Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Departmental Seminar (899): Cong Shi, U-M IOE (April 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74123 74123-18541331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Network Revenue Management with Online Inverse Batch Gradient Descent Method

Abstract:
We consider a general class of price-based network revenue management problems that a firm aims to maximize revenue from multiple products produced with multiple types of resources endowed with limited inventory over a finite selling season. A salient feature of our problem is that the firm does not know the underlying demand function that maps prices to demand rate, which must be learned from sales data. It is well known that for almost all classes of demand functions, the revenue rate function is not concave in the products' prices but is concave in products' market shares (or price-controlled demand rates). This creates challenges in adopting any stochastic gradient descent based methods in the price space. We propose a novel nonparametric learning algorithm termed online inverse batch gradient descent (IGD) algorithm. For the large scale systems wherein all resources' inventories and the length of the horizon are proportionally scaled by a parameter $k$, we establish a dimension-independent regret bound of $O( k^{4/5} \log k)$. This result is independent of the number of products and resources and works for a continuum action-set prices and the demand functions that are only once differentiable. Our result guarantees the efficacy of both algorithms in the high dimensional systems where the number of products or resources is large and the prices are continuous. (This is a joint work with Dr. Yiwei Chen.)

Bio:
Cong Shi is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His main research interests include supply chain management, revenue management, and service operations. He has won the first place in the INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, the third place in the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, and the finalist for the MSOM Data Driven Challenge. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT in 2012, and his B.S. in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore in 2007.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:32:28 -0400 2020-04-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Cong Shi
IOE Graduate Student Virtual Town Hall (April 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74127 74127-18541334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Please join us to give feedback and ask questions about your experiences in IOE! All IOE graduate students, from all backgrounds, are encouraged to attend.

We will be joined by Matt Irelan (Grad Program Coordinator), Marina Epelman (Grad Program Chair), Yavuz Bozer (Masters Program Chair), and Brian Denton (Department Chair).

NOTE: the listed finishing time is an estimate only.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:54:47 -0400 2020-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-10T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Virtual Town Hall
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Seth Guikema, U-M IOE (April 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74211 74211-18574513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Risk Analysis - what is it, what can I learn from it, and how do I learn more about it?

Abstract:
This seminar will introduce the field of study of risk analysis. What is it? What does a risk analyst do? What kind of places hire risk analysts? What are the tools of risk analysis? A brief overview of ongoing industry-sponsored risk analysis projects will be given as well. The seminar will be kept informal to allow time for questions.

Bio:
Seth Guikema is a Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also the current President of the Society for Risk Analysis and works as a senior advisor for data analytics with a Silicon Valley start-up that is focused on machine learning for risk and resilience analysis. He has been a risk analyst in both academia and practice for 20+ years, and he is the Area Editor for the Mathematical Modeling section of the journal Risk Analysis. He too once sat in seminars like this one as an early undergraduate trying to figure out what to major in. Please ask questions!

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:26:24 -0400 2020-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Seth Guikema
PhD Defense: Zhiyuan Huang (April 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74362 74362-18672237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend remotely via BlueJeans:
https://bluejeans.com/588730552

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Data-driven Methods and Applications for Optimization under Uncertainty and Rare-event Simulation

CO-CHAIRS:
Henry Lam, Ruiwei Jiang

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 22 Apr 2020 10:10:46 -0400 2020-04-23T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Zhiyuan Huang
*CANCELED* 2020 IOE GRADUATE STUDENT BANQUET (April 23, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73811 73811-18322362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 23, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.


We are pleased to announce the official date of our 2020 IOE Graduate Student Banquet.

From IOE's grad coordinators:
This event wouldn't be optimal without you and your family! Hence please invite your family and friends who would like to celebrate the many accomplishments of our graduate students.

With that being said, please take a minute to save this time and date on your calendars.

OCCASION: Celebrate graduate student achievements (in particular: those who will complete their degrees this year!)
WHO: All graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and staff. The event is also open to family and friends.
COST: $5/person; tickets will be on sale starting in April 1st (child <14 tickets are free).

More event details and logistics to come.

This year we are planning an epic banquet with great music, delicious dinner, and new activities to enjoy and celebrate the accomplishments of our 2020 graduates as well as our faculty and staff.

Looking forward to another GREAT Graduate Student Banquet!

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Reception / Open House Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:19:30 -0400 2020-04-23T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-23T21:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Reception / Open House "Canceled" text
*CANCELED* Faculty Lunch Workshop Seminar: Cultivating Student-Faculty Relationships through Mentoring (April 24, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73712 73712-18302649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 11:30am
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Are you a U-M College of Engineering faculty or staff member?
Want to learn about some best practices for engaging students through mentoring?
Want to learn more about our engineering undergraduate students and their needs?
Want to enjoy a delicious Zingerman’s Deli lunch while having a thoughtful discussion with your colleagues?
IF YES, THEN THIS SEMINAR IS FOR YOU!

In this seminar, attendees will learn about how to develop and cultivate mentoring relationships with engineering undergraduates. Specifically, faculty members, Joi Mondisa (IOE) and Chinedum Okuwdire (ME) will discuss how they developed and are implementing discipline-based engineering student-faculty mentoring programs in their respective departments. These programs were initiated to address the needs of students, specifically minoritized populations (i.e., African American, Hispanic/Latinx, American Indian/Alaska Natives). The workshop will feature details about: the development of discipline-based engineering student-faculty mentoring programs, participants’ program experiences, and mentoring elements and findings developed from the research project that might apply broadly to others groups.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Mar 2020 10:56:29 -0400 2020-04-24T11:30:00-04:00 2020-04-24T13:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Canceled" text
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Qi Luo, Emily Tucker, Gian-Gabriel Garcia, Sentao Miao; U-M IOE (April 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74212 74212-18576565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all IOE students, faculty, and staff. Link to attend virtually will be added closer to the event date.

Title:
INFORMS Navigating the Academic Job Market Panel

Abstract:
The academic job market is highly competitive and might seem like a complex process for the first-time job seekers. We are fortunate to have a number of wonderful Ph.D. students with first-hand experience who are willing to share their experience attaining faculty positions on the recent job market. We are holding a virtual lunch-and-learn event to help Ph.D. students learn more about different aspects and steps of finding an academic job. The event is open to all IOE students and faculty, and we particularly encourage attendance of Ph.D. students who are entering the job market this year or considering going on the academic job market in the future.

Bio:
Emily Tucker is an industrial engineer who develops operations research models to help others, particularly in the areas of healthcare operations and policy. In the fall of 2020, she will join the Department of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University as an Assistant Professor. She received her PhD and MSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) from the University of Michigan. Emily was supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a Rackham Merit Fellowship. Her dissertation work received the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research from the College of Engineering. While at Michigan, she served as President of the Student Leadership Board in IOE and an Editor of OR/MS Tomorrow. Prior to graduate school, Emily worked as a Research Health Economist for RTI Health Solutions and received her BS in Industrial Engineering from NC State.

Gian-Gabriel Garcia is a PhD Candidate in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. In his research, Gian is interested in developing data-driven frameworks using predictive and prescriptive analytics to address by high-impact problems in healthcare. Motivated by applications in concussion, glaucoma, and cardiovascular disease, his current research focuses on (1) using large clinical datasets to gain patient-specific insights on disease progression and (2) combining these insights with stakeholders’ perspectives to improve diagnosis and treatment decisions. Upon completing his PhD, Gian will spend one year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Technology Assessment within Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. Then, in Fall 2021, he will begin as an Assistant Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Sentao Miao is a PhD candidate, supervised by Prof. Xiuli Chao, at Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of Michigan. For methodologies, Sentao Miao focuses on statistical and machine learning algorithms such as online learning, multi-arm bandit, reinforcement learning, etc. For applications, he mainly works on operations management problems such as dynamic pricing, assortment selection, inventory control, etc. Sentao Miao obtained his Bachelor degree in Mathematics at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. In college, he mainly worked on computational methods and approximation algorithms for high dimensional data. In the Fall 2020, he will join Bensadoun School of Retail Management (co-appointed at Operations Management division of Desautels Faculty of Management), McGill University, as an Assistant Professor.

Qi Luo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Scientific Computing at the University of Michigan. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a Master’s degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a research assistant at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on bridging operations research with reinforcement learning and game theory to support data-driven decision making with applications to transportation, supply chain, and public policy. He is the student PI in NSF Convergence Accelerator Pilot (C-Accel) and works with many industrial partners including Ford, DiDi Chuxing, and Mcity to address the pressing problems in emerging mobility ecosystem. He has served as the PhD Liaison of the INFORMS student chapter at the University of Michigan. In the Spring of 2021, he will join the Department of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University as an Assistant Professor.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:17:01 -0400 2020-04-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-04-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Lunch and Learn
Project Management Certification (April 26, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73563 73563-18261074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 26, 2020 11:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students: $500 and to Tauber students: $150. Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

Sunday, March 15 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, March 29 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)
Sunday, April 5 (noon - 4:30 pm, Ross R-0420)

The certification exam, administered by IPMA-USA is scheduled for April 26, 2020 (11:00 am) at the Ross School of Business, R-0320. Successfully passing the exam will yield IPMA's Level D certification (Certified Project Management Associate).

Over the last two years, all students who have taken the exam have passed!

Project Management is a powerful skillset to have in your toolbox as you look for full-time employment!

REGISTRATION: Please register through iMpact by clicking here:
http://myumi.ch/dO5Nl

NOTE: The $500 (for non-Tauber students) or $150 fee (for Tauber students) is non-refundable.

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact tauberinstitute@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B, and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

For more information,
Visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Connect via email to Diana Crossley dianak@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:07:18 -0500 2020-04-26T11:00:00-04:00 2020-04-26T16:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Photo of certificate
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Pat Hammett, U-M Six Sigma Programs (May 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74329 74329-18631826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Moving to Hybrid Live/Online Courses Efficiently and Effectively

Abstract:
After teaching classes for over 20 years with a mix of both residential and online students in the same University course, Dr. Hammett discusses his experiences, lessons learned, and recommendations to offer these hybrid courses with no significant differences in performance or student evaluation scores between the audiences.

Bio:
Dr. Patrick Hammett is the Lead Faculty for the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Six Sigma Programs and teaches related Quality and Statistical Analysis Method courses as a Lecturer for the Integrative Systems + Design and Industrial and Operations Engineering departments. Dr. Hammett is the lead instructor for numerous live and online Six Sigma training courses, including Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, Master Black Belt, and Design for Six Sigma. He also teaches several courses in the Industrial and Operations Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering degree programs. Collectively, Dr. Hammett has taught over 18,000 students and mentored hundreds of continuous improvement and student research projects.

In addition to his teaching duties, Dr. Hammett has served as the Director of Faculty Innovation at Nexus since its establishment in 2019. His role includes new program development, faculty guidance and support, and expanding the College's online learning capacity. He also played a key role in the College's transition to remote learning in Winter 2020.

Dr. Hammett's primary research focus involves data analysis methods to support the validation phase of new product development. Among his areas of interest are dimensional engineering, usability engineering, tolerance adjustment methods, functional build manufacturing validation strategies, and 3D non-contact measurement technology. Among his past research sponsors are General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Visteon, and Harley Davidson.

Beyond his University work, Dr. Hammett is president of two small companies, QETools and Manufacturing Validation Solutions, LLC. Dr. Hammett received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. He was recognized by General Motors as an outstanding distance learning instructor when he received their 2014 GM Technical Education Program Diamond Faculty Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:08:37 -0400 2020-05-01T12:00:00-04:00 2020-05-01T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Patrick Hammett
2020 IOE Undergraduate Recognition Webinar (May 1, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74363 74363-18672238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This webinar is an opportunity for our IOE community, family, and friends to join and recognize the graduation of our 2020 undergraduate class.

It will feature memories from the last four years, and messages from faculty, students, and alums. Please join us to celebrate the completion of a major milestone in our student’s careers and welcome our newest cohort of IOE alums.

This webinar is open to everyone in the IOE community as well as their family and friends.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:49:33 -0400 2020-05-01T16:00:00-04:00 2020-05-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual "IOE Undergraduate Recognition Webinar" text
Virtual 2020 Graduate Student Banquet (May 1, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74337 74337-18656186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 1, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This year we are hosting our first VIRTUAL IOE Graduate Student Banquet to enjoy and celebrate the accomplishments of our 2020 graduate students as well as our faculty and staff.

All IOE graduate students, post-docs, staff and faculty are invited to attend. The event is also open to family and friends.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:35:52 -0400 2020-05-01T17:30:00-04:00 2020-05-01T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual "Virtual 2020 Graduate Student Banquet" text
PhD Defense: Yidu Lu (May 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74227 74227-18599090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend remotely via BlueJeans:
https://bluejeans.com/301092360

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Detecting and overcoming trust miscalibration in real time using an eye-tracking based technique

CO-CHAIR:
Nadine Sarter

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 May 2020 14:02:09 -0400 2020-05-06T12:00:00-04:00 2020-05-06T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Yidu Lu
*POSTPONED* Walton M. Hancock Legacy Reception (May 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73722 73722-18304822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

Please join the U-M IOE community for a very special event to honor the legacy of Walton M. Hancock.

Walt was a faculty member since 1959, serving as department chair, and continuing on as a professor emeritus through his retirement. He played a major role in establishing the department’s foothold in manufacturing, healthcare delivery systems, and worker safety, among others.

His pioneering work helped guide the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and lay the foundation for our current mission and vision for education and research.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet with Walt’s family and friends, IOE alums, faculty and students, and learn about some of the most recent activities in the department stemming from Walt’s legacy.

We hope to see you in May. Should you have any questions, please reach out to ioe.events@umich.edu.

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Reception / Open House Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:02:35 -0400 2020-05-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-05-08T15:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Reception / Open House "Postponed" text
PhD Defense: Qianyi Albert Fu (May 22, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73951 73951-18728511@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 22, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend remotely via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 924 6288 6328
Password: 696853
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/92462886328

TITLE OF DISSERTATION: Development of a Planar Piecewise Continuous Lumped Parameters Model for the Investigation of Joint Stiffness in Walking on Level Surface

CO-CHAIRS: Thomas Armstrong and Albert Shih

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 May 2020 14:14:47 -0400 2020-05-22T13:00:00-04:00 2020-05-22T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Qianyi Fu
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Pat Hammett, U-M Six Sigma Programs (May 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74699 74699-18912803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all. IOE faculty, graduate students and staff are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Offering Remote Exams to Online Students

Abstract:
After teaching classes for over 20 years with a mix of both residential and online students in the same University course, Dr. Hammett discusses his experiences, lessons learned, and recommendations regarding offering online examinations to students in a remote learning setting.

Bio:
Dr. Patrick Hammett is the Lead Faculty for the University of Michigan College of Engineering's Six Sigma Programs and teaches related Quality and Statistical Analysis Method courses as a Lecturer for the Integrative Systems + Design and Industrial and Operations Engineering departments. Dr. Hammett is the lead instructor for numerous live and online Six Sigma training courses, including Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt, Master Black Belt, and Design for Six Sigma. He also teaches several courses in the Industrial and Operations Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering degree programs. Collectively, Dr. Hammett has taught over 18,000 students and mentored hundreds of continuous improvement and student research projects.

In addition to his teaching duties, Dr. Hammett has served as the Director of Faculty Innovation at Nexus since its establishment in 2019. His role includes new program development, faculty guidance and support, and expanding the College's online learning capacity. He also played a key role in the College's transition to remote learning in Winter 2020.

Dr. Hammett's primary research focus involves data analysis methods to support the validation phase of new product development. Among his areas of interest are dimensional engineering, usability engineering, tolerance adjustment methods, functional build manufacturing validation strategies, and 3D non-contact measurement technology. Among his past research sponsors are General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Visteon, and Harley Davidson.

Beyond his University work, Dr. Hammett is president of two small companies, QETools and Manufacturing Validation Solutions, LLC. Dr. Hammett received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. He was recognized by General Motors as an outstanding distance learning instructor when he received their 2014 GM Technical Education Program Diamond Faculty Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 May 2020 11:22:52 -0400 2020-05-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-05-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Patrick Hammett
PhD Defense: Seok Joo Kwak (June 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74413 74413-18688308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend remotely via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/8920502022

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Examining Interventions and Cognitive Load Factors in Online Learning Experiences

CO-CHAIR:
Joi Mondisa

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:15:24 -0400 2020-06-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-06-16T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Seok Joo Kwak
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Viswanath Nagarajan, U-M IOE (June 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74939 74939-19102723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
How to Write an Academic Paper

Abstract:
We will discuss some basic but important aspects of writing academic papers. Topics include choosing a research problem, good writing style, choosing a journal/conference, the review process and responding to referees. We will keep the discussion general, but concrete examples will be from the optimization area.

