Spring/Summer 2017

Sleeping in 100 degree heat in sub-Saharan Africa and surveying construction sites may not be everyone’s ideal winter break, but ISE Junior, Amy Bevilacqua, was ready for the challenge 10One Well to Change 700 Lives

ISE Distinguished Alumna Gayle Lanier became the first female to receive the Watauga Medal during this year’s Founders Day Celebration. The Medal celebrates those who have put their full commitment and effort to the advancement of NC State University.

She is the sixth ISE alumnus to receive the University’s highest non-

academic honor joining fellow ISE Distinguished Alumni:

■ Worley “H” Clark, Jr. (‘96)

■ James A. Hackney III (’97)

■ Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. (’01)

■ Edward P. Fitts (’06)

■ Thomas E. Cabaniss (’13)

“I hope the example I have set confirms for other women engineers,

like my daughter Brittany Lanier (another NC State alum, BS, Chemical Engineering 2007) that you can do and be anything,” shared Lanier. “Education, hard work and a strong belief in yourself is all you need.”

Learn more about Lanier and the Watauga Medal on page 19.

LANIER BECOMES SIXTH ISE ALUMNUS TO RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS WATAUGA MEDAL

Worley H. Clark, jr. James A. Hackney III Edgar S. Woolard, Jr.

Edward P. Fitts Thomas E. Cabaniss Gayle Lanier

DEPARTMENT HEAD Dr. Paul Cohen

MARKETING ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Ed Fitts (BSIE ’61), Founder and CEO, Dopaco, Inc. (Retired)

Dr. Paul Cohen, Department Head and Edgar S. Woolard Distinguished Professor

EDITOR and DESIGN DIRECTOR Robert Lasson

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Joachim Gawryolek, Robert Lasson

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Paul Cohen, Edward Fitts, Rachel Hollar, Robert Lasson, Elizabeth Lubben

IMAGES Amy Belivacqua, AJ Cole III, Ed Fitts, Rachel Hollar, ISE Department, Robert Lasson, Ken Martin

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IN THIS ISSUE5 QUESTIONS WITH ZITENG WANGISE alumnus Ziteng Wang (Class of 2015) shares his wisdom and experience from working in both industry and academia.

HOMECOMING 2017ISE kicked off Homecoming Weekend with WRAL’s Brian Shrader hosting a 3D printing panel discussion and the unveiling of its latest class of distinguished alumni.

CAMAL WINS ROI GRANTISE’s Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics will receive $600,000 to develop new metal-based manufacturing methods in partnership with UNC Charlotte and NC A&T.

ISE RETIREMENTSAfter a combined 96 years of teaching industrial engineering at NC State, Drs. Culbreth, Roberts, and Young have retired and are moving on to the next chapter in their lives.

ISE SEENIt’s an exciting time to be part of ISE, and these photos prove it. Have you been seen?

HONORS AND AWARDS2017 has seen the ISE Department’s students and faculty recognized by some of the most prestigious industrial engineering organizations in the world.

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FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD

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Dear Alumni and Friends of ISE,

Spring may be upon us a little earlier than usual, but students and faculty are working as hard as ever in the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Our students continue to compete on the national stage for engineering innovations, and our researchers are consistently finding new ways to integrate ISE-driven solutions into our daily lives. One thing is for sure: there is never a dull moment in Daniels Hall.

ISE Juniors Michael Rosenberg, Ethan Stewart and Samuel Ferry placed second in a semi-annual international competition for Simio that included 868 student competitors worldwide. Using what they learned from Dr. Stephen Roberts’ ISE 441 Introduction to Simulation class, the trio teamed up to solve a real-world supply-chain problem. Now, all three are confident in applying their new, proven knowledge to future projects and opportunities in any industry.

Our undergraduates are not the only ones solving real-world problems. ISE’s Dr. David Kaber, Ph.D. candidate Maryam Zahabi and senior Matthew Wadsworth recently conducted a first of its kind study to enhance the design of in-car mobile computing terminal interface systems used by police officers. Their goal was to make them more user-friendly, thus increase officer and civilian safety during police emergency operations. ISE researchers partnered with the Cary Police Department and were featured on Time Warner Cable broadcasted across the state, as well as on CBS North Carolina which resulted in an additional 18 other local NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates picking up the TV story across 11 states.

Before the winter break, ISE’s Dr. Rohan Shirwaiker, along with a multidisciplinary team, earned accolades as one of four winners of the Game-Changing Research Incentive Program (GRIP) Award. Dr. Shirwaiker’s team will explore how to efficiently manufacture customizable, biometric 3D-printed living tissues. Comprised of faculty members at both NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Shirwaiker and his team will receive $1.5 million over the next three years to fulfill their research and find the next biomedical breakthrough in 3D printing. In addition, Dr. Shirwaiker received an NSF CAREER Award for his pioneering work in bioprinting.

Impressive as they are, these accolades and successes are only a snapshot of what our ISE department has achieved. Please enjoy learning more about what our students, researchers and faculty are working on in this edition of inGear.

This is my final inGear as Department Head. It has been my privilege and pleasure to serve in this position for the past ten years, a decade of great change for ISE. I look forward to continuing to contribute to our shared vision through my teaching and research in the coming years. In the fall, Dr. Julie Swann will join us as Head. She comes to us from Georgia Tech with an outstanding record of scholarship and leadership. ISE is in great hands.

Sincerely,

Paul H. Cohen, Ph.D.ISE Department Head and Edgar S. Woolard Distinguished Professor

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5 Questions with ...ZITENG WANG

Hometown:

Graduating Class:

Career Overview:

Haiyang, China

Ph.D. 2015

Ziteng joined Northern Illinois University as an assistant professor in

Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2016. Prior to that, he was a Senior Operations Research Analyst with FedEx Express.

What is the single most important experience or understanding you gained in the ISE department?

The most important understanding I gained was that you can always do better, as a person or an organization. This is the

spirit of industrial and systems engineering. I learned so much from ISE professors and my peers and it always inspired me to

excel myself.

Are there regular industry / academic events you attend / ways you stay connected?

