Recent Alumnus and Industrial Engineering Faculty Receive Prestigious Awards

Om Yadav, Joel Nachlas, Haitao Liao, Cesar Ruiz, Ed Pohl and David Coit
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Om Yadav, Joel Nachlas, Haitao Liao, Cesar Ruiz, Ed Pohl and David Coit

At the recent Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, held Jan. 23-26, alumnus Cesar Ruiz, assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, along with faculty members Haitao Liao, professor, and Ed Pohl, professor and department head, were honored with the IISE 2022 William A. Golomski Award for their paper "Bayesian Design of a D-Optimal Accelerated Degradation Test Considering Random Effects." This award honors an outstanding paper from the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, which is authored or co-authored by a member of Quality Control and Reliability Engineering division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.

Pohl and Liao were further honored with doctoral students Jose Azucena and Farid Hashemian for their paper "Applying Machine Learning Methods to Improve All-Terminal Network Reliability." They received the Stan Ofsthun Award. This award recognizes the best technical paper by a Society of Reliability Engineers student author or coauthor accepted for presentation at the conference.

In addition to these two honors, Jose Azucena was presented with the Hans Reiche Scholarship given by the Society of Reliability Engineers to attend the annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, which was held in Orlando, Florida.

About the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium: The Reliability and Maintainability Symposium attracts leading Reliability and Maintainability experts from across industry, academia and the U.S. government. The topics addressed are broad, including Reliability and Maintainability requirements, mission critical design and acquisition areas aimed at policies, technologies, lessons learned, modeling, simulation and training.

About the Department of Industrial Engineering: The Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas was founded in 1950, led by department head John L. Imhoff who believed deeply in the global impact of industrial engineering. Today, the department averages over 200 undergraduate students and over 40 doctoral and master's students. In addition, the department has three online master's degrees: the Master of Science in Operations Management, Master of Science in Engineering Management and Master of Science in Operations Analytics. These three programs alone enroll over 600 students each academic year. To learn more about the Department of Industrial Engineering please visit our website.

Contacts

Tamara O. Ellenbecker, website developer
Department of Industrial Engineering
479-575-3157, tellenbe@uark.edu

Jennifer P. Cook, director of communications
College of Engineering
479-575-5697, jpc022@uark.edu

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