Bio:
Viswanath Nagarajan is an assistant professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at U-M. Viswanath received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. Prior to U-M, he worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (2009-2014). Viswanath is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Algorithms and has served on the program committees of many conferences in discrete algorithms and optimization.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:15:31 -0400 2020-06-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-06-26T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Viswanath Nagarajan
PhD Defense: Gian-Gabriel Garcia (July 2, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74990 74990-19126296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, July 2, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend remotely via BlueJeans:
https://bluejeans.com/209861410

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Optimizing Concussion Management Decisions

CHAIR:
Mariel Lavieri

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 18 Jun 2020 11:49:49 -0400 2020-07-02T14:00:00-04:00 2020-07-02T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Gian-Gabriel Garcia
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Jean-Luc Doumont, Principiae (July 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74938 74938-19136100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all, but registration is required. Please register via this URL:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc-6vqTsvGNO4KIdTYKqxPe4tOyMW_OPM

Title:
Delivering Your Presentation Remotely

Abstract:
When circumstances oblige you to deliver your presentation remotely from your office, your home, or even a hotel room, you face additional challenges, technological and otherwise. This remote lecture discusses and demonstrates the necessary adaptations to your environment, your slides, and your delivery so as to focus the attention of the audience, minimize distractions, and get your message across optimally.

Bio:
An engineer (Louvain) and PhD in applied physics (Stanford), Jean-luc Doumont is acclaimed worldwide for his no-nonsense approach, his highly applicable, often life-changing recommendations on a wide range of topics, and Trees, maps, and theorems, his book about “effective communication for rational minds.” For additional information, visit www.principiae.be.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 06 Jul 2020 13:55:20 -0400 2020-07-21T12:00:00-04:00 2020-07-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Jean-Luc Doumont
EER Seminar Series (September 9, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76055 76055-19661498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

There is a significant knowledge gap regarding factors that influence the participation of Black and Hispanic women in computer science, and Dr. Ross has engaged in research to address this gap. She works to critically examine efforts and initiatives that aim to broaden participation in computer science by listening to voices of individuals who are often unheard. The outcomes of Dr. Ross’ research have the potential to reshape the community’s perceptions of what and who are computer scientists, and as well as to crack the code to diversifying this lucrative and impactful discipline. This talk will describe Dr. Ross’ research journey and will present preliminary results.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Monique Ross, Assistant Professor in the School of Computing & Information Sciences and in the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University, earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. She has a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Elizabethtown College, an M.S. degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering from Auburn University, eleven years of experience in industry as a software engineer, and four years of experience as a full-time faculty member in computer science and engineering. Dr. Ross’ interests focus on broadening participation in computing through the exploration of: 1) race, gender, and identity in the academy and industry; and 2) discipline-based education research (with a focus on computer science and computer engineering courses) in order to inform pedagogical practices that garner interest and retain women and minorities in computer-related engineering fields. She was awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER award, and she uses her scholarship to challenge the perceptions of who belongs in computing.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:42:16 -0400 2020-09-09T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-09T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Monique Ross, Florida International University
SEMINAR: "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Operations Research and Analytics: A Research Agenda for Scholarship, Practice and Service" — Michael P. Johnson (September 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76449 76449-19717147@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Operations Research and Analytics: A Research Agenda for Scholarship, Practice and Service

Abstract:
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) refers to strategies and processes that enable organizations to become more reflective of and responsive to identities, values and experiences of different stakeholder groups. Organizations committed to DEI may better fulfill their missions and improve the well-being of their stakeholder groups and of society at large.

In this talk, I will explore the presence of DEI in OR/analytics through an assessment of the profession (the diversity of OR/analytics practitioners) and scholarship (published and emerging work that addresses DEI and related issues). My focus will be on traditionally underrepresented and marginalized groups and communities. I will discuss current and proposed initiatives to support the increased application of DEI principles throughout OR/analytics practice, research and education. I will argue that infusing DEI and social & racial justice principles within OR/analytics can enable our society to become more equitable, more just and more welcoming of people from diverse backgrounds, identities and communities.

Bio:
Michael P. Johnson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on developing decision models and decision support systems to improve operations and strategy design of nonprofit organizations and government agencies. His primary application areas are affordable and assisted housing, community development, climate change response, and diversity, equity and inclusion in the decision sciences. Dr. Johnson has published widely in academic journals of OR/analytics, urban planning, and housing policy. His most recent extended works include a lead-edited volume of curated papers, including INFORMS Editor’s Cut: Diversity and Inclusion: Analytics for Social Impact (INFORMS, 2019), a lead-edited special issue of European Journal of Operational Research on community operational research (Elsevier, 2018) and a lead-authored book, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence‐Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities (Wiley, 2016). His lead-authored book Supporting Shrinkage: Planning and Decision-Making for Legacy Cities (SUNY Press) will appear in Spring 2021. Dr. Johnson earned his PhD from Northwestern University in operations research in 1997 and his bachelor of science from Morehouse College in 1987.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:54:00 -0400 2020-09-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Michael P. Johnson
BIndx Meeting featuring Guest Speaker Dr. Michael Johnson (September 10, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76647 76647-19733047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is only open to U-M undergraduates. College of Engineering undergraduates, especially those in IOE, are encouraged to attend.

You are invited to attend the first BIndx meeting of the school year!

The Black Industrial Engineers (BIndx, pronounced BIND-ex) group is composed of IOE students and faculty who come together informally for meaningful conversation and fellowship to promote learning, mentoring, and networking. The BIndx program was initiated to promote a learning space where students feel comfortable engaging with faculty within our college and departments. BIndx meetings occur as monthly discussions to form relationships between faculty and minoritized students.

A BIndx check-in meeting will begin at 5:30pm. The meeting and discussion with Dr. Michael Johnson will begin at 6pm.

Bio:
Michael P. Johnson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on developing decision models and decision support systems to improve operations and strategy design of nonprofit organizations and government agencies. His primary application areas are affordable and assisted housing, community development, climate change response, and diversity, equity and inclusion in the decision sciences. Dr. Johnson has published widely in academic journals of OR/analytics, urban planning, and housing policy. His most recent extended works include a lead-edited volume of curated papers, including INFORMS Editor’s Cut: Diversity and Inclusion: Analytics for Social Impact (INFORMS, 2019), a lead-edited special issue of European Journal of Operational Research on community operational research (Elsevier, 2018) and a lead-authored book, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence‐Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities (Wiley, 2016). His lead-authored book Supporting Shrinkage: Planning and Decision-Making for Legacy Cities (SUNY Press) will appear in Spring 2021. Dr. Johnson earned his PhD from Northwestern University in operations research in 1997 and his bachelor of science from Morehouse College in 1987. Here is the URL for his SelectedWorks page: https://works.bepress.com/michael_johnson/

Contact Professor Mondisa at jmondisa@umich.edu with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:09:51 -0400 2020-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 2020-09-10T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar BIndx Meeting
Life After Undergrad Panel (September 10, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75767 75767-19600134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

We encourage all levels of IOE undergraduates to attend as it is never too early nor too late to learn about your career options). The event is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Description:
This fall, the INFORMS Student Chapter at the University of Michigan is hosting a “Life After Undergrad” panel where panelists with different experiences will be able to share their career journey. In particular, the panel will consist of members with the following experiences:
(1) MSE/Ph.D. in Research
(2) MSE/Ph.D. in Academia
(3) MBA
(4) Industry
(5) Consulting
(6) Non-profit/Government

Industrial and operations engineering is a very diverse field and it is often difficult for IOE undergraduate students to determine what path suits their needs. INFORMS hopes this panel will make IOE undergraduate students better aware of their different options and help them decide the best career plan after they complete their BSE.

If you have any questions that you would like to submit ahead of time (anonymously), feel free to submit them by completing an online form found here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7Wo733o_niokvXT_gx4T9wXyf5K1Tk9jQfMzCtXs9OxZKVw/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:50:32 -0400 2020-09-10T17:30:00-04:00 2020-09-10T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual "Life After Undergrad Panel" text
LUNCH & LEARN: "Leveraging Your IOE Degree as an Entrepreneur" — Mike O'Connell (September 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76872 76872-19772609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Leveraging Your IOE Degree as an Entrepreneur

Abstract:
Join this webinar with Michael O’Connell, IOE advisory board member and president of The Woodmar Group, a California based winery, for career advice about how to start and grow a successful business.

Bio:
Mike O’Connell is the founder and President of The Woodmar Group, a California based winery. The Woodmar Group started in 2004 in Napa, California with the focus of using Napa Valley winemaking skills to produce wines that retail in the $10 - $15 price point. The brands include Grayson Cellars, Block Nine, Logan Farrell, Freelander, Ghostrunner and Hanging Vine and are sold into 50 states and 25 countries. He has served on non-profit boards including Culver Academies Legion Board, Galactic Unite, and Chairman of Culver Clubs International. He holds a BSE in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:56:27 -0400 2020-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Mike O'Connell
Identifying Emergency Funds and How to Advocate for Making Room in Your Financial Aid Package (September 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75507 75507-19513173@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: CEW+

Advance registration is required; look for the Zoom link at the bottom of your confirmation email after registering.

This session will provide information about how you can seek emergency funds should you experience an emergency situation or one-time, unusual, unforeseen expense while in school. Information about the types of situations that qualify for emergency funds and where to seek funding will be covered during this presentation.

RSVP HERE: http://www.cew.umich.edu/events/identifying-emergency-funds-and-how-to-advocate-for-making-room-in-your-financial-aid-package

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:02:34 -0400 2020-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location CEW+ Livestream / Virtual A jar of spilled change
SEMINAR: "Outward Facing Optimization: Operations Research With Impact" — Laura Albert (September 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75962 75962-19631732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This seminar is sponsored by the U-M INFORMS Student Chapter.

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Outward Facing Optimization: Operations Research With Impact

Abstract:
Government programs spanning public safety, transportation security, and critical infrastructure protection must deliver essential services by managing risks such as health emergencies, crime, acts of terrorism, and natural disasters. Doing so requires allocating resources in complex systems that span people, processes, vehicles, and critical infrastructure, where many decisions are interrelated.

Government leaders and researchers have been studying how to design and operate public sector systems to manage risk for the last half a century. Although researchers have created a body of knowledge for supporting prescriptive and predictive decisions in the public sector, public safety leaders must continually adapt to address new risks in budget-constrained environments. As a result, many research challenges remain.

In this talk, Dr. Laura Albert will discuss her research that studies how to design and operate public sector systems using optimization methodologies. She will discuss how she has connected theory and modeling to application in applications in the United States ranging from emergency medical services, aviation security, and critical infrastructure protection. She will also discuss how to engage policymakers and the public with research.

Bio:
Laura Albert, Ph.D., is a Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering and a Harvey D. Spangler Faculty Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests are in the field of operations research, with a particular focus on discrete optimization with application to homeland security and emergency response problems. Dr. Albert’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Army, and Sandia National Laboratory. She has authored or co-authored 69 publications in archival journals and refereed proceedings. She has been awarded many honors for her research, including the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Fellow Award, the INFORMS Impact Prize, four publication awards, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Fulbright Award, and a Department of the Army Young Investigator Award. She is a Department Editor for IIE Transactions and is on or has been on six other journal Editorial Boards. Dr. Albert has served on the INFORMS Board as the Vice President for Marketing, Communication, and Outreach and served as the Assistant Dean for Graduate Affairs in the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. She is the author of the blogs “Punk Rock Operations Research” and “Badger Bracketology.” You can find her on twitter at @lauraalbertphd.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:55:04 -0400 2020-09-17T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-17T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Laura Albert
Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition 2020 (September 18, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76967 76967-19782528@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Spotlight! Team Project Showcase and Scholarship Competition is a competitive presentation of operations and manufacturing solutions developed by Tauber Institute student teams from their 14-week team projects. At Spotlight!, students showcase their project results and compete for academic scholarships.

Spotlight! is an excellent opportunity to establish relationships with students and corporate partners, expand your university presence, and see many new ideas in operations and manufacturing.

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Presentation Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:30:43 -0400 2020-09-18T11:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Spotlight! 2020
LUNCH & LEARN: "Data Analytics for Detecting Prostate Cancer Using Radiographic Imaging" — Brian Denton (September 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77134 77134-19798504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Title:
Data Analytics for Detecting Prostate Cancer Using Radiographic Imaging

Abstract:
Predictive models have an important role to play in detecting asymptomatic cancer. This presentation will discuss approaches for using patient data and machine learning to predict whether patients will benefit from radiologic imaging, like CT scans, for diagnosing the presence of metastatic cancer.

Bio:
Brian Denton is Chair of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests are in data-driven decision making and optimization under uncertainty with applications to medicine. Before joining the University of Michigan he worked at IBM, Mayo Clinic, and North Carolina State University. He is an INFORMS Fellow, past Chair of the INFORMS Health Applications Section, and he served as Secretary of INFORMS, and President of INFORMS.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:27:04 -0400 2020-09-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Brian Denton
EER Seminar Series (September 23, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77085 77085-19796480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Much of the conversation on equity and inclusion centers on the need to “increase” something—the marginalized student population, mentoring programs, engagement opportunities, “knowledge” of topics like white privilege. However, few conversations focus on a much harder truth—that the culture of whiteness and maleness in engineering limits sustained improvement in equity and inclusion efforts of most institutions. Using preliminary findings from their current NSF-funded project called “I-MATTER,” Drs. Masta and Pawley examine how engineering culture has normalized racism and sexism for underrepresented students in engineering contexts. Through their discussion, they will highlight the strong need for more BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) researchers in white spaces, and encourage white researchers to “stay in their lanes” when approaching equity and inclusion research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:15:05 -0400 2020-09-23T15:30:00-04:00 2020-09-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Drs. Stephanie Masta & Alice Pawley
SEMINAR: "Drivers’ Allocation of Attention Given Increasingly Autonomous Systems" — Linda Boyle (September 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75963 75963-19629763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Drivers’ Allocation of Attention Given Increasingly Autonomous Systems

Abstract:
Safe transport requires an understanding of the road user, their intended trip purpose and their perceptions of safety. In today’s driving environment, the human driver needs to continually switch between driving and non-driving activities. They will adapt their behavior and compensate for any perceived risks given changes in the road, weather and traffic environment. As vehicles become increasingly autonomous, human drivers will also become increasingly accustom to the vehicle assuming control and may not attend to the roadway as needed. The attention to safety critical situations is further impacted given increasing interactions with non-driving tasks while traveling. As the number of autonomous systems in our car grows, the driver’s attention to warnings and alerts diminish, making them less ready to take back control of the vehicle when the automation fails. This presentation describes some of the studies conducted to assess changes in drivers’ allocation of attention as they switch between driving and non-driving task over the course of their drive. Individual differences are observed given the type of task and task complexity. The implications of these findings for the design of future cars are discussed in this presentation.

Bio:
Linda Ng Boyle is Professor and Chair of the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She has a joint appointment in Civil & Environmental Engineering. She has degrees from the University of Buffalo (BS) and University of Washington (MS, PhD). She is an organizer for the International Symposium on Human Factors in Driving Assessment and co-author of the textbook, “Designing for People: An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering.” Her area of expertise is in human factors and transportation safety.

This event is sponsored by the University of Michigan HFES Student Chapter.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:45:04 -0400 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Linda Boyle
LUNCH & LEARN: "Systems Engineering Methods for Return to Operations During a Pandemic" — Siqian Shen (September 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77018 77018-19788567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Systems Engineering Methods for Return to Operations During a Pandemic

Abstract:
The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to huge challenges for schools, workplaces, and communities trying to return to operations while ensuring everyone's safety during the pandemic. In this talk, we present a few examples to demonstrate how optimization models and data analytics tools can be used for understanding (i) how infection status dynamically affects mobility patterns and travel behavior, (ii) how to optimize business/state reopening and closedown strategies, and (iii) how to redesign public transit systems like city buses to reduce passengers’ infection risk.

