Category: Department News

The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) announced recently that it is expanding America’s Cutting Edge (ACE), a national initiative aimed at revitalizing U.S. manufacturing, to three locations in Florida, including the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). ACE, which now has regional machine tool training centers in Florida, […]

This fall term, the Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) department began enrolling Ph.D. students in a new financial technology (FinTech) certificate program. The certificate focuses on new technologies and analytics for financial services with the objective of educating students in current applications, methods and benefits for the range of services. The program is currently targeted […]

Boyi Hu, Ph.D., an assistant professor for the UF Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE), has received funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the development of course modules that focus on collaborative robotics, automation safety and essential robotics standards.  NIST recently awarded five institutions with […]

David Kaber, Ph.D., Dean’s Leadership Professor and chair of the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida, has been elevated to Fellow status in The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Kaber is being recognized for his “modeling and analysis of human-automation interaction and human-machine interface design in […]

View the full story, originally published here. Supply chain and operations students from across the nation came together to compete in the third annual Raytheon Technologies Invitational Business Case Competition presented by TCU Neeley’s Center for Supply Chain Innovation. The competition, which occurred virtually from September 29 through October 1, combined 36 graduate and undergraduate […]

Two industrial engineering students set the bar high for future UF teams participating in the annual Lockheed Martin Ethics in Engineering Case Competition, as they secured a second-place finish among 31 collegiate teams from across the nation. Sponsor Lockheed Martin awarded UF engineering seniors Lia Frumenti and Haley Scites $750 each for their two-day task […]

  This week in Greece, Dr. Panos Pardalos, Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida (UF), received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Athens University. In a traditional ceremony(View Ceremony), Pardalos was awarded the degree and gave a thesis talk on “Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics in Economics and Finance”. Among […]

D. Jack Elzinga, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida (UF), passed away on August 23, 2022, in Gainesville, Fla., at the age of 83. Dr. Elzinga received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Washington in 1960 and a Ph.D. in […]

Over the last several years, the Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) discipline has expanded into various multidisciplinary areas such as data analytics and health and human systems. As a result of this expansion, the University of Florida ISE department has recently completed an overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum offered to students.   This revision began back […]

On a recent visit to Valencia College’s Poinciana campus in Kissimmee, Fla., U.S. Rep. Darren Soto announced a $500,000 federally funded project that will support a solar energy system proposed to reduce campus utility costs. Valencia College also plans to match these funds to support the project.   This project was developed, in part, by a […]