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Come visit us at the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference & Exposition May 21-24 in Anaheim, California!
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Media Mentions
Senior Chrishani Boothe elected Movin' On Liaison by University Park Undergraduate Association MORE
Paper authored by Assistant Professor Scarlett Miller and doctoral candidate Christine Toh nominated for Design Studies Award 2015 MORE
Simpson interviewed in Metal 3D Printing magazine HERE
Roadmap for next generation of 3D printing materials featured by AM News HERE, AZO Materials HERE, Kurzweil News HERE, and the Daily Collegian HERE
H. Nembhard's Parkinson's study highlighted by Parkinson's News Today site HERE and the Daily Collegian HERE
H. Nembhard's new book recognized as Book of the Month in "The Front Line" section of February issue of
Industrial Engineer
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(requires IIE login and password to view digital issue)
Tucker's virtual reality research featured by Campus Technology HERE and the Daily Collegian HERE
In the News
Penn State to hold
symposium on Lean Six Sigma in health care MORE
Penn State to participate in Center for Health Organization Transformation meeting
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H. Nembhard co-authors new book on healthcare delivery systems
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Simpson featured for helping grow 3D printing technologies in higher ed
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Engineering alumni society recognizes Humphreys as rising star
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Penn State hosts Enterprise Integration Consortium meeting
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Penn State welcomes eight universities as National Organization of Business and Engineering annual conference host
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Making it work: How one engineering staff member refuses to let her child's diagnosis defeat her
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Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems Workshop photo album
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Recognitions and Awards
Industrial engineering student presented with John W. Oswald Award MORE
Department and student organization host annual awards banquet and family day MORE
Wagura selected as IE student marshal for commencement
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Faculty receive College of Engineering seed grant funding MORE
Yang named president-elect of industrial engineering division board MORE
National Academy of Engineering appoints Tucker to committee
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Simpson recognized for going "above and beyond" at Penn State
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Affiliate faculty member wins best publication award
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Alumni News
R.T. Custer ('14 I E) speaks on campus during IST Startup Week MORE
Lauren Knoblach ('11 I E, '11 LIB) earns Penn State Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Society's 2016 Graduate of the Last Decade Award
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Kristin Prusinowski ('06 I E) featured in Alumni Association chapter president article
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Miranda Keeney ('
91 M.S. I E and O R, '96 Ph.D.) named Outstanding Engineering Alumna MORE
Mary Kate Kloeblen ('13 I E), now a distribution analyst at J. Crew, is featured in the college's alumni spotlight for April
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Hyojung Kang ('15 Ph.D.) and David Mu
ñoz ('15 Ph.D.) co-author new book on health systems engineering
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Derek Goodlin ('92 I E) is a candidate for
Arkansas State House of Representatives District 81 seat MORE
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Upcoming Events
April 22: Lean Six Sigma in Health Care Symposium
April 28: Engineering Design Showcase
April 29: Classes End
May 2-6: Final Exams
May 6: Commencement Reception
May 6: Undergraduate Commencement
May 8: Graduate Commencement
May 21-24: Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Annual Conference
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About this month's cover photo:
The Penn State student chapter of the National Organization for Business and Engineering (NOBE) hosted more than 80 participants from eight universities - as well as industry members - Feb. 12-14 for the 2016 NOBE National Conference at the Nittany Lion Inn.
Sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, the conference featured speakers from both academia and industry who addressed some of the many opportunities and overlap in workplace skills that exist for students interested in the business and engineering sectors.
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In this issue we focus on New Zealand native
Jenny McLean, who will leave Penn State in August with two graduate degrees after only 12 months in Happy Valley, thanks to our one-year master's degree program. Check out the bonus video coverage in the article!
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Your gift to the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering sustains a tradition of excellence and makes a difference for current and future industrial engineering students. Click the "Give now" button to make a gift online through Penn State's secure giving portal. Thank you for your continued support.