Bio:
Siqian Shen is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and also serves as an Associate Director in the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE). Her theoretical research interests are in integer programming, stochastic/robust optimization, and network optimization. Applications include optimization and risk analysis of energy, healthcare, cloud computing, and transportation systems. She is a recipient of the IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (1st Place), IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Faculty Award, and Department of Energy (DoE) Early Career Award, and several best paper prizes from INFORMS. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, and industry funds.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:49:34 -0400 2020-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Siqian Shen
Diversity in Higher Education Journal Club (September 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77719 77719-19907802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Please join the U-M INFORMS Student Chapter for the first meeting of our monthly journal club focused on diversity in higher education. We will be discussing the newly released paper by Michael Johnson and George Chichirau of the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Paper Title: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Operations Research and Analytics: A Research Agenda for Scholarship, Practice and Service
Authors: Michael Johnson, George Chichirau
Paper to be included in Tutorials in Operations Research 2020
Available for download here: https://works.bepress.com/michael_johnson/122/

Meeting info: Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98080455527 
Meeting ID: 980 8045 5527 
Passcode: informs

We hope that you will read through the paper before the meeting and come ready to discuss the paper's main ideas, takeaways, and how they can be applied by each of us in our individual contexts.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:37:48 -0400 2020-09-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Diversity in Higher Education Journal Club
SEMINAR: "Using Analytics to Plan Reliable Itineraries Across Transportation Networks" — Michael Redmond (October 1, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76011 76011-19653375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 1, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Using Analytics to Plan Reliable Itineraries Across Transportation Networks

Abstract:
As access to information on transportation options becomes more readily available, the need arises to find modes of travel and itineraries that will be reliable and easy-to-use for travelers. While there is widespread information on cost and scheduled travel time for everything from airlines to ride-hailing services, the work on showing travelers the variation in travel time of these different options is lagging behind.

This work takes into account the uncertainty in travel time across modes of transportation, including flights, driving and public transit. It plans for this uncertainty by recommending reliable itineraries, which are itineraries that get travelers to their destination on time without missing any connections along the way. This research focuses on modeling transportation networks to discover itinerary reliability in situations where the answer may not be readily apparent, such as travel with layovers or missed transfers.

The experimental results show the value that finding these reliable itineraries can have over shortest travel time itineraries that travelers are accustomed to seeing. Also, this reliability metric gives an additional tool for travelers to use during the decision-making process of their trip planning. By making reliable transportation itineraries more transparent to travelers and network planners, it can help convince travelers to choose these modes of transportation in the future and take some of the uncertainty and stress out of travel planning.

Bio:
Michael Redmond recently graduated in Summer 2020 from the University of Iowa with a PhD in Business Analytics with a focus on transportation analytics and stochastic programming. He is an active member in the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of INFORMS and served as the INFORMS student president at Iowa. Prior to his PhD, Michael worked with companies and nonprofits, including the Chicago Bears, UI Office of Sustainability and Integrated DNA Technologies, on consulting projects during his time in the Supply Chain & Analytics MBA program. He has been involved in education for the past decade and thoroughly enjoys teaching – before diving into academia, he was a K-8 Math and Spanish teacher in Omaha. Michael is beginning post-doctoral research with Dr. Mark Daskin and Ford Motor Company on supply chain and demand uncertainty and is looking forward to meeting everyone in the U-M IOE community.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:26:33 -0400 2020-10-01T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Michael Redmond
LUNCH & LEARN: "Adulting: Preparing for the Working World" — Debra Levantrosser (October 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77099 77099-19796505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Adulting: Preparing for the Working World

Abstract:
Are you wondering how to make professional contacts or what the first step is in getting your first internship or job? This session will cover topics such as how to network, how to prepare for an interview, which position to accept if you have multiple offers and most importantly how to build confidence to ensure professional success. We can’t wait to discuss these topics with you in an engaging format.

Bio:
Debra Levantrosser has over 27 years of executive level international leadership and management experience in many industries. She is currently a Lecturer at the University of Michigan (U of M) in the College of Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering department where she teaches lean manufacturing, leadership for engineers, senior design and coordinates career readiness workshops. She has also been a faculty advisor for the Tauber Institute for six years.

She is the founder and lead adviser of Arbed Solutions, a consulting company dedicated to helping and teaching businesses to make positive, productive and strategic changes to their work. She is the hostess of The Leaning Edge radio show (podcast) on The Michigan Business Network and is the founder of the Michigan Lean Consortium, an organization utilizing Lean principles statewide to help rebuild the state’s economy
(www.michiganlean.org) .

Levantrosser is the majority owner of Shimmy Shack, Michigan’s first and only 100% vegan and gluten-free restaurant and food truck based in Plymouth, MI. She has been vegan for 30 years and ran a vegan catering business out of her apartment at Michigan State University in the early 1990s.

Before coming to U of M, she was The Change Leader for Johnson & Johnson leading the transformation of the global supply chain organization and she was also the Executive Director of Lean Strategy and Deployment for the corporation. Prior to that, she was Director of the Southeast Asian Automotive Practice in Bangkok, Thailand for PricewaterhouseCoopers helping to build it to the top firm in Asia. She has held leadership positions at Ford, Exide Technologies, Vassar Brothers Hospital and her own companies, leading strategic and tactical problem-solving efforts using a continuous improvement mindset. She is a Lean Master Black Belt and enjoys teaching others about lean thinking; especially the change management, coaching and leadership aspects of it. She has worked with many senior leadership teams around the world to focus on the true meaning of lean and the role of leadership in a transformation.

She has lived on three continents and worked in 50+ countries. She attended Michigan State University where she received two undergraduate degrees in German and in Political Science with a minor in health studies. She attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY for her MPA degree and has remained very active with Marist by being a member of the School of Management Advisory Board and establishing a scholarship for women entering leadership positions. She has completed three years of studies towards her PhD. She lives in Plymouth, Michigan with her three dogs and enjoys dark chocolate with peanut butter as a daily treat, especially after yoga.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:06:59 -0400 2020-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Debra Levantrosser
PHD SEMINAR: "Toward Mutual Understanding and Adaptation for Human-Robot Interactions" — Ruikun Luo (October 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78030 78030-19955556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Toward Mutual Understanding and Adaptation for Human-Robot Interactions

Abstract:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are coming to humans' daily lives and will interact with humans in various domains, such as transportations, manufacturing, health care, and the service industry. These AI agents require contributions from not only AI researchers, domain experts, but also human factors researchers as understanding human is essential to design AI systems that interact with humans. To achieve optimal task performance and keep human well-being, AI systems should consider the mechanism that humans interact with autonomous systems and adapt to the essential human factors while keeping human informed. My research focuses on 1) developing new algorithms for human-robot interaction (HRI) that consider useful human factors, and 2) studying the mechanism of HRI using true autonomous robots in real-time.

In this seminar, I will present my research on semi-autonomous vehicles where the human and autonomy share the control of the vehicle. Properly allocating the control authority between the human and the autonomy is essential in this setting. However, workload as a critical human factor has not been considered in the shared control schemes. During the seminar, I will introduce my research on real-time human workload estimation using non-intrusive physiological measurements and discuss the design of adaptive behaviors.

Bio:
Ruikun Luo is a PhD Candidate at the Robotics Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His dissertation research is supervised by Prof. Xi Jessie Yang. His research interest is human-robot interaction by leveraging robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and human factors. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he obtained an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and Automation from the Tsinghua University, China in 2012.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:33:56 -0400 2020-10-06T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Ruikun Luo
MDP Project Preview Night (October 6, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78172 78172-19989036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Join us for a virtual project recruitment event, using the Career Fair Plus software.

- Talk to corporate sponsors and faculty PI’s about their projects
- Register ahead of time for interview slots similar to the engineering career fair
- Upload your resume and be prepared to ask questions
- Read the project descriptions on the MDP website before attending

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Reception / Open House Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:18:57 -0400 2020-10-06T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-06T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multidisciplinary Design Program Reception / Open House A Sponsor Mentor from the Human Rights First - Multidisciplinary Design Program project speaks with a prospective applicant at the Project Preview Night event in 2019.
MDP Project Fair (October 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78176 78176-19989039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multidisciplinary Design Program

Join us for a virtual project recruitment event, using the Career Fair Plus software.

- Talk to corporate sponsors and faculty PI’s about their projects
- Register ahead of time for interview slots similar to the engineering career fair
- Upload your resume and be prepared to ask questions
- Read the project descriptions on the MDP website before attending

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Reception / Open House Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:18:54 -0400 2020-10-07T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multidisciplinary Design Program Reception / Open House A Sponsor Mentor and a Faculty Mentor from the Northrop Grumman Solar Truss - Multidisciplinary Design Program project speak with a prospective applicant at the Project Preview Night event in 2019.
EER Seminar Series (Engineering Education Research) (October 7, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77660 77660-19899719@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity has been a persistent challenge in engineering. Over the last 40 years, hundreds of papers and more than 25 national reports have been published focusing on broadening participation in STEM. Simultaneously, people throughout the U.S. have been working endlessly to solve this problem. Yet, we have seen only incremental progress, suggesting that there is a need to take a step back and re-examine what has been done, in terms of both research and practice. To support this effort, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on critically evaluating the research-to-practice cycle as it relates to broadening participation. In this seminar, he will discuss an ongoing project focused on the participation of Black Americans in engineering and computer science. The goals of this project are to advance our understanding of the disconnect between research and practice, to identify barriers to progress, and to set a national agenda for broadening the participation of Black Americans in engineering and computer science.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:41:43 -0400 2020-10-07T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-07T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Walter Lee
SEMINAR: "Measuring and Mitigating Challenges for Future Human Spaceflight Missions" — Allison Anderson (October 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76873 76873-19772611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Measuring and Mitigating Challenges for Future Human Spaceflight Missions

Abstract:
The future of human spaceflight will send people away from the Earth for longer durations to explore the surface of the moon or Mars. The challenges associated with missions of this magnitude will require advances in technology to resolve these issues in early stages of design. Improved ways to evaluate habitat design, human factors, and perform ergonomics evaluation of spacecraft are needed. These missions will require increased crew autonomy and associated decision support. Additional countermeasures are needed to maintain human performance in operational, isolated, confined environments. These missions will also require novel spacesuits that minimized restricted mobility and injuries. This talk will discuss my research to measure and mitigate these issues. This research, while focused on individuals in extreme environments also has direct implications for patient populations here on Earth.

Bio:
Dr. Anderson graduated in 2007 with a B.S. in Astronautics Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Astronomy. She received an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and an M.S. in Technology Policy in 2011 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Biomedical Engineering in 2014 from MIT. She received a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to work at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center studying human space physiology. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado – Boulder Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and an Adjunct Professor in Integrative Physiology. Her work focuses on aerospace biomedical engineering, spacesuit design, wearable sensors, spacecraft habitat design, alternative reality technologies, and human physiology in extreme environments. Specifically, her work is directed toward enabling a human mission to Mars.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:26:12 -0400 2020-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Allison Anderson
2020 Virtual EER Prospective Student Open House (October 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77361 77361-19844064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Students from all institutions are invited to attend. Participants will hear all about the program, meet the faculty and graduate students, learn about career opportunities as a UM graduate in this field and take a virtual tour of the beautiful University of Michigan campus.

Please note that applicants to the EER graduate program must have a Bachelor's and Master's degree in a traditional engineering discipline.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:53:47 -0400 2020-10-09T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
LUNCH & LEARN: "A Michigan IOE - Oh the Places You’ll Go!" — Heather Mason (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77880 77880-19939568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
A Michigan IOE - Oh the Places You’ll Go!

Abstract:
Your degree will lend itself to such a wide variety of businesses and roles - you are really only limited by your, and perhaps your potential employer’s, imagination. Where there are processes, problems to solve and the need for integration, your education will serve you well. As will well-developed “softer” skill, including creativity, listening, speaking, writing, managing and leading. Let’s explore options as you consider your place in the world after Ann Arbor (or wherever you are Zooming from)!

Bio:
Heather Mason is an accomplished corporate executive, leader, and strategist with 25+ years of experience building and restructuring organizations for rapid, sustained growth. Throughout her career, she has steered multibillion-dollar businesses through major industry and economic changes- growing profits and outpacing competitors around the world.

For most of her career, Heather served as corporate officer of Abbott Laboratories. As head of Abbott Nutrition, she overhauled the $7B consumer-focused business to deliver products that were first and fast to market, with rising gross margin profiles. Her efforts increased free cash flow and delivered above-market growth in China, Southeast Asia, and the U.S. Before directing the nutrition business, Heather served as senior vice president of the $1.3B Diabetes Care division. In this position, she led the creation of the revolutionary FreeStyle Libre glucose monitoring system, which prompted to-to-bottom organizational transformation and has since generated >$1B in annual revenue.

In prior roles, she launched blockbuster products (HUMIRA®, LAETRA®, AND BIAXIN®), drove >20% top-line growth in Latin America, shaped a groundbreaking pricing and access approach to the global HIV pandemic, and rolled out new products in Brazil, China, India, and Russia. Heather continually unearthed new ways to reach global markets, and boldly challenged the status quo with regard to pricing and reimbursement- applying deep knowledge of market drivers to overtake the competition.

As a core contributor to boards and executive committees, Heather has charted the course for global, national, and local organizations. She currently serves on the board of the Assertio Therapeutics asa member of both the audit and compensation committees; Advisory board member and co-chairs of the Innovation Committee for the University of Michigan College of Engineering; Steering Committee member for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Kilts Center for Marketing; she’s on the Board of Directors of Kids in Danger, a consumer safety organization; she was Board Chair of the Institute for FOrmula Manufacturers; she served on the Board of Directors of the California Life Sciences Association, and chaired the Board of Directors for Bay Bio’s foundation, Bay Bio Institute.

Heather holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:15:02 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Heather Mason
PHD SEMINAR: "Investigating and Predicting Driver Takeover Performance and Designing Alert Displays in Conditionally Automated Driving" — Na Du (October 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78022 78022-19955548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Investigating and Predicting Driver Takeover Performance and Designing Alert Displays in Conditionally Automated Driving

Abstract:
Automated vehicles have the potential to provide our society with safer, more comfortable and fuel-efficient driving. In conditionally automated vehicles, drivers serve as a fallback for the vehicle and need to take over control of the vehicle when the automation fails. This raises safety concerns because the automated driving puts drivers out-of-the-loop and increases the difficulty of takeovers when requested. To address this problem, I systematically investigate how drivers’ emotions, cognitive load, vehicle capability and driving environments influence their behavioral and physiological responses to takeover requests using human-subject experiments. Next, I develop computational models to predict drivers’ takeover performance using their physiological data and environment data. Furthermore, I propose in-vehicle alert displays based on the framework of situational awareness to help drivers improve takeover performance in conditionally automated driving. I will conclude my talk with an overview of other on-going projects and a discussion of future work opportunities that apply human factors, predictive modeling, and human-centered design to human-automation teaming.

Bio:
Na Du is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Industrial &amp; Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research aims to improve human performance and safety by applying human factors and data analytical techniques to the analysis, design, and evaluation of the autonomous technologies. Her research interests include transportation human factors, human-automation interaction, and computational modeling of human behaviors. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Zhejiang University. She is a recipient of several awards and fellowships, including HFE Women Rising Star Award, HFES Student Member with Honors Award, HFES Aging Technical Group Scholarship, and Rackham Predoctoral
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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 06 Oct 2020 11:37:09 -0400 2020-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Na Du
SEMINAR: "Data-Driven Sample-Average Approximation for Stochastic Optimization with Covariate Information" — Jim Luedtke (October 15, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76640 76640-19733033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Data-Driven Sample-Average Approximation for Stochastic Optimization with Covariate Information

Abstract:
We consider optimization models for decision-making in which parameters within the optimization model are uncertain, but predictions of these parameters can be made using available covariate information. We consider a data-driven setting in which we have observations of the uncertain parameters together with concurrently-observed covariates. Given a new covariate observation, the goal is to choose a decision that minimizes the expected cost conditioned on this observation. We investigate a data-driven framework in which the outputs from a machine learning prediction model are directly used to define a stochastic programming sample average approximation (SAA). The framework is flexible and accommodates parametric, nonparametric, and semiparametric regression techniques. The basic version of this framework is not new, but we are the first to analyze the procedure and derive conditions on the data generation process, the prediction model, and the stochastic program under which solutions of these data-driven SAAs are consistent and asymptotically optimal. We also derive convergence rates and finite sample guarantees. We also propose new variations that use out-of-sample residuals of leave-one-out prediction models for scenario generation. Computational experiments validate our theoretical results, demonstrate the potential advantages of our data-driven formulations over existing approaches (even when the prediction model is misspecified), and illustrate the benefits of our new variants in the limited data regime.

Bio:
Jim Luedtke is a Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Luedtke earned his PhD at Georgia Tech and did postdoctoral work at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Luedtke’s research is focused on methods for solving stochastic and mixed-integer optimization problems, as well as applications of such models. Luedtke is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, was a finalist in the INFORMS JFIG Best Paper competition, and was awarded the INFORMS Optimization Society Prize for Young Researchers. Luedtke serves on the editorial boards of the journals SIAM Journal on Optimization and Mathematical Programming Computation, is the current secretary of the SIAM Activity Group in Optimization, and is chair of the Mathematical Optimization Society Publications Committee.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:26:54 -0400 2020-10-15T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899)
LUNCH & LEARN: "Using Your Writing Skills and Expertise for Public Engagement" — Panel: Jennifer Judge Hensel, Seth Guikema, Nicole Moore (October 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78223 78223-19994970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Using Your Writing Skills and Expertise for Public Engagement

Abstract:
Communicating your ideas to the public helps inform decision-makers and often leads to new opportunities to build connections with other experts and establish yourself as an authority. This panel brings together three experts from the College of Engineering to learn how to communicate your ideas effectively and avoid common pitfalls.

