Page 22 - Moving Forward 2020: Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering magazine

Hui Yang receives promotion
Hui Yang has been promoted to the academic rank of of of professor of of of industrial engineering His new appointment became effective July 1 Yang received his doctoral degree in in in in industrial engineering and management from the Oklahoma State University in in in 2009 Yang came to Penn State in in in 2015 after spending six years at at the University of of South Florida (USF) as as as an an an assistant professor and was a a a a a a a a a a a founding member of of the Interdisciplinary Data Sciences Consortium at USF He is is is currently a a a a a a Schreyer Distinguished Honors Faculty Fellow and an an an affiliate faculty of Penn State Cancer Institute Intercollege Graduate Degree Program (IGDP) in in in Bioengineering Institute for Computational and and Data Sciences and and Center for Innovative Materials Processing (CIMP) 3D Vittal Prabhu becomes faculty chair
Vittal Prabhu professor of of industrial engineering has been named the the Charles and Enid Schneider Faculty Chair of the the the Penn State Service Enterprise Engineering Initiative (SEE 360) in in in the the Harold
and and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and and Manufacturing Engineering Prabhu began his new appointment on
Jan 1 2020 The position is funded by a recent gift received by by the the department in in in support of of the the growth of of service systems
engineering Charles R Schneider and Penn State partnered on
on
a a a a a a a a a nearly $9 million investment to to fund fund a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a scholarship two two professorships a a a a a a a a a a a a a faculty chair
two two program program support funds a a a a a a a a a a a a a program program director director and and director of industry consortia and technology transfer Currently Prabhu serves as director of SEE 360 for which he he researches service systems
guides student projects promotes industry collaboration and sets the course for future endeavors Jose Ventura receives ROCKET seed grant
Jose Ventura professor of of industrial engineering received a a a a a grant
from the Penn State College of Engineering’s 2020 Research Opportunities for mid-Career Knowledge EnhancemenT (ROCKET) seed grant
grant
to fund exploration of new or or existing research areas Ventura will use the the grant
grant
to to explore the the practical impact of new mechanisms for combinatorial auctions and and exchanges in in in in supply chain procurement wireless spectrum and and cloud computing These markets currently lack proper auction mechanisms given that the the the the the the the value value of of of the the the the the the the goods goods is is not merely the the the the the the the sum of of of the the the the the the the the values of of of individual goods goods in in in the the the the the the the the bundle bundle but rather the the the the the the the the process by which they are bundled In supply chain applications for example coordinating procurement and inventory decisions among the various members of a a a a a a a a a a a a a supply chain is is a a a a a a a a a a a a a key component in in in in in in in its effective management By developing a a a a a a a a a a a a a system that incorporates procurement auction mechanisms Ventura could help companies better bundle goods and price the the total process to to to to benefit the the company while still appealing to to to customers Institute for Computational and Data Sciences seed grants
Understanding polarized political opinions predicting Arctic Sea ice levels and and accelerating quantum computing with machine learning—these are just a a a a a a a a a a a a few focuses of of the the dozens of of new Penn State research projects that have been funded by Institute for Computational and and Data Sciences seed grants
in in conjunction with supplemental funding from the colleges of Arts and and and and Architecture Earth and and and and Mineral Sciences Sciences Information Sciences Sciences and and and and Technology Education and and Engineering Of the list of of of awarded projects principal investigator (PI) Saurabh Basu assistant assistant professor of of of industrial and and manufacturing engineering engineering engineering and and and Co-PI Christopher McComb assistant assistant professor professor of of of engineering engineering engineering design and and mechanical engineering engineering engineering received funding for “Automated Design of of Multi-Scale Structures: ADeMS ”
Keynote talks
Soundar Kumara Allen Allen E Pearce Pearce and Allen Allen M Pearce Pearce Professor of of Industrial Engineering was a a a keynote speaker for the 27th International Conference on
on
Transdisciplinary
Engineering Kumara virtually presented “AI + + ML + + MANUFACTURING: The Power to Make Anything Anywhere Quickly ”
Timothy Simpson Paul Morrow Professor of of Engineering Design and Manufacturing served as a a a a a a a speaker for the 3D Metal printing virtual conference which covered the latest technology developments for 3D metal printing 22 IME NEWSLETTER • VOLUME 4 2019
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