{"63388":{"#nid":"63388","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GE Energy Team Wins Fall 2010 Senior Design Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECulminating their undergraduate education\nexperience with the capstone Senior Design Project, students in the H. Milton\nStewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) gain confidence and\nprofessional experience working as part of a team addressing real-world\nproblems with bottom-line impact for corporations and nonprofit organizations. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents comprising the GE Energy\nproject team, the winning team in the Fall 2010 Senior Design Project\ncompetition, credit team work as being a considerable factor that drove their\nteam to win the renowned competition and an experience they look forward to\ntransferring as they take on projects in their work environments. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBeing a part of a team is not all\nabout being competitive and focusing only on the work, \u201cstates Saloni Desai, GE Energy team member. \u201cIt is about building a family,\u201d she continues, adding\nthat she hopes that when she starts her first team project at Coca Cola\nCompany, she will be able to create a similar team synergy like that of her\nsenior design team.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is a sentiment shared by other team members, including Avadhi Dhruv, who states that \u201cthe success of our project is specially attributed to the\ntolerance and patience of our team members throughout the process.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Desai and Dhruv, students comprising the GE\nEnergy team included Manan\nBhatt, Mark Herman, Ariz Himani,\u0026nbsp; Mohsin Lakhani, and Swathi Narayanaswamy\n.\u0026nbsp; Yajun Mei, ISyE assistant professor,\nadvised the winning team. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWith\ntheir project titled,\u003Cstrong\u003E \u201c\u003C\/strong\u003EParts Allocation for GE Energy,\u201d the GE Energy team\ndesigned a parts allocation system that enables sharing of gas turbine parts\nacross GE Energy\u2019s maintenance contracts. By employing successive network flow\noptimizations and grouping methods, the project demonstrated annual\nsavings of $8.7 million resulting from reduced new part purchases and increased\nutilization of contract assets.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe GE Energy team was one of\nthree finalists in the Fall 2010 Senior Design competition out of a pool of twenty\ntotal projects for the semester. Teams working with ADEX and Mars Chocolate\nwere the other finalists.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe ADEX team comprised team\nmembers David Gagne, Joseph Hsu, Mitchel Martinez, Cory Swanson, Mary Anna\nRibock, and Terrance Yarber. Pinar Keskinocak, Nash professor in ISyE,\nco-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics, and associate\ndirector of Research for the Health Systems Institute, advised the team on its\nproject titled, \u201cGATR Strategic Production Planning for ADEX Machining Technologies.\u201d\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2010, ADEX Machining\nTechnologies was selected as a potential supplier for Alliant Techsystem\u2019s new Guided\nAdvanced Tactical Rocket (GATR) line. For ADEX, the senior design team\ndeveloped a set of decisions support tools for evaluating capacity expansion\nalternatives and operational decisions, such as raw material inventory\npolicies, to minimize production cost and enable a sixty percent lower selling\nprice for the nozzle and fin component. Upon signing the contract and reaching\nthe highest projected demand level, GATR will help ADEX realize substantial\nsales growth and the creation of over 100 high-wage manufacturing jobs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EColby Allen, Blaine DeLuca, Emma\nElgqvist, Sayeed Mehrjerdian, Amanda Persaud, Jamie Serratelli and William Tang\nmade up the Mars Chocolate team, which Alan Erera, ISyE associate professor,\nadvised. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe team conducted a two-part\nproject, titled \u201cCo-pack Supply Chain Design and Production Scheduling,\u201d which\nfocused on supply chain and production improvements. The first part of the\nproject addressed a redesign of the co-pack supply chain to determine where all\nco-packed products are to be produced. A mixed integer programming optimization\nmodel was developed to balance transportation and handling cost savings with\nnew production line upgrades at co-pack facilities. The resulting redesign plan\nshould yield $4 million in annual savings for Mars. The second part of the\nproject addressed production scheduling at the Kennesaw, Georgia, co-pack\nfacility. A scheduling optimization model was built to construct an optimal\nproduction plan given weekly product demands. The model included the capability\nto configure lines with varying staffing levels to increase efficiency. The\nscheduling tool is estimated to yield \u0026nbsp;$700\nthousand in annual savings. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe\npartnership that is created through Senior Design is truly a win-win\ncollaboration for both ISyE undergraduate students and Georgia Tech\u2019s industry\npartners. The average team is able to use its industrial engineering skills to\ncreate hundreds of thousands of dollars in value for the company they work\nwith. For example, these three finalists alone could help their client\ncompanies realize more than $13 million in savings and $12 million in increased\nsales. And the impact is far reaching: ISyE Senior Design has worked with\norganizations ranging from local startups to Fortune 100 companies to\ninternational humanitarian organizations. The impact of Senior Design projects\nhas been felt not only in the Atlanta area, but across the country and as far\naway as Europe, Africa, and Asia.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFor\nDesai, making such a substantial impact on a reputable company such as GE\nEnergy helped her become more self-confident, more appreciative of the Georgia\nTech education, and more optimistic towards her goals. Further, Desai explains,\n\u201cGE Energy\u0027s reaction of amazement toward our work has inspired me to always go\nabove and beyond of what is expected for any challenge I may come across.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudents comprising the GE Energy project team, the winning team in the Fall 2010 Senior Design Project\ncompetition, credit team work as being a considerable factor that drove their\nteam to win the renowned competition and an experience they look forward to\ntransferring as they take on projects in their work environments.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"GE Energy Team Wins Fall 2010 Senior Design Competition"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2011-01-05 13:03:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:57","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2011-01-05T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63326":{"id":"63326","type":"image","title":"GE Energy Team (left to right) Mohsin Lakhani, Swathi Narayanaswamy, Manan Bhatt, Avadhi Dhruv, Ariz Himani, Saloni Desai, Mark Herman, Dr. Yajun Mei.","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894557","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:37","alt":"GE Energy Team (left to right) Mohsin Lakhani, Swathi Narayanaswamy, Manan Bhatt, Avadhi Dhruv, Ariz Himani, Saloni Desai, Mark Herman, Dr. Yajun Mei.","file":{"fid":"191805","name":"GE.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GE_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GE_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":5210917,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GE_0.JPG?itok=LXmAdA_S"}},"63327":{"id":"63327","type":"image","title":"ADEX Team (left to right) Mitchel Martinez, Terrance Yarber, David Gagne, Joseph Hsu, Cory Swanson, Mary Anna Ribock, Dr. Pinar Keskinocak.","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894557","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:37","alt":"ADEX Team (left to right) Mitchel Martinez, Terrance Yarber, David Gagne, Joseph Hsu, Cory Swanson, Mary Anna Ribock, Dr. Pinar Keskinocak.","file":{"fid":"191806","name":"ADEX.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ADEX_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ADEX_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1789403,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ADEX_0.JPG?itok=cIRcpmVa"}},"63328":{"id":"63328","type":"image","title":"Mars Chocolate Team (left ot right) Sayeed Mehrjerdian, Jamie Serratellli, Colby Allen, Emma Elgqvist, Amanda Persaud, William Tang, Blaine DeLuca, Dr. Alan Erera.","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1475894557","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:37","alt":"Mars Chocolate Team (left ot right) Sayeed Mehrjerdian, Jamie Serratellli, Colby Allen, Emma Elgqvist, Amanda Persaud, William Tang, Blaine DeLuca, Dr. Alan Erera.","file":{"fid":"191807","name":"MARs.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MARs_2.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/MARs_2.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2302235,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/MARs_2.JPG?itok=4ja9FNHV"}}},"media_ids":["63326","63327","63328"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"167319","name":"senior design"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara \nChristopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}