003C\/em\u003E - March 17, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003EA computer ranking system by three Georgia Tech professors predicts Kansas will face Duke in this year\u0027s NCAA basketball final with Kansas emerging as the victor.  The computer ranking system -- LRMC (Logistic Regression Markov Chain) -- says this year\u0027s NCAA Final Four match-ups will be Kansas vs. Syracuse and Duke vs. West Virginia with Kansas taking the title.  \u0022There are several upsets predicted in the earlier rounds,\u0022 said Joel Sokol, operations research professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. \u0022Among others, San Diego State, Utah State, Murray State and Brigham Young could be surprises.  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/atlanta.bizjournals.com\/atlanta\/stories\/2010\/03\/15\/daily37.html?surround=lfn\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-03-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57462":{"#nid":"57462","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Haiti: Humanitarian Logistics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScience of Better\u003C\/em\u003E - January 14, 2010 \u003Cbr \/\u003EInterview with Professor Pinar Keskinocak, Professor Julie Swann, Georgia Institute of Technology...  As the Haitian earthquake tragedy unfolds, the challenge of using the very best humanitarian logistics\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-01-14 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57463":{"#nid":"57463","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Cold snap costs in millions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAtlanta Journal Constitution\u003C\/em\u003E - January 14, 2010 \u003Cbr \/\u003E...The cost of ripple effects in the economy could easily surpass the direct costs of the storm, said Ozlem Ergun, co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech. \u0022You\u0027re closing down the schools, you\u0027re not only sending the children home, you\u0027re also causing one of the parents to stay at home, causing loss of productivity for business,\u0022 Ergun said. \u0022Also, you\u0027re not going out to eat, you\u0027re not going out to really buy something, you\u0027re really causing a lot of revenue loss.\u0022   \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/cold-snap-costs-in-274487.html\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-01-14 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-14T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57472":{"#nid":"57472","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Turning Trash into Cash","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETCBmag.com\u003C\/em\u003E - February 17, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003ECash for trash? It\u0027s in the works. Smart Trash, a waste-recycling system now in development at Georgia Tech, uses UPC codes to scan discards\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-02-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57470":{"#nid":"57470","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Smart Trash May Be A Profitable Solution for E-Waste","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEn-Genius.net\u003C\/em\u003E - February 21, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003ESmart Trash may sound like an oxymoron but, if my friend Dr. Valerie Thomas has her way, it will be the term that transforms e-waste from a costly problem to a profit center. The basic idea behind Smart Trash is simple\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-02-21 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-21T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57471":{"#nid":"57471","#data":{"type":"news","title":"World\u0027s Best Universities: Engineering and IT","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUS News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E - February 25, 2010\u003Cbr \/\u003EU.S.News \u0026amp; World Report\u0027s World\u0027s Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, identified these to be the world\u0027s top universities in 2009. 1 MIT 2. University of California, Berkeley 3 Stanford University 4 University of Cambridge, UK  5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 6 University of Tokyo 6 Imperial College London 8 University of Toronto 9 Carnegie Mellon University 10 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) 11 University of Oxford 12 Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/articles\/education\/worlds-best-universities\/2010\/02\/25\/worlds-best-universities-engineering-and-it.html\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-02-25 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:22","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"57110":{"#nid":"57110","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Hill Society Membership Honors Virginia and Joe Mello","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Hill Society, a prestigious association of alumni, corporations,\nfoundations, and friends who are principal benefactors of Georgia Tech, has\nhonored ISyE alumnus Joseph C. Mello (IE 1980) and his wife, Virginia C. Mello, for\ntheir leadership in the healthcare industry. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMello, who recently retired from his position as chief operating officer for\nDaVita, the largest independent provider of dialysis services in the United\nStates, has been a leader in the healthcare industry throughout his career. While\na student at Georgia Tech, Mello worked as a paramedic at nearby Grady Hospital\nto help cover the costs of his education. Since then, he has gone on to an\nillustrious career. In addition to DaVita, Mello has served in key management\npositions with MedPartners Inc. and Vivra Asthma \u0026amp; Allergy Inc. Understanding\nthe need for increased research and intellectual scholarship concerning the\nsystems-based approach to healthcare delivery, the Mellos have generously\nsupported initiatives at Georgia Tech, including the establishment of a\nprofessorship in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering in support of health systems. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the award citation, the Mello\u2019s \u201cphilanthropic\ninvestment will have an enormous impact on the Institute and its role in\ndefining the technological future of the rapidly changing healthcare\nprofession. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA member of the College of Engineering\u2019s Academy of\nDistinguished Engineering Alumni, Mello also provides volunteer leadership and\nservice to the Institute through his involvement with the ISyE advisory board. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022As one of the nation\u2019s premier research universities\u201d\nthe citation continues, \u201cGeorgia Tech is educating the technological workforce\nof the twenty-first century and conducting research that drives innovation.\nThanks to the support of principal benefactors like Mr. and Mrs. Mello, Georgia\nTech continues to reach new heights, building upon academic strengths and addressing\nthe challenges facing our region, our nation, and the world. It is with\nprofound gratitude that the Georgia Institute of Technology honors Virginia C.\nand Joseph C. Mello as members of the exceptional fellowship of The Hill\nSociety. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMembers of The Hill Society are a critical part of the\nInstitute\u0027s effort to continue the growth of its reputation for excellence and\nto provide an exemplary education to students from the state, nation, and\nworld.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Hill Society, a prestigious association of alumni, \ncorporations,\nfoundations, and friends who are principal benefactors of Georgia Tech, \nhas\nhonored ISyE alumnus Joseph C. Mello (IE 1980) and his wife, Virginia C. 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With an in-depth look at  distribution facilities, infrastructure, intermodal transportation,  government and finance, the 2010 EMIL-SCS class experienced a first-hand  exploration into the regional supply chains throughout Latin America  and the role of that region in the global supply chain. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\nClass touring the Dos Pinos Manufacturing and Distribution  Center in San Jose, Costa Rica\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBeginning its residency in Costa Rica\u0027s capital city of San Jose,  the class received a rich introduction to Latin America and a  geopolitical and economic overview of the region from Patrice Franko,  Grossman Professor of Economics and International Studies at Colby  College in Waterville, Maine.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E While in San Jose, the class made a site visit to Intel Corporation,  where they learned about Intel\u0027s economic footprint in Costa Rica and  its motivation for manufacturing there, site competitiveness, and  logistics challenges faced over the ten years in Costa Rica and progress  made during the same timeframe. Additionally the students toured the  Intel Innovation Center, an opportunity very few outsiders have the  privilege to experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E John Bartholdi, Manhattan Associates Chair of Supply Chain Management at  the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, lectured on  warehouse distribution facilities and presented a case study on Dos  Pinos, a production, processing, and distribution company of dairy  products headquartered in San Jose.  The students were challenged with  providing direct feedback and input to Dos Pinos for improving their  processes of matching supply to demand.  The class visited the Dos Pinos  distribution center to observe the operational issues within the  facility and joined the Dos Pinos logistics management team for a  discussion on enterprise resource planning and SAP.  The site visit  ended with a sampling of Dos Pinos ice cream. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The class ended the Costa Rican segment of its residency meeting with  Costa Rica Investment and Development (CINDE). A private, nonprofit  apolitical organization, CINDE endeavors to advance the country\u0027s social  and economic development by promoting foreign direct investment into  the country.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\nClass crossing the Panama Canal by walking on Miraflores Locks \t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom Costa Rica, the class proceeded to Panama City, Panama.  The  focus of the intense two-day trip to Panama was to visit and tour the  Manzanillo International Terminal and Logistics Park in Colon, Panama;  meet with the Colon Import \u0026amp; Export company, a third-party warehouse  service provider located in the Colon Free Trade Zone; and visit and  tour the Panama Canal Authority.  While at the Panama Canal, the  students learned the history of building the Panama Canal, future plans  to expand the canal, and the supply chain challenges the canal faces on a  daily basis due to increased manufacturing in Mexico, GDP growth in  South America, and partnerships with steamship lines.  Although the  program has visited the Panama Canal many times, the 2010 class was the  first to have the experience of crossing the canal on foot by walking  across the Miraflores Locks.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\nInternational Soccer Club game in Porto Alegre, Brazil\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELeaving Panama, the class moved on to Porto Alegre, Brazil.   Beginning its visit with a Brazilian soccer game, the class resumed its  curriculum with a corporate visit to Springer\/Carrier, a United  Technologies Company.  The class met with the supply chain team and  discussed the flow of raw materials into Brazil, specifically focusing  on the distribution of finished goods in support of Brazil\u0027s domestic  demand, distribution of goods exported to South and Central America,  navigating through the Brazilian tax structure, and security issues in  transporting Carrier products.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Following its visit to Springer\/Carrier, the class toured the largest  General Motors subsidiary in South America and the third largest in the  world.  Class discussions focused on the differences between United  States and South American plants utilizing VMI and sub-assemblies in the  manufacturing process over traditional automotive assembly.  From  General Motors, the class made its last stop in Porto Alegre at John  Deere Montenegro.  The discussion there centered on John Deere\u0027s supply  chain network and South American strategy, highlighting its carbon  footprint reduction within an ECO-friendly manufacturing plant. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Winding down its Latin American residence, the class made its last stop  in Campinas, Brazil.  An alumnus of the 2009 EMIL-SCS class hosted the  program at Dell Hortolandia for a site visit and discussion of Dell\u0027s  logistics issues and opportunities working with customs in Brazil,  outbound shipping to other countries within Latin America and to  non-Latin American regions, and ocean\/air inbound and outbound  shipments.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Following the Dell tour and presentation, the class met with Dr. Lars  Sanchez, professor in Transportation Engineering at UNICAMP and INSPER  in Brazil. Dr. Sanchez\u0027s presentation dove deep into the overall  logistical challenges throughout Brazil. The day concluded with Baxter  Healthcare, which reviewed lessons and case studies about tax strategies  in Brazil. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The class concluded its 2010 Latin American residence with both a  lecture and site visit. Maria Rey, founder and executive director of the  Atlanta-based Center for Emerging Logistics and Supply Chains and  adjunct faculty in the EMIL-SCS program, spoke to the class about  logistics and supply chain management in Latin America, with a specific  focus on infrastructure needs and understanding the Latin American  consumer.  Following Rey\u0027s lecture, the class toured Viracopos\/Campinas  Airport Infraero, a customs bonded import-export facility.  As a major  hub, Viracopos utilizes express lanes for courier traffic, which are  exceptionally quick and less-bureaucratic for Brazilian standards.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The fifth and final residence for the 2010 EMIL-SCS class beings  February 28, 2010, in Monterrey, Mexico, and runs through March 12,  2010, wrapping up in Atlanta. Applications for the 2011 class are being  accepted through January 4, 2010. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFor more information contact:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Barbara Christopher, Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/?id=n3606\u0022\u003EContact Barbara  Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E 404.385.3102 \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-02-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:11","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"56511":{"#nid":"56511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Passport To Knowledge: Gaining a Global Perspective","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sun never sets on the global supply chain. Advanced education programs at a variety of universities offer logistics professionals a world tour unlike any other . . .Got the travel bug? Read on for a sampling of some global education programs. GEORGIA TECH...  For the working professionals who enroll in the Executive Masters in International Logistics (EMIL) program at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the whole world is a classroom. Greg Andrews earned his EMIL degree in 2005 while employed as director of global logistics for a telecommunications firm in the southeastern United States. Today, he serves as managing director of the 18-month graduate program sponsored by Georgia Tech\u0027s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering...  Graduate and executive education programs at TLI-Asia Pacific are similar to programs offered at Georgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, says Harvey Donaldson, the Institute\u0027s director and associate chair of industry and international studies at the Stewart School. Students who complete the master\u0027s program earn two degrees, one from NUS and one from Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca target=\u0022_blank\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inboundlogistics.com\/articles\/features\/0209_feature01.shtml\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.inboundlogistics.com\/articles\/features\/0209_feature01.shtml\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-03-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:01","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"56512":{"#nid":"56512","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2009 EMIL-SCS Students Complete Global Supply Chain Projects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAtlanta\u003C\/strong\u003E (January 4, 2010) - In lieu of a traditional  master\u0027s thesis, students enrolled in Georgia Tech\u0027s Executive Master\u0027s  in International Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy (EMIL-SCS)  undertake a Global Supply Chain Project to fulfill the requirements of  this eighteen-month residence-based program. Participants use this  project as an opportunity to gain knowledge through the academic  curriculum and apply those resources to a critical supply chain concern  specific to their sponsoring companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe sixteen students in the 2009 EMIL-SCS class, which graduated in  August of 2009, made full use of the program\u0027s resources in designing  and completing their global projects, extending beyond their current  scope of responsibility and realizing significant savings for their  companies.  Forming teams comprising from one to five people, the  students completed six projects, described below: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E  \u003Cstrong\u003EDemand Planning and Inventory Visibility across Europe\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E This project\u0027s objectives were to identify waste in the value chain;  establish  clear and simple metrics for measuring process efficiency in  logistics; improve, standardize, automate, and increase the frequency of  forecasting process; and establish  better integration and visibility  between distribution and factories. Through these objectives, the  project  reduced warehouse costs by $65 million (35%), increased  inventory turns from 4.3T to 5.0T, increased service rate from 85% to  91%, and reduced part lead time and administration order process from  127 days to 73 days.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EDemand Planning for a Major Commodity and Retail Channel in the  Caribbean\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The focus of this project was to ensure a strong liaison between demand  and supply through a robust (but simple) demand planning process,  reducing finished goods inventory by at least 10%, while maintaining at  least 90% fill rate level. Divided into three phases, the project  focused on SKU rationalization, the demand planning process, and  supplier collaboration, respectively. Phase I yielded a 3.5% reduction  in the number of SKUs across all the product categories. Phase II  yielded inventory reductions of 15% and the elimination of warehouse  rental for additional savings. Phase III, although still in development,  has a potential to reduce inventories by an additional 10%. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EImplementation and  Roll-Out of a Demand and Inventory Planning  System at a Major Convenience Store Retail Chain\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E In this project, the company must identify ways to increase the  per-store revenue and at the same time reach efficiencies across the  supply chain in order to reduce operational costs. Project design and  implementation includes the evaluation of the Retek-Oracle Replenishment  and Forecasting modules, a total investment of $10 million. In Phase I  of the implementation, the level of lost sales decreased more than 50%  and product availability at the store level increased more than 65%.  Depending on certain categories, revenue is expected to increase 4% to  6% at the store level. The payback period of the project will be  approximately three years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ELow Cost Supply Chain Project\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The objective was to develop a business model to profitably deliver  low-cost products at price points that target customers can afford  through analysis of the benefits of a redesigned, Low Cost Supply Chain  (LCSC) model versus the current state. The cost savings resulting from  this project was $221 million over five years, or $124 million on a  discounted (net present value) basis. The primary reasons for the cost  savings are reductions in inventory purchasing costs (19% of the  savings) and inventory carrying costs (79% of the savings). Inventory  carrying costs and inventory purchasing costs were reduced by almost  80%.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EOptimal Sourcing Strategy in Latin America\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The company\u0027s current supply chain for key countries in Latin America is  based on sourcing product out of the United States and Asia. The  company has been moving from the single-channel, single-sourced,  configure-to-order model to a multi-channel, multi-source model that  will provide much greater flexibility and convenience to customers at  different price points. With this transition and the availability of new  sources and new supply chain capabilities, the question is to determine  the optimal supply chain strategy to satisfy the customer needs in key  Latin American countries-Colombia, Argentina, and Chile.  The  recommendations of the project have the potential to achieve  approximately $5 to $10 million in annualized savings over current  status and to reduce cycle time for several destination countries by one  to three days. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ESupply Chain Network Optimization Project\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E The company currently outsources about 70% of its products to Asia and  builds 30% in-house domestically in the United States.  The project  evaluates five separate finished goods assemblies, using a total landed  cost model to determine the optimal geographic areas for sourcing and  manufacturing against internal and local options.  The model included  dynamic conditions for currency fluctuation, volatile fuel prices, and  variable labor conditions across the geographic areas to better achieve a  solid understanding of the total landed-cost of the assembly. As a  result of the project, the range of savings based on probability is $1.5  million and $1.9 million and the most probable total cost opportunity  for implementing this optimized scenario is approximately $1.5 million  annually.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E As the 2010 EMIL-SCS class anticipates its fifth and final residence in  March 2010, the 2011 class is currently forming, with an expected start  date in spring 2010. To learn more about the EMIL-SCS program or read  more about the 2009 Global Supply Chain projects, visit the EMIL-SCS  website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/www.emil.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.emil.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFor more information contact:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Barbara Christopher, Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/?id=n3732\u0022\u003EContact Barbara  Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E 404.385.3102 \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-02-17 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:01","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55813":{"#nid":"55813","#data":{"type":"news","title":"UPS Team Wins Spring 2010 Senior Design Project Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a\nfield of outstanding project teams, the UPS team stood out as the Spring 2010 winner\nof the renowned Senior Deign Project competition. Considered to be\nthe most important and most challenging undergraduate industrial engineering\ncourse, Senior Design pushes students to apply what they have learned in the\nclassroom in solving a complex real-world problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;With the top teams all being outstanding,\nChen Zhou, associate professor and associate chair of undergraduate programs,\nstated that the overall quality was amazing and that the selection process was\ndifficult. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE Senior Design, which Zhou\nsays has become known for its quality, challenge and rewards, has worked with\norganizations ranging from local startups to Fortune 100 companies to\ninternational humanitarian organizations. The impact of Senior Design projects\nhas been felt not only in the Atlanta area, but across the country and as far\naway as Europe, Africa, and Asia. The average team is able to use its IE skills\nto create hundreds of thousands of dollars in value for the company they work\nwith.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For UPS, team members, Anish\nBhatt, Justin Chmielewski, Nupur Patel, Rathin Ramesh, Nik Reddy, Ryan Smith,\nZoheb Virani, and Ian Yancey, with faculty advisor Alex Shapiro, redesigned\nUPS\u2019 warranty policy. Currently UPS spends $330,000 more than it recovers from\nits warranty system each year, and the team\u2019s goal was to shift the focus from\nmaximum dollars recovered to maximum net return. By using sophisticated data\nanalysis and model building the team developed a drastically different approach\nto the warranty policy which, if implemented, could save UPS up to $1.8 million\nper year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Finalists in the competition were the\nSenior Design teams who worked with Burger\nKing\u00ae Restaurant Operations, Radiant Systems, and Norfolk Southern Corporation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking\non a project titled \u0022Process Improvement of Burger King\u00ae Restaurant Operations\u0022,\nteam members Jennifer LaPerre, Matthew Powers, Jared Trammell Sears, Stephen\nSpicher,Patrick\nSugar, and Kristen Vila, under the guidance of faculty advisor Craig Tovey,\naddressed three areas of improvement for Burger King\u00ae: determining the optimal\nnumber of point-of-sale units, eliminating excessive labor hours, and reducing\nwait times in the drive-thru. The team developed the following three project\ndeliverables: a stochastic model, a labor scheduling integer program, and a\nseries of simulations. These resulted in a potential cost savings of over $6 nillion annually.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWith guidance from faculty advisor Xiaoming Huo, team members Dillon Blakes, Josh Click, Ian\nCraig, Randy Darnowsky, Joel Feyereisen, Kristina Kaylen, Jesse Kent, and\nMackenzie Weber developed a redesign project for Radiant Systems Field\nServices. The team recommended a facility layout redesign and an inventory\nmanagement tool for their Radiant Systems\u2019 field services division. Intensive\ndata collection, a thorough simulation, labor optimization analysis, and robust\nsensitivity analysis resulted in reduced overtime, transfer\/walking time, and\nlinestock stockouts. Project deliverables will save Radiant Systems, the leading\nglobal manufacturer ofpoint-of-sale\nproducts, $1.28 million over the three- year lifetime of the project.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EShabbir\nAhmed, associate professor and advisor to the Fall 2009 Senior Design winners,\nadvised David Chen, Susan Curry, Aldren Lobo, Yatong Lu, Tom Minderman, MatthewThornton,\nand Sheng-Bo Zhu on their projected titled \u201cOptimization of Locomotive Fueling\nPolicy for Norfolk Southern Corporation.\u201d The team worked with Norfolk Southern\nRailway to optimize its locomotive fueling policy. Implementation of a\nsimulation-based optimization model gave an immediate value added of $8 million\nannually. The team recommended future\nchanges, which will allow Norfolk Southern to increase its potential savings to $29 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAll three teams gave presentations of their work on\nWednesday, May 5, 2010, to a room filled with faculty, company sponsors,\nstudents and parents. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the senior design program,\nor if you are interested in sponsoring a student team, please visit\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u0022\u003E http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a\nfield of outstanding project teams, the UPS team stood out as the Spring 2010 \nwinner\nof the renowned Senior Deign Project competition. Considered to be\nthe most important and most challenging undergraduate industrial \nengineering\ncourse, Senior Design pushes students to apply what they have learned in\n the\nclassroom in solving a complex real-world problem.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"UPS Team Wins Spring 2010 Senior Design Project Competition"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-05-17 08:19:01","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:57","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55637":{"id":"55637","type":"image","title":"Spring 2010 Design Team Winners (from left to right, back row): Anish Bhatt, Zoheb Virani, and Alex Shapiro (middle row): Ryan Smith, Rathin Ramesh, Ian Yancey, and Nik Reddy( front row): Nupur Patel and Justin Chmielews","body":null,"created":"1449175556","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:56","changed":"1475894494","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:34","alt":"Spring 2010 Design Team Winners (from left to right, back row): Anish Bhatt, Zoheb Virani, and Alex Shapiro (middle row): Ryan Smith, Rathin Ramesh, Ian Yancey, and Nik Reddy( front row): Nupur Patel and Justin Chmielews","file":{"fid":"190340","name":"IMG_4552.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4552_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4552_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3537747,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_4552_0.JPG?itok=vbicNQ70"}}},"media_ids":["55637"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55872":{"#nid":"55872","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Spring 2010 ISyE Advisory Board Meets to Discuss School Updates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\n(ISyE) hosted its spring advisory board meeting on April 22, 2010.\u0026nbsp; Stewart School Chair Chelsea C. White III and Advisory Board Chair Christopher B. Lofgren led the meeting.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn his opening remarks, Lofgren discussed the search for\nISyE\u2019s new chair.\u0026nbsp; As many of you may\nknow by now, Chip White announced his intention to step down as\nschool chair at the end of his five-year term, effective June 30, 2010.\u0026nbsp; College of Engineering Dean Giddens has\ninitiated a search for the new chair by establishing a search committee to\nactively solicit candidates, evaluate qualifications, and, through a screening\nand interview process, recommend finalists for the position.\u0026nbsp; An interim chair will be announced most\nlikely by the end of May with the new chair expected to be on board within a\nyear.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELofgren also introduced the new advisory board member\nnominees and confirmed their appointments for the 2010 \u2013 2014 term. \u0026nbsp;The new board members are: David Bailey (IE\n1969), Robert \u0022Bpb\u0022 Martin (IE 1969), Phillip J. Scott (IE 1969), John A. White III\n(IE 1992), and Charlene Zalesky (1977).\u0026nbsp; Ed\nRogers (IE 1982, MS IL 2002) succeeds outgoing chair Chris Lofgren, who\nserved from 2008 \u2013 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ELofgren expressed his gratitude for working with the board\nand for Georgia Tech in general.\u0026nbsp; \u201cGeorgia\nTech is a special place,\u201d he said.\u0026nbsp; \u201cWhat\nmakes it so special is the people. \u0026nbsp;For\nthose new on the advisory board, you will develop great friendships that will\nbe lasting and spectacular.\u0026nbsp; It has been\nan honor to work with so many phenomenal individuals.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter Lofgren\u2019s opening remarks, White updated the board on\nthe Stewart School\u2019s continuing successes and upcoming challenges as the\nnation\u2019s largest and highest ranked industrial engineering program.\u0026nbsp; For an unprecedented twentieth consecutive\nyear, \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003C\/em\u003E has\nranked ISyE as the number one graduate program for industrial and manufacturing\nengineering in the nation.\u0026nbsp; The undergraduate\nprogram has been ranked number one every year but one by \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003ET\u003C\/em\u003Ehe National Research Council has\nranked the faculty number one with ranking done once every ten years.\u0026nbsp; ISyE has the highest quality faculty at both\nthe senior and junior levels, including five NAE members and eleven endowed\nchairs\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn discussing how ISyE is doing, White noted that budgets are tight and\nvigilance is required.\u0026nbsp; However, ISyE is\nusing the economic downturn as an opportunity to renew and strengthen its\nprograms and plans to exit the downturn stronger than when we entered it,\nrelative to our peers. \u0026nbsp;ISyE has made\nexcellent progress with the new emerging directions in areas of significant\nreal-world importance as in health and humanitarian logistics; medical\nOR\/biostats; energy, environment, and sustainability; as well as in finance and\nsecurity.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Our current international\npresence is growing including our programs in Shanghai, Singapore, and Costa\nRica with other international possibilities in the works.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENancy Sandlin, ISyE director of development, reported on\nISyE\u2019s fundraising efforts to date.\u0026nbsp; Some\nof the development needs discussed were support for faculty and students, ISyE\nDistinguished Lecture (naming gift), Senior Design program, Workforce\nCommunications Lab, Humanitarian Logistics, Executive Masters in International\nLogistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain Strategy, external alumni events, and general\nunrestricted support.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; She also reviewed\na way to support the future of Georgia Tech by making a will provision to the\nGeorgia Tech Foundation where you may leave a percentage of the remainder of\nyour estate or a fixed amount to support the future of ISyE.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Pinar Keskinocak presented the group with an\nupdate on the efforts of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, which\nis housed in ISyE\u2019s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute.\u0026nbsp; The mission of the Center is to improve\nhealth and humanitarian logistics and ultimately the human condition by system\ntransformation and organization effectiveness through education, outreach, and\nsolutions.\u0026nbsp; The opportunities in\nhumanitarian response and world health are vast.\u0026nbsp; Constrained recourses, uncertainty in demand\nand supply, and many other variables in these settings make quantitative\nanalysis and mathematical modeling excellent tools for decision support. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Learn more about this important work at:\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/research\/humanitarian\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/research\/humanitarian\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Chair for Undergraduate Studies Chen Zhou\ndiscussed the strengths of the undergraduate program.\u0026nbsp; He also presented a refinement in the\nacademic tracks within the undergraduate curriculum.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; They are moving from six tracks to five,\nconsolidating the tracks to increase depth and breadth of studies.\u0026nbsp; The new tracks are Supply Chain Engineering,\nEconomics and Financial Systems, Operations Research, Quality and Statistics,\nand General. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Valerie Thomas presented an update on ISyE\u2019s work\nin energy and sustainability.\u0026nbsp; Thomas\nstated that through this work ISyE faculty and student will develop new\napproaches to sustainability challenges, using and expanding the methods of\nindustrial and systems engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nISyE will contribute to the understanding of sustainability challenges\nat the national and international level and is the premier location\nfor energy and sustainability training for industrial engineers.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; ISyE also has as a goal to be the leading\nindustrial engineering program for energy and sustainability education, at the\nundergraduate, masters, and PhD levels.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nTo learn more about Thomas and this vital work visit:\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/Valerie_Thomas\/index.php\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/Valerie_Thomas\/index.php\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHarvey Donaldson, SCL managing director and associate chair\nof Industry and International Programs, brought the board up to date on the new\nproposed MS in Supply Chain Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nThis new MS in Supply Chain Engineering has been approved by Georgia\nTech and is awaiting final approval by the University System of Georgia\u2019s Board\nof Regents.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJaymie Forrest, director of business development at the Supply\nChain \u0026amp; Logistics Center, discussed the recent creation of the Integrated\nFood Chain Center (IFC).\u0026nbsp; IFC will focus\non cold chain management of perishable goods, researching food safety\n(compliance), product quality (monitor \u0026amp; control), performance (analytics),\nand technology (showcase).\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; She also\nreported on our Latin American initiatives including TLI-Asia Pacific in\nSingapore, the Trade, Innovation \u0026amp; Productivity in Costa Rica, as well as\nother proposed centers throughout Latin America.\u0026nbsp; To learn more on these efforts visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the meeting drew to a close, Lofgren thanked Larry\nBradner (former chair 2006-2008) for guiding him in his role as advisory board chair.\u0026nbsp; White then expressed his deep\nappreciation to Lofgren for serving as ISyE\u2019s advisory board chair for the last\nfour years.\u0026nbsp; Lofgren then passed the\ngavel to Ed Rogers, who will serve a one-year term as ISyE\u2019s new advisory board chair. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore concluding the meeting, Joe Mello (IE 1980) was\npresented the Hill Society Award for his leadership in the healthcare industry. Mello\u2019s Hill Society Award citation read: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThroughout his\ncareer, Joseph C. Mello, IE 1980, has been a leader in the healthcare industry.\nWhile a student at Georgia Tech, he worked as a paramedic at nearby Grady\nHospital to help cover the costs of his education. Since then, he has gone on\nto an illustrious career, serving in key management positions at MedPartners\nInc. and Vivra Asthma \u0026amp; Allergy Inc. In 2000, Mr. Mello was named chief\noperating officer of DaVita, the largest independent provider of dialysis\nservices in the United States. Understanding the need for increased research\nand intellectual scholarship concerning the systems-based approach to\nhealthcare delivery, Mr. and Mrs. Mello have generously supported initiatives\nat Georgia Tech. They have demonstrated their commitment to the Institute with\nthe establishment of a professorship in the H. Milton Stewart School of\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering in support of health systems. Their philanthropic\ninvestment will have an enormous impact on the Institute and its role in\ndefining the technological future of the rapidly changing healthcare\nprofession. A member of the College of Engineering\u2019s Academy of Distinguished\nEngineering Alumni, Mr. Mello also provides volunteer leadership and service to\nthe Institute through his involvement with the H. Milton Stewart School of\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering Advisory Board. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0022As one of the nation\u2019s\npremier research universities, Georgia Tech is educating the technological\nworkforce of the twenty-first century and conducting research that drives\ninnovation. Thanks to the support of principal benefactors like Mr. and Mrs.\nMello, Georgia Tech continues to reach new heights, building upon academic\nstrengths and addressing the challenges facing our region, our nation, and the\nworld. It is with profound gratitude that the Georgia Institute of Technology\nhonors Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello as members of the exceptional fellowship\nof The Hill Society. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe fall advisory board meeting will be held in October;\ndates to be announced.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\n(ISyE) hosted its spring advisory board meeting on April 22, 2010.\u0026nbsp; \nStewart School Chair Chelsea C. White III and\nAdvisory Board Chair Christopher B. 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Miller,\nwho recognized his passion for travel as a child and for IE in high school, has\ntaken full advantage of Tech\u2019s resources in both areas. In 2007, Miller participated\nin the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology study abroad program, and\njust this past summer he spent three and a half months in Klingenberg, Germany, working\nwith WIKA Instruments. As an ambassador\nto the Division\nof Professional Practice\u2019s (DoPP) work-abroad and co-op programs, Miller enthusiastically shares his\nexperience with other students. In recognition of his contribution to the\nprogram, his work performance, and his general attitude and responsiveness,\nDoPP awarded Miller one its highest honors, the 2010 Work Abroad Student of the\nYear. When asked what advice he would offer other students preparing to work\nabroad, Miller said \u201cto take the risk of abandoning your comfort\nzone, but remain true to who are.\u0026nbsp; You\nwill be quite surprised by the experiences you will have.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about this\nwell-traveled industrial engineering student, continue reading the interview\nthat follows. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhat\nother advice do you have for students about working or studying abroad?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nMake friends. Build as many high-quality and lasting relationships as you can.\nThe people that you meet and work with will have a tremendous impact on your\nexperience.\u0026nbsp; Get rid of any stereotype\nthat you may have by developing firsthand knowledge of your own.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhat\ndoes it mean to be an ambassador of the co-op and work abroad programs? \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nBeing an ambassador of the co-op and work abroad programs is another enriching\npart of the professional practice experience here at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; As a recent work abroad participate, it\u2019s great to have the\nopportunity to share my experiences with other students who are preparing for a\njourney of their own.\u0026nbsp; Other students\nfind it very beneficial to ask me questions or hear about my work aboard\nterm.\u0026nbsp; These opportunities also give me\nthe chance to reminisce.\u0026nbsp; Learning and growing from people and different cultures\nis a passion that I have been able to nurture through my study and work abroad experiences at Georgia Tech. \u0026nbsp;I\u2019m excited anytime I have the opportunity to assist the Work Abroad Program continue the\nvaluable contribution that it provide students. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EI\nunderstand that you wanted to participate in the co-op and work abroad program\nto gain work and international experience. Why is that important to you and how\ndoes that impact your major?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nI believe that developing relevant work experience through the co-op program\nhas been a crucial part of my education. Moreover, participating in the work\nabroad program has allowed me\nto develop a greater appreciation\nfor cross-cultural exposure and exploration. These experiences\nare important because they\nafforded me the opportunity to learn industrial engineering through significant practical work experience\nin\nmultinational environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhat\nmotivated you to want to work abroad?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nWorking in another country had always been a goal of mine. I wanted to experience\nthe type of cultural immersion that a work abroad experience provides.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003ETell\nme about your work abroad experience.\u0026nbsp;\nWhat were your responsibilities?\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E: As a work abroad co-op, I worked in\nthe Electronic Pressure Measurement Innovation group in WIKA Germany.\u0026nbsp; I led a team of three\nprofessionals to research and determine how to implement flexible circuitry\ninto a current manufacturing operation.\u0026nbsp;\nDuring my term, I was responsible for:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDesigning\nconcepts for connecting a flexible printed circuit board to the three different\ntypes of sensors used for industrial electronic transmitters\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGenerating\na flexible circuitry-sensor connection method to incorporate the new technology\ninto the existing manufacturing processes\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENegotiating\nwith potential suppliers to fabricate flexible substrate designs which resulted\nin samples that could be tested in manufacturing operations\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDeveloping\ntesting criterion for examining the connection methods\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhat\nwas one of the most valuable life lessons you learned from working with WIKA?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nThe most valuable life lesson I learned from my work experience with WIKA is\nthe importance of collaboration.\u0026nbsp; I found\nthat teamwork and engaging my co-workers was the most rewarding part of my\nexperience. From a professional stand point, I was able to reduce my learning\ncurve through teaming up with others. In a personal sense, I will always value\nthe friendships that I was able to develop from my time in Germany.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EDid\nyou speak German or did you learn it there?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nI did not speak German prior to my work abroad term; however I did take a class,\nand I learned some German abroad.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EHad\nyou lived or traveled abroad prior to coming to Tech, and if so, when and\nwhere? \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nWhen I was a child, I lived in Germany for three years. In that time I traveled\nto France, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. I\nalso travel to Jamaica, where my father was born and raised, as well as Panama,\nwhere my mother was born and raised. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs a student at Tech, I had the opportunity to\nparticipate in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology study abroad\nprogram for the fall semester of 2007. During that semester, I was able to\ntravel extensively throughout southeastern China.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EAs\nan IE major, what is your specific area of interest?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nOne of the great things about IE is that is it very diverse. With that said, I\nfind all the areas interesting. I find supply chain engineering and\nhuman-integrated systems to be the most appealing areas of industrial engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhen\nwill you graduate, and what are your plans following graduation?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nI plan to be working in industry when I graduate in August. Within three to\nfive year of work experience, I will return to school to complete an MBA\nprogram.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhat\ndo you read for pleasure, and what are you reading now?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nI enjoy reading biographies and self development books, but I usually find\nmyself reading multiple books at the same time. I am currently reading \u003Cem\u003EThe Conversation\u003C\/em\u003E by Hill Harper, \u003Cem\u003EThe Play of Your Life\u003C\/em\u003E by Colleen\nSabatino, and \u003Cem\u003EStrength Finder 2.0\u003C\/em\u003E by\nTom Rath.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: \u003C\/strong\u003EWhat\nis the best piece of advice you\u2019ve received and from whom?\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EEM\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E:\nThis question reminds me of a book I read, \u003Cem\u003EThe\nBig Picture\u003C\/em\u003E by Ben Carson M.D. One of the best pieces of advice I have\nreceived is [from this book]: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEven though I\nmay develop my ability to the highest levels, there is only so much I can do. I\nhave to have a plan of action, I have to be able to articulate the plan, and I\nneed the skills to execute it. But there is always more help available. 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Each year, many supply chain executives\nparticipate in this survey, and this year\u2019s study incorporates the views of\nusers, non-users, and providers of third-party logistics services. Additionally,\nfor those working in either the Fast Moving Consumer Goods or Life Sciences\nindustries, the survey contains a short set of questions with direct\napplicability to those business issues. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe survey, which takes 15 minutes to complete, is being\nconducted exclusively using the Internet and can be accessed by clicking\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/DNBRRTZ\u0022\u003E here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAll participants are eligible to receive an advance copy of the 3PL Study final\nreport prior to its general release in September of this year. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EClick \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/ \u0022\u003Ehere\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\nfor more information about Georgia Tech\u2019s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs part of their continuing research into supply chain issues, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Capgemini Consulting, and Panalpina is once again conducting its annual 3PL market study.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-04-28 12:16:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55506":{"#nid":"55506","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Joel Sokol Receives Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel\nSokol, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering (ISyE), is the recipient of the 2010 Annual Award for\nExcellence in the Teaching of Operations Research from the Institute of\nIndustrial Engineers\u2019 (IIE) Operations Research (OR) Division. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol was nominated in recognition of his outstanding\nteaching in the required core Engineering Optimization course and the follow\u2010on Advanced Optimization elective. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDave\nCoit, IIE OR division president, stated that the award committee was impressed\nwith the innovative techniques Sokol developed to facilitate better learning\nexperiences for his students. Colt went on to state that the selection process\nfor the 2010 IIE OR Teaching Award was an extremely difficult process. \u201cThere\nwere more nominees than there has ever been and the quality of the nomination\npackages was uniformly excellent. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOzlem Ergun, ISyE associate professor who nominated Sokol\nfor the award, said in her nomination letter that the \u201cEngineering Optimization\nclass Dr. Sokol teaches is one that I have also taught. From all I have seen\nand heard from students who took the class when he taught it, it is clear that\nDr. Sokol is the \u2018gold standard\u2019 for teaching Engineering Optimization.\u201d Ergun\nsaid that is not just her opinion, but also the opinion of the ISyE faculty at\nlarge. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the IIE award, Sokol\u0026nbsp; is also the recipient\nof some of Georgia Tech\u0027s highest awards for teaching, including \u0026nbsp;the Class of 1934 Outstanding Innovative Use\nof Educational Technology Award 2010,\u0026nbsp;\nthe Class of 1940 W. Howard Ector Outstanding Teaching Award 2008, \u0026nbsp;and the CETL\/BP Junior Faculty Teaching\nExcellence Award 2006.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol\u0027s research\ninterests include operations research and its application in a wide variety of\nareas, from logistics, manufacturing, and network design to biology, social\nlogistics, and sports modeling. His research has won the EURO Management\nScience Strategic Innovation Prize, and his LRMC method (predictive modeling\nfor the NCAA basketball tournament) has been featured in the \u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E and on CNN and ESPN.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESokol\nshares this honor with co-recipient Amy Cohn of the University of Michigan. The\ntwo professors will receive their awards at the OR Division Town Hall Meeting\nduring the IIE Annual Conference in Cancun, Mexico, June 5 - 9, 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoel\nSokol, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\n and\nSystems Engineering (ISyE), is the recipient of the 2010 Annual Award \nfor\nExcellence in the Teaching of Operations Research from the Institute of\nIndustrial Engineers\u2019 (IIE) Operations Research (OR) Division.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joel Sokol Receives Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Operations Research"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-04-29 10:19:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55507":{"id":"55507","type":"image","title":"Joel Sokol, ISyE associate professor","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Joel Sokol, ISyE associate professor","file":{"fid":"190304","name":"Sokol_Joel_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sokol_Joel_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Sokol_Joel_-_Bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2017737,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Sokol_Joel_-_Bust_0.jpg?itok=_NHtZSzU"}}},"media_ids":["55507"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1200","name":"joel sokol"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55511":{"#nid":"55511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Responding to a Crisis: 2010 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a year when the world\u0027s attention has focused on\nthe vast and complex effort of humanitarian relief, more than 175 people committed\nto health and humanitarian support came together March 4 - 5, 2010, for the\nsecond annual Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, held at the\nGeorgia Tech Conference Center in Atlanta. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Health and\nHumanitarian Logistics, a unit of the Supply Chain and\nLogistics Institute (SCL) and a part of the H. Milton Stewart School of\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech, organized the\nconference, which had as its main objectives to articulate challenges and\nsuccesses in preparing for and responding to health and humanitarian crises,\nincluding disasters and long-term development, particularly on issues related\nto logistics. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAn impressive gathering of participants from Canada,\nCroatia, Germany, India, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa,\nSwitzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States came together with an\nambitious mission: to encourage learning and collaboration within and across\ninstitutions; promote system-wide improvements in organizations and the sector\nas a whole; identify important research issues; and establish priorities for nongovernmental\norganizations (NGOs), corporations, and the government in terms of strategies,\npolicies and investments. