Two student teams and an individual graduate student from the Department of Industrial, Systems and Manufacturing Engineering within the College of Engineering placed in competitions during the Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) South Central Regional Conference. The event was the weekend of Feb. 22 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and the students were accompanied by Dr. Cindi Mason, associate teaching professor in the department.
Saurabh Sanjay Singh, a graduate student, won first place in the poster competition. His poster was titled, “Energy Conscious Job Shop Scheduling Integrating Optimization and Actor-Critic Architectures,” and Dr. Deepak Gupta, department chair, was his faculty advisor. Undergraduate students Jasmine Carlucci, Jacob Mayne and Paula Nguyen won first place in the technical paper competition. Undergraduate students Hayden Henderson, Bo Miller and Colton Pound won third place in the technical paper competition.
The Carlucci, Mayne and Nguyen student team will compete in the IISE National Conference in May in Atlanta.