ISE VIEWBOOK 2019

Industrial Systems engineers engineers make things make better BETTER. THINGS. CONTENTS

1 Dedication 2 Student Album: Liftoff

RESEARCH: SYSTEMS AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING The Department of Industrial 4 The 2 Wings of ISE and Enterprise Systems Engi- 6 It’s Getting Easier to Be Green neering (ISE) at the University 7 Tracking Epidemics and “Good Infections” of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 8 Waiting Rooms in Cyberspace innovates the engineering 9 Just What the Doctor Ordered discipline with forward-think- 10 Balancing Acts ing research and scientific STUDENT NEWS discoveries; serves education, industry, and society; educates 11 Research Experience for Undergrads a new generation of leaders 12 Alex Wittinger: Born to block 13 Excellence in Teaching in general, systems, industrial, 14 ISE @ IISE-Orlando and financial engineering. 15 Alex Darragh: The blue and orange rocket 16 Student Album: At home and abroad

ALUMNI NEWS ISE Student Viewbook is edited by William Gillespie. Additional photography by Heidi 18 Brian Truesdale Craddock, Thompson McClellan, and L. Brian 19 Koji Intlekofer Stauffer. Illustration and design by Miriam 20 Tracey Meares Martincic. 21 Michael O’Connor and Laura Albert Readers, alumni, students: contact us at: [email protected] 22 Senior Engineering Projects The University of Illinois is an equal oppor- 24 S.E.P. Poster Winners tunity, affirmative action institution. Printed 25 Student Awards on recycled paper with soy-based ink. 12.038 26 Graduates

28 Contact 29 T2: Transportation Transformation

Recognize this building? Turn to page 29. In this building, in the fires of calculus and caffeine, engineers were minted and sent forth to conduct the world.

ISE Class of 2019, cleared for liftoff!

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 1 2 STUDENTS Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 3 The 2 WINGS of BY DOUG PETERSON ISE T’S EASY TO MISS when you enter the Transportation Build- ing on Mathews Av- Ienue, the home of ISE. But if you look closely, you’ll see images of railroads on the walls and railings. As you approach the main entrance, direct your eyes to the roofline, and you’ll see 4 winged loco- motive wheels carved in stone, with 2 more winged wheels on the north side of the building and 1 on the south. Even the hand- rails on the banisters in- side carry the design of a train wheel.

4 RESEARCH Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois The railroad imagery is there because the De- catch-phrases help to distinguish between the 2 partment of Railway Engineering was once housed wings. in the Transportation Building. Today, the railway Systems engineers make better things. department is long gone, and the Transportation Industrial engineers make things better. Building is now home to ISE. But these symbols are In other words, systems engineers develop new a reminder that technology is constantly evolving systems and new ways of doing things, while indus- and so are departments, including ISE. trial engineers take existing systems and improve ISE’s last major transformation came in the them at a new level. spring of 2006, when the College of Engineering “Think of it this way,” Kim says. “If you have a

Systems engineers make better THINGS. Industrial engineers make things BETTER.

decided to combine the Department of General gas-powered engine, industrial engineers will find Engineering (established in 1952) with the college’s ways to improve it.” Systems engineers might go industrial engineering program. Like the 2 wings in an entirely new direction, developing an engine depicted on the building’s locomotive wheels, this using renewable energy. merger brought together 2 important realms of The following stories focus on research from both engineering—industrial engineering and systems wings of the department—systems engineering engineering. (making better things) and industrial engineering “When I was thinking of coming to Illinois, there (making things better). However, some of the profes- was chatter about this brand-new department called sors featured in these stories, such as Carolyn Beck, ISE,” recalls Harrison Kim, an ISE professor. “So, as I split their research between systems and industrial was considering options for my career, I knew that engineering. Illinois was a top engineering program, and now According to Beck, “Optimization is a big part of they were creating a new department. When would ISE’s work—trying to make things perform as well I have an opportunity like this again?” as they can. For instance, we have people looking Kim joined ISE in 2005 as one of the inaugural at optimization in respect to financial process, and members of the new department, and he never that was fairly original. looked back. “The department is going in a lot of new direc- There is a lot of overlap between both parts tions,” she adds. But continual change is precisely of ISE—systems engineering and industrial en- what makes a dynamic system. It’s also what makes gineering—but Kim says that the department’s a dynamic department.

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 5 REEN IS THE COLOR of both money will emit 1.3 kilograms equivalent of CO2 over the and the environment, but the 2 are not equipment’s lifespan, while another design will emit mutually exclusive, says Harrison Kim, 1.5 kilograms equivalent. GISE professor. For the past 14 years at What’s more, Kim’s system makes it possible to Illinois, Kim’s lab has been pioneering and refining do this calculation in minutes. a methodology that helps manufacturers design “An analysis that used to take 6 months to do now machines and devices that are both profitable and takes only 6 minutes,” he says. more environmentally sustainable. This groundbreaking methodology earned Kim

“Our team calls it Green Profit Design,” Kim says. “Companies need to be green and make money at the same time.” It’s Getting Easier to “Our team calls it Green Profit Design,” Kim says. a John Deere Supplier Innovation Award in 2015—a “When companies go green simply to boost their major award that the company had never given to a Be Green public image, it’s not going to work. Companies university research partner before. Each week, Kim’s need to be green and make money at the same time.” team has a conference call with Deere managers to Kim’s methodology can be talk about product development used for designing products of and manufacturing from the all types, from cellphones that fit perspective of environmental in your pocket to large-scale farm sustainability. machinery and even airplanes. In fact, Kim’s Green “Every product generates an environmental Profit Design has been embraced by John Deere, footprint over its lifespan,” Kim says. Therefore, the farm machinery giant known for its green-col- his methodology takes into account energy con- ored equipment. Deere product designers use sumption over a product’s life, and it even factors Kim’s methodology to calculate in energy used during the manufacturing process. the environmental impact of a machine over its entire lifespan. READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: “Our methodology can calcu- ise.illinois.edu/newsroom late a machine’s global-warming potential, or GWP,” he says. For instance, their system might Harrison Kim determine that 1 machine design

