Industrial Engineering

Kapil Chalil Madathil wins NSF Grant

Dr. Tanju Karanfil (Environmental Engineering) and Dr. Kapil Chalil Madathil (Industrial Engineering) received an NSF grant to support water treatment operations. Empirical studies will determine the efficacy of mixed reality technology to support the training needs of water treatment technicians.

IE endowment co-founder Karen Lindenmeyer passes

Karen Lindenmeyer passed away in early February. Karen Lindenmeyer, who was an IE faculty member for years, will have an endowment in her honor that provides funding for the Lindenmeyer Leadership and Public Service Award.

Clemson’s IE department ranked 18th among public universities

2023 USNWR graduate program rankings place Clemson IE at 24 (overall rank) and 18 (public rank). This is a move up from 29 (overall) and 22 (public). Kevin Taaffe, chair of the department, commented, “This is great news. I believe as a department we are doing all of the right things. We have an extremely […]

Alumni Spotlight: Michael McDonald

Michael McDonald has taken an interesting career path since his undergraduate days in the Clemson IE program. He cites the beginning of his untraditional experience as graduating high school with lots of AP credits— almost too many. When he began attending Clemson, those credits removed general education and basic courses from his graduation requirements, and […]

Ph.D. student seeks to improve availability of medicines to low income countries

Martha Sabogal is an Industrial Engineering Ph.D. student working under the direction of Emily Tucker. She is applying stochastic optimization to study disruptions in pharmaceutical supply chains and how they impact low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed how vulnerable the current pharmaceutical supply chains are for certain classes of drugs. High […]

Eliza Macaulay wins 1st in IISE Technical Paper Competition

Eliza Macaulay, a junior in the Industrial Engineering department at Clemson University, placed first in the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference technical paper competition. Students were required to submit a technical paper and present the results of their research during a virtual session on February 19, 2022. A panel of […]

New Faculty Positions Available

  The Department of Industrial Engineering invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor starting in August 2021. Clemson University is growing our expertise in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data Science, and Health and Bioengineering. We are seeking candidates in all areas of […]

IE Welcomes New Faculty Members

Clemson’s Department of Industrial Engineering (IE), one of the nation’s top 20 public IE programs, is pleased to announce the arrival of three outstanding faculty members.  Caglar Calayan, Assistant Professor. Dr. Caglar Caglayan joined the IE faculty after earning a Ph.D. in Operations Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2019.  Dr. Caglayan’s research […]

IE Faculty Appointed to Prestigious Editorial Boards

Two outstanding Clemson IE faculty members have been named to the editorial boards of significant journals in the fields of industrial engineering and operations research. Mary Beth Kurz, Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair, has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Systems.  The journal is widely recognized as one of the top outlets for […]