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Students help communities in Africa, learn leadership skills
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Two industrial engineering students were part of a design team that traveled to Tanzania as part of their capstone project for the Engineering Leadership Design minor
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The baobab tree, commonly called the tree of life, is a staple in many rural African communities. Every component of the tree is beneficial in some way - providing sustenance and income to the people in these communities. However, the tree's fruit, made up of seeds, pulp and fiber, is difficult to process. The current method of using a mortar and pestle is very difficult and inefficient.
For the last five years, Penn State students in the Engineering Leadership Development (ELD) minor have worked to alleviate this by designing and building a baobab-processing machine as their minor capstone project.
Each semester, students in ENGR 496 redesign the previous semester's machine to make improvements and meet the needs of the African locals. The students build the machines over the course of a semester in the College of Engineering's Learning Factory. Once the machines are complete, the students and faculty members travel to Africa to deliver the machines and teach the locals how to operate them.
Nadine Geagea and Kelly Hensler, both industrial engineering students, were two of the engineering students that traveled to Africa in March to test their design.
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Penn State releases roadmap for next generation of additive manufacturing materials
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Professor Tim Simpson is one of the researchers hoping to educate the next generation of makers about the materials and applications that lend themselves well to 3D printing
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Penn State researchers have released a roadmap that is designed to offer a strategy for building the fundamental knowledge necessary to accelerate the design and application of additive manufacturing (AM) materials over the next 10 years.
Funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, researchers from the Applied Research Lab (ARL), the Penn State Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3D), the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and the School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend worked with Nexight Group to prepare the "Strategic Roadmap for the Next Generation of Additive Manufacturing Materials."
"We have published this document in order to inform the next generation of makers about the materials and applications that lend themselves well to 3D printing so they can take advantage of the wide range of capabilities that this technology can offer to industry," said Tim Simpson, one of the co-principal investigators (PIs) on the roadmapping project and co-director of CIMP-3D and professor of mechanical engineering and industrial engineering.
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H. Nembhard receives funding to lead Parkinson's disease research
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Research focuses on treating and monitoring patients with the disease remotely
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Harriet Nembhard, professor of industrial engineering and director of the Penn State Center for Integrated Healthcare Delivery Systems, has been awarded $50,000 by the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI) at Penn State for research relating to treating and monitoring patients with Parkinson's disease remotely.
Nembhard is the principal investigator of the one-year project titled "Precision Health for Parkinson's Disease: Advancing Translation with Medical Devices and Technology."
Conrad Tucker, assistant professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, Mehmet Kilinc, postdoctoral researcher in industrial engineering and Xuemei Huang, professor and vice chair of the Department of Neurology at Hershey Medical Center, are co-investigators.
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Tucker receives funding to support teaching in a virtual environment
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Research focuses on using virtual reality to teach Penn State engineering students
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Conrad Tucker, assistant professor of engineering design and industrial engineering and an affiliate faculty member of computer science and engineering, is the principal investigator of one of four proposals selected by Penn State's Center for Online Innovation in Learning (COIL) to receive research dollars through its Research Initiation Grant Program. A total of 30 proposals were submitted to COIL for this new funding program.
The proposal, titled "VR Penn State: Teaching Engineering Concepts in an Immerse Virtual Reality Environment," is supported by co-investigators Chimay Anumba, professor and head of the Department of Architectural Engineering; Sven Bilén, professor and head of the School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs and professor of electrical engineering and aerospace engineering; and Janis Terpenny, professor and Peter and Angela Dal Pezzo Chair and Department Head of the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
"The outcomes of this research have the potential to provide a scalable learning environment to online learners that will transform virtual collaboration from passive experiences in which students simply consume content, to more interactive experiences in which students communicate by creating and augmenting content in a collaborative manner," said Tucker.
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Industrial engineer earns National Science Foundation CAREER Award
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Hui Yang given NSF's
most prestigious award for researching improvements in manufacturing and health care
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Hui Yang, Harold and Inge Marcus Career Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
The CAREER award is the most prestigious award given by the NSF and is designed to support junior faculty members who have shown exceptional promise through outstanding research, excellent teaching and the integration of education and research by awarding assistant professors with five years of funding.
Yang received a $500,000 grant for his project titled "Sensor-based Modeling and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics in Complex Systems for Quality Improvements in Manufacturing and Healthcare."
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