6 RESEARCH Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Tracking Epidemics and “Good Infections”

Carolyn Beck has been probing how epidemic processes work, and her models can be applied EASLES WAS OFFICIALLY erad- icated from the United States in 2000, to diseases of all types, as well as to computer and yet 2019 has emerged as the worst viruses or even the spread of “fake news.” Myear for measles outbreaks in 25 years. For the past 6 years, ISE professor Carolyn Beck has been probing how epidemic processes work, and her models can be applied to diseases of all the spread of a tweet on a social network. What’s more dynamic model, in which the population is types, as well as to computer viruses or even the more, marketing people can use these models to constantly changing and moving. spread of “fake news.” track the dissemination of their products. “My greatest pride is in my students—where “Our epidemic models are based on network “Marketers want to know the parameters under they have gone and what they have done,” Beck structures,” Beck says. “Humans form what are called which they can be assured their idea or product says. For example, some of her students work on human contact networks. So will rapidly disseminate over a network,” she says. “clustering algorithms,” which break Big Data into we’ve been looking at how epi- For them, the spread of their product is a type of more manageable subgroups. After researching demics spread on these human “good infection.” clustering algorithms in Beck’s lab, some of her networks, which are constantly Beck says that over the years numerous research students went on to apply these techniques at changing. Also, we consider papers have analyzed these kinds of network pro- Facebook and Amazon. how interconnected different cesses, but in most cases the scenarios being studied In a sense, her students form a dynamic network people are and how strong their are static. But Beck is looking at dynamic networks all their own, spreading the influence of what they Carolyn Beck connections are.” that are constantly morphing over time—such as accomplished at Beck’s lab all across the country— Although this work focuses on disease epidemics, an ever-changing disease process. another example of a “good infection.” Beck says the models can be used with many other In the past, she points out, if you had a static processes that spread and evolve over network network and the ratio of the infection rate to the READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: structures. For instance, computer viruses. healing rate was less than 1, than you could safely ise.illinois.edu/newsroom Beck’s epidemic models can even be applied to say the disease will eventually leave the system. But the spread of opinions over a network, as well as her team is looking at how that ratio holds up in a

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 7 Stolyar is one of the country’s leading experts in the stability of queues, or jobs lined up to be processed by servers.

His algorithms also deal with “stochastic bin packing.” As he explains, some jobs being sent out to servers in the cloud may require a lot of memory but little processing power. Other jobs may require the exact opposite—a lot of processing power but little memory. Thus, the jobs coming in have different “sizes,” so the question is how to fit the right job with the right server. It’s like packing bins, he says, and hence the name. Waiting Rooms in Cyberspace “It’s a classical mathematical problem,” adds Stolyar, who tackled similar problems while working at Bell Labs in New Jersey from 1998 to 2014. One of his colleagues there was Qiong Wang, now also an ISE professor who works in the office right next door to him in MAGINE A DOCTOR’S waiting room with “In cloud computing, I look at how to process large the Transportation Building on people coming and going throughout the day. amounts of data,” Stolyar says. Thousands of servers the Illinois campus. Ironically, Quoing Wang “Stability” means that at any given time, you in a cloud system accept jobs from computers, so Stolyar and Wang never directly Imight have 3 or 4 people waiting to see the the problem is getting the system to distribute these collaborated at Bell Labs, but at Illinois they have doctor, maybe even five. But if the patients begin to jobs in an efficient way. This is known as a resource been working together on some classical problems back up, filling the room so there isn’t a spare seat or allocation problem. With all of the data flooding in inventory theory. magazine to go around, then you’ve got problems. the servers in the cloud, how do you dynamically They have completed the proof of concept, and This is an unstable system, says distribute the workload in the simplest and most he says, “Now we have big plans on how to make Alexander Stolyar, ISE professor. effective way? the new inventory control algorithm practical.” This is also a picture of the Stolyar has a solution to this problem, and he kind of work that Stolyar has calls it “pull-based algorithms.” READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: been pursuing for most of his Pull-based algorithms make it possible for servers ise.illinois.edu/newsroom 30-year career, only the “waiting to tell the router, or dispatcher, to send them the rooms” in his research are mostly load. The servers “pull” the jobs to themselves, rather Alexander Stolyar in cyberspace. than wait for the router to “push” the load to them.

8 RESEARCH Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois NYONE WHO REGULARLY watches moved between units within a hospital. medical dramas on TV knows the drill. In As Wooldridge explains, handoffs are a dou- Just What the chaos of an emergency, doctors fire ble-edged sword. “On the positive side, when you Aoff orders right and left as a team gath- have a new group of people starting to take care of the Doctor ers around the patient. In the very first episode of a patient, they might realize something was missed, the TV show Grey’s Anatomy, for instance, a patient or they may have a new perspective on what should Ordered suddenly goes into convulsions, and the doctor happen for a patient that could improve the quality snaps, “Phenobarbital! Load her with phenobarbital!” of care.” No dosage is mentioned—a big mistake, ac- But there are also risks. Information can be lost cording to a doctor analyzing this particular Grey’s or missed during handoffs. For example, she says,

Wooldridge specializes in studying team communication in all types of medical scenarios.

Abigail Woolridge

Anatomy scene in an online show. What’s more, he a clinician might forget to tell the new team that a says that in a real situation, the nurse would’ve re- patient needs a certain dose of a medication. peated the exact dose to make sure communication To study transitions between an operating room was clearly received. and an intensive care unit, Wooldridge is working Medical shows aren’t expected to be 100-per- with the Jump Simulation Center in Peoria. The cent accurate, but in a real-world setting, this kind center has life-sized simulation rooms of both an of team communication must be clear and coor- operating room and an intensive-care unit. dinated, or the consequences can be fatal, says “It’s a high-fidelity simulation,” she says. “It’s a Abigail Wooldridge, an ISE professor. Wooldridge setting that looks like a real operating room and a specializes in studying team communication in real intensive care unit.” all types of medical scenarios; in fact, she recently “If we can improve this really important part of launched a pilot project that examines teamwork their care—the transition—then we can save lives.” during hospital handoffs. Handoffs are when the authority, responsibility, READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: and information about a patient are transferred from ise.illinois.edu/newsroom one set of clinicians to another. This can happen at shift changes, when patients are moved from one health care facility to another, or when they are

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 9 N 2018, THE Chinese e-commerce gi- store. Chen’s mathematical models balance inven- ant, JD.com, announced its new mascot—a tory so companies such as JD.com can meet online large-headed, big-hearted dog named Joy. The orders, while still making sure there is enough food Iannouncement even came complete with a de- on the shelves for those who come to the physical Balancing lightful, Pixar-style, animated short film,Joy Story, in store. He points out that companies try especially Acts which the dog tries to prevent a heron from stealing hard to keep in-store customers happy because

Chen’s mathematical models balance inventory so companies can meet online orders, while keeping physical stores stocked.

