Seminars
Explore upcoming and past seminars featuring industry professionals, research leaders and trending topics in industrial engineering.
Last Updated: 05/26/2026 | All information is accurate and still up-to-date
Past Seminars
2026
2025
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Seminar Series | Xudong Zhang
November 7, 2025
Join us in welcoming Xudong Zhang, professor at Texas A&M University, as he -
Seminar Series | ISE Department Overview
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Seminar Series | John Lee
April 16, 2025
Join us in welcoming John Lee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, as he discusses cognitive engineering. -
Seminar Series | Erick Jones
April 7, 2025
Join us in welcoming Erick Jones, an assistant professor from the University of Texas-Arlington, as he discusses tariffs, policy and supply chain. -
Seminar Series | Sait Tunc
April 2, 2025
Join us in welcoming Sait Tunc, an assistant professor from Virginia Tech, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Xi Chen
March 26, 2025
Join us in welcoming Xi Chen, an associate professor from Virginia Tech, as she discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Peter Haas
March 19, 2025
Join us in welcoming Peter Haas, a professor from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, as he discusses graph and generative neural networks. -
Seminar Series | Ahmed Aziz Ezzat
March 5, 2025
Join us in welcoming Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, an assistant professor from Rutgers University, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Andrew Lowy
January 27, 2025
Join us in welcoming Andrew Lowy, a postdoc from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Gal Mendelson
January 16, 2025
Join us in welcoming Gal Mendelson, an assistant professor from Technion, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Jaydeep Karandikar
January 13, 2025
Join us in welcoming Jaydeep Karandikar, a Senior R&D staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Jacob Peloquin
January 9, 2025
Join us in welcoming Jacob Peloquin, a Ph.D. candidate from Duke University, as he discusses industrial engineering topics.
2024
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Seminar Series | Josh Domeyer
December 6, 2024
Join us in welcoming Josh Domeyer, a research scientist at Toyota, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Zhenyu Kong
November 22, 2024
Join us in welcoming Zhenyu Kong, a professor from Virginia Tech University, as he discusses Smart Additive Manufacturing. -
Seminar Series: Sneha Narra
November 15, 2024
Join us in welcoming Sneha Narra, an assistant professor from Carnegie Mellon University, as she discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series: Denis Cormier
November 8, 2024
Join us in welcoming Denis Cormier, a professor from Rochester Institute of Technology, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series: Hamed Rahimian
November 1, 2024
Join us in welcoming Hamed Rahimian, an assistant professor from Clemson University, as he discusses stochastic optimization. -
Seminar Series | Ziteng Wang
October 25, 2024
Join us in welcoming Ziteng Wang, an associate professor from Northern Illinois University, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Susan Sanchez
October 18, 2024
Join us in welcoming Susan Sanchez, a professor from the Naval Postgraduate School, as she discusses data farming. -
Seminar Series | Jiming Peng
October 11, 2024
Join us in welcoming Jiming Peng, an associate professor from the University of Houston, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Constance Crozier
October 4, 2024
Join us in welcoming Constance Crozier, an assistant professor from Georgia Institute of Technology, as she discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Tyler Kroon
September 27, 2024
Join us in welcoming Tyler Kroon, an engineering research librarian at NC State, as he gives you more information about NC State libraries. -
Seminar Series | Jordan Kern
September 20, 2024
Join us in welcoming Jordan Kern, one of ISE’s assistant professors, as he discusses the emerging vulnerabilities in low-carbon energy systems. -
Seminar Series | Osman Ozaltin
September 13, 2024
Join us in welcoming Osman Ozaltin, one of ISE’s associate professors, as he discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Sara Shashaani
September 6, 2024
Join us in welcoming Sara Shashaani, one of ISE’s assistant professors, as she discusses industrial engineering topics. -
Seminar Series | Russell King
August 23, 2024
Join us in welcoming Russell King, ISE Director of Graduate Programs, as he welcomes you back and discusses graduate degree requirements. -
Seminar Series | Afi Harrington
April 18, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Afi Harrington from the Food and Drug Administration. She will be discussing leveraging analytics in government. -
Seminar Series | Lewis Ntaimo
March 28, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Suvrajeet Sen, a professor from the University of Southern California. He will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering. -
Seminar Series | Mariel Lavieri
March 19, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Mariel Lavieri, University of Michigan. She will discuss personalizing treatment decisions for patients with chronic conditions. -
Seminar Series | Boyi Hu
March 7, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Boyi Hu, assistant professor from the University of Florida. He will discuss the performance challenges robots face in indoor pollination. -
Seminar Series | Seth Guikema
March 5, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Seth Guikema, professor from the University of Michigan. He will be discussing communities’ resilience to natural hazards. -
Seminar Series | Shawn Sheng
February 29, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Shawn Sheng, a research scientist from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He will be discussing the challenges and opportunities facing the global wind industry. -
Seminar Series | Manish Tripathy
February 27, 2024
Please join us in welcoming back ISE alum Manish Tripathy, Senior Lecturer from NJIT. He will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering. -
Seminar Series | Erin Baker
February 22, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Erin Baker, professor from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. She will be discussing equity integration in power systems. -
Seminar Series | Juliet Pulliam
February 15, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Ozlem Ergun, a professor from Northeastern University. She will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering. -
Seminar Series | Sila Cetinkaya
February 6, 2024
Please join us in welcoming Sila Cetinkaya, a professor from Southern Methodist University. She will discuss stochastic clearing in the outbound supply chain. -
Seminar Series | Li Yang
February 1, 2024
Please join us in welcoming back Li Yang, ISE alum and associate professor from the University of Louisville. He will discuss a current topic in industrial and systems engineering.
