An article on Motherboard, the science and technology magazine of Vice Media, examines e-waste research by Sara Behdad, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The reluctance to part with mobile phones, laptops and other gizmos – sometimes called “gadget hoarding” – is part of a larger and more troubling issue: managing electronic waste, or e-waste.
A paper by ISE PhD student Niraj Pandey and recent BS graduate Kyle Cunningham “Alleviating Competitive Imbalance in NFL Schedules: An Integer-Programming Approach” with co-advisors Murat Kurt and Mark Karwan has passed two stages of review/competition and is now in the finals of the 2015 Sloan Sports Analytics conference competition.