College of Engineering news

The College of Engineering has chosen Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor Laura Albert as its inaugural senior associate dean for faculty affairs and development. In this new position, Albert will play a key role in…

Laura Albert, the David H. Gustafson Department Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will lead the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) as the organization’s president in…

Years ago, when several of Laura Albert’s mentors in operations research tried to nudge her to consider a career in academic administration, her initial reaction was less than enthusiastic. “I just wanted to run away,”…

Professors Laura Albert and Jim Luedtke will use a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an optimization framework that can help organizations effectively and efficiently protect their information technology systems….

When Laura Albert presented a sampling of her operations research a few years back in her adopted home of Middleton, Wisconsin, she drew the attention of one particularly interested audience member: the city’s mayor. Laura…

In an age of data breaches and malware attacks, cybersecurity is paramount to organizations that store troves of customer and employee information. But companies, government entities and other large institutions have to consider more than…

Laura Albert, an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, recently chaired the INFORMS 2018 Government and Analytics Summit, a new conference aimed at sharing operations research and analytics with policymakers and…

Laura Albert As cities and other municipalities prepare for a 2020 presidential election that will be unlike any before it, set against the backdrop of a pandemic, they face dilemmas in how to structure and…

Through a new National Science Foundation grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison industrial and systems engineering researchers will use mathematical modeling to inform local policing schedules and response policies to opioid abuse. Professor Laura Albert, the project’s…

A plastic bottle of prescribed painkillers—extras from a surgical recuperation—lurks in the back of your medicine cabinet. If you’re like most Americans, you’ll either let the pills linger, flush them down the toilet or toss…