Industrial Engineering

Three IE senior design teams advanced to 2022 SOE senior design showcase. Details about those three projects are as follows:

Team with Esma Yagmur Evlicoglu, Elif Asena Kapelman, Saadet Kilic, Sefa Kocak, Bugen Naz Kocoglu, Murat Can Kuvelet presented Standin’ Desk Riser. This is a cost-effective solution for office workers and students to raise their existing desks to a personalized standing level. The product is designed to achieve enhanced ergonomics, safety, and stability, and it supp...

Seth Voelker is the Operations Manager for Essex Industries where he oversees all operations for a $30M business with majority of the business for Blackhawk helicopters. His core belief is in the respect for and development of people and the practice of going to Gemba to find the answers.

 Seth has 20 years of experience in industrial / manufacturing engineering and has worked in the automotive, retail, boating and aerospace industries. In the past 20 years Seth has setup state of the ar...

Ms. Kay Guse, IE alumna who has recently retired from Boeing, has dedicated annual IE scholarship for outstanding IE students. The Kay Guse Family IE Scholarship is an annual award starting from Spring 2022. The details on the scholarship are as follows:

The Kay Guse Family Industrial Engineering Scholarship Endowment was established to provide support for students in the SIUE Industrial Engineering program. Recipients must pursue a degree in industrial engineering and demonstrat...

IE graduate student, Sanaz Eshraghi's MS thesis research (Advisor - Dr. Eneyo) is featured in June 2021 Issue of ISE Magazine (https://www.iise.org/isemagazine/details.aspx?id=51906). A brief summary of the research is as follows:

Enhance synergy of DMAIC, value stream maps to boost production: a case study to improve shipping time in circuit board manufacturing, Sanaz Eshraghi and Emmanuel S. Eneyo

Competition has driven manufacturers to improve product quality, time to market, cost structure...

Up to six (6) new IE graduate students will receive 25% GA support (10 hours / week) for their first semester in the IE graduate program. Students who receive the 25% GA support are not eligible for other GAs. The GA includes a monthly stipend ($600) and tuition waiver. The GA may be extended to following semesters contingent upon satisfactory academic performance.

Eligibility
To be eligible for consideration for a GA, an applicant must have been admitted to the IE graduate program and have not ...

The Industrial Engineering (IE) Program of the School of Engineering (SOE) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) will provide one-time scholarship of $1,500 to each selected freshman or transfer student starting fall 2021. One objective of the IE Scholarship is to increase domestic enrollment in the Program but applications from international students are welcomed as well. 

To be eligible, applicants must have a minimum Math ACT 29 or the equivalent and GPA 3.3, and must be q...

Dr. Onal, Associate Professor of IE Program, has been elected as the new president-elect of the Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He will serve as the president from June 1st, 2021 to May 30th, 2022. As the DAIS President, he will be honored to continue to implement and strengthen activities and novel practices that support the meaningful work of our data analytics and information systems community. His objective i...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering industrial engineering seniors Brittany Booten, Stephen Holdenried and Jacob Muenchau have been selected to participate in the virtual global finals of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)/Rockwell Undergraduate Student Simulation Competition. 

Booten, from St. Louis, Holdenried, from Edwardsville, and Muenchau, from Freeburg, will attend the IISE Annual Conference and Expo Oct. 31-Nov. 3 at the Hyatt Regen...

IE graduate student, Elif Daysal had a successful defense for her MS thesis research on April 16, 2020. It was the first time IE program had a student’s defense meeting on a remote platform using Zoom application. Elif’s research, titled 3D modeling and analysis of cardia adipose tissue (CAT) using echocardiographic images: a feasibility study, has been advised by Dr. Lee. One of main contributions Elif has made out of the thesis research is: Experimental results show a promising evi...

Jessica Lagerhausen (BS IE ’13), recipient of 2019 IE Outstanding Alumni Award shared her career path with audience, which encompasses most of significant industrial engineering skills/fields during 2020 IE Career Planning Session on February 18, 2020. Jess’ presentation inspired audience with her passion in quality control, lean production and operations management. IE students, faculty and IPAC members were impressed by success in her career endeavor. Here is her biography:

As a r...

Two IE graduate students, Ayperi Dos (Advisor: Dr. Onal) and Yigit Yilmaz (Advisor: Drs. Lee and Yuan), presented their MS thesis research works during 2020 IE Research Day event on February 18, 2020. Ayperi’s research, titled “Comparison of different biomechanical models to identify the phases of the vertical jump”, introduced analysis of vertical jumping motions using state-of-the-art motion capture system. Her research has its focus on the test of a hypothesis that kinematic...

The Industrial Engineering Program hosted a joint picnic for faculty, staff, and students with Mechanical Engineering. It was a great afternoon spent eating BBQ, playing games, networking, listening to music, as well as spending time with fellow students and professors. The highlight of the picnic was a Tug-of-War match between Industrial and Mechanical Engineering. More pictures are available under Students menu.

IE Program had an IE graduate student orientation at 11:30 AM on Friday, August 23^rd in EB 2160. Dr. Chen as IE graduate program director covered useful and important topics during the orientation. Main topics discussed are as follows: 

• Introduction of new IE graduate students
• Overview of the IE graduate program
• Election of the leadership team for the IE Graduate Student Council
• Questions and answers

The IE Graduate Student Council provided refreshments for the orientation.

• Dr. Lee has been selected as 2018 Outstanding Teacher of IE.
• Dr. Chen has been nominated for 2018 SOE Outstanding Service Award.
• Dr. Onal has been nominated for 2018 SOE Outstanding Research Award.
• 2018 Outstanding Student Awardees:
  • Outstanding Graduate Student: Oluwakemi Akande
  • Outstanding Senior Student: Elise Rainey
  • Outstanding Junior Student: Tianna Sherman
• Mr. Corey Peach (Class 2009) has been selected for 2018 Outstanding IE Alumnus Award.

• IE graduate student, Shaida Kargarnovin won 2019 Research Grants for Graduate Students (RGGS) with $500. Congratulations to Shaida and her advisor (Dr. Onal). Shaida Kargarnovin's thesis proposal, entitled "Selected Tasks Of Cleaning Occupation Comparison With And Without Participatory Ergonomic Approach," aims to measure repetitive motions of cleaning worker tasks and implement ergonomic solutions.
• IE graduate student, Andrew Parcels (BS IE) has been selected to one of the inaugural IISE Stu...

• Dr. Sinan Onal's NSF grant to build Cutting-Edge Motion Capture and Analysis System has been covered in SIUE News - November 9, 2017, 2:00 PM. "Motion capture and analysis systems record the movement of objects or people, which can be analyzed or modified using computer software," said lead principal investigator Sinan Onal, PhD, assistant professor in the SIUE School of Engineering (SOE) Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. "It has found applications in the military, heal...