{"178281":{"#nid":"178281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Industrial and Systems Engineers: Making a Difference in the World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIt\u2019s an ordinary Monday morning, and traffic snarls its way through the city as another workweek begins.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFrom a distribution center near the airport, truckers load up and head for grocery and big-box stores, carrying cargo from near and far: Georgia peaches, Chilean wines, Costa Rican flowers, Japanese auto parts, cotton t-shirts sewn in Guatemala, hand-crafted furniture from Milan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn an office in Midtown, a dedicated public health worker contemplates her organization\u2019s next international challenge: getting humanitarian aid to the globe\u2019s newest natural disaster area as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA few blocks away, oblivious to the world outside, a retired teacher waits nervously in the outpatient wing of a local hospital. Today, she has her first radiation treatment\u2014a five-minute insertion of removable irradiated seeds\u2014meant to shrink her tumor and give her back her life.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMeanwhile, crowded together on a busy street corner on the Georgia Tech campus, ten new freshmen wait anxiously until, right on time, the next electric\/hybrid campus shuttle bus arrives to take them to class.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt\u2019s a typical day in a modern American city, with typical challenges and success stories for industrial and systems engineers. Though most people take such stories for granted, a quick look behind the scenes proves that in myriad ways, the work ISyE graduates do day in and day out makes a huge difference to huge numbers of people. It is no exaggeration to say that individual and societal health, world economies, and the daily routines and overall quality of life of millions of people around the globe are immeasurably improved by thoughtful application of basic principles and cutting-edge research unique to the discipline known as ISyE.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELet\u2019s take a closer look.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Global Supply Chain: From the World to Your Door (in 24 hours!)\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo contemporary Georgia Tech ISyE faculty members and their students, popular consumer goods like peaches, wine, and fresh-cut flowers are only the tip of the iceberg in a global \u201ccold food\u201d supply chain that grows more complex every year. Today\u2019s industrial and systems engineering challenges include traditional engineering concerns such as efficient manufacturing processes, durable packaging, and transportation and distribution logistics\u2014as well as new challenges of food safety and traceability, cultural norms and government regulations in hundreds of sovereign nations, and the pivotal political, economic, and logistical role of the Panama Canal in world trade.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut let\u2019s talk about wine. For the past three years, John J. Bartholdi III, Manhattan Associates Chair in Supply Chain Management, has been part of a project that monitors temperatures inside shipping containers on ships carrying food products all over the world. The monitoring device records internal temperatures every two hours around the clock. Bartholdi\u2019s special focus, funded in part by an industry group, involves determining whether temperature variations affect the quality of wines imported into the U.S.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETasting results are still being assessed, but other important findings have surfaced as well. \u201cThe wine tracking made us aware of the lack of standard terminology in the cold supply chain,\u201d says Bartholdi. \u201cInternational logistics are not standardized, and there is no established hierarchy of standards. The cold supply chain also includes a lot of small businesses providing things like fresh produce, making standardization even more of a challenge.\u201d He expects these kinds of supply chain inconsistencies to become even more unacceptable in the next few years as international shippers gear up for the capacity increases spurred by the 2014 expansion of the Panama Canal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Panama Canal expansion is one big piece of an ever-growing logistics puzzle\u2014a puzzle research engineers like Jaymie Forrest, managing director of the Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, are uniquely positioned to solve. Working with the Panamanian government, Forrest and her colleagues have established a Panama Logistics Innovation \u0026amp; Research Center to improve the logistics capability of the canal\u2019s host nation. The initiative aims to help position Panama as a distribution point for Asian products and\u2014American corporations\u2014as a gateway and trade hub for expanding U.S. markets and imports throughout Latin America. \u201cRight now, our volume of trade is larger with Asia,\u201d she observes, \u201cbut trade with Latin America is growing at a faster rate.\u201d In the coming years, the Georgia Tech logistics experts will work with Panama to develop professional-level training in supply chain logistics; help the government and the port authority create a National Logistics Council; and pursue additional research to analyze and improve the country\u2019s overall logistics platform. At a minimum, this platform includes the Panama Canal, container ports on two oceans plus a connecting railroad, multiple airports serving passengers and freight, special economic zones providing incentives to logistics operations, and a wide range of supporting logistics services. The cargo flowing through the canal will appear under flags from some 150 nations with crews speaking dozens of languages; the goods arriving in Panama for further shipping\u2014 or for offloading and distribution throughout Latin America\u2014will come from thousands, if not millions, of suppliers. The impact of these infrastructure and logistics improvements will be felt worldwide for decades to come.