Fall 2015 GTA Applications Available

The IMSE department offers a limited number of very competitive graduate teaching and research assistantships. These positions are offered to students with a good academic background and very good GRE verbal and quantitative scores.

Fall 2015 applications are now available, and must be completed online by Friday, June 26 at 5:00 PM. Current GTAs should not reapply.  However, IMSE graduate students who have submitted a paper application or emailed a faculty member are asked to reapply online. All selected GTAs must be on campus at least one week before classes begin.

Official offers will be made by early August.

To apply, fill out this form (UTA netid and password are required): https://www.uta.edu/php-lib/machform/view.php?id=1808#main_body

For more information, visit our website: https://www.uta.edu/ie/financial-aid/graduate-student-funding.php#GTA

To see the list of Spring 2015 GTAs, read our post here.

Want to know what former IMSE GTAs are like?  Read about Ukesh Chawal and Maysaa Hamdan.

Graduate Teaching Assistants: Job Well Done!

Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) run the universities.

Without GTAs, most professors would be too swamped with grading exams and figuring out classroom details to focus on effective teaching and innovative research.

At the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department, our GTAs work hard for their professors and departments while also attending their own classes and performing their own research.  In the process, they have valuable experience for the working world.

Here’s to you: Spring 2015 GTAs.  Our department couldn’t have done it without you!

Ashkan Aliabadi Farahani

Hadis Anahideh

Soma Balasubramanian

Zahra Banakar

Christoph Bollgen

Juan Castillo

Mustafa Ghotwala

Shalini Gupta

Maysaa M Hamdan-Abuhelou (click to see Ph.D. dedication)

Khan Md Ariful Haque

Vikas Hinge

Rahil Hosseini

Gazi Md Daud Iqbal

Xinglong Ju

Melvina Lobo

Joyita Mostafa

Ashok Nagamuthu Muniyandi

Alireza Noroziroshan

Nilabh Sunil Ohol

Sanjeev Pudasaini

Fahimeh Rahmanniyaychomachaei

Rui Shi

Chotiya Sukchotrat

Supannee Sukjaijaroenporn

Peng Wan

Qian Wu

Some of the following have worked as GTAs for many semesters and will continue to work as GTAs this summer and fall. Others will be graduating.

IMSE GTA Directory for Summer 2015: https://www.uta.edu/ie/faculty-staff/GTA-Directory.php

Congratulations to the 99 IMSE Graduates!

The Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Department in UT Arlington’s College of Engineering graduated 99 students on May 16, 2015 at the College Park Center.

Among the graduates, 4 scholars earned their Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering, 72 earned their graduate degrees, including 48 earning M.S. in Industrial Engineering, 18 earning M.S. in Engineering Management, 4 earning M.S. in Logistics and 2 earning M.S. in Systems Engineering and 23 undergraduate students earning B.S. in Industrial Engineering. The students’ names are listed below.

Graduate Students

Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering

Maysaa M. Hamdan (see Mother’s Day/Graduation Tribute to Maysaa)

Na Wang

Sunny Paraskumar Jain

Zirun Zhang

M.S. in Industrial Engineering

Abhimanyu Pothula

Abhishek Joshi

Aditya Dilip Sawant

Albert Nnadili

Amaraja Sunil Dalvi

Aniesh Sampathkumar

Aniket Ulhas Kadam

Ankit Surkutwar

Arpen Tusharbhai Punch

Aviesh Anand

Bharath Rajagopal

Chandra Shekar Gangaswamy

Danny Thomas John

Gaurav Yuvraj Mahajan

Harshita Reddy Hari Hara Reddy

Jithin Krishna Guduru

Jobi Thachemperil

Kaushic Devaraj

Neelam Chatterjee

Parkavan Tamilarasan

Pavan Bogram Mohan

Poojitha Kotha

Pradeep Gopalakrishnan

Pradyumna Mohanram Raja

Pranav Mukund Hegde

Pranay Reddy Akepati

Pranthik Produtur

Preethi Baskar

Rahul Krishnan

Rohit Varma Manthena

Sai Krishna Puppala

Saket Manoj Pundlik

Sandhya Chilakalapudi

Sanjay Bala Balasubramanian

Sanjeev Pudasaini

Santosh Roy Sampath Kumar

Saurabh Raghunath Shidhore

Senthilnathan Arunachalam

Shashankavarma Mantena

Suchismita Nibhanupudi

Varun Kolli

Venkata Sai Santosh Prabha

Vignesh Chandra Mohan

Vikas Hinge

Vikram Vivek Mohrir

Vivekananda Basavananda Devarahosahalli

Yusuf Durbar Shabbir

 

