{"74631":{"#nid":"74631","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Win-Win Collaboration: Senior Design Facilitates Learning and Benefits Industry","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEvery undergraduate student in the H. Milton Stewart\nSchool of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) culminates their education\nwith the capstone Senior Design project. Considered to be the most important\nand most challenging undergraduate industrial engineering course, Senior Design\npushes students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to solve a\ncomplex real-world problem that has a defined bottom-line impact for a\ncorporation. The average project value runs in the six figures.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design is a unique opportunity for companies\nand organizations to partner and interact with these bright, creative, and\ndedicated students, and is truly a win-win collaboration for both the students\nand industry partners. Student teams select a major design project from a\ncompany or nonprofit organization and use their ISyE knowledge to develop a\nsolution for the project client. These students gain confidence and practical\nprofessional experience working as part of a team addressing real-world\nproblems. The industry partner gains a team of six to eight exceptionally\nbright undergraduate students who can provide a variety of innovative and\ncreative solutions to an existing organizational problem. Many of these\norganizations end up making permanent job offers to students from the project\nteam.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EEach semester, there are approximately twenty teams\nwho participate in Senior Design. At the end of the semester, each team\ncompetes for first place in a competition that highlights and celebrates the\nteam that developed the best solution for their project.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GE Energy project team won first place in the\nfall 2010 Senior Design competition. Students Manan Bhatt, Saloni Desai, Avadhi\nDhruv, Mark Herman, Ariz Himani, Mohsin Lakhani, and Swathi Narayanaswamy,\nguided by faculty advisor Yajun Mei, won for their project, Parts Allocation\nfor GE Energy. The team designed a parts allocation system that enables sharing\nof gas turbine parts across GE Energy\u2019s maintenance contracts. By employing\nsuccessive network flow optimizations and grouping methods, the project\ndemonstrated annual savings of $8.7 million, resulting from reduced new part\npurchases and increased utilization of contract assets.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe winner of the spring 2011 Senior Design\ncompetition was the Comcast team, guided by faculty advisor Alexander Shaprio.\nStudents Ian Balmaseda, Thien Huynh, Daniel Kohlsdorf, Sagar Patel, Alejandro\nSantelises, Holly Thomasson, and Michelle Wang won for their project, Improving\nComcast\u2019s Outage Detection System, which focused on reducing the number of\nservice calls and unnecessary maintenance attempts for trucks that Comcast\nincurs because of inaccurate outage detection. A cost model was developed and\nvarious algorithms were created aimed at increasing the probability of\ndetecting a genuine outage, thus lowering the unnecessary costs associated with\nresponding to outage reports. A conservative estimate of the project\u2019s value\nshows it may save Comcast $1.4 million annually.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information or to become an industry\npartner, contact Associate Professor and Senior Design Coordinator Joel Sokol\nat \u003Cstrong\u003Ejsokol@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/strong\u003E or visit \u003Cstrong\u003Ewww.isye. gatech.edu\/seniordesign\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design\npushes students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to solve a\ncomplex real-world problem that has a defined bottom-line impact for a\ncorporation.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2011-12-16 17:27:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:10:53","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-12-29T00:00:00-05:00","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":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"1200","name":"joel sokol"},{"id":"167319","name":"senior design"}],"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":""}}}