2023
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Seminar Series | George Tan
November 16, 2023
Please join us in welcoming George Tan Associate Professor, Texas Tech University, Dept. of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering. -
Seminar Series | Jeff Shamma
November 14, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Jeff Shamma, Professor and Head, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering. -
Seminar Series | Guha Manogharan
November 9, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Guha Manogharan, Associate Professor, Penn State University, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. -
Seminar Series | Qi Luo
November 7, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Qi Luo, an assistant professor from Clemson University, as he discusses data-driven decision-making. -
Seminar Series | Jennifer Pazour
November 2, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Jennifer Pazour, Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering. -
Seminar Series | Bruce Rogers
October 31, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Bruce Rogers, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Duke University. -
Seminar Series | Shannon Harris
October 24, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Shannon Harris, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Business. -
Seminar Series | Qiang Huang
October 12, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Qiang Huang, Professor, University of Southern California, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. -
Seminar Series | Jay Lee
October 5, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of the Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept of the Univ. of Maryland, College Park. -
Seminar Series | Brandon McConnell
October 3, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Brandon McConnell, research assistant professor and director of the MEM graduate program, NC State University, Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering. -
Seminar Series | Shiyu Zhou
April 21, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Shiyu Zhou, the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. -
Seminar Series | Wei Xie
April 14, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Wei Xie, assistant professor at Northeastern University, as she discusses complex end-to-end learning in cyber-physical systems. -
Seminar Series | Merve Bodur
April 7, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Merve Bodur, assistant professor at the University of Toronto, as she discusses Markov Chain-based policies. -
Seminar Series | Amit Bandyopadhyay
March 31, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Amit Bandyopadhyay, the Boeing Distinguished Professor from Washington State University. -
Seminar Series | Abby Wooldridge
March 24, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Abby Wooldridge, assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. -
Seminar Series | Davis MacGregor
March 3, 2023
Please join us in welcoming Davis Macgregor, a senior manufacturing scientist at Fast Radius, as he discusses machine learning algorithms. -
Seminar Series | Hamsa Bastani
February 24, 2023
Please welcome Hamsa Bastani, Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
2022
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Seminar Series | Yu Ding
December 2, 2022
Please join us in welcoming Yu Ding, a Professor at Texas A&M University. -
Seminar Series | Kiante Brantley
November 18, 2022
Please join us in welcoming Kianté Brantley, a Post-Doc researching at Cornell University. -
Seminar Series | Lauren Davis
November 11, 2022
Please join us in welcoming Lauren Davis, a Professor at the North Carolina A&T State University. She will be speaking about improving equity and access in hunger relief supply chains. -
Seminar Series | Nosakhare Edoimioya
November 4, 2022
Please join us in welcoming Nosakhare Edoimioya, a Ph.D. Student at the University of Michigan. -
Seminar Series | Dalia Echeverri
October 28, 2022
Please join us in welcoming Dalia Echeverri, Gendell Family Associate Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. -
Seminar Series | Yao Xie
October 21, 2022
Please join us in welcoming Yao Xie, Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She will talk about her research on Point process models for discrete event data. -
Seminar Series | Russell Barton
October 7, 2022
Please welcome Russell Barton from Penn State University. He will discuss some surprisingly simple metamodels for forecasting cycle-time quantiles. -
Seminar Series | Leila Hajibabai
September 23, 2022
Join us in welcoming ISE’s own Leila Hajibabai as she discusses transportation science and logistical solutions for smart city challenges.