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChallenges and Collaboration\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt used to be that industrial engineers focused mainly on the plant floor and looked for ways to make manufacturing processes more efficient,\u201d says Bartholdi. \u201cThen we moved to distribution and worked to make distribution systems more efficient. But since the 1990s, the world\u2019s economic system has become more integrated, with everyone sourcing from everyone all over the world. As a result, industrial engineers have to work globally. You can\u2019t coordinate things by staying home in your office\u2014not when your supply chains reach around the world.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Professor Emeritus Leon McGinnis, engineers traditionally looked at processes that were somewhat self-contained, where one person could see and understand those processes. \u201cBut today, the scope and scale of industrial engineering challenges exist at a much larger order of magnitude. The problems are no longer just industrial engineering problems; they may also be electrical, mechanical, medical, or political. We have to address problems more comprehensively and collaboratively across many different fields,\u201d says McGinnis.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne way the Georgia Tech ISyE team is meeting these challenges is by leading in the teaching of a twenty first- century systems modeling language called SysML, an open-source specification adaptable to a wide range of systems engineering applications. As McGinnis explains, SysML (sysml.org) can be customized for the task at hand, providing application modeling and automated transformation to simulation capability (dramatically reducing the cost) for many different companies, large or small. Georgia Tech, the only academic institution working as a named contributor on the SysML project, offers what many consider to be the world\u2019s best-known and most comprehensive graduate and undergraduate curricula in SysML.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYet for McGinnis and other senior ISyE faculty, the teaching challenges of this era go well beyond computational modeling; the goal is to expand knowledge, not merely capture and repeat it. \u201cI want to get industrial engineers out of the business of building models they already know how to build,\u201d McGinnis says. \u201cIn the future, IEs will need to move beyond the routine; we need to use our system modeling and analytical tools to build and manage large, multidisciplinary teams seeking transformational change.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the words of the National Academy of Engineering, the \u201cgrand challenges\u201d for engineering in the next century lie squarely within these broad, multidisciplinary arenas\u2014major undertakings such as providing universal access to clean water, advancing health informatics, and reverse engineering the brain. At a minimum, each of these challenges will require extensive collaboration across multiple disciplines, not to mention cultures and continents. And each challenge has key roles for industrial engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s hard study, but if you want to make a difference, industrial engineering is a career that matters,\u201d says Jane Ammons, ISyE chair and past president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. \u201cWe have the largest industrial engineering program in the U.S. We graduate 10 percent of the nation\u2019s industrial engineers\u2014and the quality and breadth of the talent here will have a major impact on the world of tomorrow.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEngineering for Human Health and Well-Being\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPerhaps nowhere is the impact of ISyE revealed more dramatically than in the medical world. From disaster relief, to nanomaterials, to breakthroughs in cancer irradiation techniques, ISyE faculty are recognized worldwide for creative application of different engineering disciplines in improving human health and well-being.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Nash Associate Professor Julie Swann, who also codirects Georgia Tech\u2019s Center for Health \u0026amp; Humanitarian Logistics, the tools of industrial and systems engineering can be immensely helpful in analyzing and recommending new and more effective approaches to disaster relief and public health, both in the U.S. and around the world. Currently, she and her students are providing computer modeling as part of a cross-disciplinary project, the Caribbean Hazard Assessment Mitigation and Preparedness initiative (CHAMP), to assess preparedness against another catastrophe such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. \u201cVulnerability during a disaster depends on a country\u2019s environment and characteristics,\u201d she says. \u201cIncome levels, governmental structure, the level of involvement by police\u2014all these things can affect levels of mortality and economic damage. Using a statistics-based model, we want to predict which factors are the most critical in determining preparedness.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFunded by a Georgia Tech alumnus, CHAMP evaluates hospitals and healthcare networks, supply and distribution chains to population centers, evacuation route capacity, building construction, and many other factors to help governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), such as the Red Cross, prepare for and understand vulnerabilities in disaster response. To date, the team has worked with governments and NGOs in Belize, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECloser to home, Swann and her collaborators have worked with Children\u2019s Hospital of Atlanta to track childhood obesity; studied children\u2019s distance from specialty pediatric care in many south Georgia counties; and worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and several state health departments, to determine the availability of the H1N1 flu vaccine and vaccination rates in nine southeastern states. A new project under way