Category: News

Dear Friends and Colleagues: This spring term has brought many developments for our department, including elevated research awards, an increase in graduate program enrollment and graduation rates, and a higher graduate program ranking. All of these outcomes are due to the tremendous efforts of the faculty, staff and students in continuously striving to create new […]

At the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering’s annual awards celebration, Josh Bass, vice president of Data, Products and Analytics for J.M. Family Enterprises (JM&A) Inc., and Trey Lauderdale, founder and former CEO of Voalte Corp., were recognized for exemplary careers in ISE and sustaining engagements of the University and the department. The UF ISE […]

The Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) graduate program moved up two spots to No. 11 in the latest U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) rankings among public graduate engineering programs, the department’s highest rank in the past five years. “This ranking reflects the tremendous growth of the ISE faculty, their outstanding contributions to the discipline […]

On April 5, the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the College of Design, Construction and Planning (DCP) received a $300,000 gift from Autodesk Inc., an American multinational corporation based in San Francisco that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education and entertainment industries. The designation of $150,000 for […]

The Center for Applied Optimization (CAO) at the University of Florida recently hosted a two-day workshop titled, “A PanOptiC View on Global Optimization.” The purpose of the workshop was to promote collaborations among scholars in global optimization and to honor Panos Pardalos, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the UF Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering […]

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 […]

2022 Annual Magazine