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Concrete Canoe team members work together on building their 2023 competition boat.

Student Org Spotlight: UW-Madison Concrete Canoe

The UW-Madison Concrete Canoe team finished strong at the 2023 regional competition in Duluth, Minnesota this spring, taking second place overall, second place in prototype design, and second place in…

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Ranjana Mehta
November 10, 2023

Mehta earns grants from National Academies, NASA

Ranjana Mehta, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will use two new grants to address worker fatigue in the offshore energy sector and study…

Lei Lei
November 9, 2023

Lei Lei: 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award recipient

Lei LeiPhDIE and CS ’89 (MSECE ’83, Dalian University of Technology)Professor and dean of Rutgers Business School Lei is an industrial engineer who attained academic excellence and exhibited visionary leadership…

Maria Palma
November 9, 2023

Maria Palma: 2023 Early Career Award recipient

Maria PalmaBSIE ’07 (MBA ’13, Harvard University)General Partner, Kindred Capital VC Maria is an industrial engineer who is a venture capitalist and champions opportunities for underrepresented and underprivileged groups within…

Four students face the camera smiling, dressed casually. 2 females and 2 males.
November 7, 2023

Students Honored at Scholarship Reception

On Thursday, November 2, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering celebrated this year’s undergraduate scholarship recipients.

HFES students with award
November 1, 2023

IE faculty and students stand out at HFES

From Oct. 23 to 27, 2023, several of our faculty and students showcased their excellence and leadership at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) 67th annual meeting in Washington,…

October 6, 2023

Del Pia adds another INFORMS honor

Alberto Del Pia, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has earned the 2023 INFORMS Computing Society Prize for a series of papers at…

Kaibo Liu
October 5, 2023

Liu receives ONR grant to boost predictive maintenance with data science

Kaibo Liu, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead a new research project to develop artificial intelligence techniques to aid predictive maintenance in…

Birgir Baldvinsson takes on a Kentucky player during the Badgers' upset win.
September 26, 2023

Baldvinsson carries engineering, soccer pursuits from Iceland to Madison

On a mid-August night, more than 4,000 miles from Madison, Birgir Baldvinsson felt the ire of nearly 17,000 Belgian soccer fans while playing in the biggest game of his life….

Shiyu Zhou
September 15, 2023

Zhou leads NSF-backed multistage manufacturing monitoring research

Shiyu Zhou, a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin, will lead a project to develop new methods for monitoring product quality and…

September 14, 2023

Del Pia wins optimization prize

Alberto Del Pia, an associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received the 2023 Egon Balas Prize from the Institute for Operations Research and…