I go to the INFORMS and IISE conferences each year and always stop

by the NC State ISE booth. We may even bump into each other at an

airport! Email and LinkedIn are also great ways in which I keep up with

what’s going on in the department.

What would you like to accomplish in your career?

I hope to become a professor who brings exciting research advances

to the field and helps shape the best engineers for the future. I would

be extremely happy if my students become more successful and they

like me.

If you were not in the engineering field, what would you likely be doing?

I would probably become a medical doctor. Nothing helps people more than

saving their lives. But I think I am lucky because engineering makes lives

better and industrial engineering makes engineering better. Probably

working in the intersection of healthcare and industrial engineering is a

good idea.

What advice do you have for current ISE students?

The only limit to your impact is your

imagination and commitment. Being in such

a great ISE department can allow you to

realize your true potential. So try different

things, learn from your peers and seize the

golden opportunity when it comes!

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Welcome Back to the Future of 3D Printing

The ISE Department kicked off the NC State Homecoming Weekend

with a panel discussion on the future of 3D printing, followed by its annual Distinguished Alumni Induction Ceremony.

WRAL News’s Brian Shrader was kind enough to moderate the event hosted at the Brownstone Hotel in Raleigh. The panel was comprised of ISE professor Dr. Richard Wysk, ISE Alumni Ryan Bishop and Dr. Tushar Mahale and ISE industry partner, Jonathan Bissmeyer.

The panel shared insights on the ins and outs of 3D printers and how these machines are revolutionizing the way products are made and brought to market. 3D printing allows parts to be made more quickly than traditional machining

3D-Printing Panel (left to right): Brian Shrader, Jonathan Bissmeyer, Ryan Bishop, Dr. Richard Wysk, and Dr. Tushar Mahale

processes and at a significantly lower cost. 3D printing also enables structures to be created that simply could not be made using any other method.

The discussion moved from product manufacturing to the healthcare industry where 3D Bioplotters are used to print human tissues and organs that will reduce the world’s need for transplantable organs.

The panel wrapped up by sharing stories of what we can potentially look forward to seeing in the future, such as customizable footwear you will design yourself online and astronauts using 3D printers in space to make the parts they need to repair their spacecraft.

Watch the discussion:go.ncsu.edu/3DPanel

The Class of 2016

After the panel discussion, ISE held its annual Distinguished Alumni Luncheon. This year’s inductees have achieved success across a wide range of industries including IT, financial management, automotive and even working for the State of North Carolina.

This year’s inductees:

• James “Jimmy” Adams III

• Tracy Doaks

• Ralph Edwards, Jr.

• Dr. Jiao Gu

You can read all about their successful careers and achievements on the following pages.

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JAMES ADAMS III

TRACY DOAKS

BSIE - Class of 1995

BSIE - Class of 1990

James “Jimmy” Adams III is the President of Coach, LLC, a leading manufacturer of luxury motor coaches. He also serves as Chief Operating Officer at Amadas Industries, a specialized manufacturer of agricultural and industrial equipment. Adams earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering in 1995. He was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at NC State, and played club lacrosse.

Adams has a passion for motorsports, and competed in professional auto racing, driving Porsches, Vipers, and Le Mans Prototype cars in the IMSA, Grand-Am, and SCCA Pro Racing series. He has been a winner and record holder in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and has served as a driving instructor for auto manufacturers including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Land Rover, often in South America.

Adams and his wife Hannah met at NC State, they have two children, and reside in Suffolk, VA. The couple actively supports the Suffolk Humane Society, JDRF, Suffolk Art League, Suffolk-Nansemond Historical Society, and Nansemond-Suffolk Academy. For leisure, Jimmy enjoys travel, boating, skiing, fishing, hunting, motorhoming, and motorsports. Jimmy is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and serves as the Virginia State Chairman of the YPO Southern 7 Chapter.

Tracy Doaks joined DIT as Chief Deputy State CIO and Chief Services Officer in November of 2015. In this role, Tracy leads the Service Delivery Division (SDD) and focuses her efforts on the delivery of hosting services, network and voice connectivity and other related services to state agencies. Prior to joining DIT, Tracy worked for Duke Medicine where she served as the Senior Director of Service Delivery. Her primary responsibilities included providing leadership and oversight in the execution and delivery of application and infrastructure for Duke Medicine. Tracy previously worked for the state of North Carolina as Assistant Secretary of IT and CIO for the North Carolina Department of Revenue where she led all aspects of strategic IT planning, implementation, support, and risk. In addition, her past work experience also includes managing clinical informatics at Blue Cross and developing applications at Accenture.

Tracy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering in 1990 and then went on to earn her CIO certification from the UNC School of Government. She is also certified as a Project Management Professional.

Watch Doaks’s acceptance speech atgo.ncsu.edu/DEADoaks

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Watch Adams’s acceptance speech atgo.ncsu.edu/DEAAdams

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RALPH EDWARDS, JR.

JIAO GUPh.D. - Class of 1992

BSIE - Class of 1961

Ralph Edwards, Jr. is the Chairman and CEO of Glenridge Real Estate Inc., a private real estate company that invests in and provides asset management services for U.S. office, retail, and industrial properties in the Southeast. He received his B.S. Degree in Industrial Engineering in 1961 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1967. He has served on the board of the Atlanta Commercial Board and has been a member for 50 years, earning the Silver Phoenix Award for lifetime achievement.

Edwards has served on the boards of the Atlanta Beltline Partnership since it’s inception, the Trust for Public Land as well at the Grants to Green Program which enables non-profits to be more efficient. He is currently Chairman of the new building committee of a non-profit inner city youth development program known as “Moving in the Spirit”.

The arts and education are among his other philanthropic interests and he and his wife Ree are excited about sponsoring a three-year-old international immersion program for College of Engineering students. Meeting and learning from our most motivated and bright students is a highlight of their involvement in the school.