2021
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Seminar Series | Franck Diaz-Garelli
November 5, 2021
Welcome Dr. Franck Diaz-Garelli as he discusses unintended consequences of breaking the first law of informatics and how industrial engineering can help. -
Seminar Series | Valerie Thomas
October 15, 2021
Please welcome Valerie Thomas as she discusses how to reinvent industrial engineering to meet the challenge of climate change. -
Seminar Series | Rohan Shirwaiker
September 24, 2021
Please welcome ISE’s own Rohan Shirwaiker as he shares how he has been manufacturing “living” biomedical products like tissues and organs. -
Seminar Series | Xu Xu
September 17, 2021
Please welcome ISE’s own Xu Xu, assistant professor, as he shares how ubiquitous Sensing is being used to improve worker safety. -
Seminar Series | New Student Orientation
September 3, 2021
Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow grad students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you with the various policies and procedures. -
Seminar Series | Kristy Borda
August 27, 2021
Please welcome Kristy Borda, research librarian, from the NC State Libraries as she shares how to best use the resources of the NC State Libraries. -
Seminar Series | New Student Orientation
January 22, 2021
Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow grad students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you with the various policies and procedures.
2020
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Seminar Series | Eileen Taylor
October 23, 2020
Eileen Taylor is a professor at NC State’s Poole College of Management. She teaches in the MBA and MAC programs and courses at Duke University. -
Seminar Series | Shelby Hallman
August 28, 2020
Please welcome Shelby Hallman, COE Lead Librarian from NC State Libraries, as she discusses NC State’s library services and introduces resources useful for conducting in-depth research. -
Seminar Series | New Student Orientation
August 14, 2020
Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow grad students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you with the various policies and procedures. -
Seminar Series | Tiffany Chin Moore
February 28, 2020
Come join the ISE Department in welcoming one of our alumni, Tiffany Chin Moore, as she discusses how to drive change through continuous improvement -
Seminar Series | Brandon McConnell
January 17, 2020
Come join ISE’s faculty and students as they welcome their own, Brandon McConnell, to discuss how his research reduces the complex issues that arise when the military moves supplies around the world.
2019
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Seminar Series | Susan Hunter
November 22, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Susan Hunter, associate professor from Purdue, as she discusses bi-objective simulation optimization on integer lattices. -
Seminar Series | Remi Goulet
November 15, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Remi Goulet from Saint-Gobain Research North America as he discusses the life of an R&D Engineer. -
Seminar Series | Leon McGinnis
November 8, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Leon McGinnis, professor emeritus, from Georgia Tech and ISE advisory board members as he discusses the case for analysis agnostic system models. -
Seminar Series | Linkan Bian
November 1, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Linkan Bian from Mississippi State University, who will discuss a theoretical framework and partial solutions for the Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing (LBAM) process. -
Seminar Series | Xu Sun
October 25, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Xu Sun from the University of Florida, who will discuss the use of a battery-powered server in a dynamic scheduling problem for a multiclass, single-server queue. -
Seminar Series | Shelby Hallman
October 18, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Shelby Hallman from the NC State Libraries as she discusses how to take advantage of the NC State Library resources for your research. -
Seminar Series | Ola Harrysson and Russell King
October 4, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Ola Harrysson and Russell King as they discuss their sabbatical experiences. -
Seminar Series | Jingyan Dong
September 27, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome one of their own, Jingyan Dong, who will discuss printing processes for viable micro/nanomanufacturing. -
Seminar Series | Katie Homar
September 20, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Katie Homar from the Graduate School as she discusses the Graduate School Professional Development Programs and how to write concise sentences. -
Seminar Series | Barry Nelson
September 13, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Barry Nelson from Northwestern University as he discusses how Parallel Adaptive Survivor Selection (PASS) jettisons the standard framework of ranking & selection to produce a new class of algorithms. -
Seminar Series | New Graduate Student Orientation
August 30, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School. -
Seminar Series | Grad Student Policies and Procedures
August 23, 2019
The first seminar of the semester will focus on various policies and procedures from the ISE Department and the NC State Graduate School. -
Seminar Series | Ruxian Wang
April 19, 2019
Come join ISE’s faculty and fellow students as they welcome Ruxian Wang from Johns Hopkins University, as he discusses current topics in the industrial engineering field. -
