Dr. Jian Hu will be joining IMSE Department as an Assistant Professor in September 2012.  Dr. Hu received his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Northwestern University in 2011. Dr. Hu's recent research focus is in risk management and multi-expert multi-criteria decision making with applications in project management, healthcare, and homeland security. In his recent work he proposed risk-adjusted aggregation methods to distill a robust group preference form individual judgments. Based on these methods, he developed budget allocation model for the government grant, Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), for successfully predicting the underfunded homeland defense in New York. His contribution has been reported by many news media and highlighted by the NSF as one of the best projects funded by the NSF. Dr. Hu published papers in such journals as Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, IIE Transactions, and Transportation Research.

Nationwide, there is an increasing demand for skilled and experienced professionals who can develop, deploy, and manage locally and globally developed programs in a timely and efficient manner. M.S. in Program and Project Management (M.S. in PPM) is 30 semester hours graduate degree designed to address this growing need and targets technical professionals from various industries (i.e. engineering, information technology, military, government, healthcare, energy, transportation) who need to deepen their understanding of program and project management and would like to make a transition from team members to program managers. Graduates will also have the foundation to pursue certification as a project management professional (PMP).

 

M.S. in PPM program draws upon the expertise of the faculty members and practitioners who do research and teach in this subject area and designed to provide a comprehensive and practical knowledge of the foundation of program and project management. While principles and theories are explained, the emphasis of the program is on how to apply them in order to swiftly and efficiently plan and organize resources so that programs are completed on schedule, on-budget, and result in a high-quality outcome. This program is thus ideal for professionals who want to enhance their ability to integrate complex projects, motivate people, and achieve cost-effective results.

 

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Professor Yubao Chen received a research grant from Ecomotors International  to develop new system level optimization and predictive model for an opposite piston opposite cylinder (OPOC) engine.

This research grant from Hyundai - Kia Motors will allow Dr. Sang-Hwan Kim, assistant professor of IMSE and  Mr. ByeongWook Jeon, visiting scholar from Hyundai-Kia Motors to develop measure of gearshift quality for optimizing driver propensity in terms of vehicle ergonomics. The objectives of this research are to: 1) identify perceptive factors to describe subjective feeling of gear-shifting shock; 2) examine a mechanism to show how human drivers response to the perceived factors; 3) investigate relations between subjective driver perceptions and objective measure of gearshifting shock using G-sensors; 4) construct models of driver perception; and 5) develop a guideline for designing gear-shifting quality.

The College of Engineering & Computer Science is now offering its M.S. in Information Systems & Technology program (MSE-IST) via distance learning technologies.

IST online courses scheduled for the winter 2010 semester include IMSE 5715 Modeling of Intergrated Information Systems and IMSE 5655 Supply Chain Management. Other courses offered in the program in winter 2010 are IMSE 564 ABAP/4 Programming and IMSE 5725 Object Oriented System Design. Students currently enrolled in the campus-based MSE-IST program are eligible to register for online IST courses. Prospective students that would like additional information about this or other IMSE distance learning programs may contact Susan Guinn at 313-593-4000, by email at sguinn@umich.edu or visit http://dln.engin.umd.umich.edu.

When John Junge was applying to college as a teenager in Jackson, Michigan, he assumed he would have to go to community college first because of financial constraints. But he won a scholarship to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor instead. After learning about the Dearborn campus's cooperative education program, he transferred so he could earn money in his chosen profession while finishing his studies.

Now he's giving back. Junge, a member of the class of 1964, recently announced a 350,000 gift to establish a scholarship for high school students who want to major in industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

 

"Being privileged to attend the University of Michigan is a blessing, and it's a further blessing sometimes to be able to give," Junge said via video at an event honoring him with a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize his leadership, community service, and personal accomplishments. "So I'm announcing here today the endowment of the Junge Family Scholarship to study industrial engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn."

In recognition of his roots, the Junge Family Scholarship will be directed toward qualifying students from the state of Michigan and from the Jackson area, if applicable. Junge owns All-Star Inc., a San Diego-based company that provides management and operations service to government and military facilities in 18 states and Germany.

The Junge family has previously made other gifts to the university, most notably to the athletics programs. The Junge Family Champions Center in Ann Arbor is named in their honor.

Professor Cheol Lee received a research grant from Samchun Pure Chemical for development of electrode materials for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). Dr. Lee and his research team will be working on new DOE, data mining, cost modeling and  optimization techniques for establishing relationships between powder characteristics and performance of a small single solid oxide fuel cell.