M.S. in Engineering Management

Abhishek Reddy Kuchikula

Avinash Gidugu

Bhavya Thumma Guntha

Edwin Pimentel

Kesav Kasukurthi

Krishna Dev Vala

Mayur Anil Bhosale

Melvina Lobo

Mohammed Khan

Mrunal Satishchandra Gedam

Narongrit Boonthunyaluk

Naveen Rajagopal Reddy

Nikhil Appasani

Pratiksha Datta Autade

Ramsundar Sundar

Rashesh Rajeshkumar Shah

Shivam Atulkumar Patel

Syed Ahmed

M.S. in Logistics

Nayana Basur Shankarappa

Ranjit Bangalore Shamanna

Ryan Dietrich

Uday Giridhar

M.S. in Systems Engineering

Kayla Marshall

Michael Knab

Undergraduate Students*

Angelo Decena-Guzman

Anthony Kallas

Blessing Chima

Cody Smith

Colin Brisco

Cynthia Rodriguez

Greta Leza

Hashini Wanniarachchi

Jason Lawson

Jeffrey Williams

Joshua Howard

Kadiamba Mukala

Kevin Garza-Magana

Kevin Joseph

Kristopher Leonhardt

Lan Nguyen

Leila Khalaf

Marco Torres

Menglin Qiu

Michael Reeves

Ngoc Vuong

Oscar Ibezim

Tangwa Nembo

*Some names withheld

Watch the full ceremony:

Or on Youtube: (click here)

Download a full copy of the 2015 College of Engineering Commencement (click here)

Mother’s Day Tribute to Ph.D. Graduate

In honor of Mother’s Day and Graduation week, here is a message from Maysaa Hamdan, who is earning her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering on Saturday and is a mother of three daughters:

Maysaa Hamdan-Family
Maysaa Hamdan-Family/photo provided

“When I came to the US to join my husband, I knew then that I would have the opportunity to follow my dreams and finish my graduate studies and hopefully become a professor one day.

Now, I have 3 daughters: Amal, Laila and Heba, 8, 6, and 3 years old.

I had my first daughter shortly before I started my masters at UTA, and with a very busy schedule full of classes, homework, exams and projects, it was very challenging to manage my responsibilities between my family and my schoolwork. Though, I eventually learned how to deal with the challenges. I learned how to become a multitasking mom, and I became more determined to finish my graduate studies.

The University of Texas has a very good reputation in my country (Palestine) and now I am very proud to be a graduate of the University of Texas system.

I want my girls to grow happy and healthy, to always follow their dreams and to inspire others.”

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:

College of Engineering Graduation

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.

IMSE Celebrates Graduates and Award Winners

The IMSE Department celebrated graduates from the Summer, Fall, and Spring semesters as well as award winners with a banquet Thursday evening. The event began with a reception as Advisory Board members, faculty, staff, and honorees and their friends arrived at the banquet inside the Hospitality Suite at UT Arlington’s College Park Center. A catered meal was served after the reception as guests took their seats for dinner.

After the meal, Dr. Chen introduced IMSE alumna and co-founder of TransSolutions, LLC Gloria Bender, as the keynote speaker. She spoke about the importance of getting your degree and giving back to the community and how IEs could use their degrees to serve.

After the keynote address, Dr. Brian Huff recognized the members of the Alpha Pi Mu Industrial Engineering Honor Society. The attendees gave the members in attendance a round of applause.
The first award given in the evening was the G. T. Stevens, Jr. Endowed Alumni Scholarship which was established in 1998 to honor the IMSE Department’s former Chair. This year’s recipients were April Shortt (Junior), Ting Xiao (Senior), and Ezeh Perpetua Ebere (Graduate).

Next, Dr. Bill Corley presented the Elinor Pape Endowed Scholarship Award, which was established in 2006 to honor the Professor Emeritus’s service and dedication at UT Arlington. The award winners were Cynthia Rodriguez (Junior), Gustavo Robles (Senior), and Vikas Hinge (Graduate).

The next two scholarships were established by IMSE alumnus Keith Weiss. Keith and Carolyn Weiss were on hand to award Dylan Slick with the Keith and Carolyn Weiss Industrial Engineering Scholarship, which is given to deserving Industrial Engineering undergraduate students who are working to support their education. Slick works as a Resident Assistant at UT Arlington Apartment and Residence Life. 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 was Greta Leza who works at Airbus Helicopters, Inc. (formerly known as American Eurocopter).

