Graduate student awards and recognition

Excellence in Ph.D. research

Every June, Ph.D. students in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering make 15-minute presentations to the faculty and their peers on their achievements and progress within the program (e.g., journal/conference publications, awards, teaching evaluations, coursework/grades, preliminary exams, qualifiers, etc.), with more emphasis on the current academic year. This is also an opportunity for students to learn more about the research and scholarly activities of their fellow doctoral candidates. Based on faculty feedback, a winner and runner-up are selected.

Academic year and recipients

• 2019-2020
• 2020-2021

Grad student recognition from conferences

2021 recognition

• Platform Presentations, 2nd Place Award, WSU Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Symposium, 2021: Egbe-Etu Etu, Industrial Engineering, "Intensive Care Unit Admissions for COVID-19 Patients: A Machine Learning Driven Approach" 

2020 recognition

• INFORMS Finalist, Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications and Network Analytics, 2020: Hossein Badri recognized for his dissertation work by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications and Network Analytics

2019 recognition

• INCOSE Best Paper Award, Italy, 2019: Rapp, S., Chinnam, R.B., Doerry, N., Murat, A.E., & Witus, G. (2018). Product Development Resilience through Set-Based Design. Systems Engineering, 21(5), 490-500.
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation Student Award Program Awardee, 2018-2019: Samira Anvaryazdi is awarded the BCBS grant of $3,000 in recognition of her dissertation "Managing Operational Efficiency & Health Outcomes at Outpatient Clinics through Effective Scheduling".
• Best Technical Paper Award, Michigan Simulation Users Group (MSUG), 2019: Suleyman Yildirim is awarded the best student technical paper award and an honorarium of $500 for his paper titled "Change Point Detection Using Process Knowledge for Automated Parameter Estimation in Simulation Models."

2018 recognition

• Ralph H. Kummler Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Student Research, 2018: Wujun Si was awarded the 2018 Ralph H. Kummler Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Student Research, College of Engineering, WSU.
• GYRS - GuangBin Yang Reliability Symposium- Best Poster Award, 2018: Mohammad Aminisharifabad and Qingyu Yang "A Statistical Approach to Model Microstructures with Application in Reliability Analysis".
• SAVE International University Challenge Paper Award 1st Place, 2018: Etu, E.E., et al. "Application of Value Analysis to Improve Trim-to-Foam Attachment in Seat Assembly". Advisor: Celestine Aguwa

2017 recognition

• INFORMS Best Referred Paper Finalist Award, 2017: Wujun Si, Qingyu Yang and Xin Wu, for the paper of "A Functional Covariate Degradation Model with Application to Degradation Analysis of Dual-phase Steel by Utilizing Its Microstructure Images." 
• Best Student paper Competition finalist, Healthcare Systems Track, 2017: Hossein Badri, Milad Zafar Nezhad, 2017 IISE Annual Conference, May 20-25, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA
• Best Application Paper - Honorable Mention, IIE Transactions Best Paper Award Competition, 2017: Movahednejad, M., Mashayekhy, L., Chinnam, R.B, and Phillips, A., "Hierarchical Time-Dependent Shortest Path Algorithms for Vehicle Routing under ITS," IIE Transactions. Vol. 48,Issue 2, pp. 158-169, 2016. Awards are selected by an examining committee from all papers published from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. Invited to present paper as part of a special session for IISE Transactions Best Papers at the 2017 ISERC Conference.
• Best Application Paper - Honorable Mention, IIE Transactions Focused Issue on Scheduling and Logistics Best Paper Award Competition, 2017. Awards are selected by an examining committee from all papers published from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. Invited to present paper as part of a special session for IISE Transactions Best Papers at the 2017 ISERC Conference.
• INFORMS IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Awardee (Ranked 3rd among 55 Applicants), 2017. Seungyup Lee is one of the few finalists for the IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award for an article based on his dissertation research (presentation at INFORMS 2017). Lee, S.Y., Chinnam, R.B., Dalkiran, E., Krupp, S., Nauss, M., "Proactive Inpatient Bed Reservations from ED to Reduce Patient Boarding."