Jiao Gu is the President, CEO and founder of FEi Systems. He founded FEi in 1999 with a focus on building behavioral health IT systems and supporting various clinical research initiatives. Prior to establishing FEi Systems, Dr. Gu served as a Senior System Specialist at Mcfadden & Associates. He was also the key system architect and designer of the FAA NASDAC project, a project focused on aviation safety. Dr. Gu also facilitated several NASDAC international collaborations concerning aviation safety. He later built a similar system for the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). Dr. Gu achieved an M.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from the Northwestern Polytechnic University in Xian, China, in 1981. He was an Exchange Scholar at UMUC from 1983 - 1984, and earned a M.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering from Montana State University in 1989. Finally, Dr. Gu earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at NC State in 1992.

Watch Dr. Gu’s acceptance speech atgo.ncsu.edu/DEAGu

Watch Edwards’ acceptance speech atgo.ncsu.edu/DEAEdwards

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CAMAL Wins ROI Grant

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As part of the UNC Research Opportunities Initiative (ROI), the University of North Carolina General Administration has awarded a grant to three universities that will collaborate on developing new metal-based manufacturing methods. The ROI grant will provide ISE’s Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics (CAMAL) with $200,000 a year for three years. The partnership includes CAMAL, the Center for Precision Metrology (CPM) at UNC Charlotte, and the Advanced Metallic Materials and Porous Structures Lab (AMMPS) at NC A&T.

Drs. Ola Harrysson, Russell King and Richard Wysk are the primary investigators on the project. Their

goal is to leverage the existing expertise among these centers to address known shortcomings and challenges of metal-based additive manufacturing. This will help to position North Carolina as a future world leader in the field.

“The state of North Carolina is already reaping the benefits of the first round of UNC ROI funding,” UNC President Margaret Spellings told the Triangle Business Journal. “These new awards will continue to advance our goals of strengthening UNC’s research enterprise, connecting top researchers on multiple campuses, and supporting economic development in our state.”

CAMAL brings a 15+ year history of additive manufacturing (AM) research and strong industry involvement to the partnership. It’s considered one of the top AM research facilities in the world.

CPM adds its extensive proficiency in dimensional and surface metrology and in development and integration of instrument systems for precision measurement.

AMMPS provides expertise in understanding the properties, production and purification of powdered metals, as well as materials science.

This 3D-printed titanium football was presented to Chancellor Randy Woodson during his visit to the CAMAL Labs

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INFORMSCONFERENCEHIGHLIGHTSISE students, faculty and alumni travel to Nashville to share how they refine the process of good decision-making

Reha Uzsoy presents his research on finding bottlenecks

Atchyuta Manda discusses how to manage product transitions

Qi An talks enhanced linearizing equationsDavid Cornejo presents his work at the MIF Poster Contest Maria Mayorga talks with Wedad Elmaghraby and others

Beautiful Downtown Nashville is the home of country music

Nashville’s famous Honky Tonk Row is where many country music stars got their start

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RETIREMENTSStephen Roberts Robert Young

In 1990, Dr. Stephen Roberts arrived at NC State from the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care - a joint health clinic started by Purdue University and Indiana University’s School of Medicine - to become the new ISE Department Head. “I didn’t meet anyone I didn’t like. I think that is an unusual experience. Everyone I talked to in the Provost’s office, the Dean’s office and especially the department, I liked,” said Dr. Roberts.

After almost a decade, he decided to return to teaching full-time. In 2010, Dr. Roberts wanted to expand ISE’s healthcare program and so he started the Health Systems Engineering Certificate Program. “I thought that if we were going to have a healthcare interest in the department, then we shouldn’t confine ourselves to research,” confided Dr. Roberts. “There should be an educational component as well.” During his successful career as the A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor, Dr. Roberts received numerous awards including the C.A. Anderson Faculty Award twice and a Fellowship from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.

After spending two years at the Institute of Production Management and Industrial Engineering in Denmark, Dr. Robert Young returned to NC State in 1988. While in the ISE Department, he realized the limited global awareness and language skill of U.S. industrial engineering students. So, Dr. Young created the first Exchange Program between Brazil and the U.S. “Students completing this program will be able to organize and take part in international engineering design teams since they will understand the cross-cultural issues that can impede successful team performance,” said Young. His program not only provided students the opportunity to study abroad, but also prepared them to work within the international engineering community.

The project funded students to study for five months in Brazil. It included the creation of an intensive language training program that provided the two year equivalent of Portuguese instruction in just over a semester.

His decades of industrial engineering work earned him the Young Manufacturing Engineer of the Year in 1982 and the Inaugural IISE George L. Smith Award in 2014.

Reha Uzsoy presents his research on finding bottlenecks

Maria Mayorga talks with Wedad Elmaghraby and others

Tom Culbreth, Jr

Dr. Culbreth has been a member of the Industrial Engineering faculty at North Carolina State University since 1978. He received the C.A. Anderson Outstanding Faculty Awards in both 1982 and 1989. In 1991, he established the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center and served as its Director until 2005.

It was no surprise that after spending 20 years conducting collaborative research with the furniture industry, Dr. Culbreth decided to branch out and create a new pathway to introduce students to other emerging and relevant areas of engineering. He’d been teaching quality engineering to undergraduates, but wanted to ensure graduates of the department were better trained in the area of biomanufacturing.

With that in mind, Dr. Culbreth and several other ISE faculty members looked into how the department could better equip graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills.

His research focused on furniture manufacturing processes and system design, lean manufacturing, and decision support systems for furniture manufacturing operations.

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One Well to Change 700 Lives

Clean Water - A Project Six Years in the Making

In December 2016 when Amy Bevilacqua (ISE ’18) and her Engineers Without Borders teammates arrived in Lower Allentown, an urban area near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, they were eager to get to work and fulfill a goal six years in the making: design and institute year-round access to clean water for the 700 school children of the Dele Village Learning Center.

To prepare for the trip, Bevilacqua researched well designs and water distribution systems. The Dele Village Learning Center has five bathrooms equipped with plumbing fixtures, but without running water. Therefore, students and teachers manage by carrying buckets of water into the school – a very laborious task. To improve this system and the lives of the community, the NC State Engineering team planned and

installed a well with a manual hand pump, providing ready access to sanitary water for cooking, cleaning and drinking.

On site, Bevilacqua supervised the construction project and also conducted surveys of the school’s property in preparation for future projects, inclusive of implementing a water distribution system. “A lot of the work was to plan for the next trip,” she said. “We’re going to go back in December to put in a distribution system that utilizes the school’s preexisting plumbing.”

