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IISE QCRE &MD Divisions Webinar

  • 1.  IISE QCRE &MD Divisions Webinar

    Posted 04-08-2020 13:42

    Dear colleagues,

     

    IISE Quality Control and Reliability Engineering & Manufacturing and Design divisions would like to invite you to attend the webinar on Wednesday April 22, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern time. If interested, please register using the link below

     

    Register now.

     

    After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

     

    Nature-inspired Analytical Approaches for Engineering Systems

    Wednesday April 22, 02:00 PM – 03:00PM Eastern Time

    Presenter: Dr. Alice E. Smith, Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor,

    Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Auburn University

     

    This talk will put forth several straightforward but successful implementations of analytical approaches inspired by natural systems to complex problems in quality control and reliability engineering.  These nature-based paradigms range in fidelity with their natural systems origins but all seek to leverage the structures and operations of nature doing what it does best – novelty detection, system optimization, adaptability to dynamic environments, robustness, and flexibility.  More specifically, the well-known, but often misunderstood and misused, natural system computational paradigms of artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and evolutionary algorithms will be considered for use in QCRE.  Used judiciously and knowledgeably these approaches can offer significant advantages over conventional approaches alone.  A curated selection of diverse applications from the speaker's more than 25 years of experience in this field will be explained and objectively analyzed.  The applications are (1) quality and process improvement of large-scale ceramic casting, (2) ad hoc network connectivity through drone positioning, (3) design of heterogeneous networks considering resiliency, and (4) continuous monitoring of vehicles for predictive maintenance.

     

    ALICE E. SMITH is the Joe W. Forehand/Accenture Distinguished Professor of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Auburn University, where she served as Department Chair from 1999-2011. Previously, she was on the faculty of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh from 1991-99, which she joined after industrial experience with Southwestern Bell Corporation.  Dr. Smith has degrees from Rice University, Saint Louis University, and Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Smith's research focus is analysis, modeling and optimization of complex systems with emphasis on computation inspired by natural systems.   She has authored more than 200 publications, served as a principal investigator on more than $9 million of sponsored research and has received numerous honors and accolades for her contributions to industrial and systems engineering.  She has been awarded 17 NSF grants, including a CAREER grant in 1995 and an ADVANCE Leadership grant in 2001. Dr. Smith was awarded the Wellington Award in 2016, the IIE Albert G. Holzman Distinguished Educator Award in 2012, and the INFORMS WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS in 2009.  Dr. Smith is the editor of the recent book Women in Industrial and Systems Engineering: Key Advances and Perspectives on Emerging Topics (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030118655#aboutBook). She is the Editor in Chief of INFORMS Journal on Computing and an Area Editor of Computers & Operations Research and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.



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    Yisha Xiang, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering
    Texas Tech University

    Lourdes A. Medina, Ph.D.
    President
    Manufacturing & Design Division
    Institute of Industrial and System Engineers
    &
    Associate Professor
    Department of Industrial Engineering
    University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
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