Congratulations to IMSE Graduates

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Congratulations to Feng Liu, Ying Chen, Ukesh Chawal, Dishita Mehtalia, Gazi md daud Iqbal, and all of our IMSE graduates!

-Posted by Jay Rosenberger

The IMSE Dept. Celebrates the Fourth Annual Awards Banquet

The Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department hosted the 4th Annual Awards Banquet to honor graduating students as well as outstanding undergraduate and graduate students with awards and scholarships on Thursday, April 28th at 6pm in the Nedderman Hall Rady Room. The approximately 100 guests included the faculty, staff and members of the advisory board.  All guests enjoyed a formal, catered dinner. The wonderful evening concluded with a few brief comments from our graduating seniors and a final congratulation to award winners and graduates of the past year. Below are the six scholarships and names of awarded students.

The G. T. Stevens, Jr. Endowed Alumni Scholarship which was established in 1998 to honor the IMSE Department’s former Chair is awarded to outstanding Industrial Enginnering students. Dr. Stevens passed away this year therefore his children Mr. Bob Stevens and Ms. Bartlett Barry presented the scholarships. This year’s recipients were Ms. Tyka Do (Senior), Ms. Jasmine Lucero (Senior), Mr. Anoop Kulkarni (Graduate) and Mr. Alexander Thomas (Graduate).

 

The Keith and Carolyn Weiss Industrial Engineering Scholarship, which is given to deserving Industrial Engineering undergraduate students who are working to support their education. This year’s awardee is a senior, Ms. Griselda Sanchez.

The Weiss Family Endowed Scholarship is an award distributed by the UT Arlington Alumni Association to award a junior or senior undergraduate who have been working to support their education. This year’s recipient is senior Mr. Joshua Bolton.

The John and Pat Priest Family Endowed Scholarship is awarded to Industrial Engineering undergraduate students that have an interest in manufacturing. This year we have two awardees, Mr. Patrick Coursey and Ms. Mary Rangel.

The RFID and Auto ID Labs Outstanding Research Scholarship recognizes students conducting outstanding research in RAID Labs. This year’s recipients were Ms. Mary Rangel (Undergraduate), Ms. Isra Elamin (Graduate) and Mr. Raghavendra Punugu(Graduate).

The newest scholarship, The COSMOS Scholarship recognizes a student for his/her voluntary contribution to COSMOS research. This year’s awardee is Mr. Rajesh Sugumar.

Congratulations to Spring 2014 Graduates!

The College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony was held on Saturday, May 10 at College Park Center to honor the Spring 2014 graduating class. Krish Prabhu, President and Chief Technology Office of AT&T Labs, presented the commencement address.  In honor of all the Spring 2014 IE graduates, the IMSE Department would like to congratulate each one of them for a job well done. The Spring 2014 IE graduates, as published in The Shorthorn are:

Ph.D in Industrial Engineering

• Sulaiman Hamad Al Jedaie, Dissertation Title: Inventory Pooling in Petroleum Upstream Logistics Network
• Mohammed A. Al-Mansouri, Dissertation Title: Facility Capital Equipment and Labor Decision Support System Using a Discrete-Event Simulation and Bottleneck Detection Approach
• Asama Kulvanitchaiyanunt, Dissertation Title: Design and Analysis of Computer Experiment-Based Approach to Approximate an Infinite Horizon Dynamic

Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering

• Shui Biu Ho

Master of Science in Engineering Management

• Ravi Teja Doppalapudi
• Surya Deep Gunnam
• Steve V. Illyes
• Dhaneesha Lanke
• Praneeth Chandra Movva
• Joseph Michael Munn
• Esteban Pedraza
• Hemaraj Sampath Kumar
• Sheng Hsuan Wu

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering

• Neim Aiderous Abubeker
• Santosh Adivi
• Seepong Aiumjaroen
• Shanmukha Srinivas Badam
• Karthika Harini Boobathy
• Robert Wallace Combs
• Sri Harsha Raju Datla
• Banuchandar Esakkimuthu
• Shalini Jagata
• Holta Karruli
• Mitali Prasad Khadilkar
• Veneesha Kimmireddy
• Jay Amit Oza
• Srikar Krishna Rajagopal