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERepresentatives\nfrom\nthe humanitarian sector, government and military, NGOs, foundations and private\nindustry, and academia presented diverse perspectives in health and\nhumanitarian challenges through keynote addresses, panel discussions, focused workshops,\nlunchtime group discussions, and interactive poster sessions (with over 45\nposters covering a broad set of research topics and applications).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDrawing on the success of last\nyear\u2019s inaugural conference and from participants\u2019 feedback, ISyE\nprofessors Ozlem Ergun, Pinar Keskinocak, and Julie Swann, conference co-chairs\nand co-directors of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, expanded this year\u2019s conference from\none day to one and a half days, adding a second keynote presentation and a third\nworkshop. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EKeskinocak,\nwho is also the associate director for research of the Health Systems\nInstitute, describes\nthe conference as having been very \u0022intense,\u0022 with attendees being\nengaged in various ways during the entire time. \u201cThe panels provided a great\noverview of various topics,\u201d Keskinocak explains, \u201cand the post-conference\nworkshops allowed the attendees to go deeper in some of the topics, interact\nmore closely, and exchange ideas with each other and the workshop presenters.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPanel discussions covered long-term development and\nsustainability; education, community preparedness, and capacity building; improving\npublic health; and disaster preparedness, response, and post-disaster\noperations. Recognizing that global\nhealth is an area of great interest, the conference organizers\nadded the public health panel this year and will continue to expand the Center\nactivities in this area moving forward. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose attending this year\u2019s conference were almost\nunanimous in their enthusiasm for the event and particularly liked the panels,\nciting the diversity of representatives and organizations and the different\nperspectives on a variety of topics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe agencies, organizations, and businesses\nrepresented on the panels include governmental organizations (the Department of\nHomeland Security, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USAID Food for\nPeace), nongovernmental organizations (CARE-USA, Doctors Without\nBorders\/Medecins Sans Frontieres, Focus Humanitarian Assistance, the Salvation\nArmy, the World Food Programme), industry (Emergency Visions, Sterling\nSolutions, United Parcel Service, Walmart), academia (Disaster Resilience\nAcademy of Tulane University, New England Center for Emergency Preparedness),\nand others (Clinton Foundation, U. S, Army Corps of Engineers). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESome of the perspectives covered within the panels\ninclude why collaboration matters, how to foster disaster-resilient\ncommunities, emergency management in the private sector, how disaster response\ncan be a disaster within a disaster, warehousing for faster response, improving\nsupply chains to meet people in need, and improving global health. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPublic health and disaster management were two\nthemes picked up in the keynote addresses. The first of the keynote speakers\nwas Rear Admiral Scott Deitchman, associate director for Terrorism Preparedness\nand Emergency Response with the National Center for Environmental Health and\nthe Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Rear Admiral Deitchman\nspoke about both the CDC\u2019s role in global health, highlighting the newly\nestablished Center for Global health, and shared insights from his own\nexperience in Haiti. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EArmond Mascelli, vice president for Disaster\nServices, Operations, with the American Red Cross, presented the conference\u2019s\nsecond keynote. Mascelli spoke about the spectrum of disasters, which range\nfrom emergencies to catastrophic events, and how to better position supply\nchain technology with NGOs engaged is disaster relief. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe continuous thread throughout the conference was\nthe ongoing poster presentations, which gave individuals and groups a venue for\nsharing and discussing their research, projects, and activities in health and\nhumanitarian applications. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFollowing the official conclusion of the conference,\nattendees were given the option of participating in one of three focused\nworkshops that took place the afternoon of the second day. These workshops covered\nin greater detail pre-planning and response to large-scale domestic events,\ndynamic decision-making during emergencies, and preparedness and response in\nhumanitarian logistics. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAlready looking forward to next year\u2019s conference,\nthe three co-chairs are encouraged by the momentum the conference has gained\namong participating organizations and countries. Those participating this year\nhave stated that not only would they return next year, but they would also\nrecommend the conference to others. This can only be good news for Ergun, Keskinocak,\nand Swann, who are striving, through the Center for Health and Humanitarian\nLogistics, to improve communications between NGOs, governments and private\nindustry and present them with the research and practical applications to\nimprove the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations. The Center\u2019s goal\nis to improve health and humanitarian logistics and ultimately the human\ncondition by system transformation and organization effectiveness through\neducation, outreach, and solutions. The Conference on Health and Humanitarian\nLogistics is moving the organizers further in realizing that goal. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics received support through the following conference sponsors: UPS Foundation, Kuehne+Nagel, \u0026nbsp;Coca Cola Company, Focus Humanitarian Assistance, and several units from Georgia Tech including the Distance Learning and Professional Education Program, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, Health Systems Institute, College of Engineering, and College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about the Conference presentations and\nworkshops and to view videos of the panels, speakers and workshops, visit: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2010\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humlog2010\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about ISyE\u0027s work in health and humanitarian\nlogistics, visit:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humanitarian.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/humanitarian.gatech.edu.\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a year when the world\u0027s attention has focused on\nthe vast and complex effort of humanitarian relief, more than 175 people\n committed\nto health and humanitarian support came together March 4\u0026nbsp; - 5, 2010, for \nthe\nsecond annual Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics, held at \nthe\nGeorgia Tech Conference Center in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Responding to a crisis focus of 2010 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-04-29 13:42:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55510":{"id":"55510","type":"image","title":"Four panel discussions covered sustainability, community preparedness, public health, and disaster response.","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"Four panel discussions covered sustainability, community preparedness, public health, and disaster response.","file":{"fid":"190306","name":"HumLog_panel.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HumLog_panel_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HumLog_panel_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4637554,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HumLog_panel_0.jpeg?itok=mB8OZ2uo"}},"55509":{"id":"55509","type":"image","title":"The 45 poster presentations gave individuals and groups a venue for sharing and discussing their research, projects, and activities in health and humanitarian applications.","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"The 45 poster presentations gave individuals and groups a venue for sharing and discussing their research, projects, and activities in health and humanitarian applications.","file":{"fid":"190305","name":"HumLog_poster.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HumLog_poster_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HumLog_poster_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3804255,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HumLog_poster_0.jpeg?itok=sRMhGcrV"}}},"media_ids":["55510","55509"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"9222","name":"Health and Humanitarian Logistics"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55537":{"#nid":"55537","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Five Distinguished Alumni Join the Stewart School of ISyE Advisory Board","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive distinguished alumni have joined\nthe H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) advisory\nboard for the 2010 - 2014 term. \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bailey\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Martin\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip Scott\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn A. White III\u003C\/strong\u003E, and \u003Cstrong\u003ECharlene Zalesky\u003C\/strong\u003E bring diverse professional and community leadership skills to the board,\nwhich has as its mission to serve as a sounding body for the School chair in an\nadvisory capacity as well as assist with the School\u0022s development goads. \u003Cstrong\u003EEd Rogers\u003C\/strong\u003E, who joined the advisory board in 2007, has been selected to serve as\nthe board\u0022s new chair. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are delighted to welcome our newest members\nto the ISyE Advisory Board. Their commitment and dedication to the Stewart\nSchool is extremely valuable to ISyE\u0027s continued success,\u0022 said Chelsea C.\nWhite, III, ISyE school chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe new board members bring decades of experience in\ntheir respective areas of expertise. Retiring from BASF after thirty-three\nyears, \u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Bailey\u003C\/strong\u003E consults much of\nthe year, assisting manufacturing sites in finding and applying effective\nbusiness process solutions for their planning and supply issues in complex\nlocal and global environments. \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert\nMartin\u003C\/strong\u003E has over thirty years of financial, general management, and\nconsulting experience, both in the U.S. and internationally. He is currently a\npartner with the Interlochen Group, a boutique financial advisory firm, which\ndoes interim chief financial officer and financial project work. In 1983, \u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip Scott\u003C\/strong\u003E helped found and then\nserved as a chief operating officer for Paging Network, which became the\nlargest paging company in the United States. Scott returned to Atlanta in 1993,\nwhere he purchased Southern Ideal Door, a company he continues to own and\noperate. \u003Cstrong\u003EJohn A. White III\u003C\/strong\u003E, who has more\nthan twenty years consulting experience, is the president of Fortna, Inc., a\nleading provider of supply chain solutions. At Fortna, White is responsible for\nU.S. and Canadian operations and personnel as well as participating in all\nstrategic matters for the firm outside of North America. \u003Cstrong\u003ECharlene Zalesky\u003C\/strong\u003E has fifteen years experience as an internal and\nexternal consultant in health care, manufacturing, banking, and public water\nservice industries.\u0026nbsp; Consulting with\ncompanies such as Clorox, Citibank, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Northern\nCalifornia and East Bay Municipal Utility District, Zalesky\u2019s work has focused\non traditional IE applications of work simplification, cost-benefit analysis,\nfacility design, staffing, project management and organizational\ndevelopment.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEd Rogers\u003C\/strong\u003E, who remains on\nthe board as chair, has twenty-eight years of experience in industrial\nengineering, management consulting, program management, business process\nredesign, operations improvement and strategic planning. He is a global\nstrategy manager with UPS\u2019s corporate strategy group and is responsible for\nglobal scenario planning, enterprise strategic planning, and the company\u2019s\nsustainability strategy. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo find out more about these interesting\nnew advisory board members, continue reading their individual biographies. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid\nBailey\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1969) worked for BASF for thirty-three years,\nretiring in 2003.\u0026nbsp; His last position was\nwith the company\u2019s internal supply chain consulting team.\u0026nbsp; Since retiring, Bailey continues to work with\nthe consulting team much of each year.\u0026nbsp;\nHis primary area of interest is assisting manufacturing sites in finding\nand applying effective business process solutions for their planning and supply\nissues in complex local and global environments.\u0026nbsp; Earlier in his career, Bailey used applied\nsimulation techniques to define and confirm design parameters for automatic\npalletizing systems and complex wire guided material transport systems.\u0026nbsp; He has written customized planning and\nscheduling tools for a number of manufacturing processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert\nD. (Bob) Martin \u003C\/strong\u003E(IE 1969)\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003Ehas over thirty years of financial, general management, and\nconsulting experience, both in the U.S. and internationally.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He has worked in public\ncompanies\u0026nbsp;(divisions and on corporate staffs), had active roles with\nglobal equity investors, and consulted\u0026nbsp;with businesses, large and\nstart-ups.\u0026nbsp; Industries with which he has\nbeen associated include consumer products, sports, apparel and textiles, and\ncasualty insurance. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMartin is a partner with the Interlochen\nGroup, a boutique financial advisory firm, which does interim chief financial\nofficer (CFO) and financial project work. He was senior vice president and\nchief financial officer of Russell Athletic Corporation from 2000 to 2004 and\nwas the International Division senior vice president and CFO of Sunbeam\nCorporation from 1999 to 2000. He held various positions at Sara Lee Apparel\nGroup from 1977 to 1999, including divisional chief\u0026nbsp; financial officer, vice president, and\ngeneral manager, and was CFO of the European Apparel Group (fifteen divisions\nacross Europe and South Africa), headquartered in Paris, France, from 1990 to\n1998.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his bachelor of\nIndustrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, Martin earned an MBA from the\nUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.\u0026nbsp;\nHe was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Chemical Corps from 1970 to 1972,\nduring which time he received the Army Commendation Medal. He serves as an\nadvisory board member for the International Center of Executive Options, is a\nmember of Financial Executives International, and was a member of Business\nExecutives for National Security.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\nHe\u0026nbsp;is on the Board of Trustees of a Georgia Tech-related 501-C-3\norganization and has assisted at ISyE.\u0026nbsp;\nMartin has been inducted in Georgia Tech\u2019s Academy of\nDistinguished Engineering Alumni. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMartin has two children. a son and a daughter, and two\ngrandchildren.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He and his wife Sheree\nlive in Smyrna, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEd Rogers\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1982, MS IL\n2002) is a global strategy manager with UPS\u2019s corporate strategy group.\u0026nbsp; He is responsible for global scenario\nplanning, enterprise strategic planning, and the company\u2019s sustainability\nstrategy. Rogers has twenty-eight years of experience in industrial\nengineering, management consulting, program management, business process\nredesign, operations improvement and strategic planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERogers joined\nthe UPS corporate engineering group in Atlanta in 1994, helping to establish an\ninternal consulting group, a process reengineering team, and a program\nmanagement group.\u0026nbsp; After rotating through\nspecial assignments in the Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia districts, Rogers became\nthe Industrial Engineering manager for the Gulf South district in 1999, where\nhe led the operational planning, productivity improvement, service quality\nenhancement, and technology support for that district\u2019s $200 million annual\nbusiness.\u0026nbsp; In 2002 he returned to\nheadquarters to join the corporate strategy group.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to UPS,\nRogers served four years as a U.S. Air Force officer, managing programs to\nmodernize the defense manufacturing industry.\u0026nbsp;\nThen for eight years he was an engineering management consultant, first\nwith BDM International and later with Coopers \u0026amp; Lybrand Consulting where he\nconsulted on a variety of manufacturing and logistics systems improvement\nprojects for more than twenty clients, including UPS.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERogers\naffiliations include the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the Council of\nSupply Chain Management Professionals. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhillip\nScott\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1969) served in the U.S. Air Force as a\nLogistics Officer after graduating from Georgia Tech with his bachelor\u2019s degree\nin Industrial Engineering in 1970.\u0026nbsp; He\nwent on to earn an MBA from Claremont Graduate School in 1972.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Scott held\nseveral management positions with AT\u0026amp;T before joining Gencom, Inc., a\npaging company in Atlanta as vice president and general manager.\u0026nbsp; Scott moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1983 as one\nof the early founders and then chief operating officer of Paging Network. The\ncompany grew to become the largest paging company in the U.S. and went public\nin 1991.\u0026nbsp; Scott returned to Atlanta in\n1993 to pursue other interests and investments.\u0026nbsp;\nHe purchased Southern Ideal Door in 1994 and continues to own and\noperate it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EScott has served on the Alexander-Tharpe Fund Board\nand on the Board of Trustees of the Tech Alumni Association. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn\nA. White III\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1992) is the president of Fortna, Inc., a\nleading provider of supply chain solutions. Fortna designs, implements, and\nsupports business solutions to optimize its client\u2019s supply chain. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAt Fortna, White is responsible for U.S.\nand Canadian operations and personnel as well asparticipating in all strategic matters\nfor the firm outside of North America. White has over twenty years of\nconsulting experience with the top tier consulting firms as well as working for\na leading software provider in supply chain management strategy, supplier\nrelationship management, and price and revenue optimization.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to Fortna, White was a managing officer\nand vice president of Supply Chain Management with Cap Gemini, LLC. \u0026nbsp;Prior to Cap Gemini, White served in a number\nof senior executive management positions including\nManugistics, Inc., as the group vice president of Strategic Consulting Services and Supplier\nRelationship Management, and Accenture, where he was a senior manager in their Strategic\nServices Supply Chain Management Practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhite is a past president of the Atlanta\nchapter of the Warehousing Education and ResearchCouncil and a past advisory board member\nof the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute\u2019s Leaders in Logistics. He is a\nmember of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, the Board of\nTrustees for the United Methodist Children\u2019s Home, and the Board of Advisors\nfor wRatings. White is a frequent speaker and contributor on the subjects of\nsupply chain strategy, supply chain planning, global supply chain operations,\nsupplier relationship management, fulfillment strategy, and warehouse and\ndistribution design.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to his bachelor\u2019s in Industrial\nEngineering, White holds an Accelerated Executive MBA certificate from the J.L.\nKellogg Graduate School of Management.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECharlene\nZalesky\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1977), who specialized in Health Systems, has\nfifteen years experience as an internal and external consultant in health care,\nmanufacturing, banking, and public water service industries.\u0026nbsp; Consulting with companies such as Clorox,\nCitibank, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Northern California and East Bay\nMunicipal Utility District, Zalesky\u2019s work has focused on traditional IE\napplications of work simplification, cost-benefit analysis, facility design,\nstaffing, project management and organizational development.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; She established Employee Involvement Teams\nin all of these organizations and Multidisciplinary Productivity Coaching\nProgram at Clorox.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe subject areas of Zalesky\u2019s publications and\nconference presentations have included emergency room staffing using queuing\nanalysis, nurse staffing models, keeping emergency rooms open, use of employee\ninvolvement teams in problem solving, and company-wide cost reduction and\nproductivity improvement programs. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EZalesky currently lives outside of Houston, Texas,\nwith her husband Rick (CE 1978) and daughter Zola.\u0026nbsp; Their son, Zack, is a sophomore co-op student\nin Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\nZalesky has spent 20 years working with a number of non-profit and\neducational agencies as consultant, volunteer, educator, board member, and\nboard president.\u0026nbsp; She spends much of her\ntime working with high school students and mentoring and educating parents of\nteens.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFive distinguished alumni have joined\nthe H. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) as\nthe number one graduate program for industrial and manufacturing engineering in\nthe nation.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESince 1990, with the magazine\u0027s inaugural issue of the\nrankings, the School has been named number one 21 times; in only 1991 was it\nranked number two. That makes 21 number one rankings in 22 years! \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe College of Engineering (COE), which houses ISyE, has retained\nits status as the fourth-ranking graduate program overall for engineering for\nthe sixth consecutive year.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022We are pleased to report that once again the\nH. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) is ranked\nfirst in industrial and manufacturing engineering in the annual \u003Cem\u003EU.S. News\n\u0026amp; World Report America\u2019s Best Graduate School \u003C\/em\u003Eguide,\u0022 said\nChelsea C. White III, ISyE School Chair. \u201cAlthough we are aware of the issues\nsurrounding such rankings, we take pride in the fact that our hard work and\ndedication to excellence in education and research continues to be recognized\nby our peers.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEach\nyear, the publication collects data from educational institutions and ranks the\nnation\u0027s top programs in each discipline using indicators such as program size,\nexternal reputation, student selectivity, faculty honors, and research\nactivity. This year, 192 of 198 schools surveyed provided data, with Georgia\nTech coming out on top once again. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEight other COE programs have again ranked in the\ntop ten, including biomedical (No. 2), civil (No. 3), aerospace (No. 4),\nenvironmental (No. 5), electrical (No. 6), mechanical (No. 6), nuclear (No. 8)\nand materials (No. 8). 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The College of Engineering (COE), which houses ISyE, has \nretained\nits status as the fourth-ranking graduate program overall for \nengineering for\nthe sixth consecutive year.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Ranks Number One for 20th Consecutive Year."}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-05-03 10:01:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:53","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55484":{"id":"55484","type":"image","title":"ISyE Ranked #1 in 2011 U.S. News \u0026 World Report\u0027s Best Graduate Schools","body":null,"created":"1449175533","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:33","changed":"1475894491","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:31","alt":"ISyE Ranked #1 in 2011 U.S. News \u0026 World Report\u0027s Best Graduate Schools","file":{"fid":"190302","name":"America\u0027s_best_Grad_Schools_2010.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/America%27s_best_Grad_Schools_2010_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/America%27s_best_Grad_Schools_2010_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1480616,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/America%27s_best_Grad_Schools_2010_0.jpg?itok=39DhXPUW"}}},"media_ids":["55484"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"9237","name":"U.S.News \u0026 World Report"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55545":{"#nid":"55545","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Analytics Goes to War Against Cancer: Eva Lee Interviewed on Operations Research:The Science of Better","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EWhen physicians choose radiation to battle cancer and cancerous tumors, they\nare fighting not just in three dimensions but four, the dimension of time.\u0026nbsp; In a recent podcast for \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research: The Science of Better\u003C\/em\u003E, which aired on Friday,\nApril 30, 2010, Eva K. 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The recent conference included attendees from Canada, Croatia, Germany, India, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the entire article at: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.aircargoworld.com\/Magazine\/World-News\/April-10-Americas\/Logistics-data-key-to-humanitarian-aid\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.aircargoworld.com\/Magazine\/World-News\/April-10-Americas\/Logistics-data-key-to-humanitarian-aid\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA summary, titled \u0022Logistics data key to humanitarian aid,\u0022 of the 2010 Health and Humanitarian Logistics Conference was featured in the April issue of \u003Cem\u003EAir Cargo World\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Logistics Data Key to Humanitarian Aid"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-04-06 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:49","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-04-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9117","name":"Air Cargo"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"9118","name":"Humanitrain Logistics Conference"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55264":{"#nid":"55264","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Jeff Wu\u0027s Vision of World-Class Statistic\u0027s Program in ISyE Realized","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecognized as an icon in the field of engineering\nstatistics, Jeff Wu, professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial\nand Systems Engineering (ISyE) and Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics,\nhas galvanized ISyE\u0022s statistics group since coming to Georgia Tech in 2003 and\nhas strategically drawn to the program some of the most talented young\nstatisticians and PhD students in the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201dYou couldn\u2019t write a case\nhistory or a template much better in terms of how you can create a program and\nenhance it any better than by following the recipe that Jeff did, \u201cstates R.