Category: Department News

From left to right: FL DMS Employee, Samir Abdalla, Grant Renner, Ewa Wiercioch, Ariana Ortega, German Parra, Heather Bray Last Spring, students from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida were invited by the Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) to tour the State Capitol building and additional government […]

The Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida introduced two graduate certificate programs in Fall 2021.  All students who have been admitted to a UF degree-seeking graduate program are eligible for the Systems Engineering Certificate and the Occupational Safety Certificate, as well as non-degree-seeking students who are enrolled in ISE […]

The University of Florida Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) welcomes two new faculty, Hamed Amini, Ph.D., and Minhee Kim, who will join the department this fall.     Hamed Amini, Ph.D. Associate Professor Hamed Amini, Ph.D., will join ISE as an associate professor in August 2022. Dr. Amini received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics […]

Our department offers a part-time master’s degree program that is designed for full-time working professionals, with classes meeting only one weekend per month for 20 months. Students in the Outreach Engineering Management (OEM) Program take five graduate-level engineering classes and five MBA classes, and progress through the program as part of a cohort, in lock-step […]

Boyi Hu, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida, has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture in support of his collaborative research on building robotic pollinators to improve overall food security.   According to the USDA, […]

This year, two senior faculty retired from the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida, including Panos Pardalos, Ph.D., and Suleyman Tufekci, Ph.D. In October 2021, the ISE Department celebrated the two faculty members to commemorate their many years of success.   Panos Pardalos, Ph.D.  Dr. Pardalos joined the ISE department as an associate professor in 1991, and over the course of the last 30 […]

Xiang Zhong, Ph.D., assistant professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida recently received funding from the National Science Foundation in support of her research in developing a causal AI digital twin framework to tackle the challenges of critical care delivery.  According to Dr. Zhong and her team, there have been long-standing deficiencies in […]

The University of Florida’s Outreach Engineering Management (OEM) master’s program celebrates 25 years since its inception in 1996.  Housed in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE), OEM is geared towards working professionals who wish to receive a master’s degree in ISE with a concentration in Engineering Management.   Beginning each August, the 20-month program is held in Orlando, FL, and features live instruction one weekend a […]

Donald W. Hearn, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Florida (UF), passed away on July 9, 2021, in Pinehurst, NC. Dr. Hearn received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of North Carolina, where he was named a Morehead Scholar. He then went on […]

Panos Pardalos, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering, in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, received funding from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate. The funding supports Dr. Pardalos’ research to develop deep learning navigation applications with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data used by unmanned aerial vehicles.   An […]