Seminar Series | Nan Kong
April 12, 2019
Please welcome Nan Kong from Purdue University. His topic of discussion is how to optimize regional trauma centers. -
Seminar Series | Brian Paul
April 5, 2019
Please welcome Brian Paul from Oregon State University. His topic is the additive manufacturing of functional alloys. -
Seminar Series | Alaa Elwany
March 29, 2019
Please welcome Alaa Elwany from the University of Texas A&M. His topic of discussion is producing 3D-printed parts that have location-specific properties. -
Seminar Series | Xuili Chao
March 22, 2019
Please welcome Xuili Chao from the University of Michigan. His topic is how to address the challenges of controlling perishable inventories. -
Seminar Series | Matthew Plumlee
March 8, 2019
Please welcome Matthew Plumlee from Northwestern University. His topic of discussion is inexact computer model calibration: Concerns, controversy, credibility, and confidence. -
Seminar Series | Radhika Kulkarni
March 1, 2019
Please welcome Radhika Kulkarni from the SAS Institute, who will discuss machine learning, artificial intelligence, and optimization. -
Seminar Series | Namhun Kim
February 22, 2019
Please welcome Namhun Kim from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, who will discuss the use of Design for Additive Manufacturing in the automotive industry. -
Seminar Series | Min Chi
February 15, 2019
Please welcome Min Chi to the ISE Department. Chi comes from NC State’s Computer Science Department. She will discuss how to use intelligent learning technologies for individualizing a student’s learning experience. -
Seminar Series | Lena Abu-Haija| Parth Chansoria
February 8, 2019
Please join not one, but two ISE Ph.D. students, Lena Abu-El-Haija and Parth Chansoria. Lena will discuss her research on her pancreatic cancer prioritization and screening evaluation tool. Parth will discuss that he is developing a new ultrasound-assisted 3D bioprinting process to fabricate anisotropic tissues. -
Seminar Series | Katie Homar
January 18, 2019
Please welcome Katie Homar to the ISE Department. Homar is the new Technical and Academic Writing Specialist at NC State’s Graduate School. She will discuss how to use basic visual design principles to organize reports (and other documents) for a variety of audiences. -
Seminar Series | New Graduate Student Orientation
January 11, 2019
Welcome, New ISE Graduate Students!! Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation.
2018
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Seminar Series | Simon Hsiang
November 30, 2018
Please welcome Simon Hsiang to the ISE Department. Hsiang serves as the head of the Systems Engineering & Engineering Management Department at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. -
Seminar Series | Young-Jun Son
November 16, 2018
Please welcome Young-Jun Son to the ISE Department. Son serves as the department head of the Systems and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. -
Seminar Series | Lars Monch
November 9, 2018
Please welcome Lars Monch to the ISE Department. Monch, a professor at the University of Hagen, will discuss decomposition heuristics for reducing costs and tardiness in mixed-model aircraft manufacturing flow lines. -
Seminar Series | Alex Carroll
November 2, 2018
Please welcome Alex Carroll to the ISE Department. Carroll serves as the Research Librarian for Engineering and Biotechnology at the NC State Libraries. -
Seminar Series | Shuai Huang
October 26, 2018
Please welcome Shuai Huang to the ISE Department. Huang serves as an assistant professor at the University of Washington and will discuss ways he is using data analytics to transform U.S. healthcare from reactive to preventive. -
Seminar Series | Jay Wilkins
October 12, 2018
Please welcome Jay Wilkins to the ISE Department. Wilkins serves as the program manager at the Army Research Office and will share how he models complex systems. -
Seminar Series | James Tompkins
September 28, 2018
Please welcome James Tompkins, chairman and CEO of Tompkins International and MonarchFx, to the ISE Department. Tompkins will discuss how he has taken the New Era of Retail to another level by explaining the digital imperative that all organizations must understand in order to succeed. -
Seminar Series | Stefan Haeussler
September 21, 2018
Please welcome Stefan Haeussler to the ISE Department. Haeussler serves as an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck. -
Seminar Series | Osman Ozaltin
September 18, 2018
Please welcome The ISE Department’s own Osman Ozaltin, who will present his research on using mathematical programming and statistical learning to improve healthcare. -
Seminar Series | Summer Internship Program for Operations Research Technology
September 7, 2018
Please welcome Ilana Bookner to the ISE Department. Bookner is a Summer Intern in the Operations Research Technology (SPORT) programat the National Security Agency (NSA). She will discuss the advantages of the NSA’s SPORT program. -
Seminar Series | New Graduate Student Orientation
August 24, 2018
Welcome, new ISE Graduate Students!! Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation -
Seminar Series | Hongwei Hsiao
April 13, 2018
Please welcome Hongwei Hsiao to the ISE Department. Hsiao serves as Chief of the Protective Technology Branch at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). He will discuss the role robotics plays in the research and application of occupational safety and health. -