\nGary Parker, ISyE professor and associate chair for graduate studies. \u201cBut through\nthe strength of his own personality, will, and established reputation, Jeff put\nit together, and this is what you get.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat Georgia Tech has gotten is the elevation of ISyE\u2019s engineering\nstatistics program to world-class standing as evidenced by an extraordinary\nfive National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards among the first five\nfaculty Wu hired into the existing program. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWu joined the Georgia Tech faculty following\na search initiated by then ISyE chair Bill Rouse. With an unfilled Coca Cola\nchair in 2001, Rouse queried a lot of the ISyE faculty, asking them if they\ncould hire only one senior, well-known person in any area, where would it make\nthe most difference. \u201cThe notion,\u201d explains Rouse, \u201cwas to pick a group where\nwe could invest and rapidly advance their credibility.\u201d And the consensus was\nstatistics. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA member of the National Academy of\nEngineering and former head of the statistics program at the University of\nMichigan, Wu is a well-known entity in engineering statistics, and he had a\nvery clear vision of what he wanted to do once he got here. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EComing to a school strong in science and\nengineering, Wu wanted to build statistics research that would allow for\ninteraction and collaboration with engineers and scientists and information\ntechnology. He envisioned a diversified faculty where every member of the\nstatistics group would collaborate and do joint work with other groups across\ndisciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI was given a mandate,\u201d Wu explains, \u201cto try\nsomething no one had tried before, namely building a strong statistics and\nquality program within engineering.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETo fulfill that mandate, Wu asked for and was\ngranted five assistant professor slots to be filled one a year over five years.\nUsing his network of professional colleagues internationally allowed Wu to get\nto know some of the people he brought in before he hired them and to a level of\ndepth where he could identify significant talent. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWithin three years, Wu had filled the five\npositions, hiring Roshan Joseph Vengazihiyil, Ming Yuan, Nagi Gebraeel, Yajun\nMei, and Nicoleta Serban, all of whom have received the NSF CAREER Award. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThese CAREER awards are\nkind of rare to begin with, \u201cexplains Chip White, H. Milton and Carolyn J.\nStewart Chair and Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics .\u201cTo\nhave the insight to be able to identify junior faculty capable of successful\nCAREER award winners is phenomenal.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBut, White points out that significant talent\ncan flounder unless it is properly mentored, and according to his colleagues,\nWu is the consummate mentor. Wu deflects that credit, pointing instead to the\nGeorgia Tech, College of Engineering and ISyE environments as well as the\nstudents themselves and their work. Nonetheless, Wu has worked incredibly hard\nto take the talent he was able to identify and turn them into really remarkable\nresearchers. \u201cHe\u2019s definitely tilted the playing field in their favor,\u201d White\nstates, \u201cand that is what we want to do for young faculty.\u201d \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; According to both White and Parker, Wu also\nunderstands that the right environment for high-quality faculty includes\nhigh-quality PhD students. To be able to execute his vision, Wu would need to\nplay a role in identifying good potential doctoral students and recruiting at\nthat level as well. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey go hand in hand, \u201c adds White.\n\u201cHigh-quality faculty, high-quality doctoral students. The combination, if\neverything goes well, results in some really terrific synergies.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWorking closely with Parker, Wu has been able\nto attract to ISyE\u2019s statistic\u2019s program PhD applicants from around the world\ndespite ISyE not yet having a dedicated PhD degree in statistics. Statistics is\na specialization within Industrial Engineering (IE), and PhDs are awarded in\nIE. Though there is conversation about establishing a PhD in statistics, a few\nyears away at best, one does not currently exist. That fact has not discouraged\nsome of the best candidates from applying to Georgia Tech. And Wu has been very\neffective at making sure the statistics program is recognized. According to\nWhite, Wu has been very good in that regard because he is so well-connected. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd that has paid off. \u0026nbsp;Tirthankar Dasgupta, who received his PhD in\n2007 and is now assistant professor in the department of statistics at Harvard,\ncites two reasons for his decision to come to ISyE, the first being \u201cthe\nopportunity . . . to work under the supervision of Professor Jeff Wu, a true\nicon in the field of engineering statistics, and second, the fact that this was\nthe top-ranked Industrial Engineering department in America having several\neminent scholars amongst the faculty.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWith his most recent hire of Kobi Abayomi,\nWu\u2019s program has grown to fourteen (not counting the group of seven or eight\nprobabilists in ISyE), which rivals the size of stand-alone statistics\ndepartments at other universities. And the boundaries in Wu\u2019s program are very\nclear. \u201cOf all the sub disciplines in ISyE,\u201d states Parker, \u201cit is probably the\nnearest sub group that really exists in a very, very defined way.\u201d For the most\npart, the professors in ISyE\u2019s statistics program teach only in statistics, and\nthey attract students who come directly to work with them in terms of PhDs. \u201cSo\nit is extraordinary to have a group that has all the credentials, has the\nnumbers, and the extraordinary stature of a stand-alone statistics department.\u201d\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFrom an historical perspective, Parker\nexplains that over the years, there had been several task-force level efforts\nput together to look into establishing a stand-alone statistics department at\nGeorgia Tech, but those efforts never led anywhere. Ultimately, there were two\nunits on campus that covered the interests in statistics: the school of\nmathematics and ISyE. Over time, however, a shift started to occur where the\nstaffing of statistics started to draw down in math as interest in ISyE went in\nthe other direction. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIt was becoming clear that ISyE\nhad a lot of interest with PhD applicants who had very serious statistics\nbackgrounds and wanted more applied statistics. \u201cWe had some young\nstatisticians that had just been hired,\u201d says Parker, \u201ca couple of senior\npeople who were coming more from the culture of statistics. Their PhDs were in\nstatistics from some of the top programs in the country (e.g.,\nWisconsin).\u201d\u0026nbsp; So, the signs were there,\nbut there still hadn\u2019t been a big commitment, and that is where Wu entered in.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EParker says that he thinks it would be\ncompletely fair to say that Wu changed the dynamic, changed the culture. \u201cHe\nwent after young people who he hand-picked and just kicked it up a whole\ndifferent notch from where it had been, \u201c Parker explains, adding that he\u2019s\npretty sure that there is no place with ISyE\u2019s reputation that exists this way.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u201c\u003C\/strong\u003EGeorgia Tech is possibly the only place where the statistics\nprogram is within the school of industrial engineering.\u201d states Roshan Joseph\nVengazhiyil, associate professor and one of Wu\u2019s five initial hires. This is attractive\nto Vengazhiyil because his research interests are in engineering statistics. \u201cI\nfelt that my efforts would be most appreciated in this place.\u201d For Vengazhiyil,\nworking within an engineering school rather than in a department of statistics\ngives him better exposure to the latest developments and trends in engineering\nand provides him better opportunities to collaborate with the engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd that collaboration was part\nof Wu\u2019s vision, which is being realized. The tentacles that spread out from\nWu\u2019s group vis a vis research activities strengthen that bond within ISyE and\nacross campus. Examples of its success include Nicoleta Serban\u2019s collaboration\nwith Bill Rouse and the Tennenbaum Institute on health care, Yajun Mei\u2019s\ncollaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute on indoor air quality, Ming\nYuan\u2019s revolutionary bioinformatics techniques to successfully address\nquestions related to aging and diabetes and Nagi Gebraeel\u2019s new degradation lab\nin the Manufacturing Research Center. White reflects that these links into other\ndepartments help ISyE extend its contribution to another school, and vice versa.\n\u201cThat helps to promote the synergies that you want to see in a university.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd Parker agrees that ISyE\u2019s program\nis often recognized as the statistics program for Georgia Tech. When other\nschools have a statistics issue, they frequently come to ISyE for that, and the\nInstitute Graduate Committee, on which Parker served for years, is likely to refer\npetitioners to ISyE if they are proposing a statistics course that duplicates\nwhat is already being taught there. 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The Tau Beta Pi Cup was funded through a\ngenerous endowment from Narl Davidson, faculty ombudsman and professor emeritus\nof Mechanical Engineering, and his brothers in memory of their parents. Based not only on\nexcellent scholarship, but also outstanding accomplishments and contributions,\u0026nbsp;the award recognizes the top Georgia Tech\nengineering undergraduate who has demonstrated academic excellence, leadership,\nand service to the field and the Institute, and who has shown potential for\ncontinuing growth.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Humble about the expectations of continued\ngrowth, Staskevicius leaves a deep imprint at Georgia Tech,\nspending her final year serving the Institute and her classmates as\nundergraduate student body president. At the Georgia Tech student honors day\nluncheon on \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nApril 22. 2010, Staskevicius will\nreceive the traditional engraved Tau Beta Pi Cup as well as a $5,000 award.\u0026nbsp; Learn more about Staskevicius in the\ninterview that follows. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE: Tell me what\nthe Tau Beta Pi Cup award means to you.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E Receiving this\naward is extremely humbling. I am tremendously honored. I have so much respect\nfor all Tech students, which makes the receipt of this award all the more overwhelming. Receiving the Tau\nBeta Pi Cup award also serves as a charge for me moving forward; I hope to live\nup to the expectations of continued growth and excellence in the future, and\nrepresent Georgia Tech well as an alumna.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : What\npiqued your interest in becoming an industrial engineer? (Were you always\ninterested in ISyE?)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E When I visited\nGeorgia Tech in the spring of my senior year of high school, my host, an ISyE\nstudent herself, introduced me to Industrial Engineering. I had always known\nthat I wanted to pursue a degree heavy in mathematics, but one with a practical\ncomponent to it as well. Industrial Engineering seemed like the perfect fit \u2013\nand I was right!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Favorite\nISyE course and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E My favorite\nISyE course was Senior Design. Everything came together for me that semester, and I enjoyed\nthe overlaying of the various concepts I had learned in different classes\npreceding Senior Design. I also very much enjoyed the teamwork involved in\nworking on my project and how we were able to solve real world problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Favorite\nISyE professor and why?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E My favorite\nISyE professor was my ISyE 2028 professor, Dr. Nagi Gebraeel. Although Dr. Gebraeel\nwas relatively new to GT when I took his class back in Fall 2007, he was\nextremely personable during lecture, taught the material effectively, and\nalways greeted students with a wave when we see him around campus.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Research\ninterests?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E I have always\nbeen interested in research in the Health Systems area. Although I am not\npre-med, I am drawn to the medical field, and I would like to learn more about\nhow Industrial Engineering can be applied to concepts such as disease\ntreatment.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Biggest\nachievement?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E My biggest\nachievement was being elected undergraduate student body president last spring.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Tell me\nabout your role in SGA and some of your accomplishments?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E As SGA president\nthis academic year, I served a dual role: I coordinated the activities of the\nexecutive branch of student government, and I also served as the primary voice\nof the student body to the Georgia Tech administration and others external to\nTech. Although serving as president has kept me exceptionally busy throughout\nthe final year of my undergraduate education, it has been the most exciting,\nchallenging, and rewarding experience of my life thus far. Throughout my\ntenure, I have been able to meet with legislators to discuss budget issues,\nserve as a student representative on Tech\u2019s Strategic Planning Steering\nCommittee, help pass a reformed Dead Week policy, organize a GT White Out Football\ngame, oversee the development of a new campus portal, launch a new SGA web site,\nand advocate for better faculty-student relations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Other\nnon-academic interests?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E I love to learn\nnew languages! I can speak French, English, and Lithuanian fluently, and have\ntaken Spanish and German classes. I am an avid Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets\nsports fan, love to travel, and most of all enjoy spending time with my\nfriends.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Prospective\ncareer goals?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E I am working\nfor Deloitte Consulting starting in July; in Fall 2012, I will attend Harvard Business School.\nLong term, I hope to either end up in the medical field in hospital management,\nor working for the Department of Education.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Last book\nyou read for pleasure?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cem\u003EPelican Brief\u003C\/em\u003E by John Grisham\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : What\u2019s in\nyour mp3 player?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E Too many songs\nto count! Some of my favorite songs include:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\n\u201cTiny Dancer\u201d by Elton John\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\n\u201cNight Moves\u201d by Bob Seger\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u2022\n\u201cWhen You Say Nothing at All\u201d by Alison Krauss\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Favorite\nspot on campus?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E Although I have\nspent countless hours in the SGA office and in the library, my favorite spot on\ncampus is Tech Tower. A true symbol of my undergraduate education, the Tower\nrepresents the rich history of the Institute and its commitment to academic\nexcellence. The sight of this particular building will always\nremind me of the legacy I am a part of as a Yellow Jacket.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE : Best\npiece of advice you ever received?\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAS:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E This is not a\npiece of advice so much as a quote that I truly believe in: \u201cNever doubt that a\nsmall group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. 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Harris\u003C\/strong\u003E\n(IE 1981), \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert D. Martin\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1969),\n\u003Cstrong\u003EStephen M. Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1965, MS IE 1967),\nand \u003Cstrong\u003EThomas J. O\u2019Brien\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1981) were\ninducted into the College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Engineering\nAlumni.\u0026nbsp; This award recognizes alumni who\nhave made significant contributions to the profession, field, Institute, or\nsociety at-large. Candidates are highly placed executives and are actively\ninvolved in engineering or management, industry, academia or government. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The annual Alumni\nAwards Induction Ceremony was held on March 19, 2010,\u0026nbsp; at the Georgia Tech\nHotel and Conference Center.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; The\nAwards Ceremony was created in 1994 under the leadership of then Dean Dr. John\nA. White. It was done in order to highlight the accomplishments of engineering\nstudents and emphasize the reputation of the COE. White passed the torch on to\nDean Jean-Lou Chameau and today, Dean Don Giddens continues the tradition. Each\nyear, the COE recognizes select alumni who have contributed to the profession,\nadvanced their careers and enhanced the lives of others personally and\nprofessionally. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMore about ISyE\u2019s\naward recipients: \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECharles L. Harris, IE 1981 \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 \u003Cem\u003EPartner, Accenture\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHarris was born and raised in Atlanta. Upon graduating\nGeorgia Tech, he worked for Arthur Anderson, now Accenture. After returning\nfrom an assignment in Paris, Harris was assigned\nto NASA in Huntsville, AL, designing and implementing a single\nplatform accounting and financial management system for NASA operations\nnationwide. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ERobert D. Martin, IE 1969 \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 \u003Cem\u003ECFO Consultant, Interlochen\nGroup\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMartin has over 30 years of financial, general management\nand consulting experience both nationally and internationally. He is currently\na partner with Interlochen Group, a boutique financial advisory firm, but his\ncareer includes working for Russell Athletic Corp., Sumbeam Corp., and Sara Lee\nCorp. Martin earned a BS in industrial engineering (IE) from Tech and an MBA\nfrom the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was lieutenant in the US\nArmy Chemical Corps. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Stephen M. Mitchell,\nIE 1965, MS IE 1967 \u003C\/strong\u003E\u2013 \u003Cem\u003ECEO and\nPresident, Sertec Corporation\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMitchell has led Sertec for 15 years as CEO, taking it from\nan idea to being the leader in incident data intake and management. Mitchell\nhas not only built Sertec into a successful, debt-free company, he has also led\nthree others, and won the WalMart \u201cVendor of the Year\u201d Award with Norcom, Inc.\nMitchell has a BS and MS in IE from Tech, where he served as a trustee and is a\nregistered Professional Engineer. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Thomas J. 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Throughout its first decade, Jim Kellso, Senior Supply Chain Master at\nIntel Corporation, chaired the program\u2019s advisory board, a role from which he\nstepped down this past May. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EAs\nEMIL-SCS looks toward its second decade with two new co-chairs -- Gene\nLong, a director in Deloitte\u2019s Strategy \u0026amp; Operations consulting practice,\nand Richard L. \u201cDick\u201d\nHunter, a retired Dell executive -- the program acknowledges Kellso\u2019s years of\nservice and for sending18 Intel executives through the program to date. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Reflecting on the\nprogram\u2019s first decade, Kellso said that there are three key accomplishments of\nwhich he is most proud:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul type=\u0022disc\u0022\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe development of a robust\n     process that is repeatable year to year and maintains quality\n     (continuously improving) and relevance (constantly changing) to meet the\n     times\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul type=\u0022disc\u0022\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe consistent participation of\n     many key companies over the years\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cul type=\u0022disc\u0022\u003E\u003Cli class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe movement of the program\n     from an international logistics focus to additionally a true supply chain\n     strategy focus\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EWith Georgia\nTech recognized as the \u201cundisputed number one\u201d in industrial engineering, Kellso\npoints out that the advantages of the EMIL-SCS program is its international\nresidences that provide opportunities for those who have never been overseas or\nat least have never operated in the supply chain activities overseas a chance\nto see, understand, and get a true flavor of the differences in operation,\nculture, and key issues from one geographic region to the next.\u0026nbsp; According to Kellso, this is manifested in\ntwo ways:\u0026nbsp; the actual time overseas,\nwhich Kellso sees as a great learning opportunity, and the international flavor\nof the participants, which Kellso says provides a daily opportunity to gain\nmultiple perspectives for the attendees as they go through the classes. This\ndiversity allows students to learn a great deal from one another in addition to\nclass material and to build a network of close contacts that would not be\npossible any other way. Further, Kellso states that \u201cthe opportunity to engage\nin this program; get a full, regular master\u2019s degree from Georgia Tech; and\nonly be gone from your job for five, two-week sessions is truly unique in the\neducation industry.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EKellso\u2019s\nenthusiasm for the program underpins his commitment.\u0026nbsp; With eighteen of its executives having\ncompleted the program thus far, Intel has consistently had its EMIL-SCS\ngraduates perform very well after their engagement in the program. \u201cThe real\nkey,\u201d Kellso states, \u201cis that most of our EMIL-SCS graduates have continued to\nthrive in our highly competitive environment and have had their careers\nenhanced by their engagement with EMIL.\u201d Kellso explains the program further\neducates, refines rough edges, and provides cross-organizational and\ncross-geographic exposure so that the candidates selected can fulfill their\npromise of success. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;As an\nexample of fulfilling one\u2019s promise of success, Kellso cites one Intel\nexecutive who started in Materials (purchasing). She moved to Transportation\nand participated in the EMIL-SCS program, from which she received, according to\nKellso, \u201cvery good grounding and cross-geographic experience.\u201d She then moved\nback to Materials and was named a -Supply Chain Master. After being selected to\nwork on a highly visible strategic program, she moved back to the Planning and\nLogistics group to lead the next round of implementation of a totally new\nsupply chain for Intel.\u0026nbsp; Kellso states,\n\u201cthis is certainly a success story by any measure.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Generally,\nKellso said that employees who go through the program immediately bring\npractical skills back to the company, including modeling, financial analysis,\nunderstanding of international trade practices, and a heightened familiarity\nwith how different companies solve common problems. These are all insights that\nthe students can bring immediately back to their work. \u201cFurthermore, the actual\nproject that they do is a tactical benefit during and immediately after the\nprogram concludes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;The\nproject to which Kellso is referring is the hands-on Global Supply Chain\nproject, which students complete in lieu of a traditional master\u2019s thesis. As Kellso\ndescribes it, the difference between the Global Project and a traditional\nmaster\u2019s thesis is that there are typically students from several companies\nworking together to collectively solve a real- world problem. This brings an\nintelligence and diversity of backgrounds that cannot be gained in a single\nthesis or even in a project comprising a single company.\u0026nbsp; The results are always richer with multiple\ncompany backgrounds and capabilities represented.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Looking\nahead, Kellso said that he hopes to see the EMIL-SCS program\u0026nbsp; achieve general recognition as a supply chain\nprogram for executives, not simply a logistics program.\u0026nbsp; Although the program has done this to a large\ndegree with its curriculum, Kellso said that he looks forward to EMIL-SCS\nachieving this status in world-wide recognition and perception of the program.\n\u201cHopefully what will happen,\u201d Kellso adds, \u201cis that the program will thrive and\nbecome the \u2018gold standard\u2019 program for supply chain executives.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;Though Kellso\nhas stepped down as chair, he maintains a strong support for the program and\nanticipates continued involvement with EMIL-SCS through the advisory board and\nteaching. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor the Executive Masters in \nInternational Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain Strategy (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EEMIL-SCS\u003C\/a\u003E),\n2010 marks its 10\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E anniversary as a successful program in \nthe H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at \nGeorgia\nTech. 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White III to Step Down as ISyE School Chair in June","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChelsea \u0022Chip\u0022 C. White III, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has announced he will be stepping down as School Chair on June 30, 2010. However, White will not be leaving the Stewart School.\u0026nbsp; He will be returning to the faculty to resume his work as the Schneider National Chair in Logistics and Transportation and co-director of the Global Transportation Center of Focused Research within the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0022Chip has been an outstanding School Chair in the College, providing thoughtful leadership not only for ISyE, but also within the group of College of Engineering (COE) school chairs,\u0022 said Dean Don P. Giddens. \u0022And despite the heavy administrative role demanded of COE school chairs, Chip\u0027s national and international recognition for his own professional scholarship has been maintained.