The next award given, the John and Pat Priest Family Endowed Scholarship, is the IMSE Department’s newest endowed scholarship. It was established by current IMSE professor John Priest and his wife in 2013. This year’s winner was Colin Brisco.

The next two scholarships were awarded by the RFID and Auto ID (RAID) Labs. Dr. Erick Jones presented the awards to the winners. This year’s recipient of the RFID and Auto ID Labs Research Excellence Scholarship, which recognizes students for his/her excellence in RAID research and published work, was Harrison Armstrong. His research paper, “A Framework for Detecting Hazardous Events Occurring in Transit with AutoID Technologies” was accepted by IIE Sensors in March 2014. The RFID and Auto ID Labs Outstanding Research Scholarship recognize students conducting outstanding research in RAID Labs. This year’s recipients were Mewan Wijemanne (Undergraduate) and Ryan Dietrich (Graduate).

The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Outstanding Student awards recognizes outstanding scholarship, leadership, and service to the IE profession. This year’s recipients were Cynthia Rodriguez (Junior) and Rachel Machbitz (Senior). After receiving their award, they were joined by previous Outstanding IIE Award winners.

The final award presented in the evening was the Texas Industrial Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award, which was created in an alliance between the Industrial Engineering departments at Texas public universities including UT El Paso, Texas A&M, Texas Tech University, the University of Houston, and Lamar University. Awardees are alumni selected by these universities based on the impact of their career on society. Gloria Bender presented the honor to this year’s awardee, Gloria Maceiko. Maceiko founded DirectNu Energy in 2009 with a vision to develop Energy Independence for commercial entities, nationally and globally, by focusing on solar and wind project development. She serves as its CEO and manages multimillion dollar projects from concept to contracts and worked over 25 years with high tech companies in Silicon Valley. She was also at the forefront of trend setting startups.

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.
Pictures of the event will be posted on our Facebook page soon!

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.

Fall 2012 Graduates

On Sunday, December 16, 2012, the College of Engineering conducted its commencement ceremony at UTA’s College Park Center to recognize students who had completed their degrees during the Fall and Summer semesters. The Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Department graduated eleven undergraduate, twenty-eight master’s, and six doctoral students. We want to take a moment to congratulate all our graduates on their achievement. Below is the list of our Fall 2012 Graduates, as listed in UTA’s student newspaper, The Shorthorn:

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering:

Bancha Ariyajunya, Dissertation Title: Solving Approximate Dynamic Programming Problems With High-Dimensional Multicollinear State Spaces

Sree Bhupathiraju, Dissertation Title: The Art of Micro-Channel Manufacturing in Glass

Poovich Phaladiganon, Dissertation Title: Data Mining Based Threshold Development for Novelty Detection

[Below had degrees confirmed Summer 2012]

Vasileios M. Drakonakis, Dissertation Title: Featherweight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites Design and Manufacturing – Interlayer Enabling Systems Focusing on Lighter CFRP Structures with Higher-Strength Utilizing Nanotechnology

Andrea Graham, Dissertation Title: Using AHP and ANP Models for Freight Transport Networks Selection

Pin Kung, Dissertation Title: Multivariate Modeling for a Multiple Stage, Multiple Objective Green Building Framework

M.E. Industrial Engineering:

Mohammad Saiful Islam

M.S. Engineering Management: 

Thomas W. Hawkins

Kelly Murillo

Jirachaya Namboonmee

Kehinde F. Osiyoye

Jaime Cardona [Degree conferred Summer 212]

M.S. Industrial Engineering:

Salman Ahmad

Majid Ahmadi

Chinmay M. Aney

Md Mejbauddin Chowdhury

Riddham Maheshbhai Desai

Hamid Ghoraishi

William Karashin

Harshad Khonalkar

Aditya Krishnan Narasimham

Wei-Te Niou

Rahul Ravi

Krunal Nikhilbhai Shah

Bharat Venugopal

Ahmad Nahhas [Degree conferred Summer 2012]

Kalyn Taylor Panizo [Degree conferred Summer 2012]

M.S. Logistics:

Yu Xiang

Songhee Hong Gardner [Degree conferred Summer 2012]

Jiahong Ma [Degree conferred Summer 2012]

Danielle Wilson [Degree conferred Summer 2012]

M.S. Systems Engineering:

Trevor Jay Bakker

Russell Elliot

Cynthia Mounce

Congratulations to all our graduates!

Video and Photos of the College of Engineering commencement ceremony can be found at: https://www.uta.edu/commencement/photos-videos/index.php.