“Knowing it would be almost a year before we could come back, we didn’t want to leave them with this useless well,” she added. “We gave them a hand pump because we wanted them to have water access during the 12 months in between our trips.”

Before returning to the United States, the team made sure to equip members of the community

with the tools they would need to utilize the well effectively. They talked at length about how to operate the pump, provided an operations and maintenance manual and taught a school employee how to make minor repairs. “Education was a big part of it,” said Bevilacqua.

A Kind and Grateful Community

The genuine nature of Lower Allentown’s community was a pleasant surprise to Bevilacqua and the other students, as they were welcomed with open arms the moment they arrived.

“Children would run up to you and hold your hand. Everyone was thankful and gracious, even though they knew we weren’t from there,” said Bevilacqua. “We never had an issue with the community. Everyone respected each other. The close-knit families, even in an extremely poor area, looked out for each other.”

Sleeping in 100-degree heat in sub-Saharan Africa and surveying construction sites may not be everyone’s ideal winter break, but ISE Junior, Amy Bevilacqua, was ready for the challenge. As a member of the NC State Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, Bevilacqua traveled to Sierra Leone with a group of student and professional engineers to provide a clean water source to 700 school children. And she’s not done yet.

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One Well to Change 700 Lives

The community’s kindness and gratitude were further evidenced when, to celebrate the New Year, Bevilacqua and two other students got a ride to Tiwai Island, a wildlife sanctuary, from a parent whose children attend the Dele Village Learning Center. “Mr. Ba’s generosity left me dumbfounded,” she said. “He works from sun-up to sun-down and still gave up a part of his holiday to take us on our little tourist vacation, a three hour drive each way, all because we were doing work for the school.”

Bridging Interests: Engineering and Service

Bevilacqua did not always plan to study Industrial Engineering. She arrived at NC State expecting to thrive in Biomedical Engineering, but found she wanted more flexibility and greater human connection, which she soon found in ISE.

“Industrial Engineering spoke to me because it’s broader - you can go into many fields but you have a specialty in making stuff more efficient, experience working in teams and fixing up what processes are already there,” she said. “That’s what I’m good at.”

Not only does she want to fix things, she wants to make an impact. That’s why, when she joined NC State’s Chapter of Engineers Without Borders, she immediately signed up for the Sierra Leone Water Systems trip. “I went full force into it - I really wanted to be a

The view from atop Lower Allentown, an urban area near Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown

“Children would run up to you and hold your hand. Everyone was thankful and gracious, even though they knew we weren’t from there.”

Amy Bevilacqua, ISE Junior

Amy Bevilacqua spending time with some of the 700 students from Dele Village Learning Center

Bevilacqua and her fellow NC State Engineers Without Borders team members

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part of it,” she explained. “I wanted to travel and I was eager to see the project come through.”

This trip was not the first time Bevilacqua traveled abroad with service in mind. When she was 15 years old, she joined a group of students across the country to spend three weeks in rural Costa Rica to work with a sea turtle conservation organization.

“That’s why I chose Engineers Without Borders, because I knew that service was what I wanted to do, I wanted to see what else is out there, and I wanted to see how I can help other people.” She particularly enjoyed the hands-on aspect of the trip. “I really wanted to go and see all of our work implemented, so going to Africa was great, because you get to see all the people— you get to see how you’re helping.”

Looking Ahead

Engineers Without Borders’ work in Sierra Leone will continue this December with their next large scale project: a full water distribution system for the entire school. Because the school does

not have a source of electricity, the team will have to rely on the force of gravity to distribute the water.

“The design system entails having this immersible pump, running it up the side of the school into a tank, and from the tank everything would be gravity-fed,” said Bevilacqua. “A lot of what we’ve done is calculating for the gravity to ensure enough water flow and seeing where the piping could go without being obstructed by the school or messing up the infrastructure.”

Though it is months away, Bevilacqua is already looking forward to returning to Sierra Leone in December. She hopes to focus on planning and publicity for the project to ensure the team makes the largest impact possible for the Lower Allentown community.

“It was a really great experience, I can’t wait to go back,” she said. “I wouldn’t give back my winter break for anything.”

“Industrial Engineering spoke to me because it’s broader - you can go into many fields but you have a specialty in making stuff more efficient, experience working in teams and fixing up what processes are already there. That’s what I’m good at.”

Amy Bevilacqua, ISE Junior

Bevilacqua and her fellow NC State Engineers Without Borders team members teach people in the area how to operate and repair the manual pump.

The Lower Allentown community displayed genuine kindness and welcomed the NC State team with open arms and were quite grateful for their new source of clean water.

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Cole Spends His Spring Breaks

in Kenya

Since high school, ISE junior AJ Cole III (center left) has spent his spring breaks at the Mountain Park Academy in Kenya

NC State punter A.J. Cole III started going to Kenya over spring break as a senior in high school. Once he got to college, he needed his best sales pitch to convince teammates to come along with him.

So he called a meeting on campus and promised those interested that they would embark on a life-changing experi-ence. It would not be an easy one. For starters, they would each have to raise $3,000 to fund the trip. They would have to make sure they had a full range of up-to-date shots (not to mention a passport and other travel documents).

They would have to take two seven-hour airplane rides to Nairobi. Then they would have to board a Jeep-style safari truck and head four hours northwest to Nakuru. Once there, they would be staying in bunk beds on the campus of Mountain Park Academy, a boarding school for Kenyan children. Modern amenities would be in scarce supply.

They would spend five days with the teachers and children, doing mission work while also uplifting, encouraging and teaching the children either in the classroom or through sports. Cole got three teammates, Airius Moore, Brady Bodine and Nicholas, Lacy to join him this spring.

