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$4.5 million renovation approved for the Industrial and Operations Engineering Building

The IOE Building, last updated in 1998 will undergo a 8,850-square-foot renovation to increase spaces for collaboration, learning, research and community building.

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$4.5 million renovation approved for U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering Building

The IOE Building, last updated in 1998 will undergo a 8,850-square-foot renovation to increase spaces for collaboration, learning, research and community building.

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Researchers identify behaviors that lead to interprofessional collaboration within intensive care units

Through observations, clinician shadowing, and interviews with ICU personnel, the research team from the University of Michigan identified 18 distinct behaviors, which they divided into two categories labeled ‘enablers’ and ‘collaborative activities’.

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Two U-M IOE faculty members given an MLK Spirit Award

Assistant Professors Albert S. Berahas and Salar Fattahi each won a North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Award. The awards are given annually to individuals who exemplify the leadership and vision of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Michigan Engineering Professors to develop novel federated learning algorithms for distributed 3D printing

Kontar and Okwudire have received a grant from Cisco Systems Inc. to develop novel federated learning algorithms that address descriptive, predictive and prescriptive machine learning opportunities in large-scale distributed 3D printing. 

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Salar Fattahi receives NSF CAREER Award for work in nonconvex problems in machine learning

Salar Fattahi discusses his award-winning CAREER proposal which aims to close the current gap between optimization and statistical learning.

Chandra Shukla: Expanding horizons with a degree in IOE

Chandra Sulka shares how receiving his master’s in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan helped prepare him for success in many industries.