for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) evaluates the potential of telemedicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Eva Lee, professor at ISyE, mathematical programming and largescale computational algorithms are tools to help save lives. Using systems modeling, algorithm and software design, and decision theory analysis to aid in healthcare decision-making, she has worked with medical personnel to develop advanced cancer irradiation techniques, consulted frequently with the CDC and the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and even journeyed to Japan for on-the ground research in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELee\u2019s cancer research focuses on using positron emission tomography imaging to locate malignant tumors, then computing algorithms to deliver a precise, escalated dose of radiation directly to the cancerous cells while leaving healthy tissue untouched. The technique has proven especially effective in treating cervical and prostate cancer.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCervical cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world, and it has a 35 percent fatality rate if left untreated,\u201d she says. \u201cOur newest research involves using tiny, removable seeds to insert radiation inside the tumor\u2014five minutes today, five minutes tomorrow. It\u2019s a very exciting, novel approach that controls the tumor but preserves surrounding organs.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Japan last year, Lee was the first U.S. scientist to interview people living within fifteen miles of the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plants after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 19,000 people. Using RealOpt, a real-time public health pandemic, radiological, and biowarfare informatics-analytic system she developed several years ago for use by the CDC and local governments in the U.S., she collected data on evacuation timelines, radiological screening, and other information from the local population, including family members of workers at the nuclear plant. Her work group included not only U.S. colleagues from the CDC and National Science Foundation, but researchers from a local Japanese university as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE faculty members Turgay Ayer and Chip White III are using their expertise in supply chain engineering to improve availability of a universally needed medical product: human blood. Their project, currently in the proposal stages, focuses on the routes and capabilities of blood-collection vehicles, familiar to most of us as bloodmobiles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvery day, thousands of bloodmobiles around the world collect blood to be used for accident victims, surgery patients, and others in medical need. A small fraction of these vehicles carry very expensive, specialized equipment designed to collect blood that will be processed into a fast-clotting cryo blood product used in critical cases in emergency rooms. Unlike most blood collection, the blood to be used for cryo products must be frozen and separated within eight hours. All emergency rooms in a given region must have access to cryo products immediately when needed. The tough logistics question is this: Which bloodmobiles should collect blood for cryo uses, and how should they be routed to optimize the use of the cryo collection bays but also maximize the use of less expensive units?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cFocusing on the Atlanta area, our goal is to model and optimize a supply chain for this specific blood product,\u201d explains White. \u201cWe\u2019ll be looking at the current processes, adjusting routes throughout the week, and developing a better system for collecting this very time-sensitive, critical product.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs White notes, the problem is not unlike the logistics challenges faced by UPS and other entities making stop-and-go pickups and deliveries in congested, high-traffic areas. And while all deliveries are important to their senders and recipients, the timely delivery of a critical cryo blood product can, quite literally, become a matter of life or death.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn some cases, an innovative application of industrial engineering in the medical field may be discovered by accident, or perhaps serendipity. At a professional conference a few years ago, Ben Wang, Gwaltney Chair in Manufacturing Systems and executive director of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (formerly known as the Manufacturing Research Center for Georgia Tech), met a medical specialist working with orthotic prostheses. After learning about Wang and his colleagues\u2019 work in advanced composites, she proposed that Wang explore using some of these new materials to create lighter, more comfortable artificial limbs. The collaboration eventually led to an award from the VA to develop carbon nanomaterials as prostheses for amputees who lost limbs in military combat or through diabetes. \u201cThe key word is comfort,\u201d says Wang. \u201cThe advanced materials improve the fit, the pressure points, humidity, and temperature of the prosthesis, so the patient can wear it longer and more comfortably.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EISyE faculty members have even put their expertise to use to help de-stress Georgia Tech students and staff who depend on campus trolleys to get them to class and work on time. Ideally, the trolleys run on a schedule of one trolley every six minutes as they circulate throughout the campus. But for trolley operators, the challenge is always to avoid \u201cbunching\u201d during delays. Every time one trolley gets one minute behind, more people try to crowd on (causing more delay), and the impact cascades, resulting in a bunched-up row of trolleys going nowhere. By the time the sixth trolley departs from the bunch, it may be running more than six minutes behind. As a result, idle times and fuel consumption increase, students are tardy, and valuable class time is wasted\u2014all at an avoidable cost that grows by the second.