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite assumed his duties as School Chair on July 1, 2005, following Bill Rouse, who served as chair from 2001 to 2005.\u0026nbsp; During White\u0027s tenure as school chair, ISyE has strived to insure continued and increased strength of the School\u0027s foundation disciplines (optimization, stochastics \u0026amp; simulation, and statistics) and to broaden its applied research horizons through continued support of supply chain \u0026amp; logistics initiatives, efforts to revive traditional strengths in health, and new initiatives in health \u0026amp; humanitarian logistics, sustainability \u0026amp; natural systems, and systems informatics \u0026amp; control.\u0026nbsp; ISyE has also expanded its international activities beyond those in Singapore to include programs in Shanghai and Costa Rica.\u0026nbsp; Commenting on White\u0027s contributions, Dean Giddens said \u0022I am greatly indebted to him for steering the school into broadening their horizons.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso during White\u0027s tenure as School Chair, ISyE received a $20M commitment to the School from Carolyn J. and Milton H. Stewart that is enabling ISyE to have greater impact on its academic and research communities and on challenges of economic and societal importance.\u0026nbsp; In 2006, the School was named the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.\u0026nbsp; Overall, ISyE Foundation accounts have increased from $24M to $64M from endowment gifts and commitments during the last five years, helping to insure the School\u2019s financial stability and health during the economic downturn and providing resources to help ISyE increase its dominance among its academic peers.\u0026nbsp; ISyE\u0027s graduate program has now been ranked by U.S. News and World Reports first in industrial \u0026amp; manufacturing engineering for an unprecedented 19 years straight.\u0026nbsp; \u0027All of our success would not have been possible without the commitment to excellence of the faculty, staff, and students and the support of the administration, our alums, and friends,\u0022 said White. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn a note to the ISyE faculty and staff, White stated that these past five years as School chair have been \u0022personally and professionally rewarding.\u0026nbsp; I have enjoyed interacting with the wonderful faculty, staff, alumni, advisory board, students, and friends who make up the ISyE community,\u0022 said White.\u0026nbsp; He also expressed his \u0022gratitude to Dean Giddens and the Georgia Tech administration, for their interest in helping ISyE continue to be the best academic unit of its kind internationally.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs of July 1, 2010, White will turn his attention back to his research as the Schneider National Chair in Logistics and Transportation and co-director of the Global Transportation Center of Focused Research within the Supply Chain \u0026amp;amp; Logistics Institute and will resume his research on important issues to the supply chain \u0026amp;amp; logistics industry. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDean Giddens is working closely with the ISyE Faculty Advisory Committee and Professor White to establish a search committee and undertake a national search for the next school chair. Professor Vigor Yang, Chair of the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, will chair the committee. An interim chair will be named to be effective on July 1, 2010, and until the position is filled.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChelsea \u0022Chip\u0022 C. White III, the H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart Chair \nof the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering \n(ISyE), has announced he will be stepping down as School Chair on June \n30, 2010. However, White will not be leaving the Stewart School.  He \nwill be returning to the faculty to resume his work as the Schneider \nNational Chair in Logistics and Transportation and co-director of the \nGlobal Transportation Center of Focused Research within the Supply Chain\n \u0026amp; Logistics Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-03-25 08:39:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:45","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55103":{"id":"55103","type":"image","title":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III","body":null,"created":"1449175507","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:07","changed":"1475894486","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:26","alt":"Chelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. 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She was 102 years old.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnn Marie was a lifelong friend of the Stewart School of ISyE and a strong advocate for education.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; She often stressed the importance of learning, stating \u0022No one can ever take an education away from you.\u0022 She and her husband Paul learned hard lessons of resilience as they migrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938. In fact, her continued learning has allowed her to reinvent herself as mother and wife, methods analyst, import\/export manager, Tech faculty wife, college student, gerontology expert, and author.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1942, Anne Marie and Paul enrolled in Georgia Tech\u0027s evening school to study a new field called industrial engineering. Under the War Manpower Act, Anne Marie studied industrial engineering at Tech for two years while working for companies such as Sears, Lockheed, and Rich\u0027s department store.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Paul joined ISyE\u0027s faculty in 1948, becoming a Fulbright professor and rising to international prominence in the field. Anne Marie later earned a master\u0027s in sociology with a minor in gerontology from Georgia State then returned to Tech in 1987 to study psychology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmong her numerous achievements, Anne Marie helped start the nation\u0027s largest Life Enrichment Center for seniors in DeKalb County, work that led to the Georgia Senate naming her 1999\u0027s Distinguished Senior Georgian. She has represented DeKalb and Rockdale counties at a White House Council on Aging and has served as a representative on aging issues to Germany. In the 90\u0027s, she established the Paul Eaton Scholarship to support undergraduate students in the Industrial and Systems Engineering School at Georgia Tech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2002, Anne Marie wrote a book on successful aging titled, \u003Cem\u003EAnything in Life is a Challenge,\u003C\/em\u003E based on her own aging process and to assist other still-functioning elderly\u0026nbsp;to understand that \u0022old age is a stage of life just as any other stage in which one can be productive, learn, and pursue numerous goals based on ability, talents, experience, and desires.\u0022 In the book\u0027s last chapter as Anne contemplated medical treatment, she summarized her life:\u0026nbsp; \u0022During my long life I have learned that there is always some positive thought of escape attached towards the solution of a very difficult problem. I got to thinking that I had a spectacular life behind me.\u0026nbsp; Actually I had two lives, so different from each other.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA memorial service will be held on April 9, 2010,\u0026nbsp;at 11:00 a.m.. at Oak Grove Methodist Church.\u0026nbsp; Visitation will follow the service. Anne Marie is survived by a daughter, Clairelis Baxter of Athens; two sons, Charles Eaton of Greer, S.C., and Goetz Eaton of Anderson, S.C.; 11 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnne Marie Eaton, a lifelong friend of the Stewart School of ISyE and a strong advocate \nfor education, died at Hospice Atlanta from natural causes on March \n27, 2010. 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Don Ratliff, Jaymie Forrest, and Harvey Donaldson, who head the Georgia Tech Integrated Food Chain Center, appear on the cover of the magazine.\u0026nbsp; The cover story begins on page 14 and continues through page 20.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFinally, the food logistics industry will have a research and resource center to utilize for questions about and solutions to every aspect of managing and monitoring the food cold supply chain. The Georgia Tech Integrated Food Chain Center, formed by the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) and by Sterling Solutions LLC, will be housed within the SCL in Atlanta. 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The next and largest hurdle was to present their Global Projects to the EMIL-SCS staff and advisory board, which they did on days three and four of the second week.\u0026nbsp; In lieu of a traditional master\u0027s thesis, the student executives use this project as an opportunity to gain knowledge through the EMIL-SCS academic curriculum garnered over the eighteen months of the program and apply those resources to a critical supply chain initiative within their respective sponsoring companies.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAdditionally, the students received instruction from Shijie Deng, associate professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, who provided the students with a general introduction into the concepts of risk management in the financial and operational aspects of logistics and supply chain management.\u0026nbsp; Jim Kellso, supply chain strategist with Intel Corporation and former EMIL-SCS advisory board chair, gave a presentation on supply chain innovation, optimization\/customer alignment, and transformation.\u0026nbsp; Tom Dadmun, vice-president, project management with Adtran shared his experience with supply chain corporate alignment initiatives, supply chain optimization, and engineering. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe final site visit for the class was to Norfolk Southern Intermodal yard in Austell, Georgia, to discuss intermodal trends in the U.S.\u0026nbsp; Dave Beasley, division terminal manager for Norfolk Southern, led the terminal tour and operations overview.\u0026nbsp; Aaron Katrancha, assistant manager, national accounts, intermodal marketing, led a discussion on the current state of the rail industry in the U.S. and role of Norfolk Southern\u2019s involvement with development of railroads in emerging markets, capacity and volume constraint issues, capital investment plans for relief efforts, security concerns, and green-sustainability initiatives that are currently underway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoe Peppard, Professor of Information Systems, and Lee Marston, a research fellow, both with the Information Systems Research Centre at the Cranfield University School of Management, gave a review of supply chain technology, highlighting how to build IT\/SCM organizational capability, IT-enabled SCM innovation, and the future of logistics and SCM technology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis group will meet once more on May 7, 2010, to participate in spring commencement and receive their degrees from Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp; The EMIL-SCS program is extremely proud of the newest group of alumni and is excited about their future, as well as the continued networking and partnership opportunities with both the alumni and their sponsoring companies. \u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor more about the EMIL-SCS program, visit their website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.emil.gatech.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Executive Masters in International Logistics \u0026amp; Supply Chain \nStrategy (EMIL-SCS) class of 2010, which began in October 2008, just \ncompleted its fifth and final residence.\u0026nbsp; The class met from February \n28, 2010, through March 12, 2010, spending one week in Monterrey, \nMexico, and its final week in Atlanta.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-03-30 12:15:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:45","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"55141":{"id":"55141","type":"image","title":"Students tour the distribtuion center of Oxxo, the largest convenience store chain in Mexico","body":null,"created":"1449175507","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:07","changed":"1475894486","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:26","alt":"Students tour the distribtuion center of Oxxo, the largest convenience store chain in Mexico","file":{"fid":"190236","name":"OXXO_DC-Monterrey.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OXXO_DC-Monterrey_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/OXXO_DC-Monterrey_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3926685,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/OXXO_DC-Monterrey_0.jpg?itok=casvgkZ0"}},"55144":{"id":"55144","type":"image","title":"John Dunkin (left), Intel Corporation, Ellen Ewing (middle), UPS, and Michael Vance (right), Intel Corporation, present Intel-UPS global project","body":null,"created":"1449175507","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:45:07","changed":"1475894486","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:26","alt":"John Dunkin (left), Intel Corporation, Ellen Ewing (middle), UPS, and Michael Vance (right), Intel Corporation, present Intel-UPS global project","file":{"fid":"190238","name":"Intel-UPS_Global_Presentation-Atlanta.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Intel-UPS_Global_Presentation-Atlanta_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Intel-UPS_Global_Presentation-Atlanta_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":4295693,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Intel-UPS_Global_Presentation-Atlanta_0.jpg?itok=793gBuGz"}}},"media_ids":["55141","55144"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"7861","name":"EMIL-SCS"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"55343":{"#nid":"55343","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Four ISyE Faculty Featured in Research Horizons Profile of Cancer Research at Georgia Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour faculty members in the H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering are among the Georgia Tech faculty whose cancer research is profiled in the winter issue of \u003Cem\u003EResearch Horizons. \u003C\/em\u003EWith this issue, the magazine wraps up a\nthree-part series that focused on cancer research at Georgia Tech. The series presented\na thorough overview of research that spans origins, diagnosis, and treatment of\ncancer. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article, \u201cTreating Cancer: Researchers Develop and\nImprove Techniques for Attacking Cancer,\u201d features the research of \u003Cstrong\u003EShabbir Ahmed\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EEva Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003EMartin Savelsbergh\u003C\/strong\u003E,\nand \u003Cstrong\u003EMing Yuan\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAhmed\u003C\/strong\u003E and \u003Cstrong\u003ESavelsberg\u003C\/strong\u003E, along with graduate student\n\u003Cstrong\u003EHalil\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EOzan\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EGozbasi\u003C\/strong\u003E, are\nimproving intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment plans to\nminimize damage to critical organs. This type of treatment plan is challenging\nbecause some organs move. In her research, \u003Cstrong\u003ELee\u003C\/strong\u003E\nis addressing motion issues, specifically with liver and lung cancer patients,\nto develop treatment plans that account for breathing, motion, and shape\nchanges throughout the treatment regime. In another project, Lee is\nincorporating biological information into treatment planning for prostate\ncancer, IMRT and brachytherapy \u2013 the placement of radioactive \u201cseeds\u201d inside a\ntumor. \u003Cstrong\u003EMing\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EYuan\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, is\nusing computational and mathematical approaches to analyze how gene expression\nevolves over time in individuals with breast cancer and whether these patterns\ncan predict treatment outcome. In another project, \u003Cstrong\u003EYuan\u003C\/strong\u003E is collaborating with two University of Wisconsin professors\nto conduct expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies, the analysis of which\nallows the researchers to identify genomic hot spots that regulate gene\ntranscription and expression on a genome-wide scale. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/cancer-treatment\/\u0022\u003EClick here\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/cancer-treatment\/\u0022\u003E\/\u003C\/a\u003E\nto read the entire article. To read the previous two reports in the series,\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/understanding-cancer-origins\/\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\nfor the first report, titled \u201cUnderstanding the Origins of Cancer: Scientists\nInvestigate the Molecular Changes that Lead to Disease,\u201d and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/gtresearchnews.gatech.edu\/diagnosing-cancer\/\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\nfor the second report, titled \u201cDiagnosing Cancer: Researchers Pursue Many\nDirections Toward Early Detection and Diagnosis.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFour faculty members in the H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering are among the Georgia Tech \nfaculty whose cancer research is profiled in the winter issue of \u003Cem\u003EResearch\n Horizons. \u003C\/em\u003EWith\n this issue, the magazine wraps up a\nthree-part series that focused on cancer research at Georgia Tech. 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NSF\nrecognized Serban for her innovative proposal and work in statistical modeling\nof service distribution equity. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe\nNSF offers this prestigious award as part of the Faculty Early Career\nDevelopment (CAREER) Program in support of junior faculty who exemplify the\nrole of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and\nthe integration of education and research within the context of the mission of\ntheir organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cNicoleta\nis a promising and innovative researcher in the emerging and important area of\nresearch into the use of statistical modeling techniques in the service sector\u201d\nstates Jeff Wu, ISyE professor and Coca Chair in Engineering Statistics. \u201cIn\nparticular, she is looking into the development of novel spatio-temporal\nmodeling of service distribution equity with applications to financial and\nhealthcare industries. ISyE is proud of having such talented young researchers\namong its ranks. \u201c\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\nSerban is the fifth NSF CAREER Award winner in the statistics\/quality group at\nthe Stewart School of ISyE in the last four years. She joins the ranks of\nprofessors Roshan Vengazhiyil, Nagi Gebraeel; and Ming Yuan, who received the\naward in 2006, 2007 and 2009, respectively, and Professor Yajun Mei, who also\nreceived the award this year.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor\nSerban received her B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Theoretical Statistics\nand Stochastic Processes from the University of Bucharest. She went on to earn\nher Ph.D. in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Georgia\nTech,\u0026nbsp; Professor Serban\u0027s research\nfocused on nonparametric statistical methods motivated by recent applications from\nproteomics and genomics. Her current research focuses on multiple functional\nestimation and clustering with applications to industrial performance, service\nsite location, socio-economics and NMR biomolecular studies. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn\naddition to the NSF CARRER Award, Professor Serban has also received the\nfollowing honors and awards:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EClass of 1969 Teaching\n     Fellow, CETL, Georgia Institute of Technology. 2007\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENew Researcher Fellowship,\n     Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute 2007-08\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDavid Byar Young Investigator\n     Award, ASA Biometrics Section, 2004\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBiopharm Honorable Mention\n     Paper Award, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section 2004\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBiopharm Student Paper Award,\n     ASA Biopharmaceutical Section 2003\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENicoleta\nSerban, assistant professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering \n(ISyE), has\nreceived the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.\n NSF\nrecognized Serban for her innovative proposal and work in statistical \nmodeling\nof service distribution equity.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-03-10 17:00:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:41","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54665":{"id":"54665","type":"image","title":"Nicoleta Serban","body":null,"created":"1449175459","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:19","changed":"1475894478","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:18","alt":"Nicoleta Serban","file":{"fid":"172607","name":"Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2967607,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Serban_Nicoleta_-_Bust_1.jpg?itok=smlKoSnl"}}},"media_ids":["54665"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8934","name":"ISyE; Nicoleta Serban"},{"id":"8935","name":"NSF CAREER Awawrd"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"54807":{"#nid":"54807","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Yajun Mei Receives NSF CAREER Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYajun Mei, assistant professor in the Stewart School of\nIndustrial and Systems Engineering, has received the prestigious \nNational\nScience Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. The NSF recognized Mei.for his exemplary work in sequential \nanalysis and decentralized network.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EThe NSF offers this prestigious\naward as part of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program \nin\nsupport of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars \nthrough\noutstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of \neducation and\nresearch within the context of the mission of their organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJeff\nWu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at IsyE, states that \n\u201cYajun\nbelongs to a select group of young statisticians who excel in esoteric \n(and\nelegant) theory such as sequential analysis as well as significant \napplications\nsuch as decentralized sensor network. ISyE is proud of having such \ntalented\nyoung researchers among its ranks.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Mei is the fourth NSF\nCAREER Award winner in the statistics\/quality group at the Stewart \nSchool of\nISyE in the last four years. He joins the ranks of professors Roshan\nVengazhiyil, Nagi Gebraeel; and Ming Yuan, who received the award in \n2006, 2007\nand 2009, respectively. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Professor Mei\u2019s research interests include change-point\nproblems and sequential analysis in Mathematical Statistics; sensor \nnetworks\nand information theory in Engineering; and longitudinal data analysis, \nrandom\neffects models, and clinical trials in Biostatistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in\nP.R. China, and a PhD in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical \nEngineering\nfrom the California Institute of Technology. Mei also worked as a \nPostdoc in\nBiostatistics for two years in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research \nCenter in\nSeattle, WA.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYajun Mei, assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-03-08 14:32:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:41","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54664":{"id":"54664","type":"image","title":"Yajun Mei","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894403","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:03","alt":"Yajun Mei","file":{"fid":"172508","name":"Mei_Yajun_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2267567,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mei_Yajun_-_Bust_0.jpg?itok=dP9g-_Fi"}}},"media_ids":["54664"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"7842","name":"NSF CAREER Award"},{"id":"170954","name":"Statistic \/ Quality Group"},{"id":"8907","name":"Yajun Mei"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"54666":{"#nid":"54666","#data":{"type":"news","title":"SCL Offers Free Online Inventory Optimization Webinar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute is hosting a free Inventory Optimization webinar on Monday, March 15th from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. (Eastern time). 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S. Department of Commerce and the Georgia Department of Natural\nRecourses is sponsoring \u201c\u003Cem\u003ESMART Companies\nWork Together,\u201d\u003C\/em\u003E a no-cost event for manufacturers seeking to improve the\nefficiency of their supply chain while lowering their environmental impact. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The\nevent, scheduled for February 22, 2010, is the sixth in the Department of\nCommerce\u2019s series of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/trade.gov\/competitiveness\/sustainablemanufacturing\/index.asp\u0022\u003ESustainable\nManufacturing American Regional Tours (SMARTs)\u003C\/a\u003E. Those attending will have\nan opportunity to network with other local businesses and together:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003Egain a\n     basic understanding of conducting a company self-assessment in order to\n     eliminate waste from their business operations by lowering energy,\n     materials and other costs\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Elearn the\n     importance of looking throughout their supply chain to cut costs by removing\n     waste and uncertainty\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Elearn how\n     to partner with service providers to make better supply chain strategy\n     decisions\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The\none-day event, to be held at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources from 8\na.m. until 5:30\u0026nbsp; p.m. is divided into\nmorning and afternoon sessions. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;During\nthe morning session, attendees will hear firsthand accounts from companies that\nhave enhanced their competitiveness through improvements to environmental\nperformance, service providers that work with manufacturers throughout the\nsupply chain to improve efficiency and sustainability, and federal and state\nresource providers that can help companies get started. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;The\nafternoon session will consist of site visits to two local manufacturing\nfacilities that are leaders in sustainability, including one to Interface, the worldwide leader in design, production and\nsales of environmentally responsible modular carpet and a recognized\nleader in the area of industrial ecology. Attendees will be able to see how\nthese companies have incorporated sustainable principles into their\nmanufacturing processes and in their relationships with their supply chains.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Robert\nMartichenko, PhD, SCL senior lecturer of SCL\u2019s newly initiated lean supply\nchain professional certificate series (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/lean\u0022\u003Ewww.scl.gatech.edu\/lean\u003C\/a\u003E) will present the keynote\naddress.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Chip\nWhite, PhD, School Chair of the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems\nEngineering, will moderate one of the panel discussions, titled \u201cExternal\nFactors to increase Efficiency in Your Supply Chain.