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IEOR Impact
How does IEOR impact the world?
Below are stories that show how faculty, students, and alumni are applying their knowledge with industrial engineering and operations research.
IEOR Researchers Lead Efforts To Address Environmental Challenges In Energy, Pollution And Global Warming
February 9, 2017 IEOR professors Max Shen, Shmuel Oren, Xin Guo, Ilan Adler, and Javad Lavaei are working on some of the most pressing problems of our time as lead researchers for the Environmental Science and New Energy Technology Research Center at the two-year-old Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI). The center brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers…
Ken Goldberg investigates robot-assisted precision irrigation to help address global water demand
While the drought seems to flow away with recent California rains, the demand for water in agriculture remains a problem. However, California is not the only place with this issue: all over the world, agriculture consumes at least 70% of the world’s freshwater. To help address this problem, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided University of…
Can fitness apps make us fit?
Right now if you have a smartphone and an interest in living a more active lifestyle there are literally tens of thousands of fitness apps available that can help you track every step, set activity goals, and even play (or compete) with a friend. Surprisingly, despite the popularity and wide range of fitness apps —…
Aswani Investigates How Data Can Personalize Mobile Health
With the proliferation of mobile devices and rising awareness that proper diet and exercise can prevent disease and lead to better overall health outcomes, mobile health (or mHealth) applications have become an increasingly popular way to track every step, heartbeat, and calorie with the idea that awareness of activity and calorie intake can help individuals change their…
Sutardja Center Alums Create “Prynt”, A Polaroid Printing Smartphone Case
Prynt, a San Francisco-based startup founded by two graduates of a Berkeley Engineering entrepreneurship program, is bringing instant print photography to smartphones. The grads designed a smartphone case equipped with a built-in mini-printer, for printing digital photos on the go. The founders, Clément Perrot and David Zhang, were schoolmates at École Polytechnique, France’s premier science…
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