{"73100":{"#nid":"73100","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Students Come in First at SAIC Student Paper Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo groups of students advised by Julie Swann, Harold R. and Mary\n    Anne Nash Associate Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial\n    and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and co-director of the Georgia Tech\n    Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, were awarded first\n    place at the 22nd Annual Science Applications International\n    Corporation (SAIC) Student Paper Competition.\u0026nbsp; The students were\n    honored at the SAIC Award Banquet on November 8, 2011 at the Georgia\n    Tech Hotel. Out of 105 paper submissions, there were six first place\n    winners and five runner-ups.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Evan Saltzman, Seonghye Jeon, and Samina Jamil, master\u2019s students in\n    ISyE, won first place for their paper titled, \u201cQuantitative\n    Assessment of the World Health Organization Interagency Emergency\n    Health Kit.\u201d\u0026nbsp; The students completed the paper during the Public\n    Impact Applications of OR and Management Sciences course, designed\n    for master\u2019s and PhD students to gain experience in modeling and\n    solving problems with public impact, working on projects for or with\n    particular organizations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Morgan Doty, Bryce Dykes, Kathleen Hendrix, Ralph Long, Dana\n    Lupuloff, Doug Meagh, Jeffrey Phillips, and Michael Vallecoccia,\n    ISyE undergraduate students, also won first place for their paper,\n    \u201cGwinnett County Public Schools: Improvements in Bus Logistics.\u201d\n    Guided by Swann, the students completed this paper as part of their\n    required ISyE course, Senior Design, where they were also chosen as\n    one of the top three finalists out of twenty-four Senior Design\n    teams.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    The SAIC annual student paper competition recognizes technical\n    excellence at Georgia Tech and works to foster the development of\n    closer ties between SAIC and the Institute. SAIC presented fifteen\n    awards for outstanding technical papers in the fields of\n    engineering, physics, chemistry, applied mathematics, computer\n    sciences, medicine, and science and technology policy. SAIC is\n    dedicated to the delivery of quality scientific and technical\n    products and services contributing to the security and well-being of\n    communities throughout the world.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo groups of students advised by Julie Swann were awarded first\n    place at the 22nd Annual Science Applications International\n    Corporation (SAIC) Student Paper Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-11-29 11:04:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:42","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73271":{"id":"73271","type":"image","title":"2011 SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition","body":null,"created":"1449177990","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:26:30","changed":"1475894673","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:33","alt":"2011 SAIC Georgia Tech Student Paper Competition","file":{"fid":"193735","name":"saic-gt_paper_competition.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saic-gt_paper_competition_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saic-gt_paper_competition_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":13689,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/saic-gt_paper_competition_0.png?itok=c3hIDOKK"}}},"media_ids":["73271"],"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":"1202","name":"H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering"},{"id":"1237","name":"Julie Swann"},{"id":"171141","name":"SAIC Awards"}],"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 \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}