\u201d\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Those\ninterested in attending this free event can register for either the morning\nsession (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/emenuapps.ita.doc.gov\/ePublic\/newWebinarRegistration.jsp?SmartCode=0Q54\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E ) or\nthe full day (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/emenuapps.ita.doc.gov\/ePublic\/newWebinarRegistration.jsp?SmartCode=0Q55\u0022\u003Eclick here)\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information abouat the event contact: \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Morgan.Barr@trade.gov \u0022\u003EMorgan Barr\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E(202) 482-3704\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.manufacturing.gov\/sustainability\u0022\u003Ewww.manufacturing.gov\/sustainability\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) in collaboration with the U. 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Milton Stewart School"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"53739":{"#nid":"53739","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Langley to Speak at National Logistics Conference in April","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Langley, professor of supply chain management in Georgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) and director of Supply Chain Executive Programs, will be one of the featured speakers at the 6th annual National Logistics \u0026amp; Distribution Conference (NLDC). The conference, which SCL is co-hosting with the Metro Atlanta Chamber, is scheduled for April 12-14, 2010, at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENLDC was created to provide an educational conference for senior supply chain executives to hear from key industry speakers. With 2010 promising to be yet another challenging year for supply chain professionals, executives in all industries are looking for ways to reduce costs, optimize inventory, increase returns on assets, and improve service. With that in mind, the 6th annual NLDC features the brightest minds in supply chain logistics prepared to share experiences and information that can help forge a stronger supply chain that can successfully adapt in a dynamic world.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conference\u0027s executive presentations and programming feature real-world case studies, leading technology solutions, and strategies for supply chain success. Presentation topics include:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERetail Supply Chain Transformation\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOptimizing Inventory Productivity\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EAutomation in Multi-Channel Order Fulfillment\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOperational Excellence \u0026amp; Labor Management\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESupply Chain Excellence\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ELean Six Sigma Transformation\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EInnovative Technology in Logistics and Distribution\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EGlobal Port Traffic: What a Difference a Year Makes\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about the conference and to register, visit the conference website at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nldc2010.com\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.nldc2010.com\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Langley, professor of supply chain management in Georgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) and director of Supply Chain Executive Programs, will be one of the featured speakers at the 6th annual National Logistics \u0026amp; Distribution Conference (NLDC). 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He was 88.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Originally from Sandusky, Ohio, Bob Lehrer\nstarted his engineering education at the University of Cincinnati. Like so many\nengineering professors of the time, Lehrer joined the military during World War\nII and was stationed at Purdue University in 1943 as part of the Navy\u2019s V-12\nCollege Training Program. After the war, Lehrer returned to Purdue, where he\ncompleted his graduate degrees and went on to teach at Purdue and Oregon State University, before joining the Georgia\nTech faculty in 1950. Frank F. \u201cColonel\u201d Groseclose, Industrial\nEngineering (IE) School chair from 1946 to 1966, hired Lehrer, who became one\nof fifteen faculty in the school at that time. Groseclose soon put Lehrer in\ncharge of the graduate program; however, the Ph.D. program was slow in starting,\nand in 1957, Lehrer left for Northwestern University to establish a doctoral\nprogram in Industrial Engineering. Four years later, Lehrer moved his family to\nMexico for one year at the\nrequest of the United Nations Educational, Social, and Cultural Organization\n(UNESCO). As his year began to wind down, Groseclose asked Lehrer to return to\nthe School as associate director. The Ph.D. program was now up and running.\nLehrer returned to Atlanta in 1963, and Groseclose handed him the reins in\n1966. He served as Chair until 1978. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDuring his tenure as chair of the School, Lehrer\nis credited with modernizing the Industrial Engineering program and with adding\nthe word \u201cSystems\u201d to the School\u2019s name, reflecting in full the School\u2019s\nphilosophy. In an article in the Fall 2005 issue of \u003Cem\u003EEngineering Enterprise\u003C\/em\u003E; however, Lehrer stated that he believed his\nnumber one legacy was the strength of the faculty he hired. Some of his hires\nstill involved with the School include Austin Esogbue; R. Gary Parker, associate chair for\nGraduate Studies; and Leon McGinnis, Eugene C. Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing\nSystems.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to McGinnis, Lehrer was \u201cone\nof the first IE department heads to embrace the quantitative side of IE, by\nhiring some really good young OR [operational research] people like Mike\nShetty, John Jarvis [School chair from\n1989 to 2001], and Mo Bazaara. But he also understood the need for\nbalance in developing a faculty with strong representation from the engineering\nside of IE, like Jim Apple and John White, and the human side of IE, like Alan\nPorter and Terry Connolly. Bob left an indelible mark, not just on us, but on\nGeorgia Tech and on the profession.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;About\nLehrer\u2019s hires, R. Gary Parker, states that \u201cthese were people who brought to\nISyE a perspective that facilitated our upward movement among the ranks of more\nserious \u003Cbr \/\u003E\nIE\/OR academic programs.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Lehrer was a member of: Phi Delta Theta, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa\nPhi, and Alpha Pi Mu. He was the author of five books translated into seven\nlanguages and was editor-in chief of the \u003Cem\u003EJournal\nof Industrial Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E. Among his awards and honors, Lehrer was the\nrecipient of the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award, IE\u0027s\nhighest award as well as being the first recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus\nAward in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University (1964). He was named\nOutstanding Industrial Engineer in 1997. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Lehrer is survived by Pat, his wife of 64 years; daughter and\nson-in-law, Joan and Hunter Hess; his brother, Dr. Richard Lehrer of Florida;\nhis sister-in-law, Janice Lehrer of Hilton Head, S.C.; and fifteen nieces and\nnephews. A private family service was held on Friday, January 29, 2010, at St.\nLuke\u0027s Episcopal Church. Memorials in his memory may be sent to The Residence\nand Endowment Fund, Canterbury Court, 3750 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA.\n30319. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Robert N. \u201cBob\u201d Lehrer, the second of only six men thus far to chair Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), passed away on Monday, January 25, 2010. 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Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE). The grant gives Georgia Tech academic edition licenses to support teaching and research in simulation.\u0026nbsp; ISyE will be the primary home for the research license and will use the Simio grant to remain at the forefront of research and education at all levels.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cWe are pleased to be the recipient of such cutting-edge software,\u201d states Chip White, H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart chair of ISyE, \u201cand we will certainly put it to good use in a variety of classes and research activities involving simulation and stochastic processes.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESimio Academic Edition is fully capable software with no model size limits and includes discrete and continuous modeling, object library development, and 3D animation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u201cThe faculty at Georgia Tech is committed to providing the best environment for their students to learn simulation,\u201d said Dr. Dennis Pegden, Founder and CEO of Simio. \u201cWe are honored to provide them with the best software available to teach their students.\u201d\u003Cstrong\u003E \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsers of the software will be able to model systems using intelligent objects and the software\u2019s direct connection to Google\u2019s 3D Warehouse \u2013 two features unique to Simio.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe intelligent objects are built by modelers and then may be reused in multiple modeling projects. These objects can be stored in libraries and easily shared. Simio\u2019s connection to Google\u2019s 3D Warehouse gives access to a free online library of thousands of graphic objects \u0026nbsp;\u2013 providing students with the ability to solve real-world problems in visually-rich environments.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith this grant, Georgia Tech joins over a 100 universities across the globe to join Simio\u2019s academic program, which offers Simio\u2019s 3D modeling software to schools at no charge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.simio.com\/\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ESimio LLC, a private company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, \u0026nbsp;is dedicated to delivering leading edge solutions for the design, emulation, and scheduling of complex systems.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESimio, a developer of 3D object-oriented simulation software, has awarded a $306,900 grant to Georgia Tech, giving it academic edition licenses to support teaching and research in simulation. The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) will be the primary home for the research licenses and will make the software available to students and researchers throughout the Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Home for New Simulation Software"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-02-11 11:19:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:16","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-02-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"8454","name":"H. 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On sabbatical from the Center for Operations Research and\nEconomics (CORE) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belguim,\u0026nbsp; Professor Nesterov is on campus for four\nmonths to work with Arkadi Nemirovski, Hunter Chair in\nISyE. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessors\nNesterov and Nemirovski have a long history of collaboration. For the past\ntwenty-five years they have joined forces to work on various projects, such as\nthe book they co-authored, \u003Cem\u003EInterior-Point Polynomial\nAlgorithms for Convex Programming\u003C\/em\u003E, which develops the theory of\nself-concordant functions to unify global complexity results obtained for\nconvex optimization problems including linear, second-order cone and semi-definite\nprogramming. \u0026nbsp;To\nmany scholars this book is considered the most important contribution to\noptimization theory and applications in the last twenty years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Nesterov is the recipient of several awards and\nhonors. Among those are the George B. Dantzig Prize and the John Von Neuman\nPrize, awarded also to Ellis Johnson, Coca-Cola Chaired professor in ISyE, and\nProfessor Nemirovski. The Dantzig Prize, awarded jointly by the Mathematical\nProgramming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is\nawarded for original research, which by its originality, breadth and scope, is\nhaving a major impact on the field of mathematical programming. \u0026nbsp;The John von Neuman Prize is awarded annually\nto a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who has made fundamental,\nsustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management\nsciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, Professor Nesterov, along with Professor Shapiro,\nhas been invited to speak at the upcoming prestigious International Congress of\nMathematicians (ICM) to be held in Hyderabad, India, August 19-27, 2010. Convening\nonce every four years, the ICM is the largest meeting of mathematicians from\naround the world. Professors Shapiro and Nesterov join ISyE professors\nNemirovski, William Cook, Chandler Family Chair, as well as courtesy appointed\nProfessor Robin Thomas from the School of Mathematics , as among the few to\nreceive this exceptionally prestigious honor. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to R. Gary Parker, ISyE professor and associate\nchair for Graduate Studies, very few invited talks are awarded at the ICM, and\nit is very rare for faculty in such departments as \u201cindustrial engineering\u201d or\neven \u201coperations research\u201d to receive such an honor. \u201cRemarkably,\u201d states\nParker, ISyE \u201chas three sitting faculty who have been so honored and four\ncounting courtesy appointed Professor Robin Thomas.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the textbook he co-authored with Professor Nemirovski,\nProfessor Nesterov co-authored a subsequent paper, which introduced the theory\nof self-scaled cones to unify the theory of primal-dual algorithms for these\nsame problem classes. Nesterov is also the author of the monograph \u003Cem\u003EIntroductory\nLectures on Convex Optimization\u003C\/em\u003E, which develops state-of-the-art theory at\na level appropriate for introductory graduate courses. In recent work he has\nobtained improved results on the global convergence of a regularized Newton\u2019s\nmethod for unconstrained optimization and established a theory of smoothing that\nallows for the applicability of optimal first-order methods to large-scale\nproblems with nondifferentiable objectives. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Nesterov will be visiting Georgia Tech through April 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Yurii Nesterov, the world\u2019s leading authority on the efficiency of algorithms for continuous optimization, is a visiting professor this spring at the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yurii Nesterov is visitng with Arkadi Nemirovski this spring."}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-01-28 16:12:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:12","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50242":{"id":"50242","type":"image","title":"Left to right: Arkadi Nemirovsk, Hunter Chair in ISyE; Yurii Nesterov, visiting professor from the Center for Operations Research and Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belguim; and Alex Shapiro, ISyE professor","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894471","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:11","alt":"Left to right: Arkadi Nemirovsk, Hunter Chair in ISyE; Yurii Nesterov, visiting professor from the Center for Operations Research and Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belguim; and Alex Shapiro, ISyE professor","file":{"fid":"128819","name":"IMG_4166.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4166_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4166_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3635588,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_4166_0.JPG?itok=D4PgpQpR"}}},"media_ids":["50242"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8342","name":"Arkadi Nemirovski"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"169275","name":"stewart school of industrial and systems engineering"},{"id":"8343","name":"Yurii Nesterov and Alex Shapiro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"50246":{"#nid":"50246","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Santanu Dey Selected for 2009 IBM Faculty Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESantanu Dey, assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and\nSystems Engineering (ISyE), has been selected to receive the IBM Faculty Award\nfor 2009. The IBM Faculty Award is a worldwide competition program intended to\nfoster collaboration between researchers at leading universities worldwide and\nthose in IBM research, development and services organizations and to promote\ncourseware and curriculum innovation to stimulate growth in disciplines and\ngeographies that are strategic to IBM. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDey joins the ranks of other ISyE faculty who have received the award,\nincluding Shabbir Ahmed in 2002 and 2005; Jiangang\u0026nbsp; (Jim) Dai in 2003; William \u201cBill\u201d Rouse in\n2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008; and Bert Zwart in 2008. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHaving worked as a research fellow at the Center for Operations Research and\nEconometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, Dey\u2019s\nresearch interests are in the areas of large-scale optimization, mixed integer\nprogramming, and applications of discrete optimization.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Santanu Dey, assistant professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), has been selected to receive the IBM Faculty Award for 2009.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Santanu Dey selected to receive 2009 IBM Faculty Award"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-01-28 16:55:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:12","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50244":{"id":"50244","type":"image","title":"Santanu Dey","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894471","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:11","alt":"Santanu Dey","file":{"fid":"128820","name":"Dey_Santanu_-_Bust.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dey_Santanu_-_Bust_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Dey_Santanu_-_Bust_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3018606,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Dey_Santanu_-_Bust_1.jpg?itok=v_l3r9rh"}}},"media_ids":["50244"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStewart School of Industrial and \nSystems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"49733":{"#nid":"49733","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Focus On: Ann Melissa Campbell Examines New Network Design Problems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Melissa Campbell (PhD OR 2000) is an associate professor in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include routing and related distribution problems, including new network design problems based on challenges faced by UPS and new delivery pricing problems inspired by e-grocers. She also studies stochastic routing problems and efficient ways to solve them. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the problems she examined for UPS involves how to design a delivery network to move ground shipments from their origins to their destinations in a cost-efficient manner that satisfies promised delivery time commitments. This is a problem that has become increasingly challenging for companies such as UPS, as more customers are opting for the shorter delivery times that many ground freight companies now offer. At the same time, completely redesigning a company\u0027s delivery network based on these new delivery times is a very expensive proposition. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECampbell and co-authors Barrett Thomas (also at the University of Iowa) and Hui Chen (a former PhD student at Iowa and now a senior analyst at Northwest Airlines) have focused on a version of the problem where none of the hubs move, since the hubs would be the most expensive part of the network to change. Each \u0022connection\u0022 represents a truck and a driver carrying ground freight from one hub to another. From each hub, there may be connections going to a single hub or to many other hubs. The number of connections has a significant impact on cost (as a truck and a driver represent a substantial investment) and on the ability to satisfy all promised delivery time commitments. Thus, Campbell, Thomas, and Chen specifically examine how to find the best possible set of connections that satisfy delivery time commitments given a limit on the total number of connections that may be used. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor many potential scenarios, there is not a feasible network that satisfies all delivery time commitments, so they measure the amount of violation of these commitments and seek to minimize either the maximum violation or the total sum of violations. For the maximum violation version of the problem, they have developed algorithms that solve several versions of the problem exactly. For the total sum version, exact solutions are not possible, but the authors have created some clever heuristics that capitalize on the solution structure. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn their computational experiments based on different ground networks in the United States, they found the solutions to problems with lower budgets always took on the appearance of connecting each hub to a \u0022superhighway\u0022 going across the country. As budgets increase, the superhighway remains, but with additional connections added. This solution structure reveals the importance of having high-flow lanes and prioritizing movement of freight on these lanes to promote service quality and customer satisfaction.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECampbell received a prestigious NSF CAREER grant in 2003 and was awarded a Hesse Fellowship at the University of Iowa in 2004. She was named an associate editor of \u003Cem\u003ETransportation Science \u003C\/em\u003Ein 2007 and has authored twenty journal articles and four book chapters. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis article fist appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of \u003Cem\u003EIndustrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/em\u003E, the alumni magazine of the Stewart School of ISyE.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Melissa Campbell (PhD OR 2000) is an associate professor in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include routing and related distribution problems, including new network design problems based on challenges faced by UPS and new delivery pricing problems inspired by e-grocers. 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Direct Ship clients who previously shipped small packages through UPS sortation hubs at both the origin and destination were now able to combine packages into full-truckload (FTL) shipments directly from a warehouse to a UPS hub near the packages\u0027 destination.  At the hub, individual packages would be sorted and sent to their final destinations via UPS Ground. Skipping the UPS sortation hub at the origin zone led to quicker shipment times and lower costs, and Direct Ship was used by dozens of major retailers on hundreds of lanes.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERather than use its own fleet for the FTL shipments from warehouses to hubs, UPS subcontracted each lane to an FTL carrier. Carriers would bid for the right to carry shipments on each lane, with UPS awarding lanes to the low bidders or, in some cases, to incumbent carriers with strong performance records. The resulting shipment network used a hodgepodge of almost 50 carriers, including national, local, and niche carriers of different sizes and varying reliability.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn practice, UPS found its Direct Ship network to be unwieldy. Managing and coordinating almost 50 different shippers was difficult, and the on-time service performance on some of the lanes was worse than UPS\u0027s 98% target. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the spring of 2008, UPS desired to re-bid its network and reassign lanes to carriers, and they turned to ISyE Senior Design for assistance. A team of six ISyE undergraduate students comprised of Katie Buckler, Carlanna Cunningham, Jay Hennington, Kevin Kitchens, Patrick Odneal, and Richard Ward worked with UPS to provide not just a new selection of carriers but also a new way of approaching the entire process of choosing a carrier for each lane. While still hoping to minimize the total network cost, UPS had several characteristics they wanted in a new carrier assignment:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(1)\tFewer total carriers, preferably 8-10 of the largest and most reliable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(2)\tBalanced assignments of lanes to carriers with respect to mileage and revenue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n(3)\t98% or higher on-time service for the largest 25 Direct Ship customers.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, the ISyE Senior Design team realized that UPS might pay more than necessary to its carriers by bidding out each lane separately. For example, a carrier bidding on lanes from Atlanta to Chicago and Chicago to Atlanta might run the risk of winning just one of the two and having to deadhead drivers on the return trip. To mitigate that risk, the carrier would need to place a higher bid on each lane. But if the carrier were allowed to place a bid for the pair of lanes together, the risk would be removed and the price UPS pays could be lower. More generally, carriers would mix-and-match combinations of lanes that fit best within their networks, offering UPS lower prices in return for the benefit of getting exactly the set of lanes they want. Called combinatorial (or combinational) bidding, these types of auctions have been used in many areas from transportation lane assignments to cell phone frequency sales, resulting in millions of dollars in benefits.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWith this design in mind, the ISyE Senior Design team created a user-friendly tool for UPS to run its auctions. The Java-based tool reads auction and carrier data from UPS\u0027s Excel files and gives UPS the opportunity to add custom restrictions, define tolerances for mileage and revenue balance, and create differing total-carrier and service-level scenarios. Then, it creates and solves an optimization problem to find the lowest-cost carrier assignments that satisfy UPS\u0027s desired characteristics.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to providing a single solution based on each of UPS\u0027s scenario inputs, the tool also does what-if sensitivity analysis to point out which bids would be most valuable for negotiation and on which lanes it might be very valuable for UPS to accept a small niche carrier\u0027s bid.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, based on the bids received by UPS in 2007, the ISyE Senior Design team\u0027s approach was able to save UPS about $1.3 million per year in carrier costs, while reducing the number of carriers in the Direct Ship network from 46 to 8, balancing mileage and revenue among the carriers, and increasing the service level above the desired 98%.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor questions or to become involved in the Senior Design program, contact Joel Sokol at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:joel.sokol@isye.gatech.edu \u0022\u003Ejoel.sokol@isye.gatech.edu \u003C\/a\u003Eor visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\u0022\u003Ewww.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\u003C\/a\u003E.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article originally appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of \u003Cstrong\u003EIndustrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E, the alumni magazine for the Stewart School of ISyE.