In addition to academic activities, the Department of Industrial, Systems and Manufacturing Engineering faculty is responsible for a substantial amount of research. Students in our programs have access to laboratories where faculty, staff and fellow students work together.
Computer Lab Industry 4.0 Lab Manufacturing Lab Additive Manufacturing Lab
Featured Departmental Lab
Computer Lab
The computer lab in the John Bardo Center (JBC), room 340, houses 36 computer workstations to accommodate high speed computing needs for various engineering courses.
Featured Faculty Research Interests and Activities
Dr. Enkhsaikhan Boldsaikhan
Research interests include:
- Manufacturing
- Industrial robotics and automation
- Friction stir welding
- Artificial intelligence
- Cyber-physical systems
- Machine learning
Dr. Laila Cure
Research interests include analysis and design of complex work systems, data analytics and model-based decision
support for the deployment of:
- Patient safety
- Quality
- Population health interventions
Dr. Deepak Gupta
Department Chair and Graduate Coordinator
Research interests include:
- Energy efficiency and sustainability
- Manufacturing system optimization
- Supply chain management
- Data analytics
Dr. Michael Jorgensen
Research interests include:
- Work-related low back disorders
- Musculoskeletal disorder epidemiology
- Low-back biomechanical modeling
- Risk and exposure assessment methodology
- Occupational safety
Dr. Krishna K. Krishnan
Research interests include:
- Manufacturing systems
- Facilities planning and material handling
- CAD/CAM systems
- Flexible manufacturing systems
- Design for manufacturability
Dr. Viswanathan Madhavan
Research interests include:
- Manufacturing processes
- Machine tools
- FEA
- Tribology
- Material properties
- Snsors and manufacturing systems
Dr. Wilfredo Moscoso-Kingsley
Research interests include:
- Material behavior
- Tribology
- Mechanics and feedback control in advanced machining
- Joining and thermo-mechanical processing
Dr. Ehsan Salari
Research interests include:
- Medical decision making
- Cancer treatment plan optimization
- Healthcare operations management
Dr. Janet Twomey
Research interests include:
- Technology for environmental sustainability
- Intelligent computational methods
- Industrial sustainability
Dr. Gamal Weheba
Research interests include:
- Quality and reliability engineering
- Statistical process control
- Economics of quality
- Precision measurements
- Rapid prototyping
Dr. Bayram Yildirim
Research interests include:
- Applied optimization
- Network optimization
- Supply chain management
- Scheduling
- Transportation planning
- Pricing on congestible networks