Bios:

Jennifer Judge Hensel is the executive communications and marketing officer for the College of Engineering where she leads an award-winning team of writers, designers, videographers, developers and marketers who steward the brand for Michigan Engineering. Her background is rooted in the science of communications; the theory of collaborative leadership, elegant communication and managing complexity; and the practice of visual communications, journalism and digital strategy. She has presented at conferences such as HighEdWeb and CASE, and has taught courses in visual communications and web strategy.

Nicole Casal Moore is an award-winning science communicator who serves as news director at Michigan Engineering, where she leads efforts to tell the world about the impactful research and education happening at the college. She has previously worked as a journalist, a public affairs specialist and a university science writer. She's driven by a duty to inform the public and advance science literacy.

Dr. Seth Guikema is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan as of August 2015. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) at Johns Hopkins University. He is also an adjunct Professor II in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger in Norway, and a Data Science Research Fellow at One Concern, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:08:22 -0400 2020-10-16T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Lunch and Learn
CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (October 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78174 78174-19989054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

After a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns virtually this October with Trevor Pawl!

On July 2nd, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer formally announced the launch of the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) with Trevor Pawl named as Chief Mobility Officer. Trevor will provide insight into the creation of OFME, its vision, and its use as a tool for all key mobility stakeholders in Michigan. This webinar will include a Q&A session.
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About the speaker: Trevor Pawl is the Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan, and leads Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. In this position, Pawl is responsible for working across state government, academia and private industry to grow Michigan’s mobility ecosystem through strategic policy recommendations and new support services for companies focused on the future of transportation. Prior to this position, Pawl served as the Senior Vice President of Business Innovation at the MEDC, where he led the official state programs for mobility (PlanetM), supply chain assistance (Pure Michigan Business Connect), export assistance (Michigan International Trade program) and entrepreneurial assistance (Michigan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program). Before joining the MEDC, Pawl brought with him experience in supply chain matchmaking, having led the creation of the economic development program, Connection Point, at the Detroit Regional Chamber, which later became Pure Michigan Business Connect. Trevor has been named Crain’s Detroit Business’s “40 Under 40” and “50 Names to Know in Government”. He’s also been named Development Counsellors International’s “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Economic Development” and the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council’s “Government Advocate of the Year”. Pawl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Marketing from Grand Valley State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Detroit Mercy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:35:03 -0400 2020-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image
SEMINAR: "Information-theoretic Generalization Bounds for Noisy, Iterative Learning Algorithms" — Daniel Roy (October 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78573 78573-20066114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Information-theoretic Generalization Bounds for Noisy, Iterative Learning Algorithms

Abstract:
Deep learning approaches dominate in many application areas. Our understanding of generalization (relating empirical performance to future expected performance) is however lacking. In some applications, standard algorithms like stochastic gradient descent (SGD) reliably return solutions with low test error. In other applications, these same algorithms rapidly overfit. There is, as yet, no satisfying theory explaining what conditions are required for these common algorithms to work in practice. In this talk, I will discuss standard approaches to explaining generalization in deep learning using tools from statistical learning theory, and present some of the barriers these approaches face to explaining deep learning. I will then discuss my group's recent work (NeurIPS 2019, 2020) on information-theoretic approaches to understanding generalization of noisy, iterative learning algorithms, such as Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics, a noisy version of SGD.

Bio:
Daniel Roy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto, with cross appointments in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is also a CIFAR Canada AI Chair at the Vector Institute. Roy's research spans machine learning, mathematical statistics, and theoretical computer science. Roy is a recipient of an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, Tri-agency New Frontiers in Research grant, Ontario Early Research Award, and a Google Faculty Research Award. Prior to joining Toronto, Roy was a Research Fellow of Emmanuel College and Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, hosted by the University of Cambridge. Roy completed his doctorate in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his dissertation was awarded the MIT EECS Sprowls Award, given to the top dissertation in computer science in that year.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:29:01 -0400 2020-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Daniel Roy
LUNCH & LEARN: "Location Modeling and Why it Still Matters" — Mark Daskin (October 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77022 77022-19790530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Location Modeling and Why it Still Matters

Abstract:
Facility location modeling has been a traditional area of study in industrial engineering and operations research for decades. In this lunch-and-learn seminar, I will outline some of the key problems the area has addressed and why they remain critical in today’s era of extensive e-commerce. I will also touch on some of my own recent research in this area including supplier sourcing decisions at Ford, drug shortages, and emergency preparedness.

Bio:
My research focuses on supply chain network design in general and facility location models in particular. I also study problems in health care operations and funding and financing higher education. I am a past-president
of INFORMS, and am the former chair of the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. I am a past editor-in-chief of both Transportation Science and IISE Transactions, the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan I was a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. I served as the chair of the IEMS department for six years.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:46:59 -0400 2020-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Mark Daskin
IOE Research Info Session, Hosted by TBP (October 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78724 78724-20109387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Come learn about research opportunities within Industrial and Operations Engineering! There will be a short presentation by Professor Brian Denton, the IOE department chair, and time for questions after.

https://umich.zoom.us/j/92423730538

Meeting ID: 924 2373 0538
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Careers / Jobs Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:19:52 -0400 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T16:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tau Beta Pi Careers / Jobs
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Ram Kuppuswamy (October 26, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78845 78845-20131231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Ram shares insights from his experiences in leading teams at organizations like Walmart, Nokia, and Airtel as they faced seismic strategic changes, volatile business environments, and unprecedented operational pressures. “There are common leadership themes that emerge for successful teams in the midst of these challenges which have helped them be resilient and grow stronger. Over the years, I have had the incredible opportunity to learn through my personal failures and success stories.”

Join us as we explore these common themes and discuss the value of leading disruptive change!

Who should attend? Free webinar is open to the public.

Ram Kuppuswamy is a global leader with 20+ years of experience in senior-level executive roles and accomplishments across Fortune 100 Technology and Retail companies. He started his career as a consultant and served as Principal in the Operations and Retail Practice at Kearney, New York. Since then, Ram has been leading supply chain and operations transformations for technology and telecommunications leaders across the world — as Managing Director of Operations at Nokia HQ in Salo (Finland), where he launched the first Windows Phone (Lumia) in record time, Senior Director and Head of Sourcing at Microsoft in Beijing (China), and Global CPO at Airtel, where he managed a $12B supply chain for the second-largest telecom network in the world with operations in 17 countries across South-Asia and Africa. Currently, he is leading sales for strategic accounts in Asia-Pacific and Japan as Field Commerce Executive at VMWare (Dell Technologies).

Given this rich blend of experiences within a vast spectrum of geographies and industries, Ram is truly a Leader in Global Operations. He has led large and highly diverse teams of varied competencies, cultures, and educational backgrounds from all over the world. His operational expertise includes planning, manufacturing ecosystems, sourcing, logistics, transportation, customer fulfillment, and optimizing supply chains.

LINK TO WEBINAR AND QUESTIONS FOR SPEAKER: http://myumi.ch/yKGoW

CAN'T ATTEND? In the event that this Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is recorded, it would be added to the Leadership Speaker Series post-session

UPCOMING MEETINGS: Check the Tauber Leadership Speaker Series for upcoming events: http://myumi.ch/VPx4z

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact Shreya Agawal (MSE-IOE 2022) shreyaa@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is a student-organized initiative to bring in top leaders from industry to the University of Michigan. These high-level executives are invited to share insights on their own careers, the qualities needed in today's global economy for strong leadership, and tangible steps to achieve excellence in one's own career path.

For more information:

Email TLSS organizer Shreya Agrawal shreyaa@umich.edu
Visit the visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Follow Tauber on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr

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Presentation Fri, 23 Oct 2020 16:10:40 -0400 2020-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Ram Kuppuswamy, Field Commerce Executive, VMware, Inc.
(Re)Engaging the Role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Graduate Education (October 28, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78529 78529-20058230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Increasingly, engineering graduate programs have emphasized the need to train individuals who are capable of working in diverse teams so they are better able to address complex problems in a global society. Yet, discourse related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in engineering is often focused on recruiting and retaining students who are racially minoritized and/or women in the field. Less attention is given to what students learn about DEI during their graduate training. Drawing from findings across multiple research projects, this talk will explore what graduate students learn about the role of DEI in engineering and the implications these lessons have for racially minoritized students’ retention, success, and career pathways.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Dr. Rosemary (Rosie) Perez is an Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She earned her B.S. in biological sciences and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, her M.Ed. in higher education and student affairs at The University of Vermont, and her Ph.D. in higher education from University of Michigan. Dr. Perez’s scholarship has three interrelated lines of inquiry and explores: (a) how people make meaning of collegiate experiences; (b) diverse learning environments and intercultural development; and (c) the professional socialization of graduate students and new practitioners. Across projects, Dr. Perez explores the tensions between structure and agency, and how power, privilege, and oppression affect individuals and groups within higher education. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, and ACPA-College Student Educators International.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:58:11 -0400 2020-10-28T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Rosemary Perez
SEMINAR: "COVID-19 Forecasting: Three Cheers for Simple Models" — Eric Bickel (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76755 76755-19743031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
COVID-19 Forecasting: Three Cheers for Simple Models

Abstract:
Over the last six months we have witnessed policymakers grappling with how to respond to the spread of COVID-19 across the globe. In the United States, policymakers at local, state, and federal levels have faced difficult decisions regarding the degree to which citizens should interact with each other, how much of the economy should be curtailed, and how to allocate scarce testing and hospital resources. These decisions have been informed and guided by a set of epidemiological models.

In this talk, we analyze the performance of the models used to forecast the spread of COVID-19 and relate differences in performance to differing modeling approaches and structures. For example, some COVID-19 models are “bottom-up” and model the interactions between individuals in detail. While other models are “top-down” and attempt to capture the high-level dynamics of the spread. Some models include uncertainty, while others are deterministic. Certain models are designed to inform policy decisions, while others are meant to provide forecasts.

We compare the performance of these models to a simple (one-parameter) model that we have used to forecast the spread of COVID-19 at the national, state, and local level. Surely large models with dozens of parameters, backed by a team of experts, should outperform a simple model that has one input and runs in Excel. As we discuss, a few COVID-19 models do achieve this level of success.

We will discuss this apparent paradox and the implications for decision analysis.

Bio:
Eric Bickel is a professor and director of both the Operations Research & Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management programs at The University of Texas at Austin. Eric holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management in the McCombs School of Business and directs the Center for Engineering and Decision Analytics (CEDA).

His research interests include the theory and practice of decision analysis and its application to corporate strategy, public policy, and sports. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and Sports Illustrated. In addition, Professor Bickel and his research are featured in the documentary Cool It!. His research into climate engineering was named as the top approach to address climate change by a panel of economists, including three Nobel Laureates. He has also been a guest on the MLB Network show Clubhouse Confidential.

Eric joined Strategic Decisions Group in 1995, where he remains a director and partner. He has practiced decision analysis for 25 years. He consults around the world in a range of industries, including oil and gas, electricity generation/transmission/delivery, energy trading and marketing, commodity and specialty chemicals, life sciences, financial services, and metals and mining.

He is Past-President of the Decision Analysis Society.

Eric holds both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering with a minor in economics from New Mexico State University.

Eric claims to be the only decision analyst listed in Hollywood's Internet Movie Database (imdb.me/jericbickel).

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:28:06 -0400 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899)
Science Communication & Public Engagement Fundamentals (October 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76471 76471-19719131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to IOE PhD students only.

The introductory-level, three-hour Science Communication and Public Engagement Fundamentals module introduces scientists and engineers to the latest science communication research and basic best practices for engaging with the public. Participants are introduced to the AAAS Framework for Public Engagement which can help them develop individual plans that include a public engagement goal and address ways to engage a relevant audience with tailored messages. Participants also brainstorm an engagement scenario and identify next steps to put their plans into action. This workshop is designed for scientists and engineers who don’t have much experience with public engagement, although experienced engagers may find it useful.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:29:54 -0400 2020-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Science Communication & Public Engagement Fundamentals
U-M IOE Prospective Graduate Student Info Session (Webinar) (October 30, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78123 78123-19965476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

TIMES SHOWN IN U.S. EASTERN TIME

Interested in graduate school? Join us for a special webinar with professors Marina Epelman (Associate Chair of Graduate Studies) and Siqian Shen (Graduate Admission Committee Chair) from the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, to learn more about the Master's and PhD programs in IOE.

- Anyone interested in applying to our Fall 2021 MS or PhD program is welcome to register for one webinar event that suits your schedule. There are two dates to choose from, October 30 and November 20.
- Registered participants will watch pre-recorded videos and slides about IOE graduate programs, MS or PhD application processes before each webinar event.
- Get your application-related questions answered during live interaction with the two professors during the webinar.
- A list of FAQs will be released after each webinar on IOE website based on questions we receive for anyone else to review.

REGISTER VIA THE LINK ABOVE.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:23:57 -0400 2020-10-30T10:30:00-04:00 2020-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual "U-M IOE PROSPECTIVE GRAD STUDENT INFO SESSION" TEXT
PHD SEMINAR: "Genetic Testing Strategies and Flexible Treatment Plans for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases" — Wesley J. Marrero (November 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78023 78023-19955549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Genetic Testing Strategies and Flexible Treatment Plans for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract:
Cardiovascular diseases are considered the leading cause of death in the US and worldwide. The management of cardiovascular diseases can be improved by (1) incorporating novel procedures, such as genetic testing, and (2) providing physicians and their patients with flexibility in the implementation of protocols. To understand the clinical and policy implications of genetic testing in cardiovascular diseases, I present a thoroughly validated simulation model to evaluate the impact of genetic information across different populations in the US. Building upon this work, I illustrate a framework that combines dynamic programming with value of information analysis to simultaneously determine optimal cholesterol treatment and genetic testing decisions. To benefit from experts’ opinions and allow for users’ preferences in the implementation of mathematical models, I next introduce a framework that integrates approximate dynamic programming and statistical multiple comparisons to obtain sets of near-optimal treatment choices. By analyzing the structure of the sets, I characterize their behavior with respect to the modeling data and identify when they can be ordered according to the context of the problem. I show how this method can be applied in medical practice by finding hypertension treatment plans for a large population in the US. To conclude my talk, I will discuss future opportunities at the intersection of operations research and statistics to support medical decision-making in practice.

Bio:
Wesley’s research interest lies at the intersection of operations research and statistics, with an emphasis on stochastic simulation and optimization to support decision-making in practice. His current research addresses healthcare applications at a population and patient level. Using population-level data, he focuses on modeling future supply, demand, and allocation of organs for transplantation. Using patient-level data, he develops personalized treatment plans and testing strategies for cardiovascular diseases. Wesley has an ongoing collaboration with the University of Michigan Hospital Medical School, the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Wesley is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Throughout his Ph.D. studies, he has also received the Judith Liebman Award and an honorable mention in the Minority Issues forum from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, an American Statistical Association sponsored best poster award at the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences, as well as a Rackham Merit Fellowship. In addition to his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering, Wesley is partaking in the dual master’s program offered by the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:09:49 -0400 2020-11-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Wesley J. Marrero
SEMINAR: "Sparse Estimation: Closing the Gap Between L0 and L1 Models" — Alper Atamturk (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76453 76453-19717149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Sparse Estimation: Closing the Gap Between L0 and L1 Models

Abstract:
Sparse statistical estimators are increasingly prevalent due to their ease of interpretability and superior out-of-sample performance. However, sparse estimation problems with an L0 constraint, restricting the support of the estimators, are challenging (typically NP-hard, but not always) non-convex optimization problems. Consequently, academics and practitioners commonly turn to convex L1 proxies, such as Lasso and its variants, as a remedy. Although the L1 models are solved fast, they may lead to biased and/or dense estimators and require substantial cross-validation for calibration.

In this talk, we focus on two estimation problems: i) sparse regression and ii) sparse and smooth signal recovery. The first one is known to be NP-hard; we show that the second one is equivalent to a submodular minimization problem and, hence, is polynomially solvable. For both problems, we derive a sequence of strong convex relaxations. These relaxations are based on the ideal (convex-hull) formulations for rank-one/pairwise quadratic terms with indicator variables. The new relaxations can be formulated as conic quadratic or semidefinite optimization problems in an extended space; they are stronger and more general than the state-of-the-art models with the reverse Huber penalty and the minimax concave penalty functions. Furthermore, the proposed rank-one strengthening can be interpreted as a non-separable, non-convex, unbiased sparsity-inducing regularizer, which dynamically adjusts its penalty according to the shape of the estimation error function without inducing bias for the sparse solutions. Computational experiments with benchmark datasets show that the proposed conic formulations are solved fast and result in near-optimal estimators for non-convex L0-problems. Moreover, the resulting estimators also outperform L1 approaches from a statistical perspective, achieving high prediction accuracy and good interpretability.

