Industrial Engineering

Clemson IE’s Khademi receives NSF CAREER Award

Clemson University’s Department of Industrial Engineering is excited to announce that Dr. Amin Khademi has received an NSF CAREER Award! The award is a five-year, $500,000 grant that will not only help Dr. Khademi support a comprehensive research program in healthcare operations research, but it will also support creative educational initiatives that will bolster both the undergraduate and […]

Clemson IE professors take the lead

The Department of Industrial Engineering’s research funding, graduation rates, scholarship, and service are experiencing unprecedented levels of success and notoriety. This upward trend is a sign of the inherent skills that make up the collection of faculty in the Clemson IE department. In addition to the diverse skillsets of the IE faculty, their leadership skills […]

Clemson IE makes strong showing at 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting

Clemson IE was well represented at the 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting with numerous students and faculty members attending the conference in Nashville, TN on November 13-16. The annual gathering of members of the operations research (OR) community provided the perfect platform for Clemson IE to showcase the breadth of research that students at Clemson University are conducting in […]

Clemson IE researchers investigate the feasibility of co-firing biomass with coal to generate power

Sandra Eksioglu

The work of three researchers from Clemson University’s Department of Industrial Engineering was featured in the September issue of ISE Magazine and published in the October issue of IIE Transactions. Clemson Industrial Engineering faculty members Drs. Sandra Eksioglu and Burak Eksioglu and PhD student Hadi Karimi examine biomass co-firing as an option to support the Environmental Protection Agency’s […]

Kurz and Riggs win college-wide honors

The Industrial Engineering department is very happy to announce that Drs. Mary Beth Kurz and Robert Riggs have been selected to receive prestigious College-level honors for the 2015-2016 academic year! Dr. Mary Beth Kurz has won the Esin Gulari Leadership and Service Award.  This award recognizes faculty who selflessly contribute their time and effort to […]

Kurz begins leadership of Clemson University Faculty Senate

The Department of Industrial Engineering’s own Dr. Mary Beth Kurz began her term as President of the Faculty Senate at Clemson on Tuesday, April 12, 2016.  Dr. Kurz takes over this important role on the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Senate, which serves as the primary link between faculty and administration at Clemson.  […]

IE Faculty Spotlight: Tuğçe Işık

It’s interesting how some children know instinctively what course to follow in life. Dr. Tuğçe Işık is a perfect example of this. Işık’s craving to learn and her ability to synthesize information and absorb knowledge was quickly noticed in elementary school by her attentive teacher, Mrs. Semiha Kaya, in Izmir, Turkey. Mrs. Kaya’s connection with […]

Khademi formulates plan to address HIV epidemic in Africa

Dr. Amin Khademi’s research on AIDS prevention in Africa is featured in the November 2015 edition of the AIDSFree Prevention Update, a monthly newsletter summarizing seminal articles across HIV prevention topics. The feature highlights Khademi’s paper entitled “Measuring the Potential Impact of Combination HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa” that was published in the September edition of Medicine. The […]