\u003C\/em\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn the spring of 2008, UPS desired to re-bid its network and reassign lanes to carriers, and they turned to ISyE Senior Design for assistance. A team of six ISyE undergraduate students comprised of Katie Buckler, Carlanna Cunningham, Jay Hennington, Kevin Kitchens, Patrick Odneal, and Richard Ward worked with UPS to provide not just a new selection of carriers but also a new way of approaching the entire process of choosing a carrier for each lane. 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In fact, since the early 1990s, the use of container shipments worldwide has grown more than three times the rate of the global GDP. Despite the recent economic downturn that has significantly cooled international trade, it is likely that ocean container cargo will continue to be important for years to come. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers within the Stewart School have been active in ocean cargo research throughout the past decade. In this article, we highlight two recent research efforts supported by both the National Science Foundation and the Singapore Economic Development Board. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Ozlem Ergun and Richa Agarwal (PhD IE 2007) recently completed a set of work culminating in Agarwal\u0027s thesis, \u0022Network Design and Alliance Formation for Liner Shipping.\u0022 Today\u0027s large ocean carriers, like Maersk, Hapag Lloyd, and NOL, face challenging problems in service network design, the task of determining which routes or services to operate and at what frequencies and how to assign ships to these services. An important new challenge is that most transoceanic routes today are operated jointly by a number of different carriers working together within an alliance. Thus, the research also focuses on how to jointly plan the operations of multiple collaborative carriers, including how to allocate the capacity of different services among carriers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo solve these problems, Agarwal and Ergun developed a new integrated optimization model to solve the ship scheduling problem and the cargo routing problem simultaneously -- the first such model to incorporate transshipment ports (where cargo is transferred from one service to another). Since the model is too large to be solved directly with commercial optimization solvers, the team developed various customized heuristic and exact solution approaches and demonstrated their applicability on realistically sized problems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the second part of the study, Agarwal and Ergun focused specifically on alliance formation among liner carriers, using techniques from optimization and algorithmic game theory to propose an approach to design a collaborative service network. To manage interactions among participating carriers, their approach determines appropriate prices for capacity exchange between carriers to induce participants to follow an optimal collaborative strategy. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Alan Erera and Aykagan Ak (PhD IE 2008) have recently studied another important aspect of ocean container operations: scheduling problems at seaports. Ak\u0027s thesis, \u0022Berth and Quay Crane Scheduling: Problems, Models, and Solution Methods,\u0022 is an integrated study that investigates how to optimally plan ship loading and unloading operations at container seaports. Managing berthing space and the large dockside quay cranes that are used to service vessels is a critical operational challenge; efficiency gains here allow ports to maximize container throughput while meeting the service requirements of carriers. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBerth allocation is the problem of determining where to moor a sequence of arriving vessels over time, while quay crane allocation and scheduling problems focus on which quay cranes to assign to berthed vessels. At large modern seaports, it is possible to simultaneously berth multiple vessels of varying lengths along long linear berthing areas with a shared set of cranes, which can be moved from one vessel to another (without passing each other) at any time, thus leading to very complex scheduling problems. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAk\u0027s work was among the first to consider joint planning of berth allocation and quay crane scheduling, and he developed very fast solution heuristics based on tabu search to quickly find near-optimal solutions to these problems. His methods are currently being used as part of a large research effort focused on risk mitigation at U.S. seaports to simulate how port operators might re-optimize operations if cranes or berth sections are damaged. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProfessors Alan Erera and Ozlem Ergun prepared this article fo the Fall 2009 issue of \u003Cstrong\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E, the alumni magazine for the Stewart School of ISyE.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to moving finished goods and intermediate products between continents to consumers and businesses, the dominant mode of transportation is containerized ocean cargo. 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Undergraduate students from Professor John Bartholdi\u0027s class know, as they discovered in two fascinating and fun class projects: The Great Package Race and the new Great Container Race.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERunning in this race are four of the major package carriers  -- DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS. Since 2003, Bartholdi and his students have tracked packages going to designated locations to analyze the routes and determine which carrier can get a package to the final destination first and in the best condition. Because each carrier has its own freight network through which a package travels, the experience of each package depends on the structure of the network. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is not an easy race; destinations are intentionally chosen to challenge package carriers. All packages leave from the same location on Georgia Tech\u0027s campus, but are shipped to various thematic locations. One year they may ship to off-the-beaten-path exotic locales, another year to great centers of commerce around the globe, and yet in another year, students may ship packages to their mothers who reside around the world. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It is remarkable that most packages eventually reach their destinations, even under difficult circumstances, but there have been some dramatic lapses,\u0022 Bartholdi noted. \u0022One package was carried back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean nine times before delivery. Another was sent to Costa Rica instead of Croatia. One carrier claimed that the destination country did not exist. It does.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere have been dramatic finishes as well. In 2006, one carrier beat another to Croatia by a mere three minutes. A race to Singapore ended in a tie when delivery personnel from two of the carriers arrived at the door simultaneously, even though the packages had taken completely different routes to get there. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELast year, Bartholdi broadened the scope of his Great Package Race to create the Great Container Race. This time, running in the race were two international shipping containers filled with medical supplies. For the first Great Container Race, the class tracked and then analyzed the routes of the two containers as they traveled by alternate routes and carriers to the University of Cape Coast Hospital in the West African nation of Ghana. In an international shipment, a container might travel by any combination of transportation modes. This requires carefully choreographed handoffs, from truck to port and then from port to ship, for example. Each handoff brings a chance of delay. Speed also depends on schedules of shipping companies, throughput capacities at ports, and precision of scheduling pickups and drop-offs. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor this first race, one container traveled by rail to Savannah, took a French ocean liner to Le Havre, transshipped to Tema, and then continued by truck 100 miles to Cape Coast. The other traveled by truck to Savannah, took a Danish liner to Algeciras, Spain, transshipped to Tema, and then traveled by truck to the final destination of Cape Coast, Ghana. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOr at least that was the plan. What actually happened was that the container was stuck in Algeciras for a month due to congestion at the port. Meanwhile, the other container was also stuck, but in customs at Tema. Eventually congestion dissipated, customs worked its way through the complex bill of lading, and both shipments were delivered safely. But then, this is what global freight transport is all about: Dealing with the unexpected. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThis article originally appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of \u003Cstrong\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E, the alumni magazine of the Stewart School of ISyE. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow hard is it to get a package to say, Khartoum, Sudan, or to Split, Croatia, or to transport a shipping container filled with medical supplies to a hospital in Ghana? 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Barry McNeil, Schenker\u0027s vice president of operations, who had already graduated from the program, assured me that I was in for a unique experience. And he was right.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThrough EMIL-SCS, I have learned about global supply chain issues firsthand. I saw trucks lined up at border crossings from Eastern Europe heading into Western Europe and from Mexico into the United States. I experienced traffic in S**o Paulo, Brazil. I wound my way through the airport in Guangzhou, China, and watched huge ships navigate the narrow passage through the Panama Canal\u0027s locks. In Hong Kong, I stood on the bridge of the world\u0027s biggest container vessel as containers were simultaneously loaded and unloaded. I have talked to local business people about their specific supply chain challenges in China, Malaysia, France, Germany, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and beyond. Going through EMIL-SCS has been an amazing and informative experience. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhat is the EMIL-SCS program like? The residence structure is designed for students who work full time. The program is built around five, two-week residences in which participants are fully immersed in classes, away from workplace distractions and often in overseas locations. The residences are supported by coursework and assignments, completed by students back at home between sessions. This requires application and commitment from the students, but the program is designed for incorporation around normal work activities. In fact, many of the assignments require students to apply the theory taught in class to the practicalities of their own company and work environments. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe exact details of each residence vary with each class, but here are some highlights from mine. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E*Residence I\u003C\/strong\u003E***North America: This residence was a very academic baptism by fire into the world of modeling, optimization, finance, and other aspects of technical logistics held on campus at Georgia Tech. This was pretty scary for those of us with liberal arts backgrounds (my undergraduate degree was in French and business studies). The quality of teaching from the likes of Stephen Timme, our charismatic finance professor, and Martin Savelsbergh, who was able to explain optimization to novices (like me) and experts alike, made the eight-hour days in a classroom bearable. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E*Residence II\u003C\/strong\u003E***Europe: This residence was a complete change in focus from the purely academic to the reality of doing business in Europe. The residence had a mixture of academic classroom sessions (labor relations in Europe, history of the European Union, sustainability in the supply chain, etc.), outside speakers (European trucking operations, discount airline business model), as well as site visits (Port of Le Havre, Kia car factory) in France, Germany, and Slovakia. The residence also involved live case sessions where a host European company outlined a specific relevant supply chain issue the company was facing, and a small group of students worked together to present potential solutions and lead a class discussion with the company about the issue. The live case I worked on was with a French company, Legallais-Bouchard, that was looking to expand into another region of France. My team reviewed and presented several options for a future distribution network that included operational and financial considerations. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E*Residence III\u003C\/strong\u003E***Latin America: My third residence began with a visit to the Panama Canal. We also took in site tours in Chile and Brazil. Maria Rey, an academically outstanding presenter and previous EMIL-SCS graduate, explained some of the complexities of logistics in the region. Professor John Bartholdi held some lively classroom exercises on warehouse design. Picking paper clips from cups with tweezers gave us a hands-on opportunity to understand the benefits of the bucket brigades -- a way of organizing workers on an assembly line so that the line balances itself.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E*Residence IV\u003C\/strong\u003E***Asia: This was probably the most ambitious residence, with visits to Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, a train ride to a manufacturing plant in southern China, Shanghai, and -- for a few of us who tagged on an extra weekend -- Beijing and the Great Wall. One of the highlights of the residence was a tour of Elly Maersk, the largest container ship in the world, while it was in port in Hong Kong. Others included discussions with Dell, Intel, Jabil, and William Fung on topical supply chain challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E*Residence V\u003C\/strong\u003E***North America: In our final residence, we came back to the classroom in Atlanta for a week, and then we were off to Laredo, Texas, to experience border operations. Then we headed across the border into Monterrey, Mexico, for discussions on NAFTA and a visit to a \u003Cem\u003Emaquiladora\u003C\/em\u003E manufacturing site. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile participating in the residences, we also took part in a global project, based on a real-life supply chain opportunity. We were divided into teams and worked on our project throughout the program. During the final residence, we presented the results of our project to the course directors, our classmates, and members of the EMIL**-SCS advisory board. I was part of a team that analyzed the routing of products and components from sources in Asia to manufacturing and assembly facilities in North America. We were particularly satisfied to hear that our subject company (a major global manufacturer of computer equipment) had decided to implement some of our recommendations as a pilot project just prior to our presentation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf you are interested in the program, you can find out more at \u003Ca href=\u0027www.emil.gatech.edu\u0027\u003Ewww.emil.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E. If you are fortunate enough to participate, have fun! With so much travel involved, it is always an adventure. Traveling together is a great way to network and bond with your fellow classmates. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETheresa Foran prepared this article for the Fall 2009 issue of \u003Cstrong\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E, the alumni magazine for the Stewart School of ISyE\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Through EMIL-SCS, I have learned about global supply chain issues firsthand. I saw trucks lined up at border crossings from Eastern Europe heading into Western Europe and from Mexico into the United States. I experienced traffic in S**o Paulo, Brazil. I wound my way through the airport in Guangzhou, China, and watched huge ships navigate the narrow passage through the Panama Canal\u0027s locks. In Hong Kong, I stood on the bridge of the world\u0027s biggest container vessel as containers were simultaneously loaded and unloaded. 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Focusing on the United States, the scale of many of these transportation systems is staggering: in 2006, 1.7 trillion vehicle-miles were traveled by passenger cars on our nation\u0027s highways, 700 million passengers were transported by airlines, 1.8 trillion ton-miles of freight were moved by railroads, and 2.6 billion tons of freight passed through seaports.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELarge-scale, complex transportation systems pose significant challenges in terms of design and control. Many of these challenges, however, are well suited to analytical techniques of operations research and industrial engineering that form the core expertise of the faculty in the Stewart School. Operations research has a long history of successful application to transportation planning problems of a tactical nature. Such problems (including network design, service scheduling, fleet sizing and positioning, and resource and crew scheduling) have traditionally been modeled as large-scale deterministic optimization problems. More recently, researchers have addressed planning problems with models that explicitly consider inherent uncertainty in such systems. In response to continual improvements in computing power and information technology, the focus today has expanded to include problems of operational control where models can support decisions in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFaculty and student researchers within the Stewart School have been active participants in the application of operations research to problems of transportation system design and control, and they continue that tradition to date. The group of industry sponsors and collaborators who have worked recently with faculty and student research teams includes industry leaders such as UPS, Schneider National, Norfolk Southern, Delta Airlines, ExxonMobil, Yellow-Roadway, and the Georgia Ports Authority.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch and industry-sponsored educational activities in the area of transportation systems take a variety of forms at the Stewart School. Researchers are supported by federal grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as funds from the State of Georgia through the Center of Innovation for Logistics and from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Program. Large industry-funded collaborations are typically managed by contracts through Georgia Tech\u0027s Office of Sponsored Programs. Other industry collaborations are formalized as Leaders in Logistics projects through the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL). Finally, transportation problems are frequently the focus of undergraduate Senior Design projects.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENSF funded a $1.1 million, three-year project titled \u0022Collaborative Logistics,\u0022 supporting the work of ISyE faculty members John Bartholdi, Ozlem Ergun, Pinar Keskinocak, Anton Kleywegt, George Nemhauser, Martin Savelsbergh, and their PhD students. The study, which concluded in 2007, covered a wide-range of topics, including inventory pooling in supply chains, collaborative procurement of truckload transportation services, dynamic pricing with buyers\u0027 learning, and carrier alliances and resource sharing. Another recent NSF award, to study \u0022Risk Mitigation for Strategic Ports,\u0022 provided $3.6 million in funding to support a large interdisciplinary research team led by Georgia Tech to investigate how to protect critical seaport infrastructure from major operational disruptions. Investigator Alan Erera is developing berth and quay crane scheduling optimization methods for this project to understand how to best recover operating capacity when some port components are damaged.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFHWA has supported ISyE research through a $1.4 million, multi-year grant to fund the \u0022Transportation Research Center for Freight, Trade, Security, and Economic Strength.\u0022 Co-directed by School Chair Chelsea C. White III and Erera, the center supported a diverse set of transportation-related research activities. On one project, the co-directors, along with faculty member Hayriye Ayhan, developed technology to improve route-finding for commercial vehicles given highway congestion, and efforts are underway to deploy this technology for rail container drayage trucks in the Kansas City area as part of the Cross-Town Improvement Project. Another project, led by faculty members Christos Alexopoulos and Dave Goldsman, focuses on developing a detailed simulation of operations at the Georgia Ports Authority\u0027s Savannah container port facility. Matching support for this research was provided by the Georgia Center of Innovation for Logistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to government funding, ISyE researchers are often supported directly by companies through research grants. Two large contract research programs focused on transportation problems have been led by George Nemhauser and Savelsbergh. The first, funded by DayJet Corporation through 2008, focused on the development of various scheduling algorithms to support the operations of an airline offering per-seat, on-demand air transportation using a large fleet of very light jets. Unlike traditional airline planning problems where resource schedules can be planned in advance, the on-demand business model requires scheduling engines that can be used in real-time to determine whether to accept or reject a customer flight request and that can optimize resource schedules overnight for the next day\u0027s operation. A second ongoing project, funded by ExxonMobil, focuses on maritime routing and inventory management. Optimization technology is being developed for cost-effectively routing a pool of vessels and timing the loading, transporting, and discharging of bulk products to and from multiple ports.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMany companies choose to establish a research relationship with ISyE faculty through SCL\u0027s Leaders in Logistics program. One of the longest industry partnerships under this program supported the work of Savelsbergh with the industrial gas producer Praxair. The various research projects conducted over the years all focused on effectively exploiting the distribution flexibility offered by Praxair\u0027s vendor managed inventory resupply agreements with its customers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEvery research project described above has involved one or more graduate students in our School, typically those pursuing a PhD. By working on applied research, these students benefit by developing a solid understanding of how operations research and industrial engineering methodologies are used in practice and when and how existing tools must be extended to tackle new problems or enhanced to provide better solutions to old problems. Undergraduate students in our Senior Design program also have a chance to interact directly with faculty on problems faced by the transportation industry. Over the years, many projects have been sponsored by companies seeking to improve transportation activities; recent examples include projects from UPS on truck scheduling and auction-based procurement, from RaceTrac on routing and scheduling for fuel resupply at service stations, and from the Home Depot on managing the daily operations of a private fleet of trucks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETransportation research and education activity is clearly alive and well within the Stewart School.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EProfessors Martin Savelsbergh and Alan Erera prepared this article for the Fall 2009 issue of \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, the alumni magazine of the Stewart School of ISyE.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELarge-scale, complex transportation systems pose significant challenges in terms of design and control. 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The logistical world of emergency relief \u2013 which has a large footprint in Atlanta \u2013 is being tested as in few other natural disasters. Desperately needed supplies of food, water and medicine are being slowed by torn roads, inadequate security and distribution bottlenecks. \u0022The general public doesn\u0027t realize how complicated logistics are in a disaster,\u0022 said Julie Swann, co-director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics. Sudden floods of supplies can worsen emergencies. \u0022It\u0027s not good for the system for everyone to send everything as fast as they can.\u0022 Atlanta, long a center for commerce and distribution, is now a center for relief, Swann said. \u0022Very few places have this critical mass of organizations.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERead entire article at: \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/search\/content\/printedition\/2010\/01\/24\/haiti01241.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.ajc.com\/search\/content\/printedition\/2010\/01\/24\/haiti01241.html\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta Journal-Constitution (January 24, 2010)\nAs the world scrambles to help Haiti, businesses and organizations in Atlanta are concerning themselves with some key, if mundane, relief items, namely: buckets, underwear and biscuits...The logistical world of emergency relief - which has a large footprint in Atlanta - is being tested as in few other natural disasters. Desperately needed supplies of food, water and medicine are being slowed by torn roads, inadequate security and distribution bottlenecks.. \u0022The general public doesn\u0027t realize how complicated logistics are in a disaster,\u0022 said Julie Swann, co-director of Georgia Tech\u0027s Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics. Sudden floods of supplies can worsen emergencies. \u0022It\u0027s not good for the system for everyone to send everything as fast as they can.\u0022..  .Atlanta, long a center for commerce and distribution, is now a center for relief, Swann said. \u0022Very few places have this critical mass of organizations.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Atlanta plays pivotal relief role with quake victims: Logistics"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2010-01-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:08","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1240","name":"humanitarian logistics"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1237","name":"Julie Swann"},{"id":"167077","name":"scl"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"60282":{"#nid":"60282","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Chip White Appointed to Advisory Committee on Council of Competitiveness","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChelsea \u201cChip\u201d C. White III, Schneider National Chair in\nTransportation and Logistics, was recently appointed to serve on the Executive\nAdvisory Committee for the Council on Competitiveness\u2019 new U.S. Manufacturing\nCompetitiveness Initiative (USMCI).\u0026nbsp; Founded in 1986, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.compete.org\/ \u0022\u003ECouncil on\nCompetitiveness\u003C\/a\u003E is a nonpartisan, non-profit\norganization focused on enhancing the economic competitiveness of the U.S.\u0026nbsp; Based in Washington D.C., its members\ncomprise corporation chief executives, university presidents, and labor leaders.\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Executive Advisory Committee will help shape\ndifferent aspects of the USMCI, provide expertise, and address integration\nissues. The USMCI, guided by input from the Executive Advisory Committee, will\nwork to ensure that America is an attractive environment for high-value\nmanufacturing and that the U.S. retains its position of leadership in an\nincreasingly crowded and sophisticated global economic arena.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFormer Georgia Tech president Wayne Clough also served in\nvarious leadership roles on the Council, including university co-vice chair. The\nCouncil is made up of three co-vice chairs, representing industry, universities,\nand labor that together make up the governing body of the Council on\nCompetitiveness. Clough, with co-chair Sam Palmisano, chairman and CEO of IBM,\nalso helped the Council launch the National Innovation Initiative.