his master’s fishing worms from the they might make additional purchases boat. When the dog realizes the her- while visiting the store. on only wants the worms to feed her Chen’s lab also develops mathe- chicks, he welcomes her back for more. matical models of customer behav- You might say that Joy, faced the ior—systems to maximize revenue kind of inventory management prob- by modeling the choices made by lem that ISE professor Xin Chen has customers. His team combines data been helping the Chinese company Joy appears courtesy of JD.com. from companies with publicly available tackle in his research. data to put their models to the test. Joy had to make sure there were enough worms “Currently, companies use simple models, but for his master to use for fishing, while still letting the we’re trying to look at more accurate, more complex heron fly off with some in her beak. In the real world models,” he says. “Hopefully, these models can better of business, Chen has been developing mathematical capture customer behavior and companies will be models that can help JD.com do something quite interested in using them.” similar—balance the inventory of He says models with greater complexity make its new stores, known as 7 Fresh, sense because, after all, “Human beings are quite so it can meet the needs of both complex.” online and in-store purchases. People can use an app to READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: order fresh food to be delivered ise.illinois.edu/newsroom from the 7 Fresh stores, but they Xin Chen can also drop in and buy at the

10 RESEARCH Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Research Experience for Undergraduates Program

OBJECTIVE: In keeping with our legacy of hands-on, project-based, real-world experience, the purpose of the REU program is to: Undergraduate research squad Yangjie Wang, Ziyang Liu, Mingquian Wu, Ibidat Chatha, and Bill Ayung, ready for action. 1. Expose top undergraduate students to research practice FALL 2018 2. Encourage ISE faculty to engage Ibadat Singh Chatha Ibadat Singh Chatha Faculty Advisor: Girish Krishnan Faculty Advisor: Girish Krishnan undergraduate students in research Elizabeth T. Ramos Project: Design of a Robust Berry Project: Design of a Robust Berry early in their academic career. Faculty Advisor: Richard Sowers Picking Manipulator and Gripper Picking Manipulator and Gripper This year, students produced breakthrough Project: IoT Air Quality projects, and presented them at numerous Monitoring for Health Kamea Williams Yanjie Wang venues in Illinois and beyond. Faculty Advisor: Pingfeng Wang Faculty Advisor: James Allison RuthAnn Haefli Project: Design of an intelligent battery Project: Design of a Low-cost, Faculty Advisor: Abigail Wooldridge management system (BMS) for Versatile Wind-Turbine Tower Project: Comparing Care Transition enhanced electric vehicle safety Outcomes in Pediatric and Ziyang Liu Adult Trauma Patients Mingqian Wu Faculty Advisor: Ruoyu Sun Faculty Advisor: Alexandra Chronopoulou Project: Solving Large Scale Wasserstein Project: Analyzing volatility risk Distance Minimization Problem SPRING 2019 in option contracts

Bill Morgan Minoru Agung William C. Jones Faculty Advisor: Lavanya Marla Faculty Advisor: James Allison Project: Performance Evaluation Models Project: Generative Design of Heatsinks Elizabeth Ramos presenting her REU Project at Illini ISE Days at the Big 10 Center in Chicago. Right: a Raspberry Pi 3–Model B for Emergency Medical Services for Additive Manufacturing from her project on air quality monitoring.

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 11 Photos courtesy of Illinois Athletics.

Alex Wittinger (BSSED 2019): Born to block

BY PATTI GOOD to play in the WNBA. If that falls through, she as Wittinger’s academic advisor. hopes to play ball overseas after she completes When asked about her time at Illinois, Wit- Her name is Alex Wittinger. her degree. She has an agent, but because of tinger had this to say, “My time at the University Track, Volleyball, Basketball. She’s a whiz at all school commitments until January, she will of Illinois has been incredible. I’m grateful for 3. By the time her senior season ended, she had have to wait to see where she might land with a all the people that were willing to help me with set the University of Illinois’ Women’s Basketball European team. She continues to rigorously train my journey as a student athlete as it’s not been all-time Blocked Shots record, surpassing the total so she’ll be ready for that call. an easy road, but it has been one of the most set by the dynamic Karisma Penn—no small feat, In an interview with Wittinger, she said she rewarding experiences in my life.” to be sure. She set the record even after injuring found the pairing of engineering and basketball The Department of Industrial and Enterprise her right ankle late in the season. difficult because of the extraordinary effort it Systems Engineering would like to congratulate She’s majoring in ISE with a secondary field takes for both disciplines. She said she learned the accomplishments of senior, Alex Wittinger. in environmental quality. Wittinger, a Delano, humility along the way as she had to ask for help We look forward to your continued awesomeness Minnesota native, is truly an apple that doesn’t to stay on track with her studies. She’d like to on and off the court. fall far from the tree as her father and brother thank her coaches, parents, academic support are also mechanical engineers. staff at ISE, CARE, and the tutors at the Irwin While her college hoops days are behind her Academic Center. She’d also like to give a shout now, Wittinger is still hopeful she’ll be recruited out to our very own, Heidi Craddock, who acted

12 RESEARCHSTUDENTS Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Excellence

in Teaching 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ Here are a few of the honors Rahul Swamy (PhDIE) presented a poster with Doug- our instructors received las King and Sheldon Jacobson, which won the first place at the INFORMS poster competition! Their this academic year and the paper on “Political Districting with Fairness Objec- popular classes they taught. tives” also received Honorable Mention in the Public Sector Operations Research Best paper award.

SHARP TEACHING AWARD ISE DEPARTMENT HEAD’S Jugal Garg TEACHING AWARD Doug King Rahim Hudda Fall and Winter 2018: SED freshman and aerospace aficionado Rahim Hudda TEACHERS RANKED AS EXCELLENT BY THEIR STUDENTS received his first co-op offer for this summer/fall—impressive for a first-semester freshman! He got an offer from Rock- INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING well-Collins who was just bought by UTC (which was his dream company). He got offered the co-op/internship after inter- Alexandra Chronopoulou Joe Barich viewing, pretty much on-the-spot. Congratulations, Rahim! IE 400 SE 400 Design & Analysis of Engineering Law Experiments (See ISE Annual Report 2017)

Liming Feng Carolyn Beck IE 430 SE 524 Economic Foundation of System Identification Quality Systems IE 522 S. Rasoul Etesami NeurIPS Conference, Statistical Methods in SE 320 Palais des Congrès Finance Control Systems de Montréal Harrison Kim Henrique Reis Graduate students Vipul Satone IE 513 SE 412 Optimal System Design Nondestructive Evaluation (MS IE) and Rachneet Kaur (PhDIE) had papers in a highly competi- Vipul Satone Doug King Pingfeng Wang tive Neural Information Process- IE 412 SE 450 ing Systems (NIPS) Workshop. Operations Research Models Decision Analysis I for Manufacturing Systems “Learning the progression and clinical subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease from longitudinal clinical Harry Wildblood data”, by Vipul Satone, Rachneet Kaur, Faraz R.S. Sreenivas SE 494 Faghri, Mike A Nalls, Andrew B Singleton and Roy IE 523 Senior Engineering Project Campbell, NeurIPS 2018, Machine Learning for Financial Computing Health (ML4H) Workshop, Dec 2018.