Master of Science in Logistics

• Mrugank Nandan Borgalkar
• Elena Ogorodnikova

Master of Science in Systems Engineering

• Leonard Best
• Matthew Lee Craig
• Jazmin Adriana Guzman
• Ashok Sisodia

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering

• Rohit Prashad Acharya
• Ahmad T. Alsmadi
• Harrison D. Armstrong
• Angela Colleen Bradshaw
• Yazmin S. Chalico
• Eryka Dira
• Vanessa Duran
• Mekdes A. Girmash
• Benjamin William Howison
• Anna T. Mai
• Walter J. Mulflur
• Santosh Paudel
• Gustavo A. Robles
• Muhammet U. Sarilar
• Loc Vinh Truong
• Jarrett Kale Walden
• Mewan Wijemanne
• Ting Xiao

Congratulations to all these graduates!

In case you missed the ceremony, you can view the video and photos of the event online.

Comprehensive Exam for Graduating MS and PhD Students

Students in the MS or PhD program who applied to graduate for the Spring 2014 must take a Comprehensive Exam as part of their degree requirements.

The exam location will be in Woolf Hall 404 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. An Exit Interview Questionnaire will be from 4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. PhD students must consult with their dissertation supervisor for Part 2 of the PhD Exam.

Congratulations to Fall and Summer 2013 Graduates

The Fall semester came to a cold end as ice and snow blanketed the North Texas area, forcing the University to reschedule many final exams; but the freezing weather didn’t hang around long enough to spoil the College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, December 14 at College Park Center. The new University president, Dr. Vistasp Karbhari, who has a degree in engineering was the guest speaker at the ceremony which was attended by hundreds of families and friends. For all their achievements, the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Department would also like to congratulate all our graduates on this special occasion. Here is a list of our newest alumni, as published in The Shorthorn:

Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering:

• Mohammed Al-Mansouri, Dissertation Title: A Simulation Approach to Production Line Bottleneck Analysis and Cost Justification
• Piyush Kumar, Dissertation Title: Mathematical Approach for Land Use Planning that Limits Urban Sprawl
• Aera LeBoulluec, Dissertation Title: Outcome and State Transition Modeling for Adaptive Interdisciplinary Pain Management
• Clement Smartt, Dissertation Title: Optimizing the Use of Systems Engineering on Proposals
• Paul Wilson, Dissertation Title: Eutectic Diffusion Brazing Process for Joining Aluminum Laminae with Macro- and Micro-Scale Features

Degrees Conferred Summer 2013

• Narakorn Engsuwan, Dissertation Title: Scalar Equilibrium for n-Person Games
• Diana Martinez Cepeda, Dissertation Title: Variants of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS): Convex vs. Non-Convex, Piecewise-Linear vs. Smooth and Sequential Algorithms
• Nadia Martinez Cepeda, Dissertation Title: Global Optimization of Nonconvex Piecewise Linear Regression Splines
• Roochi Mishra, Dissertation Title: Improving Quality of Information from Multiple Sensor Sources on Mobile Platforms
• Panita Suebvisai, Dissertation Title: Parametric Cost Estimation Model for Microchannel Bonding Process Based on Activity-Based Costing

M.S in Engineering Management

• Patrick Alexander
• Seyed Pooya Mirsalehi (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Farooq Mohiuddin
• Noble Vikram Rajanayagam
• Sai Vignesh Ramachandran
• Nomita Sharma
• Vishnu Sethuraman Swarna

M.S. Industrial Engineering

• Sakthivel Arumugam
• Wencess Kelelyoh Bett (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Nithin Chirayath Antony (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Fermin Feroshi Arun Joseph
• Stanley Joseph
• Nirmal Kumar Kanagasabapathy
• Parkpoom Ketrunghiran
• Ketan Chandrashekhar Kulkarni
• Spoorthi Ananda Kumar (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Lin Lin (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Dmitri Mitchell
• Tshiebe Mwamba (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Gaurav Nirwal
• J. Dario Padilla
• Alok Parashivamurthi (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Dhananjay Patil
• Kukkala Prasad (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Sameer Mahesh Rabade
• Ajinkya Rao (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Kapil Prakash Raole
• Jose Sanchez Gonzalez
• Arvind Walia