This talk is based on the following papers with Andres Gomez & Shaoning Han:

https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/rank-one.pdf
https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/screening.pdf
https://atamturk.ieor.berkeley.edu/pubs/signal-estimation.pdf

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:38:58 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899)
LUNCH & LEARN: "Human-Machine Teaming in Aviation Operations: How and Why It Breaks Down" — Nadine Sarter (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77428 77428-19854011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Human-Machine Teaming in Aviation Operations: How and Why It Breaks Down

Abstract:
Breakdowns in human-machine teaming have resulted in numerous aviation incidents and accidents. In this talk, Dr. Sarter will use examples of recent mishaps as well as research in her laboratory to illustrate how technology-centered design contributes to problems with human-machine collaboration and how resulting accidents and inefficiencies can be avoided by employing a systems engineering approach that applies knowledge and techniques from cognitive ergonomics, interface design and behavioral science throughout system design and development.

Bio:
Nadine Sarter is a Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan where she also serves as Director of the Center for Ergonomics. Her primary research interests include (1) human-machine teaming, (2) operator trust in autonomous systems, (3) adaptive function allocation, (4) attention management, (5) multimodal interface design, (6) and the design of decision aids for high-tempo operations. She has conducted her work in a variety of application domains, including aviation and space, medicine, military operations, and the automotive industry. Dr. Sarter is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:28:52 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nadine Sarter
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series | Rebecca Liao (November 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78987 78987-20168493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series presents:

"Leadership Lessons in Times of Radical Change"
A keynote presentation and panel discussion

Who should attend? The webinar is free and open to the public.

The Tauber Institute welcomes keynote speaker Rebecca Liao to highlight her experiences and perspectives on the theme of The New Normal, as well as how today’s trends will impact operations in the coming decade.

She was a member of Secretary Clinton’s foreign policy team for her 2016 presidential campaign, focusing on Asia trade and economic policy. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The National Interest, Bloomberg View, n+1, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Democracy Journal, Times Literary Supplement, Chinafile, The Diplomat, Huffington Post, Dissent Magazine, The New Inquiry, the LA Review of Books, The China Story Journal, Tea Leaf Nation, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Classical Voice. She regularly comments on China for Deutsche Welle and Channel NewsAsia and has also appeared on HuffPost Live and SiriusXM Radio. She is a contributing editor at SupChina. Read more > http://myumi.ch/1p9xO

Panel: Role of Digitization on the Road to Supply Chain Recovery Post-COVID

Ayush Marthur, Senior Business Efficiency Consultant, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Josh Mellinger, Fresh Food Supply Chain leader, Deloitte
Anil Sebastian, Analytics & Digital Transformation, Microsoft
Matt Schnugg, Vice President of Engineering, GE Digital

Moderator: Professor M.S. Krishnan, Associate Dean, Executive Education and Executive-MBA, Ross School of Business

RSVP FOR WEBINAR LINK AND QUESTIONS FOR SPEAKER: http://myumi.ch/QAx1E

CAN'T ATTEND? In the event that this Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is recorded, it would be added to the Leadership Speaker Series post-session.

UPCOMING MEETINGS: Check the Tauber Leadership Speaker Series for upcoming events: http://myumi.ch/VPx4z

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact Sasanka Mouli Neti (MSE-IOE 2022) at or visit tauber.umich.edu.

The Tauber Leadership Speaker Series is a student-organized initiative to bring in top leaders from industry to the University of Michigan. These high-level executives are invited to share insights on their own careers, the qualities needed in today's global economy for strong leadership, and tangible steps to achieve excellence in one's own career path.

For more information:

Email TLSS organizer sneti@umich.edu - MSE-IOE 2022
Visit the visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Follow Tauber on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr

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Presentation Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:29:38 -0400 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Presentation Rebecca Liao
LUNCH & LEARN: "Predictive Analytics, Energy Systems, and Storms" — Seth Guikema (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79210 79210-20231451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Predictive Analytics, Energy Systems, and Storms

Abstract:
Electric power systems are critical for daily life, yet they regularly experience widespread impacts from natural hazards like hurricanes and thunderstorms. Having predictions of these impacts prior to the event has the potential to improve the response by utilities, allowing them to restore power more quickly and efficiently. This talk will present an overview of how predictive modeling can help utilities in this setting. This provides an example of the broader type of work that IOE students can do in the area of predictive modeling.

Bio:
Dr. Seth Guikema is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. Prior to arriving at U-M in 2015, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE) at Johns Hopkins University. He is also an adjunct Professor II in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger in Norway, and a Data Science Research Fellow at One Concern, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up. His academic training includes a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Cornell University), a M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Stanford University), a M.E. by thesis in Civil Engineering (University of Canterbury in New Zealand), a Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering with a concentration in Engineering Risk & Decision Analysis (Stanford University), and a postdoctoral research position in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Cornell University).

Dr. Guikema's research is highly interdisciplinary. Much of his group's recent work is focused on the problems of urban and infrastructure resilience and sustainability in a changing climate, grounded in data-driven risk analysis and complex systems simulation. One major topic is developing, testing, and implementing risk analysis methods based in machine learning, stochastica and agent-based simulation, game theory, and decision analysis. Another strong research thrust in the group is using modern simulation methods to more fully understand the role of human behavior in the evaluation of vulnerability and risk in hazard-prone regions.

Seth is currently the Area Editor for Mathematical Modeling in the journal Risk Analysis, was an Associate Editor for the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems until 2018, and is on the editorial boards of the journals Reliability Engineering and System Safety and Performability Engineering. He previously completed a three-year term on the governing Councils of the International Society for Risk Analysis and the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:18:59 -0500 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Seth Guikema
PHD SEMINAR: "Improving Veteran Access to Chronic Eye Disease Care" — Adam VanDeusen (November 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78026 78026-19955552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Improving Veteran Access to Chronic Eye Disease Care

Abstract:
Access to healthcare is a critical public health issue in the United States, especially for veterans. Veterans are older on average than the general U.S. population and are thus at higher risk for chronic disease. Further, veterans report more delays when seeking healthcare. The Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System continuously works to develop policies and technologies that aim to improve veteran access to care. Industrial engineering methods can be effective in analyzing the impact of such policies, as well as designing or modifying systems to better align veteran patients’ needs with providers and resources.

In the talk, I will focus on veteran access to chronic eye disease screening. Ophthalmologists in the VA have developed a platform in which ophthalmic technicians screen patients for major chronic eye diseases during primary care visits. We use mixed-integer programming-based facility location models to understand how the VA can determine which clinics should offer eye screenings, which provider type(s) should staff those clinics, and how to distribute patients among clinics. The results of this work show how the VA can achieve various objectives including minimizing the cost of treating a given population or maximizing the number of patients receiving care given a fixed budget.

Bio:
Adam VanDeusen is a PhD candidate in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan working under Dr. Amy Cohn. His work applies operations research and systems engineering methods to public health policy and access to healthcare. As part of his graduate training, Adam works with the University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS). Adam completed his undergraduate degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and his Master of Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale School of Public Health. Prior to his PhD, Adam worked as the Senior Director of Clinical Programs at the Health Management Academy and as a Health Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:58:53 -0500 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Adam VanDeusen
Dignifying the Disinherited: The Case for Pro-Black Engineering Education Research (November 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79149 79149-20217705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Research is essential to the infrastructure of education and plays a prominent role in driving curriculum, policy, and professional practice. Therefore, engineering education research (EER) is critical to driving the impetus and approach to racial equity within engineering education and practice. This presentation will spotlight how anti-Blackness is embedded in EER practices and delineate its roots in America’s systemic racism. Centering the experience of Black people within the engineering education community helps reframe the problem of racial/ethnic exclusion, while generating a new way forward through pro-Black EER (PEER). PEER uses critical methodologies, frameworks, and intentional citation practices to assert the genius of Black people.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:47:59 -0500 2020-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. James Holly, Jr.
SEMINAR: "Coordinated Delivery to Shopping Malls with Limited Docking Capacity" — Lei Zhao (November 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75964 75964-19629764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Coordinated Delivery to Shopping Malls with Limited Docking Capacity

Abstract:
Shopping malls are densely located in densely populated cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong. Tenants in these shopping malls generate a large number of freight orders to their contracted logistics service providers, who then independently plan their own delivery schedules. These uncoordinated deliveries and the limited docking capacity often jointly cause congestion at the shopping malls. We study a coordination strategy in which a delivery coordination platform centrally schedules vehicle routes for multiple logistics service providers, and simultaneously reserves the dock time slot for each order delivery. Vehicle routing and dock scheduling decisions are made jointly against the backdrop of travel time and service time uncertainty. We model this problem as a two-stage stochastic mixed integer program, develop an Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search algorithm that approximates the second stage recourse function using various sample sizes, and examine the associated in-sample and out-of-sample stability. Our numerical study on a testbed of instances based on real data in Singapore demonstrates the value of coordination and the value of stochastic solutions.

Bio:
Dr. Lei Zhao is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on computational stochastic optimization methodologies (stochastic programming, approximate dynamic programming, simulation optimization) and their applications in logistics and transportation management (esp. urban delivery in megacities), supply chain risk management, and medical decision making. Dr. Zhao’s research has been funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MoST) as well as industry collaborators such as Sinoair, Sinopec, China Tobacco, COSCO Shipping Technology/COSCONET, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, General Mills, IBM, etc. He has publications in Annals of Operations Research, Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, OR Spectrum, Transportation Research Part B, C, & E, and Transportation Science, etc.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:05:00 -0500 2020-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Lei Zhao
PHD DEFENSE: "Simulating Long-Term and Short-Term Community and Infrastructure Vulnerability and Response to Natural Hazards" — Chengwei Zhai (November 19, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78576 78576-20066117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97858701837
Meeting ID: 978 5870 1837
Passcode: 455057

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Simulating Long-Term and Short-Term Community and Infrastructure Vulnerability and Response to Natural Hazards

CHAIR:
Seth Guikema

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:04:03 -0500 2020-11-19T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Chengwei Zhai
LUNCH & LEARN: "Using Industrial and Operations Engineering in Healthcare: Putting Theory into Practice" — Amy Cohn (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77426 77426-19852036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Using Industrial and Operations Engineering in Healthcare: Putting Theory into Practice

Abstract:
At the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, faculty, students, and clinicians from many different disciplines all come together to improve patient access, optimize utilization of scarce resources, and simulate the impacts of uncertainty on complex clinical systems. In this session, I’ll discuss how students play a critical role in this work, and opportunities for interested students to get involved in the future.

Bio:
Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she also holds an appointment in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health. Dr. Cohn is the Associate Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS). She serves on the leadership teams of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI) and the Precision Health Initiative. She holds an A.B. in applied mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and a PhD in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary research interests are in applications of combinatorial optimization, particularly to healthcare and aviation, and to the challenges of optimization problems with multiple objective criteria. She values teaching, mentoring, having a positive impact on society through her work, and helping to foster a vibrant, diverse, nurturing community. She and her husband Jonathan are the proud parents of two sons, Tommy and Peter.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:06:44 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Amy Cohn
Sustainability Movie Night (November 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78152 78152-19985102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Come watch "Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret" and listen to Professor Bryan Goldsmith talk with us about sustainability! Cowspiracy is a great documentary film on how humans are creating environmental disasters in ways most people might not know about. And Professor Goldsmith is performing cutting-edge research to promote sustainability through advanced materials and computational modeling. This event is put on by the sustainability committee of the Engineering Student Government and we believe that with education, we can learn to become more sustainable together.

RSVP here to get a GrubHub food voucher for the event:
https://forms.gle/UqoPKGzYcKY2MRXr8

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Film Screening Fri, 30 Oct 2020 14:35:08 -0400 2020-11-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Student Government Film Screening Cowspiracy
U-M IOE Prospective Graduate Student Info Session (Webinar) (November 20, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78127 78127-19965478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

TIMES SHOWN IN U.S. EASTERN TIME

Interested in graduate school? Join us for a special webinar with professors Marina Epelman (Associate Chair of Graduate Studies) and Siqian Shen (Graduate Admission Committee Chair) from the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, to learn more about the Master's and PhD programs in IOE.

- Anyone interested in applying to our Fall 2021 MS or PhD program is welcome to register for one webinar event that suits your schedule. There are two dates to choose from, October 30 and November 20.
- Registered participants will watch pre-recorded videos and slides about IOE graduate programs, MS or PhD application processes before each webinar event.
- Get your application-related questions answered during live interaction with the two professors during the webinar.
- A list of FAQs will be released after each webinar on IOE website based on questions we receive for anyone else to review.

REGISTER VIA THE LINK ABOVE.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-20T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-20T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual "U-M IOE PROSPECTIVE GRAD STUDENT INFO SESSION" TEXT
PHD SEMINAR: "Personalized Data-Driven Learning and Optimization: Theory and Applications to Healthcare" — Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh (December 1, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79442 79442-20325825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Personalized Data-Driven Learning and Optimization: Theory and Applications to Healthcare

Abstract:
The rapid growth of information and accessibility to big data provide a unique opportunity to shift toward personalized data-driven decision-making analytics. Healthcare presents many decision support opportunities for personalized/precision treatment choices based on patient biomarkers and clinical history. In marketing, these same methods can increase the click-through rate through ads and promotions tailored to the user’s demographics and interests. These real-time personalized decision-making paradigms (i) adaptively learn a model that predicts a user-specific outcome for each available decision as a function of the user's known contextual information (prediction), and (ii) harness this model to make optimize personalized decisions for subsequent users (prescription). In this talk, I introduce critical challenges in the development of today’s real-time personalized decision making paradigms: the need for making "nested" personalized decisions jointly and accounting for limited resource capacities. I then present new personalized data driven predictive and prescriptive analytical methods with provable performance guarantee to deal with these challenges. In addition to provable performance guarantees, the effectiveness of these new methods is illustrated through case studies using real-word medical/healthcare data.

Bio:
Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh is broadly interested in developing personalized data driven analytical methods for a wide range of business analytics applications. To address unmet real-world needs in healthcare and operations engineering, he generates novel state-of-the-art analytics techniques to yield insights and new functionality. For the 2020 INFORMS Decision Analysis Society Best Paper Award, he was a finalist (2nd place). He won both the 2020 Katta G. Murty Best Paper Award on Optimization, and 2019 Richard Wilson Best Paper Award on Service Operations. He has received several other awards, including the 2017 IOE Bonder Fellowship in Applied Operations Research and the prestigious 2020 University of Michigan Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship. Esmaeil is a Ph.D. candidate in Operations Research at the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at University of Michigan, working under the supervision of Prof. Mark Van Oyen and Prof. Cong Shi. He received his M.Sc. degrees in Statistics from University of Michigan, and in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Iowa State University.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:34:26 -0500 2020-12-01T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-01T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh
SEMINAR: "Large-scale Inference of Time-varying Markov Random Fields: Bridging the Gap Between Statistical and Computational Efficiencies" — Salar Fattahi (December 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75965 75965-19629765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

This event will be a joint seminar with the MICDE.

Title:
Large-scale Inference of Time-varying Markov Random Fields: Bridging the Gap Between Statistical and Computational Efficiencies

Abstract:
Contemporary systems are comprised of a massive number of interconnected components that interact according to a hierarchy of complex, dynamic, and unknown topologies. For example, with billions of neurons and hundreds of thousands of voxels, the human brain is considered as one of the most complex physiological networks, whose structure remains as a long-standing mystery. As another example, the emergence of self-driving cars has only accentuated the need for the development of real-time and reliable methods for detecting moving objects, whose temporal locations are captured through a dynamically-evolving 3D network. Nonetheless, the vast amounts of parameters to be estimated, caused both by the large number of components and the time-varying nature of the systems, are currently the major bottlenecks in our ability to successfully solve such inference problems.