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Dr. Karen Chen shows WRAL News how her virtual reality research is used to help patients recover from physical ailments

Team Joyce Farms (Cole Hamilton, Devin Kelly, Brandon Walton and Matthew Wadsworth) take 1st place in the Engineering Design Day Poster Competition

ISE’s Dr. Richard Wysk shared a laugh with the 3D printing panel that featured ISE alumni Ryan

Bishop and Dr. Tushar Mahale. Brian Shrader from WRAL News was the moderator

With soil testing complete, the signs have been installed for the new Engineering Oval Building on Centennial Campus

Dr. David Kaber demonstrates to WRAL News how he is using a driving simulator to improve driver safety on NC highways in the ISE Depertment

Ph.D. student Sha Luo presents her research at the INFORMS Conference

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Students, faculty, alumni and industry partners collaborate on sepsis research

Hakan Sungur receives the ISE Staff Employee of the Year at the C.A. Anderson Awards

ISE undergraduates await to receive their diplomas at the 2016 Fall Graduation Ceremony

F. Scott Moody, CEO of K4Connect, delivers the commencement address at the Fall Graduation Ceremony

Shakiba Enayati successfully defends her dissertation and becomes one of ISE’s newest doctors in the ISE Department

Dr. Ivy and her HSECP students at the C.A. Anderson Awards

Senior Jennifer Frix wins the Outstanding Senior Award at the C.A. Anderson Awards

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When ISE Junior Michael Rosenberg isn’t studying for his classes, he’s

most likely in his 16th-floor office in downtown Raleigh, slowly but surely revolutionizing the healthcare industry. In the fall of 2015, Rosenberg gathered students across NC State to create Medicom, a peer-to-peer network that exchanges health information between patients, providers, payers and academics to drastically reduce the cost of healthcare and improve care quality.

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FIXING EXISTING SYSTEMS

At an event for Chancellor Randy Woodson, Rosenberg told the crowd he knew ISE was a perfect fit from the moment he stepped onto campus. He started asking himself, “What kinds of systems are inefficient? Why are these systems wasteful? What systems are worth improving?”

Raised in Tucson, Arizona, Rosenberg watched as his father, an oncologist, struggled with the inefficiencies of sharing patient data, and more specifically, the process of repeat imaging as doctors across disciplines lacked a straightforward method to exchange tests and images. This process was not only costly to the insurance providers, but also detrimental to the patients’ health. According to the American College of Radiology, 25 percent of cancer patients experience disease progression due to repeat imaging.

Moreover, the cost of repeat imaging exceeded $20 billion per year to the taxpayer, according to the Centers for Medicaid Services.

Rosenberg set out to answer his questions. He began a journey to modernize the healthcare system, as well as improve patient care, all through industrial systems engineering. “This was one of the rare occasions where decreasing expenses actually benefits the patients,” he said.

With drive and determination, Rosenberg took advantage of the Entrepreneurship Initiative to bring together students from the

engineering school, the design school, the business school and from CHASS to create Medicom.

MEDICOM

Medicom offers software as a service (SaaS) for healthcare systems, payers, health information exchanges and hospitals. Thanks to a loophole in HIPAA created by a 2009 regulation under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Medicom’s peer-to-peer network bypasses regulations and significantly reduces the cost of patient file sharing. This peer-to-peer network

sidesteps the previous process of sending information through several third party channels—usually at a steep price—before relaying it to the intended recipient. Medicom suggests the same process through

a Virtual PrivateNetork (VPN) would cost upwards of $238,600 annually, almost 10 times more expensive than Medicom’s price of $24,000 annually.

Not only is Medicom’s service more cost effective, it also provides encryption to ensure secure file transfer without saving the data to a third party server. To Rosenberg, the process is simple. “We’re like a phone operator for medical information,” he said. “We’re not listening to the call; we’re just connecting the information to the right party.”

Medicom is garnering plenty of attention, most recently from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). In March, Rosenberg traveled to Washington, DC, to present Medicom’s business

Rosenberg speaking at the NC State Chancellor’s Reception at PNC Arena before a basketball game against Wake Forest

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SIMIO Team Places 2nd in World Competition

Twice a year, Simio holds an international competition where teams of college students battle each other for fame, glory and $6,000 in cash. According to SIMIO, their most recent contest consisted of 868 students making up 250 teams which came from 33 schools across 14 countries. The team known as Group 11, consisting of Michael Rosenberg, Ethan Stewart, and Samuel Ferry, placed second, the highest finish for an NC State team ever! Of the top 16 teams, consisting of winners, finalists, and semi-finalists, three were from the ISE Department. We’ll do the math. That’s ALL ISE teams in the top 6.4% of all participants! The team projects were part of Dr. Stephen Roberts‘s ISE 441 Introduction to Simulation class.

The teams had to come up with a solution to a real-world, supply-chain problem. This problem not only challenged their model-building skills, but creativity, project management, and even video production and presentation skills as well. “A manufacturing company headquartered in Asia has to meet demand supply in Central and South America,” explained ISE Junior Michael Rosenberg. “They were trying to decide whether to build a regional distribution center in Miami, Florida or Panama to be able to handle supply surges, as well as reduce lead times.”

Also, the company had six-week demand spikes the team had to address. “That is where our model was the strongest versus our competition,” speculated ISE Junior Ethan Stewart. “We added a property that we could turn on and off to simulate surges. Many teams calculated a flat 10 or 20 percent increase, but we created a continuous function for them.” “Our model could show what would happen at any surge level,” said ISE Junior Samuel Ferry.

concept to the NAE on behalf of NC State, one of 15 schools chosen from a pool of 150 to participate. Impressed, the jurors selected Medicom to represent the University—and the United States—at NAE’s Global Grand Challenges Summit this July.

FUTURE GROWTH

Today, Medicom provides three core products: ImageX, Endpoint and Hex. But Rosenberg is not done yet.

This spring, he and his fellow students-turned-entrepreneurs are heading into their second round of investor seed funding. They hope the funding will allow Medicom to expand not only its staff, but its product line and attract more buyers. Its current clientele include the VA Hospitals and McKesson among its list of more than 1,000 organization level clients across the nation.

Rosenberg spends the majority of his time with Medicom, and despite his class schedule, he doesn’t see himself slowing down anytime soon. Medicom’s innovative process will attract payers and providers across the country whose bottom line is to reduce costs. He hopes to bring Medicom to the market and give a private offering of the company in three years, while most of his peers will be beginning their entry-level jobs.

