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Student-Created Podcast Inspires Future Engineers
Innovation is intrinsic to industrial engineers. From optimizing efficiencies to streamlining workflows, industrial engineers leave things better than they found them. That’s just what industrial…
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UCF Researchers Initiate Effort to Make a Global Impact Through Industrial Engineering
A landmark paper that shares sweeping recommendations for how the industrial engineering profession can address global issues — an initiative spearheaded by UCF researchers —…
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Department Hires Two New Faculty for Fall Semester
As the technology industry grows each year, so does the need for experts who create innovations that fuel this sector and educate the workforce…
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Doctoral Student Awarded DOD SMART Scholarship
The scholarship includes an annual stipend, internship, mentorship and employment with the Department of Defense after graduation. Industrial engineering doctoral student Jean-Philippe Perrault ’06 ’14MBA…
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Three-Time Alumnus Gives Back to UCF as Leader of Department Advisory Board
UCF has given Rob Kantor ’97, ‘04MS, ‘09MBA three degrees and more than three decade’s worth of memories as a Knight. Now he’s giving back…
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Waldemar Karwowski Recognized with Distinguished Educator Award
A Pegasus Professor who has led his department for the last 17 years has been honored for his exceptional mentorship and extraordinary dedication to his…
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CECS Faculty Awarded Promotion and Tenure
Faculty members across the College of Engineering and Computer Science achieved significant career milestones in earning promotions and tenure for the 2024-25 cycle. The approved…
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CECS Faculty, Staff and Students Honored on Founders’ Day
Every year on the first Wednesday of April, UCF honors the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of our people on Founders’ Day, our annual celebration of…
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Elshennawy Receives ASQ Distinguished Medal of Service
The American Society for Quality has awarded the 2024 Distinguished Service Medal to Professor Ahmad Elshennawy. This is the highest honor for service that a…
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UCF Office of Research Awards 3 Faculty Fellowships to Accelerate Research Enterprise
The faculty will help strengthen university research initiatives starting Fall 2024 through Summer 2025. Three UCF faculty members have been awarded fellowships by the…
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Pulling an All Knighter: Attending UCF Has Become a Family Tradition for Industrial Engineering Instructor
When Mark Calabrese ’78BSE ‘79MSE moved from New York to Florida to attend college, he knew that he was starting an academic journey to become an…
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IEMS Faculty Receive Promotion and Tenure
UCF faculty members across the university, including several from the College of Engineering and Computer Science, achieved significant career milestones in earning promotions and tenure…
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CECS to Offer First Online Doctoral Degree in Industrial Engineering
The UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science has pioneered several academic firsts, from the first Master of Science in Travel Technology and Analytics to…
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Monotype Joins The Readability Consortium to Advance Global Readability Research
The provider of typefaces is the latest organization to join the consortium, which has already partnered with Google, Adobe and Readability Matters. Monotype, one of…
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UCF Pegasus Professor, Department Chair Earns Prestigious 2023 AAAS Fellowship
Waldemar Karwowski has been named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow for his accomplishments and leadership in the field of human factors…
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IEMS Faculty, Staff, Students Honored at Founders’ Day Ceremonies
Every year on the first Wednesday of April, UCF honors the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of our people on Founders’ Day, our annual celebration of…
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UCF Industrial Engineering Students Win Milwaukee Bucks Hackathon
The team, which represented UCF in the competition for the first time, will be honored on the court during the 2024-25 season. Don’t be surprised…
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UCF Enters $6M Cooperative Agreement to Develop Research Commercialization Hub
The University of Central Florida has spawned some notable entrepreneurs over the years, from O’dang Hummus creator Jesse Wolfe ’15 to Luminar co-founder and…
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The Next Giant Leaps for All of Humankind
Only 12 people have ever stepped foot on the moon. Kelvin Manning ’02MS is among NASA’s leaders who believe the next lunar visits will be even more…
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UCF Receives 3 Minority Serving Institution Awards to Promote Collaborations with NASA
The funding is designed to foster long-term partnerships between NASA and MSIs and to give eligible research projects the chance to pursue larger grants in…
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Three New Faculty Join UCF Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems welcomes three new faculty in Fall 2023: Gulsah Hacerliogullari Koksalmis, Ph.D; Vernet Lasrado, Ph.D.; and Niloofar Yousefi,…
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UCF Researchers Are Advancing AI-assisted Drug Discovery
University of Central Florida researchers are advancing AI-assisted drug screening technology with a new method that not only improves their own model’s predictive ability but…
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UCF Awards Two IEMS Faculty with Promotions and Tenure
One-hundred-forty-three UCF faculty members, including two from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, recently achieved significant career milestones in earning promotions and tenure…
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IEMS Faculty Honored With International Society Award
Ivan Garibay, Ph.D., accepts the IEOM Outstanding Professor Award. Photo credit: Lara Bueno Hoeschl, Mystikos Photography. Associate professor Ivan Garibay has been awarded the Outstanding…
