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Nurturing Interdisciplinary Industrial Engineering in Research and Education

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University environments are becoming more dynamic and diverse than ever before. The landscape in industrial engineering continues to change rapidly and students and faculty in the discipline are called upon...

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Exact Label Recovery in Euclidean Random Graphs

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

In this paper, we propose a family of label recovery problems on weighted Euclidean random graphs. The vertices of a graph are embedded in R^d according to a Poisson point process and are assigned to a discrete community label. Our goal is to infer the vertex labels, given edge weights whose distributions depend on the...

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Efficient Branching Rules for Optimizing Range and Order-Based Objective Functions

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

  We consider range minimization problems featuring exponentially many variables, as frequently arising in fairness-oriented or bi-objective optimization. While branch and price is successful at solving cost-oriented problems with many...

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Precision 3D/4D Printing: Methodology Development and Experimental Validations

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

  Additive Manufacturing (AM) has transformed the way we design, prototype, and produce complex parts with unprecedented geometries. However, inherent process challenges lead to unsatisfactory 3D dimensional accuracy, functional part quality, and process stability. Advancements in contactless 3D scanning technology enable the in-situ 3D profiling of printed parts. These sensing capabilities can be utilized to...

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Moving Toward Hybrid Autonomous Manufacturing

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

  Manufacturing processes, such as stamping, forging, and rolling rely heavily on process simulation and in-situ correction to produce high volume of complex parts. Incremental sheet forming and additive manufacturing (AM) processes are used to make small volume of specialty products. AM processes rely heavily on CAD models for process design and closed loop control...

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Research, Practice, and Future Directions of Ridesharing

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

    Although ridesharing can provide a wealth of benefits, such as reduced travel costs, congestion, and consequently less pollution, there are a number of challenges that have restricted its widespread...

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Healthcare associated infection prevention: neither simple nor easy

1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States

    Healthcare-associated infections are common and are costly to treat from an institutional perspective and the demands placed on impacted patients’ health and seeking treatments to stabilize and foster the...

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