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Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
UPCOMING EVENTS & DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
Presentation Days were held on Monday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 30 in the Robert G. Carson Memorial Conference Room, 401 Daniels Hall, on the NCSU campus. 1st place awards were selected in three (3) project areas out of ten (10) project teams.
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Dr. Constance Lightner, a 2000 alumna of the Operations Research Program at NC State, was recently selected to receive the prestigious UNC Board of Governors Award for Teaching Excellence. She was supervised by NCSU ISE professor Dr. Shu-Cherng Fang.
More about Dr. Lightner
The department congratulates Clarence Smith, who was recently appointed by Governor Easley to the NC Board of Refrigeration Examiners. For the official news release click here.
Department is recognized in ISE student Jessica Jeppsson's debut piece in the "Emerging Technologies" section of IE Magazine. Click here to view a PDF version of the article.
Alumnus Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri visits NCSU for the 2008 Emerging Issues Forum.
Pup's surgery could help humans
Professor Ola Harrysson works with the College of Veterinary Science to develop a titanium plate for "Pez" that may be a breakthrough in future surgery...for humans!
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The nose knows
Three entities are partnering on this project: the National Institutes of Health, the pathology department of Duke University Medical Center and, of course, us. Vaccines delivered nasally are showing great promise and offering the potential of an entirely painfree method of vaccine delivery. We’re using biomodeling to create computer models of the nasal cavity, and then we’ll produce physical models via rapid prototyping and rapid tooling techniques.
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Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny medical devices
Imagine a tiny device that could reside in the body of a diabetic, monitoring blood sugar levels, delivering proper doses of insulin, and freeing patients from finger pricks and insulin injections. This is the kind of scenario that inspired biomedical engineering researchers at the University of North Carolina and a non-profit association to collaborate with our industrial and systems engineering department to develop medical microsystems. The miracle is years away, but progress is being made daily.
Partners Section
Two heads are definitely better than one
Corporations. Government. Associations. Other schools and universities. Our department collaborates with literally dozens of organizations to advance the field of industrial and systems engineering with funded research.
Some of the organizations are as close as Centennial Campus – our research and advanced technology community where university, industry and government partners interact. Some are down the block, across town, in other parts of the state, country or world.
And some are listed here.
- Government agencies including the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Army, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Companies and foundations including Barr-Mullin, Inc.; Medical Decision Modeling, Inc.; Progress Energy Services; SAS Institute, Inc.; Furniture Foundation, Inc.; and the National Textile Center
- Texas Tech University – our partner on a research project funded by NASA
- UNC-Chapel Hill and East Carolina University – our partners on research projects funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
- Duke University – our partner on a project funded by the National Institute of Health
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