Sasha Stolyar Rachneet Kaur IE 598 Queueing Systems

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 13 IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2019 in Orlando, Florida

With a booth, a social event, and students Nirmal Prakash Nirmal Prakash, presenting in the mix presenting presenting at the “Modeling Wi-Fi Signal Inter- 2019 Engineering ference for Municipal Wire- posters, papers, and Research Fair on less Network Planning” at the “Alexa, turn on my IISE Undergraduate Student Senior Engineering dishwasher later.” Technical Paper session at the IISE Annual Conference and Projects, ISE was Expo 2019 in Orlando, Florida. all in at IISE this year.

Zach Hinderman, Rachel Berg and at the Capstone Megan Elliott, at Poster Presen- the Capstone Post- tation at the IISE er Presentation Annual Confer- at the IISE Annual ence and Expo Conference and 2019 in Orlando, Expo 2019 in Florida, present- Orlando, Florida, ing a poster for presenting a post- their Senior En- er for their Senior gineering Project Engineering Proj- “Resource Sched- ect “Supply Chain uling for Produc- Analysis for ERP tivity Improve- Operations and ment Phase II.’’ Cost-Effective Pro- duction Support.”

14 RESEARCHSTUDENTS Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Alex Darragh: The blue and orange rocket

BY PATTI GOOD students from around the world to submit de-

signs of projects they could take with them to Dan Herber James Allison SED junior, Alex Darragh, has entered the right the moon.” Alex and his teammates designed a career. Growing up, he became increasingly miniature greenhouse that could possibly grow concerned about the effects of climate change; plants in lunar soil—real lunar soil—directly from from there, his concerns became a calling. NASA’s Johnson Space Center. That prototype and Dan Herber (PhDSEE 2017) Currently an intern at SpaceX at Cape Canaveral, their research led to them being selected as 1 of Florida, Alex Darragh has to be hush-hush on 14 teams out of 3000 that got to present in India; Joins Colorado State just exactly what he’s do- once there, they were 1 of BY PATTI GOOD ing there. But SpaceX isn’t 6 teams that advanced. Dan Herber has completed his postdoc at the only Elon Musk com- No matter what he ISE, and has left Illinois to become an Assis- pany Darragh has spent does with his degree, 1 of tant Professor at Colorado State University. time with; twice, he has the main focuses of Alex’s It will probably be strange walking the halls of another school as Dan has spent 11 years in orange and interned at Tesla, where career will be the environ- blue; after all, his whole wardrobe will have to change he worked in the world ment. “My dream project to green, gold, and white. But Dan will have no problem renowned “Gigafactory”. would be inventing a new fitting in at the CSU engineering department thanks There, he was part of the product that in some way to his achievements: two-time honorable mention recipient in the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Automation Control’s En- lowers our GHG emissions Program; nominee for the Best Paper Award from gineering team; he wrote and hence helps us ad- the Design Automation Committee; among others. ladder logic code to con- dress man-made climate Dan says he will miss working with Professor James trol industrial automation. change.” Allison and the diversity among students at ISE. But when did the love READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: of engineering start? Ac- READ THE FULL ise.illinois.edu/newsroom cording to Alex, it began ARTICLES ONLINE: when he participated in ise.illinois.edu/newsroom the “Team Indus” Google Lunar Xprize competition his freshmen year of col- lege. “The company invited ISE’S Most Wanted Paul Couston’s startup Opti- “If you look up into the world around us volt is taking off (see ISE View- book 2018). But his degree you’ll find excellent engineering saving awaits him. C’mon, Paul, I need to move you from student to lives, improving living conditions, and alumni news! Whether as ISE making our world a better place.” alumnus or career-undergrad, I salute your success!— William

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 15 16 STUDENTS Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 17 Brian BY ZACK FISHMAN President at Marmon , a Berkshire Hathaway-owned industrial conglomerate. Brian Truesdale, the president of Marmon Food- As a member of the ISE Alumni Board, he informs Truesdale service Technologies and an ISE alumnus, stays highly the department about the reality and demands of engaged with the Urbana-Champaign campus. He industry so as to better prepare students for their BSGE 1994: participates in the ISE Engineer in Residence program careers. Through his company, he has sponsored regularly, holds season tickets for football and has a several senior design projects much like the one he son studying Systems Engineering and Design as he worked on so many years ago, giving seniors a taste An engineer did years before. He was recently on campus to share of being professional engineers. leading in business his career experience with students as an Engineer “The senior design project program is, to me, the In Residence and had a chance to share his story as best I’ve seen in the country,” he says. “It’s real-world an Illini and business leader. engineering work, and we end up getting a direct ben- Before he became president over a group of 5 efit from having invested that money into the project, industrial companies with revenues exceeding $300 so more often than not, we see 5, 10, sometimes 20 million, Truesdale was a student in General Engineer- times our investment returned. It’s amazing to see ing, during which time he worked on redesigning what a small student team can do in a matter of 3 or

“I can honestly say that I wouldn’t be where I am without my Illinois engineering degree.”

the process of polishing pans for cookware company 4 months and have a real impact on the company.” Revere Ware as a senior design project. Since gradua- “We love sponsoring these projects and want tion, Truesdale has largely taken on leadership roles to continue to do it for as long as we can,” he adds. in businesses across several industries yet attests to Truesdale shows appreciation and admiration of the the usefulness of his degree, particularly because of ISE program, praising its help in his own life and those its many specialization options. of its many other graduates. “I was hired because I “I developed a specialization in engineering man- had an engineering degree from Illinois, and I was agement, which is more of a business slant to engineer- hired by a company that recognized the breadth of ing—how do you optimize business processes, how skills and problem solving that the ISE program do you simplify manufacturing, how do you manage uniquely provides.” product development?” Truesdale said. “The degree helped my career path going into senior leadership roles in product development and manufacturing.” He assumed such roles throughout his career in several general management positions at Illinois Tool Works, a Fortune 500 company, and as Sector

18 ALUMNI Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Koji Intlekofer BSGE 2006:

Spreading healthcare through innovation

The Shift Labs team. From left: Claire Storck, Chie Kawahara, Beth Kolko, Koji Intlekofer, Molly Blank, Ariana Marcassa Kim, Michael Connolly.

