Archive for September 2019
Kill science funding and you kill the future tech economy
IEOR Student Summer Experiences
What were IEOR students up to this summer? We asked our undergraduate and Ph.D. students to share their summer experiences, whether it was in research or industry to show the breadth of opportunities for IEOR students. Emily Garcia (B.S. ’20) Undergraduate Research Fellow at Purdue University Over the summer, as a Purdue Summer Undergraduate Research…
Read MoreThe IEOR Department is now hiring for a tenure-track faculty position
The University of California, Berkeley Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research and College of Engineering Faculty Position in Operations Management/Supply Chain/Logistics The DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS RESEARCH (IEOR) at University of California, Berkeley welcomes applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in the broad area of Operations Management…
Read MoreMEng Alumni are Finalists in IBM Call for Code 2019 Global Prize
A group of five University of California, Berkeley master of engineering alumni are finalists in the IBM Call for Code 2019 Global Prize. The alums’ Project AsTeR used artificial intelligence to help analyze and respond to the surge of emergency calls that typically take place after a disaster strikes. Over 5,000 projects applied to the…
Read MoreBerkeley Students Take on the National Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Conference
By Kelly Han and Nicholas Foo | September 16, 2019 A crucial component of academic and professional development is the exploration of knowledge and possibility. It can be learned in many ways through classes, mentorships, internships, peers, etc., but there was one place that combined all of these and on a national platform. This is…
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