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UCF Alums Working on Artemis 2: Why the Space Program is Personal to Us
If you were to parachute into the parking lots around Kennedy Space Center (KSC), you might believe you landed on an extension of UCF’s campus.…
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From Outer Space to Garden Space
Konrad Krol holds a sample of a simulate soil and rocks used to help create it while inside the UCF Exolith Lab (Photo by Kadeem…
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Researchers Identify 6 Challenges Humans Face with Artificial Intelligence
A University of Central Florida professor and 26 other researchers have published a study identifying the challenges humans must overcome to ensure that artificial intelligence…
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UCF Alumni Honored for Distinguished Engineering and Computer Science Achievements
To understand a university’s role in shaping the future of the world, a closer look at the 16 University of Central Florida alumni who were…
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UCF Awards Dr. Ben D. Sawyer with Promotion and Tenure
Consideration for promotion and tenure takes nearly an entire academic year as faculty are evaluated on three main areas: research, teaching and service Eighty-nine UCF…
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Industrial Engineering Doctoral Student Receives UCF’s 400,000th Degree
For as long as she can remember, Laura Segarra ’22PhD has always been drawn to space, science and math. She still has her elementary school…
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UCF Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Graduate Programs Rise in National Rankings
UCF Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Graduate Programs Rise in National Rankings All nine eligible programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science ranked…
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Study Shows Personalized Fonts Speed Up Reading, Maintain Comprehension
University of Central Florida researchers are part of a team who has found that there’s no one-size-fits all approach to digital reading and that adjusting…
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Researchers Demonstrate Sarcasm Detector for Online Communications
Researchers from the University of Central Florida working on DARPA’s Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior (SocialSim) program are developing a solution to this challenge in the…
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‘Fast Company’ Magazine Recognizes Readability Technology at UCF Among its 2021 World Changing Ideas
Fast Company magazine named a developing technology pioneered at UCF as one of its 2021 “World Changing Ideas.” A panel of editors and reporters selected…
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Simulation Analysis Shaped UCF’s Drive-Thru Move-In
Industrial Engineers helped revolutionize move-in at UCF! A group of doctoral and undergraduate students, led by Assistant Professor Adan Vela, used simulation analysis as a…
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#41 Ranking in 2020 by US News & World Report
In 2020, at #41 nation-wide, Industrial Engineering at UCF is ranked second in industrial, manufacturing and systems engineering graduate colleges in the State of Florida.…
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New Systems Engineering Master’s Degree Program
The UCF Board of Trustees unanimously approved a new online Master’s in Systems Engineering degree to be offered in the Department of Industrial Engineering and…
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Dr. Boginski selected for JAFOE Symposium
Vladimir Boginski, UCF Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Associate Professor, was recently selected by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to participate in the…
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3rd Annual Alumni Awards Banquet
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems has the great pleasure to invite you to the 3rd Annual IEMS Alumni Awards Banquet. Spend the…
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$6.2 Million DARPA Grant Awarded to Dr. Ivan Garibay
DARPA awarded $6.2 million to a team led by UCF Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Assistant Professor Ivan Garibay, director of UCF’s Complex Adaptive Systems…
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Waldemar Karwowski, CIEHF William Floyd Award
Waldemar Karwowski, Pegasus Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, received the prestigious William Floyd Award from U.K.-based Chartered Institute of Ergonomics…
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Deborah Nightingale, NAE, Joins IEMS
Dr. Deborah Nightingale joined UCF as a University Distinguished Professor in January 2017. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and…
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Senior Design Team Featured in MC Assemby Video
IEMS Senior Design students, Dusean Guerrier, Natalie Hensley, Jean Joseph, and Manuel Molina were featured in an MC Assembly video about it’s intern program. MC…
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Students Working To Design NASA Workstation
Undergraduate students in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems department have been working together to design a workstation and full facility layout for NASA. The…
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Catherine Ninah Astronaut Scholarship Recipient
Catherine Ninah, an undergraduate student majoring in Industrial Engineering, is one of two UCF students who was presented with the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship on October…
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DR. GAVRIEL SALVENDY, NAE JOINS IEMS
Dr. Gavriel Salvendy, member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), joins the Department of Industrial Engineering beginning this Fall. He was the first…
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Screenworks Donation to SSE
On Tuesday, September 27th, Brian DeZavala, Executive Vice President of ScreenworksUSA donated 30 custom polo shirts, embroidered with a Society of Sales Engineers (SSE) logo…
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Rabelo Featured in UCF Today
Dr. Luis Rabelo, IEMS Associate Professor, is featured in UCF Today during Hispanic Heritage Month. Originally from the Republic of Panama, he has been a…
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Pervian BSIE Knights visit UCF
12 Students, 2,820 Miles, One Amazing Moment Last Saturday, 12 Peruvian engineering students visited UCF for the first time, for their commencement. In a first-of-its-kind…
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Congratulations, UCF Students in Peru!
