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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 […]

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 […]