M.S. in Logistics

• Anna Candia
• Mahmoud Motaqed Larijani (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)

M.S. in Systems Engineering

• David O. Asaolu
• Arlyssa Jaquez
• Christopher M. May
• Stephen McLauchlin
• Larry Joe Parker
• Aaron Thomas Sherman

B.S. in Industrial Engineering

• Ukesh Chawal
• Midhun Abraham John
• Aditya Kasukhela
• Sarim Khan
• Hyun Ki Kim
• Indra Poudel
• Nader Sayadi (Degree conferred in Summer 2013)
• Shrijan Shrestha
• Sumit Shrestha
• Ashvin Thomas
• Pravin Tripathi

A Congratulations to Spring 2013 Graduates

On May 12, 2013, the College of Engineering celebrated the graduating class of Spring 2013 with a commencement ceremony at College Park Center. The Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Department graduated many students, including four doctoral, twenty-one master’s, and twenty-seven undergraduates. Listed below are the names of the IMSE students who graduated in the Spring 2013. These names were published in the UT Arlington Shorthorn newspaper:

Ph.D in  Industrial Engineering:

• Maurice Dwayne Cavitt, Dissertation Title: An Optimal Decision Model for Multi-System Process Capability Improvements Through a Personnel Environment and Integration (PEI) Framework Utilizing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technologies
• Shernette R. Kydd, Dissertation Title: The Characterization of Texas Healthcare Facilities Impacted by the 2012 Medicare Penalties: A Framework for Self Evaluation and Systemic Preemptive Action to Reduce Hospital Readmission Rates
• Ida Lumintu, Dissertation Title: RFID and RTLS Enhancement for Retained Surgical Instruments in the Body
• Restu Purwaningtyas Sunarto Bussey, Dissertation Title: Evaluation of Quality and Sustainability Incentives to Optimize the Indonesian to the United States Crude Oil Supply Chain

Master of Science in Engineering Management:

• Sanjay Bhansali
• Jonathan Burch
• Prabhu Muthanna Gummatira
• Yi-Pin Lee
• Angela Chidinma Nnadili
• Daniel Snigier
• Manasa Tekumalla
• Rishitha Yarabolu

Master of Science in Industrial Engineering:

• Majid Ahmadi
• Rohan Harshil Annamraju
• Soham Sudhir Bothare
• Hamid Ghoraishi
• Chendur Murugananthan Anand
• Japhet Ong
• Ajinkya Rao
• Archit Harshadkumar Sanghvi
• Jainil Surti
• Md Nafeez Tanim
• Efrain Vega

Master of Science in Logistics:

• Charles Kilgore
• Chenhao Mao

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering:

• Ahmad “Adam” I. Achkantana
• Christian Eduardo Alvarez
• Daniel Appiah
• Narongrit Boonthunyaluk
• Luke Brigmon
• Erin Michelle Celone
• Ernesto Delgado
• Mildred Guadalupe Godinez-Pecina
• Carlos Miguel Guajardo
• Christopher J. James
• Holly Elizabeth Lane
• Paul V. Lexington
• David Michael Miller
• Victor Munoz
• Rhea J. Pak
• Mannaneel Harim Pankaj
• Kelsey A. Robinson
• Juan C. Robles
• Jairo Romero
• Nader Sayadi
• Mohammed A. Siddiqui
• Ronald Bryant Slovacek
• Adrian J. Sobalvarro
• Carolina Soto
• Conner H. Tynes
• Chidebe S. Ugoji
• Emanuel L. William.

Congratulations to all our Spring 2013 graduates!

A recap of the graduation ceremony can be found on the College of Engineering website.

Video of there graduation ceremony can be found on the UT Arlington website.