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Professor to tackle large-scale simulation optimization problems

8/14/19

The National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences has awarded principal investigator Eunhye Song, Harold and Inge Marcus Early Career Assistant Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, $140,000 to push the frontier of large-scale discrete simulation optimization. Song’s goal is to create a new algorithm that is computationally efficient while simultaneously providing a statistical optimality guarantee.

Maneesha Panicker at the Kochi Biennale 2019

Industrial engineering alumna starts enterprises in travel, hospitality services

4/9/19

Entrepreneur, world-traveler, business woman, engineer: these are all words that can be used to describe Penn State alumna Maneesha Panicker. She attributes her knowledge of industrial engineering and its connection to all the different studies instrumental in her personal success in the travel and hospitality industries. Service engineering, specifically, has had an immensely strong influence on her career and its path.

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Analyzing design team interaction

3/22/19

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Penn State will study the role team interactions have on engineering student teams’ performance during the design process.

Chuck Schneider and his late wife, Enid, pictured with their children and grandchildren.

Opening doors for engineering students and the service industry

2/8/19

Penn State alumnus Charles Schneider has gifted $1 million to the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering’s Service Enterprise Engineering Initiative (SEE 360) to endow the Charles and Enid Schneider Scholarship in Service Enterprise Engineering.

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Visualizing vitals through video

12/3/18

Researchers from Penn State and Johns Hopkins University are working to develop additional capabilities by capturing vital signs of patients in resource-constrained environments with a device most Americans use every day — a cellphone camera.

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End zone engineering

11/6/18

Scarlett Miller, associate professor of engineering design and industrial engineering, served as the guest football coach for the first game of Penn State's 2018 season.

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Developing digital design data

10/24/18

Researchers at Penn State have received a $424,743 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate how the size and quality of datasets created by digital models relate to machine learning and how this impacts the support provided to engineering designers.

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NSF funds three-year study of virtual-reality engineering simulations

10/5/18

Researchers at Penn State Behrend and University Park are developing a virtual-reality simulation that will place engineering students in an interactive and immersive manufacturing environment. The National Science Foundation is supporting the project with nearly $300,000 in funding.

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No more snow days?

9/28/18

Since 2010, the University Park campus has canceled classes just three full days due to snowfall. Much to the chagrin of students — and likely some faculty and staff — the snow day at Penn State may just have become even more elusive, thanks to software developed by recent industrial engineering graduate Achal Goel.

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