“Hopefully we’ll get acquired!” he added. “Then after that, who knows?”

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Gayle Lanier, BSIE ‘82, is the first female alumna of the department to receive the prestigious Watauga Medal as part of this year’s Founders Day celebration. “I have been truly humbled and honored by this recognition,” confided Lanier. “NC State has been wonderful in providing me with the fundamentals to be successful in my career. Giving back has been solely out of my love for this University, its faculty and staff, and most importantly, the students it serves.” She becomes the sixth ISE alumnus to receive the University’s highest non-academic honor joining fellow ISE Distinguished Alumni

■ Worley “H” Clark, Jr. (’96) ■ James A. Hackney III (’97) ■ Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. (’01) ■ Edward P. Fitts (’06) ■ Thomas E. Cabaniss (’13)

“I hope the example I have set confirms for other women engineers, like my daughter Brittany Lanier, another NC State alumna (BSCE ‘07), that you can do and be anything,” shared Lanier. “Education, hard work and a strong belief in yourself is all you need.”

“Gayle is an outstanding example of someone who has given back to her alma mater and improves the department, college, and university,” shared ISE Department Head Paul

Cohen. “As a member of our Advisory Board, I rely on her experience and judgment to inform and help us move forward. She is most deserving of this prestigious honor.”

About Gayle Lanier

After graduating from NC State, Lanier has held leadership roles at both Nortel and EMC. Currently, she serves as the Senior Vice President of Customer Services at Duke Energy.

Lanier’s commitment to the ISE Department and the University is unwavering. She is a current member of ISE’s Advisory Board and a past member of the University’s Board of Trustees and Board of Visitors. Other appointments include:

■ National Minority Engineering Programs Board

■ Engineering Foundation Board ■ Kenan Institute Board ■ Computer Science Strategic

Advisory Board ■ Board of Trustees of the

Endowment Fund

Lanier’s support of gender and racial diversity earned her The Network Journal’s 25 Influential Black Women in Business Award in 2009 and the Business Leader Women Extraordinaire Award in 2011. Along with her husband, she established the Dwain K. and

Gayle S. Lanier NCSU Scholarship Endowment in 2003 to help benefit need-based engineering and Poole College of Management students.

“Today there are more women leaders in STEM careers than there have ever been, but there are still not enough,” said Lanier. “Like myself, senior women leaders across the world are embracing the fast-paced world we live in and providing solutions to problems that we had not even identified 10 years

ago. From Sheryl Sandberg, COO Facebook, Ursula Burns, Chair-CEO Xerox, and Lynn Good, Chair-CEO Duke Energy, women are leading Fortune 100 companies across the globe. Education is the great equalizer and NC State is among the best universities in the nation providing the skills that women need to bring the unique diversity of thought as a welcomed balance to the standard boardroom.”

ISE’s 1stFemaleWataugaMedalist

Gayle Lanier becomes the first ISE alumna to receive the Watauga Medal joining five other ISE Distinguuished Alumni

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Location: Hickory, NCLeader: Kevin Boyle, Tim Harmon, Rhonda NicholsISE Team Members: Taylor Badgett, Rachel Longenecker, Sean Nanagas, Andrew Nyce

Century Furniture’s sofa manufacturing plant was stocking out of common frame component parts, affecting schedules and disrupting manufacturing operations.

The ISE student team analyzed part storage and ordering methods and rules and will develop lot size and reorder models that optimize part availability while minimizing carrying costs, thus respecting desired schedules and forecasts.

SENIOR DESIGN SPONSORS

Location: King Mountain, NCLeader: Gary Brooks, Shelby Evans, Sean NoonanISE Team Members: Emily Buchenberger, Logan Lane, Austin Minton

New automation has recently been installed at the Commercial Vehicle Group (CVG) plant location in Kings Mountain, NC in support of the next generation Cab system. Even with the newly implemented capabilities, the management team does not believe that functionality for weld gun performance has been optimized.

The ISE team optimized the maintenance schedule and improve process productivity by developing a real-time process monitoring system.

Location: King Mountain, NCLeader: Gary Brooks, Shelby Evans, Devin HepburnISE Team Members: Ben Jones, Mitchell Chalker, Jenna Misenheimer

Existing analog electro-coat processes at Commercial Vehicle Group’s (CVG) Kings Mountain, NC vehicle manufacturing facility use analog and manually operated controls to modify bath operating temperatures. Present methods discourage quality initiatives and are inefficient by today’s standards.

To solve the problem, the ISE team developed an automated system to monitor, collect and report vital process information, and control temperature as well as improve quality performance.

Location: Sanford, NCLeader: Rob Leder, Emmanuel HortonISE Team Members: Lauren Garrett, Kalene Hanson, Justin Mauney, Andrew Page

Changeover times between fragrances and associated packaging are inconsistent and wasteful.

With a goal of reaching one minute per changeover, the ISE student team improved changeover time by at least 15 percent by analyzing and controlling process centerlines. By eliminating paper logbooks and converting over to a database-driven system, efficiencies with regard to staffing, changeover strategies, run-size strategies and SKU filling were achieved.

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Each semester, ISE has the pleasure of partnering with local companies for our Senior Design Project Program. This is an opportunity for companies to utilize student resources and have new concepts and fresh ideas injected into their real-world projects. ISE would like to thank this semester’s sponsors for their participation in the program.

Location: Sanford, NCLeader: Rob Leder, Will Morin, Larissa Sanchez, Sara WolfsonISE Team Members: Josh Barclay, Jacob Quinn, Max Uhlig

Bulk losses due to changeover inefficiencies and improper filling of skincare equipment is of cost concern to Coty.

To solve the problem, the ISE student team designed and implemented a process standardization matrix based around specific key process parameters. The project promoted a 20 percent improvement by way of loss reduction. Quality and production worker training levels will follow as impactful improvements.

Location: Sanford, NCLeader: Rob Leder, Wallie Tyler, Kenneth ZabelISE Team Members: Andrew Barmer, Jennifer Frix, Derrick Sprague

Quality and safety are highly visible at the Coty manufacturing plant. Data captured in these areas are valuable and can be used to justify future capital projects. Data already captured have not been quantified into specific costs related to safety, or quality.