UPDATE! See the news story in UCF Today. For twelve UCF students at the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL) in Lima, Peru who dreamed,…
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2016 Alumni Awards Banquet
The true measure of a university’s greatness can be found in the achievements of its alumni. The 2016 IEMS Alumni Awards honor outstanding alumni of…
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2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards
Dr. Hani Mohammad Aburas (Ph.D, 2002. MS, 1999) has served as the Mayor of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia since 2010. In 2015, he was awarded the…
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UCF Places 1st & 3rd in National Sales Engineering Competition
April 2016 – Twelve UCF students competed in the second annual National Sales Engineering Competition at California Polytechnic State University. This unique weekend-long event allows participants…
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2016 IISE Annual Conference – UCF Undergraduates Present Papers in ISERC
May 21-24, 2016 – Two projects in Work Measurements and Design an IEMS undergraduate course resulted in the submission of two technical papers in the 2016…
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Coming this Fall 2016… MS, Healthcare Systems Engineering
The Masters in Industrial Engineering, Healthcare Systems Engineering track produces graduates with strong fundamental skills in systems engineering along with a strong background in healthcare…
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Waldemar Karwowski named Pegasus Professor
Waldemar Karwowski is a professor and chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems. Since joining the university in 2007, he has secured more…
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Congratulations Jimmy Briggs, 2016 Order of Pegasus
James (Jimmy) Briggs, was awarded the 2016 Order of Pegasus the University’s highest honor. Briggs is majoring in industrial engineering and minoring in engineering leadership.…
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UCF´S FIRST INTERNATIONAL DUAL BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAM
Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola and UCF are proud to offer UCF’s BSIE program at USIL’s Center for Global Education (CGE) in Lima, Peru, under…
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UCF Industrial Engineer Solves Big Problem at Juilliard
The search for open rehearsal spaces at the Juilliard School in New York – where aspiring actors, musicians and dancers outnumber available practice rooms by…
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IEMS Student Assistant Featured in UCF Today.
UCF mechanical engineering senior Kevin Bauer wants people to know that the national award-winning student club he leads – the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration…
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Dr. McCauley Awarded Jefferson Fellowship
Dr. Pamela McCauley, professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, has been awarded a Jefferson Science Fellowship with the U.S. State Department…
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Engineering Student Takes Top Prize in Business Competition
Brandon Naids, who is pursuing a master’s degree in industrial engineering, has won the 2015 UCF Business Model Competition for his presentation about his company…
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New UCF Design Class Brings Art, Engineering Students Together
Dr. Robert Hoekstra, an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, was recently named an associate professor of art and is…
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Dr. McCauley BEYA STEM “Promotion of Education” award recipient
Dr. Pamela McCauley, professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, will be receiving the College-Level Promotion of Education award at the 29th BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness…
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$2.6 Million Gift from Presagis
Oct. 28, 2014 – Presagis, a world leader in Modeling and Simulation software, was recognized for their in-kind gift of the Presagis Suite software valued…
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Dr. Hoekstra’s Rhythmic Dancers win Best of Show
90th Anniversary 1st Thursdays: Eclectic Knights VI September 4, 2014 Dr. Hoekstra’s bronze statue series entitled Rhythmic Dancers was selected as best of show in…
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Tech companies fuel UCF’s new $1 million lab facilities
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Dr. Pazour & Faraz Ramtin’s research featured in IE Magazine
Assistant Professor Jennifer Pazour and Ph.D. Candidate Faraz Ramtin’s research was highlighted in the August 2014 Industrial Engineering Magazine. Their research investigates a case-level order-fulfillment…
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Gathering Lab, IdeaLab, and Innovation Lab Concepts to be Implemented
eli2, directed by Dr. Timothy Kotnour, has been awarded technology fee funding to construct new labs that will further their mission “to help students discover…
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Faculty Honors
Mr. Mark Calabrese, PE, PMP – Recipient of the CECS 2014 Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Congratulations to Mr. Mark Calabrese as he is…
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Senior Design Team Success!