The temporal behavior of today's interconnected systems can be captured via time-varying Markov random fields (MRF). A popular approach to achieve this goal is based on the so-called maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE): to find a probabilistic graphical model, based on which the observed data is most probable to occur. The MLE-based methods suffer from several fundamental drawbacks which render them impractical in realistic settings. First, they often suffer from notoriously high computational cost in the massive problems, where the number of variables to be inferred is in the order of millions, or more. Second, they fail to efficiently incorporate prior structural information into their estimation procedure. With the goal of bridging this knowledge gap, the aim of this work is to revisit the standard MLE as the “Holy Grail” of the inference methods for graphical models, and precisely pinpoint and remedy the scenarios where it fails. A recurring theme in our proposed approach is a class of efficiently-solvable mixed-integer optimization problems that is used in lieu of the regularized MLE for the inference of time-varying MRFs. Our proposed optimization problems enjoy strong statistical and computational guarantees, while being amenable to a wide class of graphical models with different side information, such as sparsity, smoothness, etc.

Bio:
Salar Fattahi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley. He received a M.S. degree from Columbia University, and a B.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, both in Electrical Engineering. Salar’s research lies at the intersection of optimization, data analytics, and control theory. He was the recipient of several awards, including the 2020 INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award, 2018 INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award and 2020 Power & Energy Society General Meeting Best-of-the-Best Paper Award. He was also a finalist for the 2018 American Control Conference Best Paper Award.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:14:22 -0500 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Salar Fattahi
LUNCH & LEARN: “Resilience, Teamwork, and Confidence: Life Skills from a Navy SEAL and a Professional Golfer" (December 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79494 79494-20343466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff, and all U-M ROTC students.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Title:
Resilience, Teamwork, and Confidence: Life Skills from a Navy SEAL and a Professional Golfer

Description:
What do Navy SEALs and professional golfers have in common? They perform at the highest levels under stress and uncertainty. Join us for an IOE Lunch and Learn discussion with Master Chief Terry Houin, a 26-year Navy SEAL veteran, and Paul Stankowski, a 24-year PGA Tour veteran, to hear about their approach to mental preparation and how to develop grit and focus that will help you succeed in school, relationships and your career. Mike O’Connell, IOE alum and Chair of the IOE Advisory Board Committee on Education and Professional Development, will moderate the discussion.

Bios:
Master Chief Terry Houin is a 26-year Navy SEAL Veteran who spent the majority of his career at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group where he conducted over a dozen operational deployments around the world. During his time as a SEAL, he held a variety of positions that provided him a wealth of experience leading cross-functional teams, developing critical problem-solving skills, developing training curricula, and program management. Houin’s final position was the at the Naval Special Warfare Preparatory School in Great Lakes IL. In this capacity, his mission was to mentally and physically prepare all enlisted candidates for the SEAL training pipeline, with a focus on the development of character and leadership among the next generations of SEALs.

Paul Stankowski is in his 24th year on the PGA Tour, has 2 Tour victories and 30 top-ten tournament finishes. Both of his Tour victories were in playoffs. He plays on both the PGA Tour and PGA Champions Tour. He was born in California, attended the University of Texas at El Paso and turned pro in 1991.

Mike O’Connell is the founder and President of The Woodmar Group, a California-based winery. He has served on many non-profit boards including the IOE Advisory Board where he chairs the Committee on Education and Professional Development. At age 42, he completed a one-week training course with future and former Navy SEALs outside San Diego, CA based on the ‘hell week’ portion of BUD/S. He holds a BSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:08:22 -0500 2020-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-12-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Lunch and Learn
PHD DEFENSE: "Simulation Parameter Calibration Methods and Applications" — Bingjie Liu (December 7, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79398 79398-20296432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 7, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/95086027669

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Simulation Parameter Calibration Methods and Applications

CHAIR:
Eunshin Byon

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Nov 2020 10:15:35 -0500 2020-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2020-12-07T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Bingjie Liu
PHD DEFENSE: "Data-Driven Decision Making in Healthcare" — Wesley Marrero (December 8, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79031 79031-20176490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtceivpjgtG9RiGERWFULQN2riQ1SIzajh

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Data-Driven Decision Making in Healthcare

CHAIR:
Mariel Lavieri

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:23:58 -0500 2020-12-08T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Wesley J. Marrero
PHD SEMINAR: "Individualized Medical Decision Learning for Chronic Diseases" — Weiyu Li (December 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79441 79441-20325824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is designed for U-M IOE PhD students and faculty and is also open to all U-M students, faculty and staff.

Title:
Individualized Medical Decision Learning for Chronic Diseases

Abstract:
Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death, and leading drivers of national health care costs in the U.S. Healthcare management for chronic diseases involve many medical decisions such as whether and when to conduct different types of biomarker tests and medical treatments. Optimizing such medical decisions can be a challenging engineering problem for several reasons. First, the patients’ health states can progress stochastically over time and are typically not directly observable. Second, the patient heterogeneity in the disease progression and clinical effectiveness are prevalent in many settings. Third, there are often trade-offs between alternative decisions that must be considered to prevent both adverse health outcomes and potential side effects. In this talk, I will present a data-driven optimization framework for individualized medical decision learning. I start from descriptive and predictive analytics by fitting machine learning models to the electronic medical record (EMR) data. Then, I use a model-based reinforcement learning method to find the optimal testing policy for each patient. To address the issue of parameter ambiguity caused by the patient heterogeneity and estimation error, I propose a new multi-model partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) method to find the best solution when model parameters are only known with uncertainty. Although focused on prostate cancer active surveillance, this work can be easily applied to other applications in healthcare, robotics, and marketing analytics.

Bio:
Weiyu Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He earned a Master of Science in Statistics from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Tsinghua University, China. His research focus is on the interdisciplinary study of statistical/machine learning methods and stochastic optimization. Specific applications are in data-driven sequential decision-making in healthcare operations, including individualized treatment decisions for cardiovascular disease and active surveillance strategies for prostate cancer. Weiyu has an ongoing collaboration with the Movember Foundation and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:27:02 -0500 2020-12-08T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Weiyu Li
Bioethics Discussion: Annihilation (December 8, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58833 58833-14563725@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our obliteration.

[Video-conference link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94651294615]

A few readings to consider before oblivion:
–– Bioethics and the Metaphysics of Death
––The Ontological Representation of Death: A Scale to Measure the Idea of Annihilation Versus Passage
––The Nonidentity Problem and Bioethics: A Natural Law Perspective
––Controversies in the Determination of Death: A White Paper of the President’s Council on Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/052-annihilation/.

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When the server hosting this blog is turned off, where does the website go: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:46:52 -0500 2020-12-08T19:00:00-05:00 2020-12-08T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Annihilation
PHD DEFENSE: "Personalized Data-Driven Learning and Optimization: Theory and Applications to Healthcare" — Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh (December 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79635 79635-20436382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97332482082
Meeting ID: 973 3248 2082
Passcode: 657664

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Personalized Data-Driven Learning and Optimization: Theory and Applications to Healthcare

CHAIR:
Mark Van Oyen and Cong Shi

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:28:47 -0500 2020-12-16T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-16T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh
PHD DEFENSE: "Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics for Managing Impact of Hazards on Power System Services" — Elnaz Kabir (December 18, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79633 79633-20436380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 18, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/99993097966
Meeting ID: 999 9309 7966
Passcode: 742271

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics for Managing Impact of Hazards on Power System Services

CHAIR:
Seth Guikema

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Dec 2020 09:27:57 -0500 2020-12-18T13:00:00-05:00 2020-12-18T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Elnaz Kabir
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning In Health Sciences Education (January 14, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80071 80071-20554878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 14, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Please join us on Thursday, January 14, 2021, 12:00 - 1:00 PM for a discussion on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in Health Sciences Education. We are interested in learning more about how these new technologies can cultivate new approaches in teaching and learning that can improve health and science outcomes.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 16 Dec 2020 07:13:27 -0500 2021-01-14T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-14T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Livestream / Virtual RISE Virtual Talking Circle
Environmental Health Priorities in Southeast Michigan (January 26, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80220 80220-20601996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC) of M-LEEaD kicks off the first in a series on community engaged research with a presentation by the Community Engagement Core (CEC) and its Stakeholder Advocacy Board (SAB). Members of the CEC and SAB will share an overview of environmental health priorities in Southeast Michigan, ongoing efforts to address them, and new opportunities for M-LEEaD affiliated researchers. This "Meet and Learn" will focus on the purpose and objective of the CEC and how these relate to the NIEHS core objectives. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:12:52 -0500 2021-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-26T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Jan 26 Environmental Priorities in SE Michigan
Supporting the Integration of Numerical Computation in Physics Education (January 27, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80602 80602-20761740@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Computation has revolutionized how modern science is done. Modern scientists use computational techniques to reduce mountains of data, to simulate impossible experiments, and to develop intuition about the behavior of complex systems. Much of the research completed by modern scientists would be impossible without the use of computation. And yet, while computation is a crucial tool of practicing scientists, most modern science curricula do not reflect its importance and utility. In this talk, I will discuss the urgent need to construct such curricula and present research that investigates the challenges at a variety of scales from the large (institutional structures) to the small (student understanding of a concept). I will discuss how the results of this research can be leveraged to facilitate the computational revolution in science education. This research will help us understand and develop institutional incentives, effective teaching practices, evidence-based course activities, and valid assessment tools. This work has been supported by Michigan State University’s CREATE for STEM Institute, the National Science Foundation, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT), the Norwegian Research Council, and the Thon Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:45:09 -0500 2021-01-27T15:30:00-05:00 2021-01-27T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Danny Caballero
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Journey to a PhD in Industry: IOE, Healthcare, Community” — Donald Richardson (January 27, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80783 80783-20791340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Title:
Journey to a PhD in Industry: IOE, Healthcare, Community

Bio:
Donald Richardson is currently a Health Systems Engineer at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) where he applies operations research techniques to various healthcare and defense domains. Recently his work has focused on COVID-19 response efforts. He also has served in leadership and supportive roles in various projects across the lab. Prior to working at JHU/APL, Donald completed his Ph.D. under Dr. Amy Cohn in the U-M Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS). Broadly his research focused on applying optimization, simulation, and predictive modeling in healthcare.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:16:37 -0500 2021-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-27T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Virtual Mentoring Workshop" text with Block M logos
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Who did What When Where to Support Me Becoming Me: Role Model vs Mentor, vs Coach, vs Sponsor” — Dave Ostreicher (January 28, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80785 80785-20793295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 28, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Title:
“Who did What When Where to Support Me Becoming Me: Role Model vs Mentor, vs Coach, vs Sponsor”

Bio:
Dave Ostreicher is a Manager in Purchasing Supplier Development at Toyota’s North American R&D headquarters in Ann Arbor. His team manages procurement of all components for Toyota and Lexus sedans. Dave’s previous roles included development of 350 purchasing professionals, procurement of $1.5 billion of spend, among others. Dave was also selected for two multi-year dispatches to Japan. Dave volunteers with Temple Beth Emeth and AIESEC. He graduated from C-Change and led Freedom Project (National Underground Railroad Freedom Center and Give Back Cincinnati collaboration). Dave earned his BSE/MSE in Industrial Engineering and BA in Japanese from University of Michigan where he was affiliated with EGL/Tauber, AIESEC, and ResEd. Dave enjoys facilitating Life Planning, cycling, trumpeting and creating memories with his spouse and three children, often around food and drink.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:15:57 -0500 2021-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 2021-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Virtual Mentoring Workshop" text with Block M logos
LUNCH & LEARN: "A Practical Framework for Real-time Assignment Optimization: Perspectives from DoorDash" — Sifeng Lin (January 29, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81089 81089-20846555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 29, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all including U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
A Practical Framework for Real-time Assignment Optimization: Perspectives from DoorDash

Abstract:
While the field of delivery logistics has been well studied in academia and industry, we found the common methodologies used to optimize these systems less applicable to improving the efficiency of DoorDash’s real-time last-mile logistics platform. These common methodologies require a stable prototype environment that is difficult to build in our platform and does not allow for the accurate measurement of the algorithm change. To address our specific use case, we designed an experiment-based framework that allows us to rapidly iterate our algorithms and accurately measures the impact of every algorithm change.

Bio:
Sifeng Lin works as operations research scientist in DoorDash. In this role, he combines operations research and software engineering to solve the real-time dispatching problem, as well as tackling challenging optimization problems in other frontier of DoorDash business. He has a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin and previously worked as a Sr. operations research specialist in BNSF Railway.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 22 Jan 2021 12:25:21 -0500 2021-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2021-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Sifeng Lin
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Making A Difference, Finding Meaning & Having Fun” — Dann Engels (February 3, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80993 80993-20830792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Title:
“Making A Difference, Finding Meaning & Having Fun”

Bio:
J. Dann Engels’s companies operate in India, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, and the Americas, providing products and services to the automotive aftermarket, tools and equipment, horticulture, material handling, and battery industries. Along with his wife, Que-Lan, Engels founded the Engels Family Foundation in 1995 with a focus on supporting education in underrepresented communities. Engels was actively involved in the early stages of MShadow, which matches University of Michigan student-athletes with mentors, internships, and post-graduation employment. In 1996, Dann was honored with IOE’s Outstanding Alumni award.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Jan 2021 11:03:20 -0500 2021-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-03T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Dann Engels
Improving the Evidence to Practice Gap through Innovation in Health Science Education (February 17, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81403 81403-20893762@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Please join us on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 3:00 - 4:00 PM for a discussion on Improving the Evidence to Practice Gap through Innovation in Health Science Education.

Register for the event via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-virtual-talking-circle-tickets-130006826919

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 28 Jan 2021 06:37:46 -0500 2021-02-17T15:00:00-05:00 2021-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
An Honest Conversation: Diversity and Inclusion in Engineering (February 17, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81702 81702-20943454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In 2020, we witnessed several examples of social injustice and social unrest. As human beings and engineers, we must decide how we want to respond to what happened and how we want to move forward. Calls to improve our approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have coincided with the call to update our overall engineering curriculum. Over the years, several initiatives have been launched to address such issues, which primarily attempt to address perceived inadequacies in underrepresented students. However, scarce efforts have been developed to address the engineering culture that has limited the full participation of women and people of color in engineering. Furthermore, few of us in engineering have the knowledge, skills, or ability to productively engage with issues leading to the marginalization and social unrest. Rarely do we dare to apply our problem-solving or critical thinking approaches to how to educate or improving DEI. As a result, the goal of this talk is to provide engineers with language to have an honest conversation about our individual and collective response to the inequity in engineering and realign our actions to improve engineering education. This impactful workshop will provide definitions and practical examples of key DEI concepts in engineering based on holistic interdisciplinary research.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:44:52 -0500 2021-02-17T15:30:00-05:00 2021-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Kelly Cross
LUNCH & LEARN: "Supply Chain Design: From Academia to Industry" — Dan Kogan (February 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81656 81656-20941438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all including U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Supply Chain Design: From Academia to Industry

Abstract:
What is supply chain design?
Why is it so critical to corporations, our economy, and our world?
What career opportunities exist for the highly demanded supply chain analytic skill set?
Attend this fun, interactive presentation to learn the answers to these questions and more.

Bio:
Dan Kogan is Manager, Education Services at LLamasoft (a Coupa Company) with responsibility for training, certifications, and academic outreach. Previously, Dan was a member of LLamasoft’s professional services team providing consulting and project management on supply chain design projects for Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries. Before LLamasoft, Dan worked for electronic manufacturer Garmin in multiple supply chain and software roles.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:24:58 -0500 2021-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Dan Kogan
Bioethics Discussion: Artificial Life (February 23, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58837 58837-14563729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on new forms.

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few readings to consider:
––Is the creation of artificial life morally significant?
––Why Do We Need Artificial Life?
––Artificial Life
––The Bioethicist Who Cried “Synthetic Biology”: An Analysis of the Function of Bioterrorism Predictions in Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/056-artificial-life/.

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Life finds a way over to the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:41:49 -0500 2021-02-23T19:00:00-05:00 2021-02-23T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Life
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Navigating The In-Between Space: Strategies For Asking For What You Need” — Becky Wai-Ling Packard (February 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81797 81797-20959287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

Special audience considerations:
Open to all University of Michigan students, faculty and staff. Registration is required.