The ISE student team data mined and identified the leading, lagging, and intangible costs of any particular safety or quality incident and developed a tool that management will be able to use to benchmark Coty’s performance against industry competitors.

Location: Apex/RTP, NCLeader: Andrea Rekrut, Adolf Santos, Amber WilliamsISE Team Members: David Carpenter, Marian Hudson, Jeremy Lamb, Ryan Stevens

Dell EMC maintains staging inventory for its manufacturing facility at an off-premises warehouse. Besides general inefficiencies observed, racking safety standards enforced at sister facilities have not been implemented at this location.

The ISE student team standardized processes and established best-practice policies related to these activities in an effort to save on warehousing costs, reduce and eliminate safety risks, along with enhancing intra-facility communications.

Location: Internal (NSF funded)Leader: Atin AngrishISE Team Members: Jerry Coleman, Austin Colvard, Sigrun Kraehe, Madison Souder

A common customer complaint is that it takes too long to find a suitable vendor that can produce a part, prototype or otherwise, in a “quick-turn” manner.

To solve the problem, the ISE team surveyed 15 local manufacturers and captured data on machine capacity, utilization, order types, how new business is found and the information on the overall quoting process. The team then developed a capacities and capabilities database and provided a simulation tool that reflects machine capacities, scheduled utilization, order and material diversity, as well as quoting parameters.

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THANK YOUSPONSORS!

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Location: Mebane, NCLeader: Kyle Nordike, Samantha OdrobinaISE Team Members: Laura Geary, Trent Jones, Ryan Long, Drew Pierce

The 63L Automated Transfer Switch production line is not running efficiently due to a substantial number of defects encountered in the assembly process. The current process state is contributing to lower than desired throughput and lower profits.

The ISE team performed production line flow and balance analyses and designed, iterated and tested new pick carts for production. Through optimization, defects were drastically reduced and throughput increased by at least 10 percent.

Location: Raleigh, NCLeader: Ryan Hollerman, Rob Murphy, Jennifer O’DonoghueISE Team Members: Bailey Davis, Shane Dodd, Ian Goldberg, Taylor Purvis

The NCSU Sports Medicine Department relies heavily on the transfer of paper documentation and email trails when it comes to onboarding new employees and the licensure and training of current employees.

To solve the problem, the ISE team determined and implemented the best available system and methods for paperless data management.

Location: Raleigh, NCLeader: Casi Dailey, Jennifer O’DonoghueISE Team Members: Lilah Conley, Mark Denton, Connor Sweeney, Ashley Williams

The NCSU Sports Medicine provides student athletes with Over the Counter (OTC) and Non-steroidal (NSAID) medications. Currently, there is no standard procedure to track medication, which presents safety as well as regulatory concerns.

The ISE student team developed an IOS-compliant tracking system for NCSU Sports Medicine Athletic Trainers.

AWARDS and HONORS

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Laurent Gajny, ISE visiting scholar (2013), received the 2017 Pierre Bezier Thesis Award from the Solid Modeling Association. Dr. Gajny received the award for his Ph.D. thesis, Approximation of discrete functions and data in the sense of the L1 norm by polynomial splines, which he researched while at the ISE Department under the mentorship of ISE professor Shu-Cherng Fang.

In honor of Pierre Bézier, the Bézier Award was established in 2007 to recognize individuals or teams who have made long lasting contributions in Solid, Geometric, or Physical Modeling or in their applications.

Katie Basinger, Ph.D. student, received the 2016 Recognition for Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Graduate Student Association at NC State University. The Mentorship Award is given to the graduate student who exemplifies positive impact on students beyond the classroom or laboratory environment. Basinger received the award at the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards Banquet at the McKimmon Center in March.

Sanaz Goldani, Ph.D. student, received the 2016 Award of Excellence in Classroom Teaching from the Graduate Student Association at NC State University. The Excellence Award is given to the graduate student who exemplifies the University’s highest degree of teaching achievement in the classroom environment. Like Basinger, Goldani received the award at the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards Banquet.

Lokesh Karthik Narayanan, Ph.D. student, received the 2017 IISE Manufacturing & Design (M&D) Best Student Paper Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Narayanan received the award for his paper, Non-destructive Quality Assessment of 3D-Biofabricated Constructs using Dielectric Impedance Spectroscopy, at the M&D Division Town Hall Meeting during the IISE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.

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AWARDS and HONORS

Michael Rosenberg and Danielle Sumner, juniors, received an Undergraduate Research Award from the NC State Chapter of Sigma Xi. They received the award for their research poster entitled, Optimizing the Emergency Response Vehicle Fleet which they presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium held at the McKimmon Cetner this spring.

Ashley Williams, senior, received the ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award which recognizes the top female scholar-athlete at each ACC institution. She was named to the Academic All-ACC and CoSIDA Academic All-District Teams, as well as being selected as the 2017 ACC Postgraduate Scholarship recipient.

Samuel Ferry, Michael Rosenberg and Ethan Stewart, juniors, placed second in the Simio International Simulation Competition, the highest finish for an NC State team in history. Of the top 16 teams, consisting of winners, finalists, and semi-finalists, three were from the ISE Department. They competed against 868 students making up 250 teams from 33 schools across 14 countries.

Julie Ivy, professor and Fitts Faculty Fellow, received the Moving Spirit Award from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for “moving spirits” in the Minoirty Issues Forum (MIF) including her work with the MIF Poster Competition.

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Anton Ipsen, junior, received ACC Men’s Swimming & Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors. The award recognizes the top junior or senior student-athletes in their respective sports. In the pool, Ipsen received All-ACC honors for his first and second place finishes in the 500m and 1,650m freestyle at the ACC Championships. At the NCAA Championships, Ipsen’s two top-eight finishes in those same events earned him All-American status and qualified him for the 2017 World Championships in Budapest.

In the classroom, Ipsen earned All-ACC Academic honors and Scholar All-America honors from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) all while maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Tim McGlothlin, Executive Director of the Ergonomics Center of NC, became President-Elect of the Institute for Industrial Engineers (IISE). He will serve for three years, one each as President-Elect, President, and Immediate Past President. Candidates are considered based upon their professional background, previous volunteer service, and proven leadership within IISE.