BY ZACK FISHMAN The DripAssist began as a prototype by Beth Kolko, says. “We were running out of money, and to do that a professor at the University of Washington and with a medical device—I don’t know if stupid is the In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dozens co-founder of Shift Labs. Intlekofer joined the team right word, but hard.” of people have died from frequent Ebola outbreaks. as a fellow co-founder, where he used his technical Shift Labs received the funding and FDA approval The disease requires precise intravenous (IV) fluid expertise to design the device for manufacturing and and has since marketed the product for international infusion, but the field hospitals in the affected area organize with the necessary suppliers. use, private clinics and at-home elderly care. aren’t properly equipped to ensure accurate and safe After a particularly hands-on assembly process— “You could say our mission statement is to bring treatment of Ebola patients. Starting in 2016, this “we built the first 500 or 1000 by hand in our office, health care equality to the masses and improve health problem was solved by a device released with the help literally till our fingers split,” Intlekofer says—Shift care equity,” he says. “Everybody should have health- of an ISE alumnus. Labs sold its first DripAssist in 2015 to the veterinary care, and everyone should have the tools and their Koji Intlekofer, the Chief Technology Officer of market, where regulations were less stringent. To disposal to provide good healthcare.” Shift Labs, was a leader in developing and marketing release the product in the medical field as intended, DripAssist, a battery-powered device that monitors IV however, the startup’s invention needed FDA approval, READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: drips at high precision. The palm-sized electronic slides which is costly. Shift Labs subsequently turned to Y ise.illinois.edu/newsroom onto an IV line and counts individual drops, displaying Combinator, a prominent seed accelerator, for support. the drip rate with an error of under 1 percent. “I knew they had a lot of valuable resources, so I convinced my founder that we should apply,” Intlekofer

“You could say our mission statement is to bring health care equality to the masses and improve health care equity.”

The Drip Assist.

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 19 Tracey Meares BSGE 1988:

Yale professor promotes procedural Justice

BY DOUG PETERSON justice system. of her undergraduate years—either law school or “If you ask most people, ‘Would you rather be yelled medical school. Tracey Meares still remembers the day she was driv- at and called every kind of name and then not get a “I have no regrets about choosing law over med- ing through the heart of Chicago with her 3 young ticket, or get a ticket and be treated respectfully, most icine,” Meares says. “My sister is a doctor, and I can children in the back seat of her van. In the process people will choose the latter,” she says. “They care pretty much play a doctor on TV. And I now have the of responding to her 3 kids—a baby, toddler, and six- more about how they’re treated than the outcome.” best job in the world, which is to be a law professor at year-old—she inadvertently rolled through a stop sign. Meares’ work on procedural justice with her col- the best place in the world to do it—Yale Law School.” Suddenly: flashing lights. She was pulled over by league, Tom R. Tyler, has brought her to the forefront of the Chicago police. research and debates about police encounters with the READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: The encounter turned out to be positive, because public. She has been a law professor at Yale University ise.illinois.edu/newsroom the police officer allowed her to explain, and he even since 2007 and is Yale Law’s first African-American let her off with a warning. woman to receive tenure. She also served on President Today, Meares works on fairness in the criminal Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing, and she justice system, and this incident underscores 1 of the runs Yale’s Justice Collaboratory with Tyler. 4 key elements of “procedural justice.” The first pillar Her degree in General Engineering (now called of procedural justice is the desire to be heard by a Systems Engineering and Design) gave her the skills police officer or other representatives of the criminal to set the stage for a crossroads decision at the end

“We found that when it comes to the fairness of legal authorities, people care about 4 things.”

4 elements of fairness from Meares’ and Tyler’s research: 1.) Voice, 2.) Dignity, 3.) Neutrality, and 4.) Motives of the decision-maker.

20 ALUMNI Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Michael BY MADELEINE HUBBARD In 1969, O’Connor graduated with his O’Connor bachelors in Industrial Engineering, focusing in OR. Following graduation, PhDME 1986: O’Connor went to work for the US Air Force as an engineer at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. Engineering Explaining why he chose his career to save lives path, O’Connor says, “I felt kind of a responsibility to help the government. I was draft deferred and I wasn’t going to go to Vietnam but I thought I could still help support the government by working for the air Laura Albert force or the army.” In 1974 O’Connor and his family was transferred back PhDIE 2006: to Champaign. O’Connor began working for the US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab (CERL). Operations Research Eventually, O’Connor was able to take what he describes as or die a year “sabbatical from work” and complete his PhD in 1986. By 1996, O’Connor became the director of CERL. 2 Laura Albert, PhD, is the Assistant Dean for Grad- years later, O’Connor was reassigned to Washington, DC uate Affairs in the College of Engineering and an and became the director of research and development for Associate Professor of Industrial & Systems Engi- the US Army Corps of Engineers. neering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of the major projects conducted by a Laboratory that Her research interests are in the field of opera- tions research, with a particular focus on discrete O’Connor oversaw was the renovation of the Pentagon. He optimization with application to homeland says they, “were rehabilitating the Pentagon and putting in security and emergency response problems. blast resistant windows and improved structural components Dr. Albert’s research has been supported by in the exterior shell.” When the Pentagon was attacked on NSF, DHS, and the Department of the Army, Sandia National Laboratory. She has authored 9/11, the plane crashed between the section that had been or co-authored more than 50 publications in rehabilitated with extra safety measures and a section that archival journals and refereed proceedings. had not. Her research has been awarded several O’Connor says, “The difference between how the 2 honors, including 4 best paper awards, a Na- tional Science Foundation CAREER award, preformed was quite significant…. There were people in and a Department of the Army Young Inves- offices that had been rehabilitated with hardening and tigator Award. Dr. Albert is the INFORMS these windows who survived since the fireball didn’t come Vice President for Marketing, Communica- through the windows…” tion, and Outreach. She is the author of the blog “Punk Rock Operations Research.” From the mosh pit, we salute you Dr. Albert! READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: ise.illinois.edu/newsroom READ THE FULL ARTICLES ONLINE: Top: Aerial View of Chanute Air Force Base, 1981, ise.illinois.edu/newsroom courtesy of the Urbana Free Library

Bottom: A peaceful quad as the band Feather Train plays.

Bottom inset: National Guard Troops by the Illini Union, circa 1970, courtesy of the University of Illinois Archives.

