Penn State’s Berkey Creamery will soon be running smoother than its world-famous ice cream. Students in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering’s Service Enterprise Engineering program are collaborating with the Creamery to optimize the efficiency of the Penn State landmark.
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.
Penn State's Service Enterprise Engineering initiative and Penn State Athletics have worked together on two projects focused on optimizing the efficiency of concession stands and reducing women's restroom wait times at Beaver Stadium.
Hui Yang is an associate professor in the Penn State Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Through his expertise in complex system monitoring, modeling and control, Yang and his students discover new ways to optimize the design of various service industries through data-driven innovation.
Are you a member of a business or academic unit that strives to implement effective industrial and systems engineering principles to real process problems facing your organization? If so, apply for the IISE Outstanding Service Systems Innovation Award and compete to have these achievements recognized.
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.
The Service Enterprise Engineering Advisory Board within the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering has partnered with the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers to develop an international award that celebrates outstanding innovation in service systems engineering.
Undergraduate industrial engineering students can apply what they learn in the classroom to real-world service system challenges by being selected as a Service Enterprise Engineering 360 scholar. Through collaborations with on-campus businesses such as the Penn State Berkey Creamery and Beaver Stadium, scholars have the opportunity to collect data and create formulas that could provide long-term improvements for these services.
Bárbara Venegas, an industrial engineering graduate student poised to earn her doctorate this coming academic year, has been named to the faculty of the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Vittal Prabhu, an industrial engineering professor at Penn State, has received a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship and will be traveling to India to do research for the 2018-19 academic year.
Two faculty members within the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering have co-authored a new book focusing on the design, control, operation and management of service systems.
Industrial engineering students are applying what they’ve learned in the classroom to help improve service at one of the most beloved places on the University Park campus, Penn State’s Berkey Creamery.
Industrial engineering students look to improve service at an iconic campus location, the world-famous Berkey Creamery.
Penn State’s Enterprise Networking and Communication Services turned to engineering students to help improve the unit’s service to the University community by sponsoring capstone projects through the Learning Factory.
The application of real data to classroom problems is allowing Penn State industrial engineering students to take their learning one step further. Professor Vittal Prabhu developed a case study based on data from an electric utility company to help students apply engineering techniques to real-life situations.
