Tag: alumni

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 […]

Dell EMC Enterprise Account Manager & 2016 UF Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Alumni, Ryan Strobel paid a visit to his old “stomping-grounds” on November 8th and 9th to give some insight on life after undergraduate studies. His first day on campus included visiting UF ISE Undergraduate Coordinator and Professor, Dr. Serdar Kirli’s VB.net […]

UF Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) had their first career fair on Tuesday, September 26th. The event was organized by the UF ISE Ambassadors and supported by the UF Department of ISE. The purpose of the UF ISE Career Fair was to allow both undergraduate and graduate students to network with recruiters in a much […]

Contributed by Elif Akcali and Patsy Messinger UF ISE recently welcomed the newest group of OEM students to the department and The Gator Nation during a weekend-long orientation event held on the main UF campus in Gainesville. For those among the class who were already Gator Engineers, it was a weekend of homecoming; for others, […]

The University of Florida has become the first Florida school to break into the list of top 10 best public universities, coming in at No. 9, according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released on September 13th. The 2018 list of top 10 best public universities now looks like this: […]

The Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) sponsors the Prtisker Doctoral Dissertation Award each year, which recognizes research in industrial engineering. This year, Dr. Yongpei Guan’s former student, Dr. Kai Pan, won first place for his dissertation entitled, “Deterministic and Stochastic Unit Commitment Problems: Convex Hulls, Strong Formulations, and Case Studies.” Dr. Pan presented […]

Dr. Panos Pardalos gave, invited, plenary talks at several international conferences this past month. June 8: He spoke at the, annual, Greek Operations Research Society meeting in Thessaloniki Greece. June 12: He gave a lecture at the 4th International Conference on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change in Santorini, Greece. June 19: He gave an opening […]

A University of Florida department of industrial engineering alumnus has endowed three scholarships for distribution beginning spring 2018. One will be awarded through the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, while the other two will be affiliated specifically with ISE. The scholarships were endowed by Carlos del Sol, ’72, a member of the ISE Hall of […]