{"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":""}}}