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 21 SENIOR ENGINEERING PROJECTS

FALL 2018 Angelica Czarnecka Julian Electric Co. Inc. Principal Global Investors Sir Lathan Wynn Heat Shrink Process Design Principal Portfolio Strategies Arbor Investments and Optimization Model Mapping Logistics Operation Expansion Danville Metal Stamping Yumeng Li, Advisor Richard Sowers, Advisor for Subway Product Line Company, Inc. Fiona Kalensky Kathleen Hu Lavanya Marla, Advisor Turbine Blade Hole QC Lawrence Romangsuriat Riya Sanjay Brady DePratt Methods Improvement Ashwin Udayaprakash Ross Sinar Rasika Deshmukh Rasoul Etesami, Advisor Ashwath Srinivas Sriram Katragadda Vincent Hoff Mayco Industries Ann Murphy Thomas Riegler Resource Scheduling for Principal Global Investors Chi Zhang Productivity Improvement Phase II Principal Portfolio Strategies Chief Enterprises, Inc. Jugal Garg, Advisor Portfolio What-If Analysis Automotive Fuse/Relay Harger Lightning & Grounding Mia Alvergue Xin Chen, Advisor Block Seal Assembly Wire Lug Crimping Tool Zachary Hinderman Zack Jin Troubleshooting for Economic Production New Product Design Josie Stawinoga Sanjit Narendra Dan Thompson, Advisor Henrique L. M. dos Reis, Advisor Tongbo Zhao Roman Ordonez Jakub Lewandowski Mateus de Camargo Jonas Siyi Zhang Kevin Malinis Frances Ponicki Mayco Industries Rafael Razo Dominic Rossi Improved Lead-Brass Separation Plastipak Packaging Inc. Methods for Increased Profitability Optimization of Temporary Clifford-Jacobs John Deere Technology Alexandra Chronopoulou, Advisor Worker Utilization in Mixed Forging Co., Inc. Innovation Center Alison (Danrong) Li Production Environment Ergonomic Forging Manipulator Tango Autonomous Mower Mary Ponicki Ruoyu Sun, Advisor Design and Development Path Planning Algorithm Siyuan Xiong Haley Anderson Carolyn Beck, Advisor Improvement, Phase II Xueying Yu Maxwel Cichon Calvin Brubaker Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Advisor Zachary Harris Derek Grant Shaan Bhakta Nexstep Commercial Products Erik Nelson Theresa Ponicki Daniel Hill Supply Chain Analysis for Xinhang Li ERP Operation and Cost- Prince Castle, LLC Cornelius (2018-FA) Rikin Mehta Effective Production Support Assembly Process Optimization Viper Assembly Improvement Qiong Wang, Advisor Through New Technologies for Increased Efficiency John Deere Technology Rachel Berg Scott A. Burns, Advisor Aleksandr Stolyar, Advisor Innovation Center Megan Elliott Robert Dargatz Michael Gary Tango Cutting Path Zhouyun Jin Min Soo Kim David Kim Map Development Steven Plutchak Bohan Li Ketan Patel Niao He, Advisor Emily Stanfield Kim Vatani Ibadat Chatha Nudo Products, Inc. (2018-FA) Feiyang Gu New Layout Development for Van Voorst Lumber Danville Metal Stamping Thomas Liu Improved Production Efficiency Wood Reel Production ERP/ Company, Inc. Chris Park Wayne J. Davis, Advisor MRP Analysis and Specification Ram EDM Tooling Fixture Benjamin Davis Harry S. Wildblood, Advisor Reset and Calibration Shaun Hurdelbrink Matthew Koscak Harrison Kim, Advisor Gabriel Suarez Huaze Li Sean Coltrin Daniel Yee Qinfeng Zhong Leticia Zhou

22 RESEARCHSTUDENTS Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois SPRING 2019 Chief Enterprises, Inc. Manor Tool & Mfg. Co. Prince Castle, LLC New Plant Location Improved Space Utilization Toaster Design for Efficient Just- Arbor Investments Optimization Analysis to Balance Production with In-Time Restaurant Operation Logistics Operation Warehouse Scott A. Burns, Advisor Customer Requirements Carolyn Beck, Advisor Optimization for DPI Jack Lenihan Wayne J. Davis, Advisor Steven Gray Lavanya Marla, Advisor Jiahao Liu Anthony Alvizu David (Xinchen) Wang Daniel Black Jessica (Cheryl) Macklin Nicola Dama Andrew Xu Sinead DiStasio Meehika Patel Zechen Sun Simon Hong Tovala Harger Lightning & Grounding Pavlov Media Plant Layout for Production Caterpillar, Inc.— Hand Crimper/Cutter Fiber Optic Directional Drilling Expansion and Increased Efficiency Mapleton Foundry Design, Phase II and Installation Optimization Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Advisor Cylinder Project Line Simulation Henrique L. M. dos Reis, Advisor Qiong Wang, Advisor Sebastian Basuki for Vertical Integration Part Flow Dante Nava Jake Graham Ji Won Park Dan Thompson, Advisor Emir Sonmezler Andrew Peruba Amelia Snyder Owen Bloomfield Jacob Stone Stanley (Jiahao) Zhu Zhonghao Pan Gregory Tan Austin Truesdale Polaris Laboratories Grant Williams John Deere Technology Value Stream Mapping Innovation Center and Cost Reduction for Chem-Plate Industries, Inc. Autonomous Mower Coordination Incoming Sample Logging Heat Treating Total Productive for Fleet Mowing Harrison Kim, Advisor Maintenance Analysis Robert Norris, Advisor Haazib Awan and Optimization Kaila Day Raghav Mandhana Justin Sirignano, Advisor Oliver Dobon Max Petraitis Aldrin Matthew Alvarez Siobhan (Marie) Fox Binh Phung Alexandra Moxon Matthew Tune Vincent Wong Polyform Products Company John Deere Technology Sculpey® Packaging Integration Chem-Plate Industries, Inc. Innovation Center for Cost Reduction Plating Total Productive Tango Map Development for Harry S. Wildblood, Advisor Maintenance Analysis Internal Tango Storage Olivia Begley and Optimization Rasoul Etesami, Advisor Xinyi Li Jugal Garg, Advisor Arjit Jaiswal Eric Sandoval Daniel Ayala Ryan Lee Xinyu Wang Dhruv Gondalia Ailin Wang Henry McDonald Mitchell Muller Kwik-Wall Company Design of Reusable Chief Enterprises, Inc. Shipping Containers or BRIC/Microplex Demonstration Folding Wall Partitions Unit Design and Prototyping Molly Goldstein, Advisor Richard Sowers, Advisor Anne Fahey Charles Case Thomas Harrington Xiyu Chen Adam Heinz Grace Kelley John Nguyen