The Spring 2014 semester had ten Senior Design teams working on real world industrial engineering projects for industry partners, such as Siemens, Publix, Florida Hospital,…
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Rana Riad – Order of Pegasus Award
The Industrial Engineering & Management Systems department is proud to announce & celebrate: Ms. Rana Riad a recipient of the 2014 Order of Pegasus Award!…
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Central Florida Alpha Phi Mu wins 2nd Place
Alpha Pi Mu’s Student Chapter at UCF won 2nd place in the National 2013 Outstanding Chapter Award! Special credit goes to the 2013 officers: President:…
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Alumnus Lieutenant Colonel Greg Fortier takes Command
IEMS Distinguished Alumnus, Lieutenant Colonel Greg Fortier took over as the 45th Commander of the United States Naval Test Pilot School on October 18, 2013.…
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SVAD PREMIERE & EXHIBITION 2013
Anastasia Angelopoulou and Konstantinos Mykoniatis, IEMS PhD students, participated in the SVAD PREMIERE & EXHIBITION 2013 with the project ‘UCF Smart Mailbox.’ Their project won…
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Tatiana Viecco receives 2013 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Tatiana Viecco was selected to receive a 2013 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. She was selected based on her outstanding…
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Dr. Christopher Geiger named IIE Student Chapter Outstanding Faculty Advisor
Congratulations Dr. Christopher Geiger, on being named IIE Student Chapter Outstanding Faculty Advisor Southeast Region in 2013! This award recognizes advisors that have demonstrated substantial…
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IEMS Ranked No. 35 Industrial Engineering Grad Program by U.S. News for 2014
The Industrial Engineering graduate program has earned a top-40 ranking in the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools guide. The program placed No.…
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Dr. Jennifer Pazour wins prestigious 2013 Young Investigator Award from ONR
Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Pazour who was awarded the prestigious 2013 Young Investigator Award from ONR. The receipt of this award is an outstanding recognition…
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UCF IIE Student Chapter Technical Paper Wins 1st Place at 2013 IIE Southeast Regional Conference
Congratulations to IEMS undergraduate students Stefan Calle, Geoffrey Cox, Brandon Finley, Jose Sang, Patricia Truax, and Colton Younger! The students’ technical paper won 1st place…
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Dr. Luis Rabelo – Distinguished Engineering Educator Award
Dr. Luis Rabelo was awarded the Distinguished Engineering Educator Award at the nation’s largest annual National Engineers Week Honors & Awards Banquet by the Engineers’…
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Dr. Haitham Bahaitham – 2011-2012 University Award for the Outstanding Dissertation
Dr. Haitham Bahaitham was selected to receive the 2011-2012 University Award for the Outstanding Dissertation. His dissertation titled “A Framework for Quantifying Sustainability of Lean…
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Dr. Christopher D. Geiger Receives the CECS 2012 Award for Excellence in Professional Service
Congratulations to Dr. Christopher D. Geiger, as he is one of two recipients of the 2012 Award for Excellence in Professional Service for the College…
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UCF IIE Student Chapter Technical Paper Honored at 2012 IIE Southeast Regional Conference
Congratulations to IEMS undergraduate students Jessica Cleveland, Taniqua Gillyard, Lindsey Grinels, Paul Murno and James Reid! The students’ technical paper was recognized with a 2nd…
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Dr. Mansooreh Mollaghasemi inspires potential STEM students
Dr. Mansooreh Mollaghasemi addressed students on why STEM education and simulation are important to their future and the future of United States at The Lou…
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Why UCF?
Christopher Nicholas, Benjamin Schepler, Mauricio Rodriguez, David Larrea, Christopher Ulrich, Lindsey Grinels, and Michael Lopez, students in Dr. Rabelo’s Project Engineering (EIN 5140) class produced…