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  <title><![CDATA[Best of ISyE and Capstone Design Expo 2025]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<div><p>This semester 29 ISyE senior design teams were showcased in the Capstone Design Expo, nearly double the amount of the Fall 2024 cohort!</p></div><div><p>Our industrial engineering (IE) teams worked with a broad range of industries, including transportation, analytics, non-profits, and more. Many of our teams had the chance to collaborate extensively with their clients, ultimately allowing them to apply their technical knowledge to their company's obstacles and providing them a well-rounded solution.</p><p>Even in our state, we will be able to see our students' impact -- meet senior design team “Grand Slammers”!</p><p>They won the Best of ISyE distinction award at Capstone Design Expo, for their collaborative work with the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta’s Major League Baseball (MLB) team. The group created a data-driven methodology to strategically place promotions and giveaways to maximize ticket sales for their annual revenue.&nbsp;<br><br>The project focuses on developing a regression model to forecast tickets sold that would then be fed into an optimization model to design a promotional calendar that maximizes the impact of promotions. The team created an adjustment dashboard to visualize the impact strategic promotion placement has on predicted attendance as well as analyze customer satisfaction survey data that is currently not being utilized by the Braves.<br><br>Members: Anna Taylor, Diego Mora, Hailey Toeppner, Tyler Hankin, Apoorva Mahendranath, Ethan Asbell, Bre Kaplan, Ollie Davidson</p><p>&nbsp;</p></div><div><h3><strong>ISyE Finalist Presentations</strong>&nbsp;</h3></div><div><div><p>To further celebrate, multiple teams from this cohort were selected as finalists for the Spring 2025 semester. From the 29 teams that completed their senior design projects, three teams were selected as finalists for the Best of ISyE, along with that, one team was awarded the Design with Implementation and Impact award sponsored by KS2 Technologies, and the Create-X team was featured as the top project of its kind.&nbsp;</p></div><p>&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Category 1. Senior Design Finalists are:</strong></h5><p><strong>Client: </strong>Arauco</p><p><strong>Project Title: </strong>Network Planning and Risk Mitigation for Arauco North America<br><strong>Team Members: </strong>Pantach Anantapong | Meera Bharadwaj | Allison Butler&nbsp;| Arnav Hiray&nbsp;| Christine Ling&nbsp;| Isabella Magdusian&nbsp;| Emily Stone&nbsp;| Zachary Young<br><strong>Client Sponsor: </strong>Kevin Chunn</p><p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Dr. Oktay Gunluk</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Client: </strong>BMW</p><p><strong>Project Title: </strong>Map to the Future: Stabilizing BMW’s Campus<br><strong>Team Members: </strong>Neal Damani&nbsp;|&nbsp;Anna Harper | Amy Kim | Athena Malek | Aman Momin&nbsp;| Shook Hagen&nbsp;| Sydney Tang&nbsp;| Anna Zhao<br><strong>Client Sponsor: </strong>William Stanifer</p><p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Dr. Arthur Delarue</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Client: </strong>Novelis</p><p><strong>Project Title: </strong>Scrap Happens</p><p><strong>Team Members: </strong>Hannah Fleshler&nbsp;| Rhese Goodsite&nbsp;| Mckenna Hall&nbsp;| Parker Hallock&nbsp;| Caleb Key | Matthew Manno&nbsp;| Ted Moll&nbsp;| Jack Steward<br><strong>Client Sponsor: </strong>Noel Hoxie</p><p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Dr. Craig Tovey</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Client: </strong>The Coca Cola Company</p><p><strong>Project Title: </strong>Picking the Pop<br><strong>Team Members: </strong>Emma Blazejewski&nbsp;| Aden Cobb&nbsp;| Elizabeth Lawrence&nbsp;| Courtney Maley&nbsp;|&nbsp;Catherine Serek&nbsp;| Kaitlyn Thompson<br><strong>Client Sponsor: </strong>Eric Wahl</p><p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Dr. Gunter Sharp</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Category 2. Senior Design Honorable Mentions are:</strong></h5><p><strong>Client</strong>: Delta Airlines Technical Operation Center</p><p><strong>Project Title</strong>:&nbsp;Next Part, Best Part</p><p><strong>Team members</strong>:&nbsp;Lily Adlesick | Yianni Costarides&nbsp;| Ethan Huston&nbsp;| Stuart Kernohan | Aiden Martin | Brennan Pritchard |​&nbsp;Sophia Varmeziar</p><p><strong>Client Sponsor</strong>:&nbsp;Jeremiah Roberts</p><p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Dr. Anton Kleywegt</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Client</strong>: UPS</p><p><strong>Project Title</strong>:&nbsp;Take a Load Off, UPS</p><p><strong>Team Members</strong>: Kyuri Kang&nbsp;| Keke Li | Yiwen Liu | Anna Park | Anna Ranieri | Ishani Spanier | Sydney Spessard​​</p><p><strong>Client Sponsor</strong>: Jeroen Savelsbergh</p><p><strong>Advisor</strong>: Dr. Weijun Xie</p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><h5><strong>Category 3. Design with Implementation and Impact, sponsored by KS2 Technologies</strong></h5><p><strong>Client: </strong>Hextronics<br><strong>Project Title</strong>: Hextronics Senior Design Project</p><p><strong>Team Members</strong>: Laura Castano | Carlos Cuni Cuervo | Alexia Goodall Mata | Philip Henriquez Orozco&nbsp;| Ernesto Mealla | Juan Morales | Chloe Sanoli</p><p><strong>Client Sponsor</strong>: Curt Lary<br><strong>Faculty Advisor</strong>: Dr. Anton Kleywegt</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Client: </strong>Neighborhood Meals on Wheels<br><strong>Project Title</strong>: The Missing Ingredient</p><p><strong>Team Members</strong>: Charles Callahan | Christian Crosby | William Daly | Michael DuBose​&nbsp;| Varen Sharma | Pratyaksha | Faith Xu​</p><p><strong>Client Sponsor</strong>: Jenny Allen<br><strong>Faculty Advisor</strong>: Dr. Oktay Gunluk</p><p>&nbsp;</p><h5><strong>Category 4.&nbsp; Featured ISyE Create-X project</strong></h5><p><strong>Project Title: </strong>Enloq - AI Video Investigation Agents for Supply Chain Safety &amp; Security</p><p><strong>Team Members: </strong>Omar El Barbir (CMPE) | Panagiotis Kakoulidis (ME) | Sarra Khouaja (IE) | Nikolaos Komianos (CMPE) | Can Ozgel (IE) and Pranu Prakash (IE)</p><p><strong>Faculty Advisor: </strong>Dr. John Vande&nbsp;Vate&nbsp;</p></div><div><p>____</p></div><div><p>To learn more, read the full capstone story <a href="https://coe.gatech.edu/news/2025/04/solutions-operating-room-and-cubesat-navigation-top-spring-2025-capstone-design-expo" rel="noreferrer noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)">here</a>.&nbsp;</p></div>]]></body>
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