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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 […]

Reynerio Sanchez Jr. may be a first-year, ISE PhD, student, but he hasn’t shied away from getting involved in the department or from the spotlight. He is currently involved in UF ISE’s new HEALTH-Engine Lab. Reynerio was recently awarded a Telemundo – Poder En Ti Scholarship by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) in the amount […]

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: […]

Sixteen UF ISE undergraduate students were awarded with prestigious, HWCOE scholarships for the 2017-2018 school year. The scholarships awarded were the C. Addison Pound, Jr. and Annie Cannon Pound Scholarship, the Cunningham Scholarship, the Engineering College Scholarships, the Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Godron Engineering Scholarship, the P. M. Pope Scholarship, and the Philip D. and Mary Ann Estridge Scholarship.   The C. Addison Pound, Jr. and […]

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 […]

Each year, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) holds the National IISE Innovative Design Competition. The competition aims to showcase the creativity of ISE design by having students work in multi-university teams to develop a conceptual design for a new product in order to satisfy a need in the global marketplace. After the […]

(top) Congratulations to Dr. Panagote Pardalos on being presented the Distinguished Research Award, in the Senior Faculty category, at UF Sigma Xi’s 2017 Annual Business Meeting and Awards Banquet. Dr. Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, as well as a world-renowned leader in Global Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, and Data Sciences. Click here […]

The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering would like to congratulate Mr. Sebastian Restrepo on receiving the 2017 Patterson Graduate Student Award. Sebastian received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from UF in 2015. He furthered his education and received his Master of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering. During his graduate […]

(Top Left) University of Florida ISE & Warrington alum and President & Founder of Voalte, Mr. Trey Lauderdale, gave an inspirational speech at the 2017 Spring Banquet on April 14th. He has helped grow Voalté since its inception in 2008, and led the sales organization in deploying thousands of smartphone solutions in some of the country’s top hospitals. Trey’s […]

University of Florida department of industrial and systems engineering Distinguished Professor Panos Pardalos has achieved the distinction of being one of the most referenced researchers in his field. Pardalos, who also serves as director of the Center of Applied Optimization, is one of the top 150 researchers catalogued by Guide2Research on its Top H-Index for […]