{"62349":{"#nid":"62349","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Global Outreach at the Stewart School of ISyE","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn\nhis strategic vision and plan for Georgia Tech, President G. 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 conference leadership roles, and performed outreach that has a positive\ninternational health and humanitarian impact.\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Global Outreach at the Stewart School of ISyE"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-10-26 12:36:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:38","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"62352":{"id":"62352","type":"image","title":"Jane Ammons chaired an international review team that evaluated IE and management programs at universities and colleges throughout Israel.","body":null,"created":"1449176369","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:29","changed":"1475894541","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:21","alt":"Jane Ammons chaired an international review team that evaluated IE and management programs at universities and colleges throughout Israel.","file":{"fid":"191449","name":"Jane.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jane_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jane_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":38722,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jane_0.jpg?itok=lTRodZuJ"}},"62351":{"id":"62351","type":"image","title":"John Bartholdi in front of a UNICEF truck in Zimbabwe carrying textbooks for distribution to schools throughout the country.","body":null,"created":"1449176369","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:29","changed":"1475894541","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:21","alt":"John Bartholdi in front of a UNICEF truck in Zimbabwe carrying textbooks for distribution to schools throughout the country.","file":{"fid":"191448","name":"Bartholdi_Zimbabwe.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bartholdi_Zimbabwe_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Bartholdi_Zimbabwe_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5666103,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Bartholdi_Zimbabwe_0.jpg?itok=bzUY0Kei"}},"62353":{"id":"62353","type":"image","title":"2011 EMIL-SCS Class visits Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany.","body":null,"created":"1449176369","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:59:29","changed":"1475894541","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:21","alt":"2011 EMIL-SCS Class visits Audi in Ingolstadt, Germany.","file":{"fid":"191450","name":"CO2011-Europe-Group-Audi_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CO2011-Europe-Group-Audi_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/CO2011-Europe-Group-Audi_0_0.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_0_0.jpg?itok=6vedm4Rs"}}},"media_ids":["62352","62351","62353"],"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":"11057","name":"Global Footprint"},{"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":""}}}