Pedro Huebner, Ph.D. student, received the 2017 Gilbreth Memorial Fellowship from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). At the C.A. Anderson Awards in April, Huebner received the ISE Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, an award voted on by ISE undergrads.

Rohan Shirwaiker, assistant professor, received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

In December, Shirwaiker received a Game-Changing Research Incentive Program (GRIP) Award from NC State’s Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORIED), along with RTI International and Kenan Institute.

Shirwaiker also received the C.A. Anderson Outstanding Faculty Award in April. This award is voted on by ISE undergrads.

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ADVISORY BOARD 2017Board Chair’s Notes - MARCH 2017

I look forward to penning this article for each issue of inGear as it brings a fresh opportunity to showcase our department’s exceptional efforts toward engineering a brighter future.

As part of NC State’s homecoming celebrations last fall, ISE hosted a panel of dynamic industry experts from the Triangle area to discuss the future of 3D printing and advanced manufacturing. These thought leaders shared insights from their professional experience and illuminated the potential of 3D printing when applied to healthcare solutions to a captivated audience of alumni, students, faculty and community business leaders.

Special congratulations are due to Tim McGlothlin, executive director of The Ergonomics Center, who has been named president-elect of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Tim will lead the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession.

Finally, our entire NC State ISE community deserves recognition as we celebrate another year ranked in the top 15 industrial, manufacturing and systems engineering graduate programs in the United States. Compiled by the U.S. News and World Report, these rankings reflect the opinions of academics at our peer institutions who recognize NC State ISE as a standout program poised to deliver the field’s next generation of intellectual leaders.

Ed Fitts, BSIE 1961ISE Advisory Board Chair

The ISE Department receives valuable input from

its advisory board. The board maintains and fosters

relationships with students, faculty, the Dean of the

College of Engineering, the community and alumni.

The advisory board meets each semester.

Dr. Tony AtalaDirector of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative MedicineW.H. Boyce Professor and Chair of the Department of Urology at Wake Forest University

Larry BowmanBSIE, North Carolina State University 1973ISE Distinguished Alumni 2008Principal with Bowman Investments, LLC

Edward Fitts (Chair)BSIE, North Carolina State University 1961ISE Distinguished Alumni 2006Founder and CEO of Dopaco, Inc. (Retired)

Gayle LanierBSIE, North Carolina State University 1982ISE Distinguished Alumni 2007Senior VP and CCO of Duke Energy

Dr. Leon McGinnisPh.D., North Carolina State University 1975ISE Distinguished Alumni 2006Professor Emeritus in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech

Stuart NesbitBSCSC, North Carolina State University 1987Vice President, Business Intelligence Research & Development at SAS

F. Scott MoodyBSIE, North Carolina State University 1980ISE Distinguished Alumni 2015Co-founder and CEO of K4Connect

Joe Pleasant, Jr.BSIE, North Carolina State University 1972ISE Distinguished Alumni 2010CIO and Senior Vice President of Premier, Inc. (Retired)

EDWARD P. FITTS | ISE ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR

A HIGHER GEARA look at some of the numbers that shape the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC State

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of the NC State University Top-10 Caterpillar Scholar-Athletes (highest GPA) were from the ISE Department (Anna Costa, Anton Ipsen, Aaron Thomas, Alec Thomas and Ashley Williams)

Percentage of female students joining the ISE Department this

fall as undergrads

Senior Design Projects(11 Senior Design, 4 Health Systems) on display at this

Spring’s Engineering Design Day

ACC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year (Ashley Williams, 3.95 GPA)ISE alumni who

have received the Watauga Medal (NC State’s highest non-academic honor)

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WAYS TO GIVE BACK TO ISEWould you like to help the Department continue

to provide world-class industrial engineering

education and relevant, cutting-edge research?

Here are some options:

Annual Giving: Annual gifts to ISE are generally for an

unrestricted purpose. Gifts of more than $1,000 qualify for

membership in the Dean’s Circle. Annual gifts from alumni

are measured as “participation rate” and directly affect

national rankings.

Endowment: An endowment is a fund held in perpetuity

that benefits a specific purpose. Most endowments held

by the Department are either for scholarships or endowed

faculty purposes.

Planned Giving: Planned gifts can be as simple as a

bequest (including us in your estate plans). Other options

include trust vehicles and annuities, which have the

potential to provide an income stream and significant

tax benefits.

Capital Gifts: These gifts go toward “brick and mortar”

projects. Donors are given “naming opportunities.” These

include the planned Engineering Oval building.

In-Kind Gifts: These are gifts of goods or services to the

Department at a discount or no cost.

Special Gifts: These gifts are directed to unique projects,

centers or initiatives as directed and approved by the Dean

of Engineering.

For more information, please contact Mike Walsh at 919.515.7237 or mpwalsh2@ncsu.edu. The Federal Tax

Identification Number for the Engineering Foundation is 56-

6046987.

Ready to help?Go to go.ncsu.edu/isegiving to donate to the department today.

MIKE WALSH | DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT | 919.515.7237 | MPWALSH2@NCSU.EDU

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ISE Corporate Partners Program

Senior Design Capstone ProjectsAs part of the ISE Department’s rigorous curriculum, all undergraduate students must complete a semester long, team based senior design project. We partner with companies ranging all industries, for example, Caterpillar, EMC, IBM, Novozymes, Revlon and many more. These projects provide invaluable educational experiences for the students and have demonstrated real savings for our partners.

With additional training such as professional communications and Lean Six Sigma training and certification, the program counts on sponsorship to provide these enriching experiences.

Why partner with ISE?The Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at NC State is one of the top-ranked engineering programs in the country. We produce engineers who offer a combination of cutting edge ingenuity, interpersonal skills and business acumen.

The mission of our ISE Corporate Partners Program is to:

� develop and sustain strong connections between the department and the business community

� build strong collaborations between students, faculty and corporate partners

� shape department’s future direction

The unrestricted funding generated by the program allows us to improve our educational programs and student experiences.

Learn more at go.ncsu.edu/ISEpartners