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  • Fix Your Phone
    11/27/17
    An article in The Conversation by Sara Behdad, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in industrial and systems engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering, examines why when a computer or smartphone breaks it’s hard to get it fixed and much more common to throw the device away, generating between 20 million and 50 million metric tons of electronic waste every year worldwide.
  • Bisantz receives Paul M. Fitts Education Award from HFES
    11/17/17

    Ann M. (Amy) Bisantz, professor and chair of industrial and systems engineering, received the Paul M. Fitts Education Award from the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES).

  • Industrial engineering students leave their mark on the streets of Buffalo
    11/14/17

    The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers’ (IISE) UB student chapter teamed up with local organization, GObike Buffalo, to make the streets of Buffalo safer by helping to paint crosswalks at one of GObike’s Tactical Pop-up Projects.

  • UB and NSBE helped Dillard “just do it”
    11/8/17

    For Brian Dillard (BS ’92), a conversation at a National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) convention led to a decades-long career with the largest sneaker manufacturer in the world

  • 14 SEAS Faculty Recognized at UB's Celebration of Faculty & Staff Academic Excellence
    11/6/17
    Fourteen faculty from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are among those who were honored for notable achievement, service and teaching at UB's 2017 Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence.
  • Give the NFL a break
    10/27/17
    An article on The Ringer about the apparent efforts of television networks to ease back football oversaturation interviews Mark Karwan, Praxair Professor of Operations Research, Industrial and Systems Engineering and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor.