{"59943":{"#nid":"59943","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Students Tour Norfolk Southern","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003Ctable cellspacing=\u00220\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 width=\u0022220\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDave Beasley and Professor Chen discuss Intermodal Hub activities with students.\u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo complement their course work, students in the Dual Master degree Program (DMP) and the Global Logistics Scholars (GLS) program tour various manufacturing and distribution centers throughout the semester.  On April 4th, the group toured Norfolk Southern\u0027s John W. Whitaker Intermodal Terminal in Austell.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E \u0022In class, we teach operations research, industrial engineering, and information systems, but in an abstract way.  To provide a link between what they learn in class with real world practice, we schedule about 10 tours throughout the semester of various manufacturing, distribution, and transportation facilities,\u0022 said Professor Chen Zhou. \u0022These tours really complement what they learn in classes.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E Norfolk Southern\u0027s Hub Manager, Dave Beasley, led the tour of the terminal.  The first stop was the control tower where students could view the 450 acres of the terminal that includes 3,300 parking spaces as well as 20,000 feet of unloading track.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Ctable height=\u0022198\u0022 cellspacing=\u00220\u0022 cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 width=\u0022220\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe tour stops long enough to capture a group photograph. \u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ENorfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is a Virginia-based holding company with headquarters in Norfolk. It owns a major freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway Company, which operates approximately 21,800 route miles in 22 states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario. The Austell hub is an intermodal hub. The terminal, the largest intermodal facility east of the Mississippi River, expedites the movement of containerized freight between the Northeast and Southwest and between the Northwest and Southeast. It transfers rail freight to road and road to rail.  \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents on tour were:  \u003Cstrong\u003EPaul Berman\u003C\/strong\u003E (France) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003EChristian Buchmann\u003C\/strong\u003E (U.S.) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003EWei Chuen Chan\u003C\/strong\u003E (Singapore) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003ESteve Chu\u003C\/strong\u003E (U.S.) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003EMagdalene Chua\u003C\/strong\u003E (Singapore) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003ESerhan Duran\u003C\/strong\u003E (Turkey) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003ETobias Gefaeller\u003C\/strong\u003E (Germany) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003ESwanand Gupte\u003C\/strong\u003E (India) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003ESin Man Kwan\u003C\/strong\u003E (HK) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EYin Sian Lai\u003C\/strong\u003E (Singapore) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EJin Xiang Lee\u003C\/strong\u003E (Singapore) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EChya-Yi Liaw\u003C\/strong\u003E (Taiwan) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EKeyao Liu\u003C\/strong\u003E (China) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EWen-Chung Lu\u003C\/strong\u003E (Taiwan) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003EHiroki Muraoka\u003C\/strong\u003E (Japan) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003ERamanathan Muthiah\u003C\/strong\u003E (India) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EHan Meng Neo\u003C\/strong\u003E (Singapore) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EEvren Ozkaya\u003C\/strong\u003E (Turkey) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003ENajmuddin Patwa\u003C\/strong\u003E (India) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EQian Qian\u003C\/strong\u003E (China) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EBo Qin\u003C\/strong\u003E (China) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EKaushik Surendran\u003C\/strong\u003E (India) GLS; \u003Cstrong\u003EYan Ting Tan\u003C\/strong\u003E (Singapore) DMP; \u003Cstrong\u003EAthmika Vishvesh\u003C\/strong\u003E (India) GLS; and \u003Cstrong\u003ERui Wang\u003C\/strong\u003E (China) DMP.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ctable cellpadding=\u00225\u0022 width=\u0022224\u0022 align=\u0022right\u0022 border=\u00220\u0022\u003E\n\u003Ctbody\u003E\n\u003Ctr\u003E\n\u003Ctd\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENorfolk Southern\u0027s Intermodal Terminal: loading road freight to rail \u003C\/td\u003E\n\u003C\/tr\u003E\n\u003C\/tbody\u003E\n\u003C\/table\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMore on the Dual Degree Program:  \u003C\/em\u003EThe Dual Master of Science Degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a prestigious 18-month program pioneered in collaboration between the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Georgia Tech. The program was created to develop logistics professionals with logistics and supply chain management knowledge as well as research and industrial expertise in the context of and the Asia Pacific region. The program, which is jointly conducted by NUS and Georgia Tech, leads to two degrees: a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMore on the Global Logistics Scholars: \u003C\/em\u003EThe Global Logistics Scholar is a certificate program sponsored by the Supply Chain Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech. The curriculum is designed for MSIE students and includes logistics seminars and tours, TLI professional education short courses, and other special events (at least one event per semester). Selected students participate in academic and extra-curricular activities with students enrolled in other international programs, allowing them to interact with logistics faculty, industry professionals and potential employers.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2007-04-23 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:03","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","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":""}}}