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 23 Plant Layout for Production Expansion and Increased Efficiency Student Team: Sebastian Basuki, Ji Won Park, Amelia Snyder Advisor: Prof. Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran

Problem Statement: Tovala transforms home cooking by pairing a meal subscription with a programmable steam oven. The company desires an analysis of their current meal-kit production process to: ! Increase weekly meal output and variety ! Decrease labor cost per meal by 10% ! Determine the maximum number of meals that can be produced before physical expansion S.E.P. Initial Analysis: ! 8 weekly rotational meal options ! 34 employees: 11 chefs and 23 kitchen porters POSTER ! All cooking done Wednesday – Saturday ! Kitchen is idle almost half the week Meal Generalization: WINNERS ! To simulate, weekly meals are broken into components and categorized Inventory occupies storage space and leads to Since 1961 our award-winning transportation waste. Proteins Senior Engineering Program has ! Chicken/Pork Reduce Waste Waiting doesn’t add value ! Salmon to the product, but Pavlov Media harnessed the team cognition of ! Pasta = overhead costs keep ! Meatballs Save Money growing. Group Members: Andy Peruba, ISE students to save companies Stanley Zhu, Jacob Graham ! Braised Meat Advisor: Qiong Wang Extra motion causes wear money. As part of the semes- Sides and tear over time, but doesn’t add value. Pavlov Overview Problem Statement ! Grains ter-long process, each team must ! Roast Vegetables •Internet service provider •Allocate tasks to utilize directional drill ! Mixed Stew •HQ in Champaign •Keep the drill running as much as possible compete in a poster competition. •Drill fiber to connect to homes and apartments •Drill 15,000 feet of fiber per week •Currently expanding their network in Illinois •Simulate alternative plan to prove results Here are the 3 winning posters. Garnishes Simulation: ! Sauce, Cheese, Seasoning, Nuts, Etc. ProModel’s Process Simulator used to simulate Initial Analysis Drill Route Graphic current production process and feasible solutions •Path of drill should be dug earlier Economic Analysis: •Drill team should be drilling all day Total Labor Hours •Number of potholers should increase 943.5hrs

Average Labor Cost Value Adding Activity Workflow $13.50 per person

Total Meals Produced Weekly 8,600 Meals Proposed Solution

•Separate teams by role

•Pre-dig drill paths Labor cost per meal Total labor hrs x Avg labor cost= Total meals produced $1.48 •Maximize drill utilization ! Potential Savings (10%): $0.14/meal •Dig a day in advance of drill Economic Analysis 2-year payback: 100 weeks, 8,600 meals/week Increase Revenue Decrease Cost per Foot Capture Market Project Budget: $120,400 3.3M 7.9M $5.51 $3.48 +2.5x Growth *Single Crew Value over 5 years *Includes Labor, Depreciation, *Increased Efficiency Results in and Material Costs Larger Growth

FIRST PLACE TEAM (Tovala) SECOND PLACE TEAM (Sculpey) Sebastian Basuki, Ji Won Park, Amelia Snyder. Olivia Begley, Xinyi Li, Eric Sandoval, Xinyu Wang.

THIRD PLACE TEAM (Pavlov) Jake Graham, Andrew Peruba, Stanley (Jiahao) Zhu.

24 RESEARCHSTUDENTS Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois * STUDENT AWARDS *

Richard N. Baxendale Alpha Pi Mottier Innovation Challenge Mu Outstanding Junior Award FIRST PLACE Simon Balisi Therapalz Jacob Ettleson Shaan Bhakta Fei Lin Fiona Kalensky Yuanbo Zhang SECOND PLACE Click Heels Students need William A. Chittenden Award Jason Chang Hossein Nick Zinat Matin Hanna Chen to understand Ethan Hoggard the dynamics Edward S. Fraser Award THIRD PLACE Elisabeth Martin Lend-a-Brella of a changing Chaitanya Maroju Siwen Wang world and L.C. Pigage Award Mia Alvergue HONORABLE MENTION Siobhan Fox Arctus Chaitanya Gulati ALWAYS Alexander Magganas The Freshman Award Allen Ni Rose Chiodo BE OPEN Alpha Pi Mu Outstanding Member Award to different The ISE Senior Service Award Siobhan Fox Emily Stanfield careers and Alpha Pi Mu Initiates opportunities The IISE Service Award Mia Alvergue | Treasurer 2018/19 Mia Alvergue | Vice President 2018/19, Treasurer 2018 Rachel Berg Rachel Berg | Treasurer 2018/19, Secretary 2017/18 Siobhan Fox | Vice President 2018, President 2019 that they may Shaan Bhakta | President 2017/18, Social Chair 2018/19 Vincent Hoff | President 2018 Josie Stawinoga | Vice President-2017/18, Mentorship Chair 2018 Alison Li not have even Bohan Li Raghav Mandhana | Vice President 2019 imagined when ISE Distinguished Alumnus Award Meehika Patel | Secretary 2018/19 Phil Ryan Frances Ponicki in college. Mary Ponicki Theresa Ponicki Riya Sanjay Qinfeng Zhong

—Ron Fogle BSIE 1973

Many thanks to the Donors, Alumni, and Faculty for your unwavering support of the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering.

