The Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering recently hosted an international conference of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Society (IEOM) on campus with Associate Professor Wilkistar Otieno serving as the Conference Chair. The June event drew hundreds of participants …
Rockwell Automation is renewing its founding partnership with UWM’s Connected Systems Institute (CSI) with a new $1 million, five-year commitment, bringing its total investment to $5 million since 2017. CSI connects engineering, business and industry partners around the industrial internet …
Alex Yasha Yi has joined the faculty in electrical engineering and become the Director of Research at the Connected Systems Institute. He comes to the college from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where he was a faculty member in the College …
The College of Engineering & Applied Science is now enrolling students for the fall launch of its new master’s of science degree program in connected systems engineering. This first-of-its-kind program in Wisconsin combines engineering, business and data science with real-world …
Congratulations to Aditya Akundi, who has been named Assistant Vice President for Student Development for the North American Operations Board (NAOB) of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The NAOB develops policies and provides strategic direction for the effective operation of …
Swaroop Behera is a strong believer in the value of student clubs and had been quite involved as an undergraduate and master’s student in materials science. In 2019, the doctoral student was looking for an activity that could stir up …
A flurry of media accompanied the announcement on May 8 that Microsoft will build the nation’s first manufacturing-focused AI Co-Innovation Lab at UWM’s Connected Systems Institute. The lab will give students hands-on learning with artificial intelligence and connect them to …
Shamar Webster, a recent master’s degree graduate in computer science, co-created a factory-specific chatbox that allows workers at manufacturing plants to use natural language to interact with the production line and receive immediate answers to questions. Webster worked with Microsoft’s …
Eleven UWM students from the Materials Science & Engineering Department were recently awarded scholarships from the Foundry Educational Foundation (FEF). One of the recipients, doctoral student Omid Ghaderi, was recognized with the organization’s competitive Thomas Begel Memorial Scholarship, given to …
In November, Dean Brett Peters was named as an International Director of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. SME is dedicated to developing the partnerships and solutions that work to ensure North American manufacturing competitiveness, security and superiority on the global …