Presentation/Seminar Title:
Navigating The In-Between Space: Strategies For Asking For What You Need

Bio:
Becky Wai-Ling Packard is Professor of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College where she is completing her 22nd year. Dr. Packard is an expert in the area of strategic mentoring and the persistence of minoritized students in higher education, to include first-generation college students, low-income students, community-college transfer students, nontraditional students, people of color, and women in technical fields. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Google, and Microsoft. In 2005, she was recognized by the White House with the Presidential early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the nation’s highest honor for early career scientists and engineers. A translator of research into practice, Dr. Packard has visited more than 70 campuses to lead sessions on the power of mentoring and advising, including ways to navigate difficult conversations and leverage everyday interactions. From 2018-2019, Dr. Packard was a faculty fellow in the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan working on ways to improve the climate in STEM departments.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:11:36 -0500 2021-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 2021-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Becky Wai-Ling Packard
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Life After Graduation” — Shelbie Prater, Morgan Hawthorne (March 4, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82570 82570-21124018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Presentation/Seminar Title:
Impress Yourself: helping the overwhelmed over-achiever learn to balance ambition and mental health

Bio:
Shelbie Prater, a Detroit native, is a holistic health and social equity advocate currently working in KPMG’s Advisory function. In 2018, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan, then moved to Chicago to begin her consulting career. As a Sr. Associate in KPMG’s Transformation Delivery practice, she helped global C-suite executives construct and launch a firm-wide culture and values refresh while managing a 3,000-employee Culture Champions Network. Shelbie’s day job involves creating customized experiences for clients as they prepare to work in new ways, but she’s also widely known for her work as co-lead of an internal Race & Social Equity Taskforce. In 2020, she helped build a non-profit organization called Movement for the Movement, which engages community members in conversations about systemic racism and encourages allies to take more active roles in dismantling the educational, psychological, and professional barriers faced by many Black Americans today.


Presentation/Seminar Title:
From Blue Books to a Blue Badge: How to start your career in Tech

Bio:
Morgan Hawthorne is a Senior Financial Analyst within Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure and Operations based in Redmond, WA. Her team directly manages price discovery, demand allocation and change management for all cloud servers purchased by Microsoft, accounting for over $8 billion in annual spend. In addition to her day to day functions, Morgan volunteers on MCIO’s D&I Board and tutors for Treehouse, a Seattle based nonprofit that supports youth in foster care. Morgan earned her BS in Industrial and Operations Engineering (’19) from the University of Michigan where she was affiliated with NSBE and M-STEM. In her spare time, Morgan enjoys playing soccer, hiking, biking or grabbing a drink with friends.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:38:40 -0500 2021-03-04T17:30:00-05:00 2021-03-04T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Shelbie Prater & Morgan Hawthorne
LUNCH & LEARN: "How Safe is Safe Enough? Lessons Learned About Risk Analysis in Space and Healthcare" — Jim Bagian (March 5, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82567 82567-21122035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all including U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
How Safe is Safe Enough? Lessons Learned About Risk Analysis in Space and Healthcare

Abstract:
IOE Professor, Astronaut and Medical Doctor Jim Bagian will use real-world examples based on aerospace and healthcare activities to illustrate the vital role that engineers can play in increasing the likelihood of sustainable success.

Bio:
Jim Bagian is a professor of practice with appointments in the Departments of Industrial and Operations and Aerospace Engineering and was the founding director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety and the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering as well as a research professor in the anesthesiology department of the Medical School at the University of Michigan. He was formerly the founding director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety and first Chief Patient Safety Officer for the Veterans Health Administration at the Department of Veterans Affairs Health. He was also a NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle flights, investigated both Space Shuttle mishaps and was a member of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel from 2006 to 2016. He was elected as a member to both the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:52:31 -0500 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Jim Bagian
PHD DEFENSE: "Distributionally Robust Optimization in Sequential Decision Making" — Hideaki Nakao (March 8, 2021 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/81782 81782-20959276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 8, 2021 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Attend virtually via Zoom:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/6352518961?pwd=WGYzdlN6aTVwR2pEWEdFR1VxazJlUT09
Meeting ID: 635 251 8961

TITLE OF DISSERTATION:
Distributionally Robust Optimization in Sequential Decision Making

CHAIR:
Siqian Shen

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Feb 2021 12:25:42 -0500 2021-03-08T14:30:00-05:00 2021-03-08T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Hideaki Nakao
Motivation and Identity as Signals of Systemic Problems in Engineering Education (March 10, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82513 82513-21114065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

There is a well-documented history of systemic engineering education problems ranging from a persistently chilly climate to a burgeoning mental health crisis. Outcomes of these problems include but are not limited to increased attrition, decreased learning, and reduced engineering innovation resulting from a homogenous engineering population. While these measures provide concrete evidence of systemic problems, they do not provide clear targets for change or an early warning system of how systemic problems influence students before crucial decision points.

To address the limitations of existing engineering education outcome measures, measures of how students internalize engineering experiences are needed. Students' motivations for engineering tasks and identifications as engineers can fill this gap as they are contextually responsive and connected to educational outcomes such as deep learning, student retention, and task persistence. Additionally, students' educational experiences directly influence their motivations and identities.

Informed by specific theories of motivation and identity (future time perspective and engineering role identity, respectively), this presentation describes how students' motivations and identities are shaped by their engineering education experiences and shape engineering education cultures. Specifically, I will discuss the homogenization of undergraduates' motivations and identities; the connections between motivation and identity and experiences of discrimination and bias; and the identity and motivationally undermining experiences of engineering graduate students. I will conclude by discussing actionable steps to shift engineering education defaults to foster students' motivations and identities.

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Adam Kirn is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education in the Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research focuses on the ways students' motivations and identities shape and are shaped by their engineering education experiences. The results of this work seek to implement evidence-based practices to create educational defaults that foster student success and thriving. Adam has a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Bioengineer, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education from Clemson University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:26:14 -0500 2021-03-10T15:30:00-05:00 2021-03-10T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Adam Kirn
SEMINAR: "Importance Sampling with Stochastic Computer Models: From Theory to Practice" — Eunshin Byon (March 11, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82612 82612-21145764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 11, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Importance Sampling with Stochastic Computer Models: From Theory to Practice

Abstract:
Importance sampling has been widely used to improve the efficiency of deterministic computer simulations where the simulation output is uniquely determined, given a fixed input. To represent complex system behavior more realistically, however, stochastic computer models are gaining popularity. Unlike deterministic computer simulations, stochastic simulations produce different outputs even at the same input. This extra degree of stochasticity presents a challenge in analyzing engineering system performance. Our study tackles this challenge by addressing two problems. First, we derive the optimal importance sampling density and allocation procedure that minimize the variance of an estimator. Second, we present a non-parametric approach to approximate the optimal importance sampling density with a multivariate input vector when each factor’s contribution is different. The application of our method to a computationally intensive, aeroelastic wind turbine simulator demonstrates the benefits of the proposed approaches.

Bio:
Eunshin Byon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She received her Ph.D. degree in the Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Texas A&M University, College Station, USA in 2010. Dr. Byon’s research interests include data analytics, quality and reliability engineering, system informatics and uncertainty quantification. She has received several Best Paper Awards including the Best Applications Paper Award from IISE Transactions on Quality& Reliability Engineering. Dr. Byon has served the Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) subdivision of INFORMS as a chair-elect and chair in 2019-2020. She is a member of IIE, INFORMS and IEEE.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:53:05 -0500 2021-03-11T15:00:00-05:00 2021-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Eunshin Byon
LUNCH & LEARN: "Healthcare Engineering & COVID-19: Tales from the Trenches" — Amy Cohn (March 12, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82182 82182-21050549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 12, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all including U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Healthcare Engineering & COVID-19: Tales from the Trenches

Abstract:
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, our healthcare system had to adjust to new circumstances quickly. The virus disrupted nearly every area of the health system and meant industrial engineers had the opportunity to use their unique skillset to address the many obstacles the pandemic introduced. In this talk, I will share several real-world instances of University of Michigan engineers working directly with Michigan Medicine to have an immediate impact during this difficult time. These efforts included N-95 mask reprocessing, virus aerosolization concerns, the search for personal protective equipment (PPE), addressing postponed and backlogged elective surgeries, campus COVID testing, and vaccine distribution. In addition to projects we could begin to address immediately, I’ll discuss the opportunities for industrial engineering research to help us be more prepared for future disruptions in the healthcare system.

Bio:
Amy Ellen Mainville Cohn is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she also holds an appointment in the Department of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health. Dr. Cohn is the Faculty Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS). She holds an A.B. in applied mathematics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University and a PhD in operations research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her primary research interests are in applications of combinatorial optimization, particularly to healthcare and aviation, and to the challenges of optimization problems with multiple objective criteria. She values teaching, mentoring, having a positive impact on society through her work, and helping to foster a vibrant, diverse, nurturing community. She and her husband Jonathan are the proud parents of two sons, Tommy and Peter.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:10:33 -0500 2021-03-12T12:00:00-05:00 2021-03-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Amy Cohn
TSCA @ 5 Years: Opportunities to Act with Foresight (March 16, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82485 82485-21108121@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

The University of Michigan M-LEEaD Center is co-sponsoring an event to mark the 5-year anniversary of the bipartisan legislation called the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. This reform law was designed to modernize U.S. industrial chemical policy to promote health, but has it lived up to its promise?

Public understanding is limited regarding how exposures to toxic chemicals affect health and how they might be regulated. Unlike pharmaceuticals, industrial and commercial chemicals are rarely tested for safety before they reach the U.S. market. The 1976 TSCA has been widely acknowledged to be a weak and ineffective law, and widespread exposures and harms continue. In the U.S., everyone is exposed to industrial and toxic chemicals, dozens and probably hundreds – well before birth. The amount of chemicals manufactured and imported continues to grow – it is trillions of pounds – and these chemicals remain largely unregulated. At the same time, we have seen an increase in chronic diseases, such as diabetes, autism, and infertility. Not everyone is equally at risk, and a higher burden of disease falls on low wealth communities and communities of color. These health disparities in exposures and health effects are illustrated and exacerbated by COVID.

The amended TSCA gave the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency new requirements and authorities. The public health impact points to the need for the U.S. EPA to fully use its new powers to evaluate all risks from hazardous chemicals and set policies which protect health and are accountable to high-risk communities. Preventive actions are urgently needed.

Watch “THE FOREVER CHEMICALS” documentary (2019, 26 min) at Great Lakes Now then join the March 16 forum. https://www.greatlakesnow.org/fc
“The Forever Chemicals” is an Emmy-winning examination of the impact of PFAS contamination in west Michigan
communities.

LEARN MORE AT OUR LIVE VIRTUAL PANEL DISCUSSION (registration required) on March 16 with Sandra Svoboda, “The Forever Chemicals” co-producer and Great Lakes Now Program Director; Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Professor, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences, University of CA-San Francisco; and Justin Onwenu, Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club. Moderated by Patricia Koman, MPP, PhD, Research Investigator, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan with Welcoming remarks from Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD, the Harold T Shapiro Distinguished University Professor of Medicine (also Professor of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics; Internal Medicine; Human Genetics; and Public Health, Univ of Mich).

REGISTER HERE https://bit.ly/37I2JaU

SPONSORED BY the Michigan Center on Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease (M-LEEaD) • U-M Environmental Health Sciences • Detroit Public Television • Wayne State CURES Center • U-M Sustainable Living Experience • UROP (U-M Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) • UMIHSA (U-M Industrial Hygiene Students Association) • EHSA (Environmental Health Student Association) • American Chemical Society Outreach Organization • U-M Health Policy Student Association • Ecology Center • Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition • UCSF Program for Reproductive Health and the Environment • UCSF EaRTH Center

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:57:09 -0500 2021-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 2021-03-16T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Conference / Symposium March 16 Panel Discussion: TSCA @ 5 Years
What Should Education Innovation at Michigan Medicine Be Known For? (March 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82425 82425-21098206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.)

Please join us for our next Virtual Talking Circle on March 18 at 12:00 pm, where we will discuss how to construct a more cohesive direction for education innovation at our institution. What problems should we be focusing on? Where should we as an “innovation system” invest?

RISE will be working across our entire community to construct such a vision, a process suggested by previous Virtual Talking Circles, the RISE Advisory Council, and education leaders in the biomedical sciences, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. A specific proposal will be presented for reflection and feedback by attendees, and we invite all of you to attend and provide input into this conversation.

Please also invite your colleagues who may be interested. See you then!

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:25:35 -0500 2021-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location RISE (Research. Innovation. Scholarship. Education.) Workshop / Seminar RISE Virtual Talking Circle
SEMINAR: "Optimizing the First Response to Sepsis: An Electronic Health Record-based Markov Decision Process Model for Personalizing Acute Care for Deteriorating Patients" — Julie Simmons Ivy (March 18, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82909 82909-21217313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Optimizing the First Response to Sepsis: An Electronic Health Record-based Markov Decision Process Model for Personalizing Acute Care for Deteriorating Patients

Abstract:
Sepsis is considered a medical emergency where delays in initial treatment are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. It is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis affects more than 1.7 million Americans each year, causing approximately 270,000 deaths annually. One in three hospitalized patient deaths are associated with sepsis. In 2019, the total cost of sepsis care for inpatient admission and skilled nursing facility admission was estimated at more than $62 billion. Sepsis is a significant healthcare challenge, where the lack of a gold standard for diagnosis causes inconsistencies in categorizing sepsis phenotypes and accurately capturing patients’ trajectories, which evolve stochastically over time. This makes treatment decision making and early intervention difficult. We integrate electronic health record (EHR) data with clinical expertise to develop a continuous-time Markov decision process model of the natural history of sepsis. We use this model to better understand the stochastic nature of patients’ health trajectories and determine the optimal treatment policy to minimize mortality and morbidity. Specifically, the optimal health states for first anti-infective and first fluid are identified. We formulate this as a stopping problem in which the patient leaves the system when he or she receives the first treatment (intervention) and receives a lump sum reward. Our objective is to find the optimal first intervention for health states to minimize expected mortality and morbidity. We explore the effect of the complex trade-offs associated with the intervention costs and patient disposition costs which are subjective and difficult to estimate. Our model captures the natural progression along sepsis trajectory using a clinically defined treatment delayed population. The model translates observations of patient health as defined by vitals and laboratory results recorded during hospitalization in the EHR to capture the complex evolution of sepsis within a patient population. This framework provides key insights into sepsis patients’ stochastic trajectories and informs clinical decision making associated with caring for these patients as their health dynamically evolves.

Bio:
Julie Simmons Ivy is a Professor in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Fitts Faculty Fellow in Health Systems Engineering. She previously spent several years on the faculty of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. She received her B.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. She also received her M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a focus on Operations Research at Georgia Tech. She is a President of the Health Systems Engineering Alliance (HSEA) Board of Directors. She is an active member of the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), Dr. Ivy served as the 2007 Chair (President) of the INFORMS Health Applications Society and the 2012 – 13 President for the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum. Her research interests are mathematical modeling of stochastic dynamic systems with emphasis on statistics and decision analysis as applied to health care, public health, and humanitarian logistics. This research has made an impact on how researchers and practitioners address complex societal issues, such as health disparities, public health preparedness, hunger relief, student performance, and personalized medical decision-making and has been funded by AHRQ, CDC, NSF, Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the UNC Cancer Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:58:09 -0500 2021-03-18T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Julie Simmons Ivy
Project Management Certification (March 21, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80730 80730-20779512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 21, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Tauber Institute for Global Operations

Once again, the Tauber Institute, in conjunction with the International Project Management Association (IPMA), is sponsoring a Project Management certification class and exam for graduate business and engineering students and staff.

In order to participate, you will need to reflect upon a project management experience (for example: a work project, an engineering design experience/senior capstone, Ross' MAP project, Tauber team project, etc). If you cannot make it to the classes (due to project travel, MAP, or other another class), the sessions will be recorded. Homework (mastery verification) will be required after each session.

The cost to an individual to take the exam is normally $595, however, Tauber is offering the exam at a substantial discount to non-Tauber students:
$500 for U-M alumni or public
$400 for U-M students, U-M employees, or Tauber alumni
$200 for Tauber Institute students

Certification is valid for 5 years. Three certification classes will be taught by Professor Eric Svaan on the following dates:

Sunday, March 21 (noon - 4:30 pm)
Sunday, March 28 (noon - 4:30 pm)
Sunday, April 18 (noon - 4:30 pm)

The certification exam, administered by IPMA-USA is scheduled for May 12, 2021 (11:00 am) virtually. Successfully passing the exam will yield IPMA's Level D certification (Certified Project Management Associate).

Since 2013, all students who have taken the exam have passed!

Project Management is a powerful skill set to have in your toolbox as you look for full-time employment!

REGISTRATION: Please register through iMpact by clicking here:
https://www.bus.umich.edu/Conferences/Project-Management-Certification-2021/Default.aspx

NOTE: The non-refundable fees:
$500 for non-Tauber students, U-M alumni, or public
$400 for U-M students, U-M employees, or Tauber alumni
$200 for Tauber Institute students

HOSTED BY: Tauber Institute for Global Operations. For questions about this event, please contact tauberinstitute@umich.edu or visit tauber.umich.edu.

What is IPMA Level D® (Certified Project Management Associate)? The IPMA Level D is an internationally recognized entry-level qualification in the area of project management. This designation, which demonstrates the individual's ability to understand the basics of project management, is similar to the exam-oriented, knowledge-based certifications of other major Project Management associations. For many, Level D® is the first step towards a professional project or program manager role. It is the first step in a sequence (C, B and A) to be earned by demonstration of success in larger PM responsibility sets.