\u2014a call to\naction to bolster U.S. competitiveness and innovation\u2014that paved the way for\nthe American COMPETES Act, which President George W. 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Pinar Keskinocak, associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), co-director of the Health and Humanitarian Logistics Center, and associate director for research of the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech, and ISyE Ph.D. student Hannah Smalley have worked in collaboration with Dr. Larry Pickering, Shilpa Kottakapu, and Cathy Hogan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create the newly released Adult Immunization Scheduler. The Adult Scheduler is a free resource and is available from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/schedules\/index.html\u0022\u003ECDC\u0027s website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA companion to the Childhood Catch-Up Immunization Scheduler (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/schedules\/index.html\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/schedules\/index.html\u003C\/a\u003E), another CDC\/ISyE collaboration released in 2008 for children through six years of age, the Adult Scheduler is a downloadable application for people nineteen years of age or older. From information such as birth date and gender, underlying medical conditions, past vaccine doses and approximate dates, the scheduling tool generates a concise printout that lists doses needed to catch up to current vaccine recommendations. The printout also shows dates for future doses that will ensure long-term protection. The scheduler can be downloaded onto a personal computer, at which time entered data can be stored.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany adults are unaware of recently licensed vaccines, such as shingles and HPV, that can protect them from disease. Most adults do not realize that getting a booster dose of Tdap can protect them and help protect infants and children from pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpdates will be incorporated into the tool when CDC recommendations change. Users of the Adult Scheduler can sign up for \u0022e-mail updates\u0022 to ensure they are notified when there are changes to the adult recommended immunization schedule.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe adult vaccine scheduling work was supported in part by a seed grant from the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost adults understand the importance of childhood immunizations; however, they may not realize that adults also need to receive vaccines. Pinar Keskinocak, associate professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), co-director of the Health and Humanitarian Logistics Center, and associate director for research of the Health Systems Institute at Georgia Tech, and ISyE Ph.D. student Hannah Smalley have worked in collaboration with Dr. Larry Pickering, Shilpa Kottakapu, and Cathy Hogan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create the newly released Adult Immunization Scheduler.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE, CDC Collaborate on Newly Released Adult Immunization Scheduler"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-03-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"54951":{"id":"54951","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak","body":null,"created":"1449175421","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:41","changed":"1475894466","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:06"},"54954":{"id":"54954","type":"image","title":"ISyE, CDC Collaboration","body":null,"created":"1449175392","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:12","changed":"1475894458","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:58"}},"media_ids":["54951","54954"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8975","name":"Adult Scheduler"},{"id":"123","name":"CDC"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"49738":{"#nid":"49738","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Airline Optimization in ISyE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe first entered the field of airline optimization about twenty years ago with a project on fleet assignment for Delta Airlines. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is an amusing story about how this work for Delta began. At the time, Delta was using a new crew scheduling system that was based on the polynomial time linear programming algorithm developed by Narendra Karmarkar at AT\u0026amp;T Bell Labs and implemented in the KORBX optimization system, an eight processor Alliant computer. The system reputedly cost $8.9 million and, not surprisingly, only two such systems were ever sold. Delta bought one of them to solve crew scheduling. The important point to note is that crew scheduling is an integer programming problem, which is hard to solve, and KORBX could only solve linear problems, which are much easier relatively. So, the AT\u0026amp;T folks could only provide a heuristic for converting linear solutions to integer solutions. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe had some new ideas for solving crew scheduling problems; however, our attempts to contact Delta fell on deaf ears until Mike Thomas, then school chair, had a brilliant idea. Ron Allen, an ISyE graduate, class of 1964, had recently been appointed CEO of Delta. Thomas arranged a dinner at which Allen would be honored, and we would get a chance to suggest to him that we could help Delta with scheduling. The evening went well except for the end. Atlanta had just started car emission checks, and because of the low fee paid to the stations that could perform them, there were very long lines. A black market emerged for the emission stickers that were attached to license plates. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen we left the Alumni House at the end of the dinner, we discovered that each of the cars that previously held these stickers were missing the part of their license plate where the sticker had been. Allen\u0027s car was one of them. Nevertheless, from Allen we got an inroad to Delta\u0027s IT group. Because of their work with KORBX, they were not interested at the time in help with crew scheduling. But they decided to work with us on plane scheduling, which is called fleet assignment in the industry. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGiven a schedule that lists the time, origin, and destination of all flights, fleet assignment addresses the question of what type of aircraft should be assigned to each flight. The answer is driven by demand and the network structure of all of the flights. Large planes should be assigned to high-demand legs. However, if a large plane is assigned to a flight from A to B, then there should be a flight from B that departs soon after the A-to-B flight that also has large demand and so on. The optimization model minimizes flying costs and the costs of lost demand. Cindy Barnhart, then an assistant professor in our group, now a professor and associate dean at MIT and a leading international expert in airline research, got her start on the Delta project. We successfully completed this project and then went on to do research sponsored by almost all of the major domestic carriers, including American, Northwest, United, and US Air, as well as the National Science Foundation. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBy the mid-1990s, we began to tackle harder problems including systems optimization and uncertainty. Traditionally, fleet assignment was done before crew scheduling since crews are scheduled by aircraft type. However, an optimal solution for fleet assignment could lead to very costly crew schedules. For example, a crew might spend more than twenty-four hours simply waiting for the next airplane they could fly. We developed technology for optimizing fleet and crew assignments together. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESchedules were developed assuming no disruptions. But weather, equipment problems, and many other causes led to delays that propagated throughout the system. We developed some of the first technology for fast reoptimization or recovery of crew and fleet schedules when the current schedule was broken. We provided technology for producing robust schedules that make it easier to recover from these disruptions. To evaluate the quality of schedules in an uncertain environment, we developed SIMAIR, which allowed operations to be simulated for millions of days to evaluate the performance of different schedules. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMost of this work was done in collaboration with Sabre Decision Technologies, led by Barry Smith, and United Airlines, where Eric Gellman headed the operations research group. This work led to many publications, about ten dissertations, and some national awards to the students. Some of these students are now in operations research groups in the airline industry, and several others are faculty at other universities and continue to do good work on airline optimization. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERecently, our focus has shifted to on-demand air transportation, which involves unscheduled airlines where service is requested simply by origin***destination pairs and time windows. There are many ways of delivering this type of service including charter, fractional ownership, and air taxi. Professors Ellis Johnson and Ozlem Ergun have an ongoing project with Citation Shares to fulfill requests from individuals or companies that have fractional ownership rights to a fleet of planes. A business model that potentially can be widely used in place of standard airline transportation is an air taxi service. Anyone can request a seat on a plane by providing the earliest departure time from origin, latest arrival time at destination, and number of passengers. The planes can fly to and from very small airports. The cost can be made nearly competitive with commercial service. The convenience of such a service can be very appealing to business people, especially those who do not live close to a major airport. In many situations, it is an attractive alternative to car trips of several hours. Professors George Nemhauser and Martin Savelsbergh worked with DayJet, which at the time was the leading company providing this service using lightweight Eclipse jets. Unfortunately, the recent economic downturn has caused DayJet to terminate operations. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAir transportation networks have always been a fertile field for optimization applications and will continue to be so as we begin to work on new problems involving online optimization and optimization under uncertainty. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAir transportation networks have always been a fertile field for optimization applications and will continue to be so as we begin to work on new problems involving online optimization and optimization under uncertainty.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Air transportation networks fertile field for optimization."}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-01-04 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"49739":{"id":"49739","type":"image","title":"Nemhauser and Johnson","body":null,"created":"1449175408","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:28","changed":"1475894463","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:03","alt":"Nemhauser and Johnson","file":{"fid":"127079","name":"tkc36919.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tkc36919_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tkc36919_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":57100,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tkc36919_0.jpg?itok=Q7YeTaj4"}},"49740":{"id":"49740","type":"image","title":"Flight pattern image","body":null,"created":"1449175379","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:59","changed":"1475894455","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:55","alt":"Flight pattern image","file":{"fid":"127076","name":"tes37350.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tes37350_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tes37350_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":18734,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tes37350_0.jpg?itok=BkBUNEZt"}}},"media_ids":["49739","49740"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8213","name":"Airline Optimization"},{"id":"3970","name":"johnson"},{"id":"8214","name":"Newhauser"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"49743":{"#nid":"49743","#data":{"type":"news","title":"2009 EMIL-SCS Students Complete Global Supply Chain Projects","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn lieu of a traditional master\u0027s thesis, students enrolled in Georgia Tech\u0027s Executive Master\u0027s in International Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy (EMIL-SCS) undertake a Global Supply Chain Project to fulfill the requirements of this eighteen-month residence-based program. Participants use this project as an opportunity to gain knowledge through the academic curriculum and apply those resources to a critical supply chain concern specific to their sponsoring companies.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe sixteen students in the 2009 EMIL-SCS class, which graduated in August of 2009, made full use of the program\u0027s resources in designing and completing their global projects, extending beyond their current scope of responsibility and realizing significant savings for their companies.  Forming teams comprising from one to five people, the students completed six projects, described below: \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDemand Planning and Inventory Visibility across Europe\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis project\u0027s objectives were to identify waste in the value chain; establish  clear and simple metrics for measuring process efficiency in logistics; improve, standardize, automate, and increase the frequency of forecasting process; and establish  better integration and visibility between distribution and factories. Through these objectives, the project  reduced warehouse costs by $65 million (35%), increased inventory turns from 4.3T to 5.0T, increased service rate from 85% to 91%, and reduced part lead time and administration order process from 127 days to 73 days.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDemand Planning for a Major Commodity and Retail Channel in the Caribbean\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe focus of this project was to ensure a strong liaison between demand and supply through a robust (but simple) demand planning process, reducing finished goods inventory by at least 10%, while maintaining at least 90% fill rate level. Divided into three phases, the project focused on SKU rationalization, the demand planning process, and supplier collaboration, respectively. Phase I yielded a 3.5% reduction in the number of SKUs across all the product categories. Phase II yielded inventory reductions of 15% and the elimination of warehouse rental for additional savings. Phase III, although still in development, has a potential to reduce inventories by an additional 10%. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EImplementation and  Roll-Out of a Demand and Inventory Planning System at a Major Convenience Store Retail Chain\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this project, the company must identify ways to increase the per-store revenue and at the same time reach efficiencies across the supply chain in order to reduce operational costs. Project design and implementation includes the evaluation of the Retek-Oracle Replenishment and Forecasting modules, a total investment of $10 million. In Phase I of the implementation, the level of lost sales decreased more than 50% and product availability at the store level increased more than 65%. Depending on certain categories, revenue is expected to increase 4% to 6% at the store level. The payback period of the project will be approximately three years.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELow Cost Supply Chain Project\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe objective was to develop a business model to profitably deliver low-cost products at price points that target customers can afford through analysis of the benefits of a redesigned, Low Cost Supply Chain (LCSC) model versus the current state. The cost savings resulting from this project was $221 million over five years, or $124 million on a discounted (net present value) basis. The primary reasons for the cost savings are reductions in inventory purchasing costs (19% of the savings) and inventory carrying costs (79% of the savings). Inventory carrying costs and inventory purchasing costs were reduced by almost 80%.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOptimal Sourcing Strategy in Latin America\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company\u0027s current supply chain for key countries in Latin America is based on sourcing product out of the United States and Asia. The company has been moving from the single-channel, single-sourced, configure-to-order model to a multi-channel, multi-source model that will provide much greater flexibility and convenience to customers at different price points. With this transition and the availability of new sources and new supply chain capabilities, the question is to determine the optimal supply chain strategy to satisfy the customer needs in key Latin American countries -- Colombia, Argentina, and Chile.  The recommendations of the project have the potential to achieve approximately $5 to $10 million in annualized savings over current status and to reduce cycle time for several destination countries by one to three days. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESupply Chain Network Optimization Project\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe company currently outsources about 70% of its products to Asia and builds 30% in-house domestically in the United States.  The project evaluates five separate finished goods assemblies, using a total landed cost model to determine the optimal geographic areas for sourcing and manufacturing against internal and local options.  The model included dynamic conditions for currency fluctuation, volatile fuel prices, and variable labor conditions across the geographic areas to better achieve a solid understanding of the total landed-cost of the assembly. As a result of the project, the range of savings based on probability is $1.5 million and $1.9 million and the most probable total cost opportunity for implementing this optimized scenario is approximately $1.5 million annually.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the 2010 EMIL-SCS class anticipates its fifth and final residence in March 2010, the 2011 class is currently forming, with an expected start date in spring 2010. 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Mr. Potts, who is retired president and general manager of Temple Inland Corporation, chaired the Board of Regents\u0027 search committee that brought G. P. \u0022Bud\u0022 Peterson to Georgia Tech.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBird Blitch\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 97), executive vice president and co-founder of BroadSource, is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumnus\/Alumna Award. This award is given to a high achiever under age 40 who has contributed to Georgia Tech, the community and the business world. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Gold \u0026amp; White Honors\u0027 recipients will be recognized for their accomplishments and their generosity during a celebratory dinner and awards ceremony February 18, 2010, at the Atlanta History Center.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThree graduates of the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering are recipients of the 2010 Gold \u0026amp; White Honors, the most prestigious awards that the Alumni Association gives in recognition for outstanding contributions on campus, in communities, and to humanity.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Three ISyE Graduates Selected for Gold \u0026amp; White Honors"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-01-06 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:04","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"},{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8211","name":"Gold and White Honors"},{"id":"8212","name":"ISyE recipients"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"49741":{"#nid":"49741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GE Energy Team is Fall 2009 Senior Design Project Winner","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe GE Energy Senior Design team captured first place in the renowned end-of-the semester Senior Design Competition. Senior Design, considered to be the most important and most challenging industrial engineering course an undergraduate student will experience, sets students in motion to become successful industrial engineers.  During the course, students are pushed to think outside the box as they adapt what they have learned in their classes to tackle a complex real world problem.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EJoel Sokol, ISyE associate professor and Senior Design coordinator, states that \u0022every semester, our students do some extremely good work, and the competition to be named a finalist or winner is intense.\u0022 According to Sokol, ***this year\u0027s finalists creatively used advanced techniques in operations research, logistics, and statistics to create millions of dollars in value for a diverse set of corporate clients.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EISyE Senior Design has worked with organizations ranging from local startups to Fortune 100 companies to international humanitarian organizations.  The impact of Senior Design projects has been felt not only in the Atlanta area, but across the country and as far away as Europe, Africa, and Asia.  The average team is able to use their ISyE skills to create hundreds of thousands of dollars in value for the company they work with. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis was certainly true of the GE Energy Senior Design team, which demonstrated savings to the company of $8.6 million per year.  Associate Professor Shabbir Ahmed advised the winning team, which included Charles Ballowe, Viviana Gonzalez, Sharece Hall, David Liss, Meghna Mukherjee, and Stefan Solntsev.  The goal of the project, titled \u003Cem\u003EProcurement Planning for GE Energy\u003C\/em\u003E, was to determine the minimal cost policy for the procurement of wind turbine towers for GE Energy The team developed software based on forecasting and optimization models that take into account purchasing and transportation costs, government policies, and renewable energy demand.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAbout his team\u0027s project, Professor Ahmed said that \u0022the high volatility in the wind energy market made this project an extremely challenging one. The team developed a rigorous method for forecasting wind turbine demand and integrated it with a sophisticated stochastic optimization model to come up with an economic parts procurement plan. The explicit consideration of the various uncertain factors in the wind energy sector was key to the success of the team\u0027s approach.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERunners up in the competition were the Senior Design teams who worked with the American Honda Motor Company, Inc., and Manheim Auto Auctions.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe American Honda Motor Company, Inc., team focused on a project titled, \u003Cem\u003EDeveloping a Stand-Alone Vehicle Routing Tool Utilizing a Tabu Search Heuristic to Create a Set of Vehicle Routes to Minimize Cost and Maximize Service Level\u003C\/em\u003E. Advised by Associate Professor Ozelm Ergun, the team included Alyssa Gangone, Steven Grimes, Caroline Jones, Max Moriarity, and Alex Paquette. The purpose of the project was to create a stand-alone vehicle routing tool that would allow Honda to create a set of vehicle routes to deliver spare automobile parts to the 240 Honda and Acura dealers located in the southeastern United States. The routing tool the team created takes into account the current operations parameters and metrics including fixed and variable route costs, multiple depot locations and soft-time window constraints. The model then finds the best-known solution in order to lower the operational cost and raise the service level. About the project, the Honda project sponsor stated that he has seen \u0022routing proposals\u0022 from very different companies (big and small players) over the last 25 years, and this was one of the best among them.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project team working with Manheim Auto Auctions learned that in 2009, Manheim\u0027s clients missed bidding on 50 percent of the cars in which they were interested. With a project titled \u003Cem\u003EManheim Auto Auction Aggregate  Planning and Forecasting\u003C\/em\u003E, the team comprising Dustin Crance, Raymond Demere, Caroline Ferreira, Terence Norman, Brad Strickland, and Charles Welch used regression analysis and forecasting to create dynamic schedule updating predicted arrival windows for each vehicle at any given auction. Additionally, the team provided Manheim with a decision-making driver staffing tool, which it did not have. In total, this project adds $1.8 million yearly to eleven of Manheim\u0027s locations. Chang Kang, visiting professor from Hanyang University , Korea, advised the Manheim team. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAll three teams gave presentations of their work on Wednesday, December 8, 2009, to a room filled with faculty, company sponsors, students and parents.  Chen Zhou, associate professor and associate chair of undergraduate programs, stated that all the finalists were outstanding.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information on the senior design program, or if you are interested in sponsoring a student team, please visit \u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/seniordesign\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"The GE Energy Senior Design team captured first place in the renowned end-of-the semester Senior Design Competition. Senior Design, considered to be the most important and most challenging industrial engineering course an undergraduate student will experience, sets students in motion to become successful industrial engineers.  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Keskinocak stresses. \u201cThis can result\nin remarkable synergies, more efficient and effective use of limited resources,\nand positive impact on people\u2019s lives.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/news-events\/news\/pdfs\/03ACW0610.pdf\u0022\u003ERead the entire viewpoint\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EViewing collaboration as the key to disaster recovery, Pinar Keskinocak,\n co-director in the Center\nfor Health and Humanitarian Logistics, associate director of research in\n the Health\nSystems Institute, and associate professor in the School of Industrial \nand\nSystems Engineering at Georgia Tech, builds her case in \u0022Collaborative \nKey to\nDisaster Recovery,\u0022a viewpoint published in the June 2010 issue of \u003Cem\u003EAir\nCargo\n World\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Keskinocak Publishes Viewpoint on Disaster Recovery in Air Cargo World"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-06-03 17:22:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:09","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57933":{"id":"57933","type":"image","title":"Pinar Keskinocak","body":null,"created":"1449176194","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:34","changed":"1475894510","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:50","alt":"Pinar Keskinocak","file":{"fid":"190732","name":"PinarBC.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PinarBC_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/PinarBC_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1384653,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/PinarBC_0.jpg?itok=vCg3vEKP"}}},"media_ids":["57933"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1239","name":"Pinar Keskinocak"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara\n\n \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"60378":{"#nid":"60378","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Haitian Photo Journey on YouTube","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E(YouTube) View Professors Ozlem Ergun (ISyE), Julie Swann (ISYE), \nReginald DesRoches, School of Civil \u0026amp; 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