Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Groundbreaking research that impacts society

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Our interdisciplinary research goes beyond traditional industrial and systems engineering studies to solve pressing societal issues.

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One of the nation's top graduate programs

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Our graduate program ranks 20th across public universities, according to U.S. News and World Report.

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A longstanding tradition of excellence

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The 75th anniversary of the UB Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering was celebrated in 2021.

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Work with the top minds in the field

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Our graduate students work with faculty from around the world and go on to excellent jobs in industry, academia and government.

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Committed to excellence in engineering education

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From health care to national defense, our students have the skills they need to be workforce-ready and excel in the most in-demand fields.

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Managing Electronic Waste
2/28/19
ISE faculty members Sara Behdad, Ann Bisantz, and industry partner Willie Cade are leading an NSF project on remediating Electronic Waste (e-waste) problems.
Optimization Can Lead to Fairer NFL Schedules
2/28/19
The National Football League (NFL) is the highest revenue generating sports league in the world and uses numerous complex rules in scheduling regular season games to maintain fairness, attractiveness and its wide appeal to all fans and franchises.
Statins and Public Health Policy: Modeling and Optimization
2/28/19
Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S., and accounted for almost 70,000 deaths in 2010, the majority of which were caused by coronary heart disease (CHD) or stroke.
Autonomous Vehicles - Coming to a Driveway Near You?
2/28/19
Professors Jaime Kang and Mark Karwan have recently been awarded a 3-year National Science Foundation grant to define a framework to model and evaluate potential household-level use of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs).
Developing Decision Models for More Efficient Security Screenings
8/22/19
ISE associate professor Jun Zhuang has been awarded a three-year grant of $306K from the National Science Foundation for research on a project ''Robust Approval Process in the Face of Strategic Adversaries and Normal Applicants.''
Making Traffic Safer for Sporting Games, Concerts and Other Large Events
2/28/19
Large scale planned special events (PSE), such as sporting games, concerts, and parades, attracting high volume of pedestrians, buses and passenger vehicles, result in significant non-recurrent traffic congestion.
Nursing Teams: Behind the Charts
2/18/19
Nurses are renowned for taking care of patients, but what about each other? Researchers from Nursing and ISE believe there is a key social ingredient - based upon mutual support, advice, friendship and other traits – that is critical to the success of nursing teams.
Using Formal Computational Techniques to Make Medical Alarms Safer
2/28/19
The volume and auditory properties of medical alarms can produce situations to where medical personnel cannot hear and properly respond to these alarms.
Measuring Engagement in Social Media Platforms
2/12/20
Engagement capacity is a metric that serves to measure the ability of online platform users to engage each other in communication on the platform.
Applied Research at MOD-PAC Prevents Workplace Injuries
8/22/19
Assistant Professor Lora Cavuoto recently completed an applied research project at MOD-PAC, a local manufacturer of folding cartons and personalized print products, to proactively address concerns related to injury risk.
Human Error Prediction
2/28/19
Prediction of human error before it occurs is one of the most challenging topics in human factors engineering research.
NSF Grant to Support 3D Printing Computation
2/28/19
Professor Chi Zhou, in collaboration with computer science and engineering faculty Wenyao Xu and Jinhui Xu, was recently awarded a two-year project from the National Science Foundation. The project aims to develop a transformative computational paradigm of 3D printing in mass customization.
Improving Workplace Safety
2/28/19
Professor Lora Cavuoto, in collaboration with professor Fadel Megahed from Auburn University, was recently awarded a three-year project from the American Society of Safety Engineers Foundation.
Health Systems Research
6/18/19
ISE is making a difference in health system quality and effectiveness through a multidisciplinary approach that cuts across traditional areas in ISE to include faculty in service systems (Li Lin), human factors (Ann Bisantz, Lora Cavuoto, Victor Paquet) and operations research (Alex Nikolaev).

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