For more information,
Visit tauber.umich.edu or call 734-647-1333
Connect via email to Diana Crossley dianak@umich.edu

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Jan 2021 12:27:23 -0500 2021-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-21T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Tauber Institute for Global Operations Class / Instruction Certificate photo
Community Cultural Wealth, Program Evaluation, and ASEE CDEI, Oh My! (March 24, 2021 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83003 83003-21235293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

As a sociologist who has been working in STEM and Engineering Education for 18 years, and who isn’t on the tenure track, Liz will share a little bit about a few different areas (Research, Evaluation, and Service) that she has focused on in her career.  Assets-based frameworks for understanding student experience are receiving more and more visibility these days and Liz’s work has used critical race theory Community Cultural Wealth (Samuelson & Litzler, JEE 2016) to understand the ways minoritized engineering undergraduates deployed their cultural assets to persist in engineering. She is also now working on further Community Cultural Wealth research with her colleagues on the PNW-LSAMP project.  She will also talk about using her social science research skills to conduct high quality program evaluation of projects focused on improving DEI in STEM.  Finally, she’ll share about the work of the ASEE Commission on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, of which she is the current chair. CDEI is a great resource for the community and also a wonderful opportunity to develop new connections with colleagues while providing important service to the engineering education field.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:42:39 -0500 2021-03-24T15:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Elizabeth Litzler
RAIDE SEMINAR: "Risk Analysis and Management, COVID, and the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering" — Jim Bagian and Seth Guikema (March 24, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83132 83132-21274913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

SPECIAL GUEST: Dean Alec Gallimore

The RAIDE seminar series is open to all. Any interested in risk analysis, risk management, or risks associated with the COVID pandemic are especially encouraged to attend.

Meeting ID:
915 4223 3753

Passcode:
309867

Title:
Risk Analysis and Management, COVID, and the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering

Abstract:
The Center for Risk Analysis Informed Engineering (RAIDE) is a new center at the University of Michigan with the goal of furthering risk analysis that informs improved decision through education, research, and practice. This seminar gives an overview of RAIDE and will highlight ongoing work being led by RAIDE to develop a risk informed approach to planning for the Fall 2022 semester given the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dean Alec Gallimore will be joining the seminar as a special guest to provide a perspective from senior leadership on this risk-informed approach to planning.

Bios:
Dr. Bagian is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering (RAIDE) and is a Professor in the Departments of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Michigan. He has extensive experience in the fields of human factors, aviation, patient and transportation safety, and risk assessment and management. Dr. Bagian was the founding Director of the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety at the University of Michigan. Previously he served as the first and founding director of the VA National Center for Patient Safety and as the VA’s first Chief Patient Safety Officer where he developed numerous systems and risk based tools and programs that have been adopted nationally and internationally. A NASA astronaut, he is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions and has also served as the Chief Flight Surgeon and Medical Consultant for the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board. He was elected to two terms as the Chair of the Joint Commission’s Patient Safety Advisory Group and was a member of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel from 2006 2018. Bagian holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University and a doctorate in medicine from Thomas Jefferson University. He is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Guikema is a co-founder and the Director of Research and Education for the Center for Risk Analysis Informed Decision Engineering (RAIDE) and is a Professor in the Departments of Industrial and Operations Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also a Professor II (adjunct) in the Department of Safety, Economics, and Planning at the University of Stavanger (Norway) and a Research Fellow at One Concern, Inc., a Silicon Valley start-up. Dr. Guikema was the President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in 2020 and is a Fellow of SRA. He is an Area Editor for the journal Risk Analysis. He has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and won numerous publication awards for his research. He also has extensive risk analysis consulting experience in the DoD, Intelligence, and Commercial sectors. He has B.S., M.Eng., and M.S. degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, the University of Canterbury, and Stanford University respectively and a Ph.D. in Engineering Risk and Decision Analysis from Stanford University.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:16:35 -0400 2021-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2021-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Livestream / Virtual Speaker headshot photos and department and center logos.
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: “Navigating Tech as an Underrepresented Minority” — Natasha Nesiba (March 24, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83110 83110-21272913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Presentation/Seminar Title:
Navigating Tech as an Underrepresented Minority

Bio:
Natasha (Tasha) Nesiba is a Software Engineer at Google on the Google Workspace team. She graduated with a Bachelor's of Science (2013) and Master's of Science (2015) in Computer Science from New Mexico State University (NMSU). While Nesiba enjoys working in tech, her passion and mission is to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Computing, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (C-STEM) fields. Throughout her time at NMSU, Nesiba served her community in southern New Mexico through the Young Women in Computing (YWiC) program at NMSU: a K-12 outreach program that focuses on generating interest in C-STEM among young female students, particularly of Hispanic or Native American descent. Nesiba was also one of the founding members and president of the Women and Minorities in Computing student organization within the CS department which welcomed and supported traditionally underrepresented groups in C-STEM fields.

Please Note:
The event will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST with the following options to attend:
Seminar Talks will take place during the first hour 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions will take place during the second hour 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.

*This workshop series is supported by a Michigan Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) faculty grant.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:57:06 -0400 2021-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Natasha Nesiba
SEMINAR: "Modeling to Promote an Efficient, Effective and Equitable Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic" — Julie Swann (March 25, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83187 83187-21290773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Modeling to Promote an Efficient, Effective and Equitable Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract:
Planning and response to the Covid-19 pandemic is complex but can be informed by analytics and mathematical modeling along with knowledge of public health and supply chain contexts. This talk will summarize disease modeling embedded in a Covid-19 network simulation, highlighting recent results analyzing pharmaceutical and other interventions as well as potential future scenarios. The talk will provide an overview of how the public health system in the US allocates and distributes Covid-19 vaccine along with potential pitfalls and areas for improvement. The talk will discuss several areas where analytics and modeling are impacting efficiency, effectiveness, and equity.

Bio:
Julie Swann is the department head and A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor of the Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is an affiliate faculty in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at both NC State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining NC State, Swann was the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There she co-founded and co-directed the Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS), one of the first interdisciplinary research centers on the Georgia Tech campus. Starting with her work with CHHS, Swann has conducted research, outreach and education to improve how health and humanitarian systems operate worldwide.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:49:51 -0400 2021-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Julie Swann
IOE-EER WORKSHOP: "How to Lead an Anti-Racist Life: Working and Living Equity Values" — Nichole Burnside, Joana Dos Santos (March 25, 2021 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82578 82578-21124019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 25, 2021 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

In partnership, the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) and the Engineering Education Research Program (EER) will be hosting a dynamic Virtual Mentoring Workshop Series. The aim of this series is to help foster an engaging and inclusive environment for students, faculty, and staff.

Workshop sessions will feature guest speakers across industry, research and DEI professions, and the special series itself is designed with a specific focus to facilitate conversations, build connections and empower self-reflection opportunities to support students’ journeys within the mentoring process as a whole.

This series is open to all College of Engineering students, faculty and staff. Registration is required. Please RSVP early to attend and the Zoom information will be sent prior to the event.

Presentation/Seminar Title:
How to Lead and Anti-Racist Life: Working and Living Equity Values

Bios:
Nichole Burnside is responsible for leading the University of Michigan School of Public Health diversity, equity, and inclusion implementation. She partners with faculty, staff, students, and post-doctoral fellows to integrate DEI into their current responsibilities. With over 15 years of progressive experience, Nichole has worked in higher education capacities, including diversity and inclusion, talent acquisition and retention, and the overall student experience. She is a well-integrated, proactive; professional with attention to detail. She creates an environment of patience and consideration by using active listening skills and a holistic approach to develop measurable outcomes for the DEI strategy.

Joana Dos Santos has dedicated her career to creating equitable organizations and communities for the past 15 years. Currently, she serves as the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she is responsible for organizational cultural change as well as its DEI strategic plan development and implementation. In addition to policy change, Joana focuses on helping people deepen their understanding of the role their multiple identities play in creating an equitable society. Through training and facilitated discussions, Joana helps students, faculty, and staff understand how to use their positions of privilege and influence to advance DEI and racial equity values. Previously, Joana served as Executive Director of a Latinx community center in Massachusetts. She institutionalized racial equity values in the organization’s mission and vision and restructured programming and evaluations to align with these values. As a coalition builder, Joana chaired multi-sectoral committees and developed partnerships with city officials to make the region more inclusive through cultural programming, increasing access to public transportation, and changing city policies to be welcoming to marginalized communities.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:41:26 -0500 2021-03-25T17:30:00-04:00 2021-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Nichole Burnside & Joana Dos Santos
RAIDE SEMINAR: "Managing Risk In the Real World: Perspectives From Aerospace" — Joseph W. Dyer and John C. Frost (March 30, 2021 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83339 83339-21344242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The seminar series is open to all. Any interested in risk analysis, risk management, and the way decisions are made in the real-world are encouraged to attend.

All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Meeting ID:
915 4223 3753

Passcode:
309867

Title:
Managing Risk In the Real World: Perspectives From Aerospace

Abstract:
In the aerospace field identifying existing and potential hazards, risks, and their associated outcomes and proactively managing them is a critical and essential part of any program. The potential negative outcomes are often large and can be associated with loss of life as well as significant adverse financial and reputational impact. This seminar will illustrate, using real world examples, how and why proactively managing risk is critically important in achieving short and long term success.

Bios:
Joe Dyer is a consultant in the tech, aerospace and defense markets and the Chief Strategy Officer for the National Spectrum Consortium. He operates at the intersection of technology, finance, and risk. He chaired NASA’s Aerospace Safety and Advisory Panel for almost 13 years. He is often quoted in the WSJ, NYT, and AW&ST. He received the James H. Doolittle award in recognition of outstanding engineering achievement in aerospace.

He was Business Unit President, COO, and Chief Strategy Officer at iRobot Corp. He came to iRobot from a career in the U.S. Navy where his last assignment was as the three-star Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command. He was the Navy’s senior, uniformed acquisition/procurement official. His naval career also included positions as naval aviation’s chief engineer, Commander of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, and F/A-18 program manager. Earlier in his career, he served as the Navy’s chief test pilot and as an operational naval aviator flying from the decks of aircraft carriers around the world.

Joe holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in finance from the Naval PostGraduate School in Monterey, California. He is an elected fellow in the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots and the National Academy of Public Administration.


Mr. Frost has extensive experience in systems safety engineering in the aerospace field. The breadth of his experience spans several decades with the U.S. Army where he served in numerous positions including as the Chief of System Safety Engineering of the Army’s Electronics Command, Chief of the Army’s Missile Command’s Safety Office responsible for safety engineering support for Army missiles and Missile Command’s Operations, and he was the first Chief of the Safety Office for the Army Aviation and Missile Command and responsible for the safety of Army missiles and aircraft worldwide. In January of 2006, he was appointed to the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) which is tasked with advising the NASA Administrator and Congress on the effectiveness of NASA safety programs. Mr. Frost is a Senior member of the International System Safety Society and a Professional Member of the American Society Of Safety Engineers and remains active in various System Safety organizations and initiatives. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Virginia where he was a DuPont Scholar. He then joined the Army’s Safety Engineering Intern Program through which he earned a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M, specializing in Safety Engineering. He has previously been registered in Massachusetts as a Professional Engineer in the specialty of Safety Engineering and as a Certified Safety Professional.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:43:16 -0400 2021-03-30T12:30:00-04:00 2021-03-30T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar "Seminar" text and IOE logo
Using Artificial Intelligence for Optimal Truck Platooning under Uncertainties (March 31, 2021 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82674 82674-21155688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

Truck platooning is the process of using connected vehicle technology to join two or more trucks in a convoy. Platooning is associated with two, major societal benefits: environmental, through lowered fuel consumption, CO2 emission, and traffic efficiency, and safety improvement, through automated driving. Quantification of fuel consumption in platoons depends on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the system, specifically the resistance or drag force of trucks. While optimization of fuel consumption is pivotal in truck platooning, analysis of CFD is computationally expensive, especially when uncertainties are present, due to geometrical variability of trucks and platoons as well as in wind magnitude and direction.

This research proposes an artificial intelligence-based surrogate model which enables near real-time optimization of platoon configurations based on fuel consumption and impacts on pavement conditions. Attendees will learn how a deep neural network (DNN) model can be trained using data from CFD simulations that utilize high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

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Presentation Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:26:18 -0400 2021-03-31T13:00:00-04:00 2021-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Presentation Decorative Image
SEMINAR: "Informing Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts with Operations Research Models" — Kayse Maass (April 1, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82843 82843-21201314@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 1, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

Title:
Informing Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts with Operations Research Models

Abstract:
Human trafficking is a prevalent and malicious global human rights issue, with an estimated 24 million victims currently being exploited worldwide. A major challenge to its disruption is the fact that human trafficking is a complex system interwoven with other illegal and legal networks, both cyber and physical. Efforts to disrupt human trafficking must understand these complexities and the ways in which a disruption to one portion of the network affects other network components. As such, operations research models are uniquely positioned to address the challenges facing anti-human trafficking efforts. This presentation will discuss ongoing interdisciplinary anti-human trafficking efforts focusing on prevention, network disruption, and survivor empowerment. Specifically, we will discuss 1) the adaptions to current network interdiction models that are necessary for adequately representing human trafficking contexts and 2) a budget-constrained optimization model that maximizes the societal value of locating additional shelters for human trafficking survivors.

Bio:
Dr. Kayse Lee Maass is an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and leads the Operations Research and Social Justice Lab at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on the application of operations research methodology to social justice, access, and equity issues within human trafficking, mental health, housing, and supply chain contexts. This includes determining how to most effectively allocate limited resources to disrupt human trafficking networks, increase access to services for survivors, and assess the efficacy of coordination among anti-human trafficking stakeholders. Dr. Maass’s research is supported by multiple federal grants, centers interdisciplinary survivor-informed expertise, and has informed local, national, and international policy and operational decisions.
Dr. Maass earned a PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) from the University of Michigan and completed her postdoctoral studies in the Department of Health Sciences Research at the Mayo Clinic. She is a recipient of multiple awards, including: the INFORMS Judith Liebman Award, Industrial Engineering Professor of the Year at Northeastern University, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award, and the INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Dissertation Award-Runner Up. She was also named a ‘Rising Star’ among INFORMS’ Powerful, Pragmatic Pioneers. Dr. Maass currently serves on the INFORMS Subdivision Council, as INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Secretary, and is part of the U.N. University Delta 8.7 Markets Working Group.
Bass is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and a senior member of the IEEE and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Bass is the incoming Secretary-Treasurer Elect of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She is a member of the editorial board for three journals: Human Factors, IIE Transaction on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors and the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making. She was the inaugural editor of the IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems. She is a peer reviewer for several international research programs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 08 Mar 2021 09:18:52 -0500 2021-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 2021-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Kayse Maass
LUNCH & LEARN: "Discovering the Keys to Engineering a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy" — Katie Horvath (April 2, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82096 82096-21034706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 2, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all including U-M students, faculty, and staff.

Title:
Discovering the Keys to Engineering a Successful Digital Transformation Strategy

Abstract:
According to leading industry experts, 70% of digital transformation projects fail. Yet, companies successful with data-driven initiatives are realizing a 20-30% increase in customer satisfaction along with profit margins between 20-50%. So, what’s the secret to success? In this session we will discover the keys to successful digital transformation and how to harness the power of your data to increase customer satisfaction and shareholder value.

Bio:
Katie Horvath is CEO of Naveego, a leading provider of cloud-first, distributed data accuracy solutions located in Traverse City, Michigan. She is recognized as the first and only female leader in the field of big data in North America. Building on her passion for engineering and law she kicked off a prestigious career in Silicon Valley representing numerous start-ups and bluechip companies before moving to Microsoft to manage IP for the company. Katie is a serial entrepreneur launching her own law firm along with four successful healthcare businesses for some of the largest health care providers. She has been recognized at U.S. Congress with a leadership award for her innovative business models in the health care industry. Katie earned her engineering degree at the University of Michigan (IOE) and a J.D. law degree from the University of Notre Dame.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 15 Feb 2021 10:57:12 -0500 2021-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Katie Horvath
Bioethics Discussion: Virtual Reality (April 6, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58840 58840-14563732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion like any other?

Join us at: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99926126455.

A few reading to consider:
––Internet-Delivered Health Interventions That Work: Systematic Review of Meta-Analyses and Evaluation of Website Availability
––Ethics of Virtual Reality in Medical Education and Licensure
––Wearables and the medical revolution
––Creating Bioethics Distance Learning Through Virtual Reality

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/059-virtual-reality/.

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A decently maintained virtual reality may be found on the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:39:24 -0500 2021-04-06T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-06T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Virtual Reality