ISE Faculty Members Awarded ICAST/DISC Seed Grant

Kash Barker, Ph.D. and Andrés González, Ph.D., faculty members in the OU School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, along with collaborator Chie Noyori-Corbett, Ph.D. in the Zarrow School of Social Work, were awarded a $25,513 seed grant from the OU Institute for Community and Society Transformation (ICAST) and the Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC). One of seven such funded projects, their one-year project is entitled “Temporal Networks of Environmental Refugee Resettlement.” This project will develop a novel temporal network optimization model that reflects the optimal flow of refugees from origin to host locations, and expand such a baseline model with parameters and constraints reflective of the social science-driven characteristics of equitable decision-making, location integration and dynamics, and different decision-making perspectives to equip local communities to prepare for a larger global scale human migration due to climate change. The announcement from ICAST can be found here: 

https://ou.edu/icast/news-events/2023/seven-multidisciplinary-projects-receive-seed-funding-grants. 

Two ISE Doctoral Students Given Dissertation Awards

Two ISE doctoral students were among 10 students from the OU Gallogly College of Engineering selected to receive this semester’s Dissertation Excellence Award, a $5,000 award created to encourage doctoral students to graduate with excellence.

Manjurul Ahsan defended his dissertation entitled “Data Balancing Approaches in Quality, Defect, and Pattern Analysis” in April of 2023. Alireza Rangrazjeddi will defend his dissertation entitled “Game Theoretic Algorithms for Decentralized Decision-Making” in July of 2023.

More about the GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award can be found here: https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2023/05/spring-2023-ou-engineering-presents.html

ISE Student Honored as Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant

The University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate has awarded Himadri Sen Gupta, a doctoral student in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, with the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant award. Originally from Bangladesh, Himadri earned a master's degree in industrial and systems engineering and a graduate certificate in data science and analytics and in fall 2021. His research, directed by Dr. Andrés González, applies optimization models for improved community resilience decision-making.

A Q&A with Himadri can be found here: https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2023/05/gcoe-ise-student-honored-as-outstanding.html 

Ruiz Receives 2022 William Golomski Award

Cesar Ruiz, School of Industrial Engineering, is part of a research team who received the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineer 

2022 William Golomski Award. This is the second time that Ruiz has received the award which focuses on quality control and reliability engineering.    

Barker Elevated to IEEE Senior Member

Congratulations to Kash Barker, an ISE professor, who has been elevated to the grade of IEEE senior member. The honor is bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

OU Names Inaugural Director of Polytechnic Institute

 The University of Oklahoma announced the appointment of Teri K. Reed, Ph.D., as the inaugural director of the OU Polytechnic Institute. The OU Polytechnic Institute will be launching as a new school at OU-Tulsa, providing bachelor’s completion and graduate degree programs that will initially focus on cybersecurity, data science, software development, medical informatics, and advanced mobility/manufacturing. As director, Reed will oversee the design of those academic programs, develop the hiring strategy for the institute’s first wave of faculty, engage with industry stakeholders on curriculum and work with the OU Foundation to garner additional philanthropic support.

An OU alumna and internationally recognized leader in the field of engineering education, Reed taught at OU from 2000 to 2006, earning tenure as an associate professor in the School of Industrial Engineering. She also served as the College of Engineering’s associate dean of education during her time at OU. She has most recently worked at the University of Cincinnati, where she has served as assistant vice president of faculty research development, executive director of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, and professor of chemical engineering.

Read more about Dr. Reed and the OU Polytechnic Institute here: https://www.ou.edu/news/articles/2023/january/ou-names-inaugural-director-of-polytechnic-institute

Shehab inducted into Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame

 In November, Randa Shehab, Ph.D., senior associate dean for the Gallogly College of Engineering and co-coordinator for the Data Science and Analytics Institute at the University of Oklahoma, was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame. She was among 11 statewide honored as part of the 2022 Hall of Fame Class.

Shehab is the Nettie Vincent Boggs Professor, is a member of the OU ISE faculty, and was previously director of the School. She also earned all three of her degrees from the OU School of iSE.

More about Dean Shehab and her special recognition can be found here: 

https://ouccoe100.blogspot.com/2023/01/shehab-inducted-into-oklahoma-higher.html