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 25 BACHELOR’S NEW DEGREES

ISE AUGUST 2018 GRADUATES Sean David Christopher Coltrin Xinyi Li Benjamin Roy Davis Jiahao Liu Industrial Engineering Derek L. Grant Raghav Sampat Mandhana Jingtian Zhou Vincent Gabriel Hoff Henry T. McDonald Fiona Eileen Kalensky Alexandra Lee Moxon ALUMNI Systems Engineering Sriram Katragadda Ann Deirdre Murphy and Design David Hyonseo Kim Sanjit Narendra Matthew R. Duncan Jakub Piotr Lewandowski Zhonghao (Erik) Pan Jeong Hu Lee Kevin Carl Cruz Malinis Ji Won Park Chris Heejun Park Ketan Rameshbhai Patel DECEMBER 2018 GRADUATES Rafael Razo Meehika Mehul Patel Paige Lorayne Sekely Max L. Petraitis Industrial Engineering Gabriel Suarez Lawrence Romangsuriat Arielle Loran Anderson-Venerable Sir Lathan Larocque Wynn Eric Sandoval Juan Carlos Argenal Hermosa Hao Yue Riya Sanjay Timothy J. Bermingham Kristy Jeongnyun Shin Brady Thomas DePratt SPRING 2019 GRADUATES Ross J. Sinar Haoyang Ding Amelia Li Snyder Michael H. Gary Industrial Engineering Ashwath Srinivas Kathleen Qianmin Hu Anthony L. Alvizu, Jr. Emily Kathryn Stanfield Alex John Huff Sebastian Wilbert Basuki Jacob M. Stone Shaun Andrew Hurdelbrink Olivia Nicole Begley Zechen Sun Zhouyun Jin Rachel Emily Berg Ashwin Udayaprakash Matthew Edward Koscak Daniel Black Ailin Wang William P. Lai Owen Price Bloomfield Xinchen (David) Wang Jessica Xian-Ling Lee Nicola Tommaso Dama Xinyu (Ginny) Wang Rikin Rajneesh Mehta Robert Wilson Dargatz Chi Zhang Roman Franco Ordonez Rasika R. Deshmukh Siyi Zhang Stephen Jacob Plutchak Sinead M. P. DiStasio Tongbo Zhao Thomas Jake Riegler Dhruv Ashok Gondalia Josie Marie Stawinoga Jacob P. Graham Systems Engineering Kim Niki Vatani Feiyang Gu and Design Daniel Chang-Hwa Yee Zachary I. Harris Daniel Ayala Xueying Yu Zachary T. Hinderman Shaan Tarun Bhakta Qinfeng Zhong Samoon (Simon) Hong Charles Russell Case Arjit Jaiswal Ibadat Singh Chatha Systems Engineering Zack J. Jin Xiyu Chen and Design Ryan Junsup Lee Maxwel Tyler Cichon Haley J. Anderson Jack Benjamin Lenihan Angelica Natalia Czarnecka Gregory E. Bloden Danrong (Alison) Li Kaila Ann Day Calvin Michael Brubaker Huaze Li Mateus De Camargo Jonas

26 ALUMNI Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois MASTER’S DOCTORAL DEGREES DEGREES

Oliver Mark Dobon AUG 2018 GRADUATES Zhenye Na AUGUST 2019 GRADUATES Megan Elaine Elliott Jigar Bhupendra Patel Anne C. Fahey Master of Science in Dhayabaran Ponsingh Doctor of Industrial Siobhan Marie Fox Industrial Engineering Sarvesh Rajkumar Engineering Stephen C. Gray Sravya Aremanda Bilal Abubakar Safree Shanzad Fazal Bhatti Thomas P. Harrington Yijun Dai Vipul Kishor Satone Dissertation: Scalable Centralized Daniel Franklin Hill Kyoungsoo Lee Vedika Lalit Shah and Distributed Spectral Clustering Thomas Liu Naman Shukla Mitchell James Muller Master of Science in Systems Myung Hwan Song Tinghao Guo Dante G. Nava and Entrepreneurial Lihui (Frank) Sun Dissertation: On the Use of Machine Erik M. Nelson Engineering Chutian Tai Learning with Design Optimization John V. Nguyen Molly Sturgis Nitin Babu Tangellamudi Data for System Topology Design Andrew James Peruba Nishant Velugula Frances Ann Ponicki DEC 2018 GRADUATES Tianqi Wu Shanzad Fazal Bhatti Mary Rose Ponicki Yanwen Xu Dissertation: Scalable Centralized Theresa Catherine Ponicki Master of Science in Jinran Yang and Distributed Spectral Clustering Dominic J. Rossi Industrial Engineering Chao (Alex) Yu Jacob M. Stone Shizhao Wang Wenwei Yu MAY 2019 GRADUATES Siyang Sun Weirong Xiao Yang Yuan Gregory X. Tan Mingyu Zha Doctor of Philosophy in Austin Thomas Truesdale Master of Science in Systems Yin Zhang Industrial Engineering Siyuan (Tony) Xiong and Entrepreneurial Yantong Zheng Runqi Hu Andrew Xu Engineering Ziyu Zhou Dissertation: Inverting Multivariate Leticia Ruiqi Zhou Satya Ravi Teja Peddada Analytic Characteristic Functions MAY 2019 GRADUATES with Financial Applications MAY 2019 GRADUATES Master of Science in Systems Master of Science in Engineering and Design Industrial Engineering Joshua E. Love Shubham Bansal Siyao Luan Siddharth Chakravarthy Shenghan Chen Nithish Kaviyan Dhanyananda Ganesh Kavjit Durairaj Kriti Gupta Note: due to publication deadlines, Narayana Jonnalagadda this list may contain inaccuracies. Karthik Venkata Reshma Lal Jagadheesh Jiyao Li Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan

ise.illinois.edu 2019 STUDENT VIEWBOOK 27 T2 COMMITTEE

JIM EHRHART Chair BSIE 1986 Board Member Since 2017 Jim is currently Director of Enterprise Solutions for Paracosma, a start-up in field of Virtual and Augmented Reality. Previously he worked with Salesforce developing service offer- ings for their largest global clients.

BRUCE HUBER A/E/C and Marketing Advisor BSGE 1971 Board Member Since 2018 Bruce is a business and technology executive recently retired after a ca- Left: The Transportation Building circa 1950. Right: a drawing of architectural details repeated near the roof line. reer in the electronics, banking and consulting engineering professions.

JOE HARTMAN Program Finance Advisor TRANSPORTATION BSGE 1992 2 Board Member Since 2010 Joseph C. Hartman, PhD, PE, serves T : TRANSFORMATION as newly-appointed Provost of the Francis College of Engineer- ing and Professor of Mechanical We are in the early stages of a fundraising effort portation Building where students will learn in an Engineering at the University to update our beloved Transportation Building environment where “smart” technologies abound of Massachusetts Lowell.

with, among other improvements, smart Inter- and will become a living, learning laboratory. In DIANE STEINKAMP net-of-Things systems both to optimize energy order to increase ISE’s national ranking, keep pace Events and Alumni Relations efficiency as well as to provide a real-world IoT with a growing student body, and offer modern BSGE 1996 Board Member Since 2007 workshop for students. So far, we have replaced the instructional methods needed to meet the demands Diane is a Senior Associate at elevator and made other significant improvements; of changing technologies, the century old facility Clayton Capital Partners, an in- vestment bank specializing in for the next phase, we are reaching out for support must be renovated. mergers and acquisitions. She has from alumni. The initiative is overseen by the ISE Alumni Board previously worked at Accenture, 2 Anheuser-Busch, Inc., and Monsanto The Transportation Transformation Initiative will T Committee. Company and is a Past President of support the modernization of the historic Trans- the ISE Alumni & Advisory Board.

For More Information Contact Jim Ehrhart at (415) 691-1999 or email [email protected]

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