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo improve this situation, Bartholdi and a team of students stepped up. \u201cWe have collaborated with Georgia Tech\u0027s Department of Parking \u0026amp; Transportation to design a system of tablet computers, one per bus, so the buses can self-schedule,\u201d explains Bartholdi. The self-equalizing schedule, based on automated GPS and cell phone communications with trolley drivers, was tested on campus in spring 2012 and will be implemented in fall 2012. In addition to helping congestion on the Georgia Tech campus, the team expects this approach to be useful for other transportation systems, such as subway trains and airport shuttles. A report on the project was published in a professional journal in May.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManufacturing and More\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESuppose your military unit is on assignment in Afghanistan, and your\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003Evehicle needs a replacement part. Using a computer and software, a laser, and raw material consisting of powdered metal, your unit\u2019s mechanics construct the replacement part immediately, on-site, and put your vehicle back in the field in hours\u2014instead of days, or even longer. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis innovative new concept ofon-site manufacturing\u2014known in the field as \u201cadditive manufacturing\u201d\u2014 could eventually \u201cchange the face of manufacturing\u201d and revolutionize large segments of traditional industries and associated supply chains, says Wang. He and his ISyE colleagues McGinnis, White, and Jan Shi are working closely with Mechanical Engineering Professors Suman Das and David Rosen, leaders in additive manufacturing, and are hard at work on developing real-world applications of additive manufacturing. With the additive manufacturing approach, a 3-D computer-assisted design (CAD) software programming blueprint for machine parts can be downloaded from the cloud (a storage space on the Internet), and the part can be constructed immediately on-site, using lasers and powdered metals. With an inventory consisting of bags of powdered metal, plus thousands of cloud-based product designs accessible for download anywhere, anytime, a machine shop or work group can produce hundreds of different parts as needed at the point of consumption.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough this form of manufacturing is still in the beginning stages, the implications are profound, especially for military and time-sensitive applications. While parts made on-site by additive manufacturing might be more expensive individually than similar mass-produced parts, the ability to manufacture one part at a time, on demand, will result in time, opportunity, and energy savings. In military settings especially, making parts locally could greatly improve repair times and enhance surge capability as well. A shift to additive manufacturing would also streamline supply chain logistics from delivering huge, finished pieces to delivering bags of powdered metal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor Wang, who coordinates Georgia Tech\u2019s manufacturing activities, the concept of additive manufacturing holds immense potential at Georgia Tech. It is also very relevant with regard to his roles in assisting Georgia Tech president G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, a board member on the Obama Administration\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership to support innovative manufacturing in the U.S., and Georgia Tech Executive Vice President for Research Stephen E. Cross, a member of the Defense Science Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYour workday is over, and now it\u2019s time to take out the trash. But there\u2019s a lot less of it than you expected\u2014because more than half your disposable goods are being reclaimed by recycling companies long before they reach the landfill.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cSmart Trash\u201d may be a few years in the future, but the technology\u2014the ubiquitous barcode\u2014has been around for decades, says ISyE\u2019s Valerie Thomas. Thomas is developing a prototype of a recycling bin equipped with\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Ea bar-code reader. The reader would capture details about the \u201ctrashed\u201d items, store that information in a central database, and make the database available to potential recycling companies who could assess the value of the various components and make arrangements to pick up, purchase, and resell your trash. The Smart Trash concept is only one of numerous faculty projects devoted to the broad category of sustainability: recycling, decreasing energy use, and even reverse engineering to lessen products\u2019 life cycle impact on the environment. Among other projects, Thomas is also working on energy efficiency in housing with the City of Atlanta Office of Sustainability and on projects related to biofuels, electric vehicles and wind power with several other Georgia Tech colleagues. \u201cMost of my efforts on Smart Trash involve shepherding along concepts,\u201d she says. \u201cBut we already have the technology for this idea, such as using barcodes for Smart Trash recycling\u2014and at the implementation level, it\u2019s just another app; it\u2019s really not that hard to do.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis article was written by Faye Goolrick and first appeared in the 2012 edition of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/issuu.com\/isyealumnimagazine\/docs\/2012\u0022\u003EISyE Alumni Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThrough projects that span the globe and fuel the imagination, ISyE faculty and alumni are making a difference in the world. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-12-18 12:54:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:13:26","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"178391":{"id":"178391","type":"image","title":"Ozlem Ergun, associate professor, Julie Swann, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Associate Professor, and Pinar Keskinocak, Joseph C. 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