Seminar Series | Atin Angrish | Tyler Rose
March 23, 2018
Please join ISE grad students Atin Angrish and Tyler Rose as they talk blockchain and virtual reality. Angrish will discuss how he is using blockchain technology to allow manufacturing machines to share information safely. Rose will discuss how he is using virtual reality to improve occupational training. -
Seminar Series | Steven Schmid
March 15, 2018
Please welcome Steven Schmid to the ISE Department. Schmid serves as the Manufacturing Machines and Equipment (MME) Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He will discuss research opportunities in advanced manufacturing. -
Seminar Series | Golbarg Tutunchi
March 2, 2018
Please welcome Golbarg Tutunchi back to the ISE Department. Tutunchi serves as a Senior Operations Research Specialist at SAS. She will discuss how she is using bi-criteria optimization to solve engineering problems. -
Seminar Series | Karen Hicklin
February 16, 2018
Please welcome Karen Hicklin back to the ISE Department. Hicklin serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She will discuss the risks that are associated with cesarean deliveries. -
Seminar Series | Dr. Clark Dickerson
February 9, 2018
Please welcome Clark Dickerson to the ISE Department. Dickerson serves as a Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). He will discuss several unique fundamental characteristics of shoulder mechanics and how developing models and representations of this body region can inform a wide range of design, clinical, ergonomic, and biological investigations and applications. -
Seminar Series | New Graduate Student Orientation
January 12, 2018
Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation (434 Daniels Hall). We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School.
2017
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Seminar Series | Albert Shih
November 17, 2017
Please welcome Albert Shih from the University of Michigan, who will discuss the cyber design and additive manufacturing of custom assistive devices. -
Seminar Series | Chris Rock
November 10, 2017
Please welcome ISE’s own Chris Rock as he discusses the past, present, and future of CAMAL’s additive manufacturing research, including material development and biomedical design and fabrication. -
Seminar Series | CS Nam
October 27, 2017
Please welcome ISE’s own CS Nam as he discusses how the human brain can directly communicate with the outside world through a brain-computer interface (BCI), not only for healthy people but also for patients who cannot use their muscles. -
Seminar Series | Ebru Bish
October 20, 2017
Please welcome Ebru Bish to the ISE Department. Ward is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. She will discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise when performing public health screenings and how modeling can help to optimize resource allocation decisions. -
Seminar Series | Binil Starly
October 13, 2017
The ISE Department welcomes our own Binil Starly. Starly is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Functional Tissue Engineering Group at the Comparative Medicine Institute. He will discuss the three B’s of regenerative medicine manufacturing: bioreactors, biofabrication, and blockchain. -
Seminar Series | Sanaz Goldani | Wenjuan Zhang
September 29, 2017
Please welcome Ph.D. students Sanaz Goldani (OR) and Wenjuan Zhang (ISE) as they present their research. Goldani will share how her research will improve the way we handle disaster relief in the future. Zhang will discuss how her research is enhancing the transparency of automated systems, thereby simplifying the understanding of complex systems. -
Seminar Series | Amy Ward
September 22, 2017
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Seminar Series | Bertha Chang
September 15, 2017
Please welcome Amy R. Ward to the ISE Department. Ward is a Professor of Data Sciences and Operations at the University of Southern California. She will discuss the problem that many classic scheduling models do not incorporate customer impatience and how this assumption can lead to poor scheduling decisions. -
Seminar Series | New Graduate Student Orientation
August 18, 2017
Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation (434 Daniels Hall). We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School. -
Seminar Series | Georgia-Ann Klutke
April 28, 2017
Please welcome Georgia-Ann Klutke to the ISE Department. Klutke is the Program Director for the Operations Engineering program at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She will discuss opportunities relevant to the Industrial and Operations Engineering communities. -
Seminar Series | Timothy Simpson
February 24, 2017
Please welcome Timothy Simpson to the ISE Department. Simpson is the Paul Morrow Professor of Engineering Design and Manufacturing at Penn State University. He will discuss the challenges and research opportunities in advanced manufacturing. -
Seminar Series | ISE Ph.D. Research Presentations
February 17, 2017
Come join Maryam Zahabi as she shares how her research is improving in-car computer systems to make our roads safer. Joining Maryam is Wenjuan Zhang, who explains how she is assessing the impact that physical exertion has on our ability to perform mental tasks. -
Seminar Series | Halit Uster
February 10, 2017
Please welcome Halit Uster to the ISE Department. Uster is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Management, Information, and Systems at Southern Methodist University. He will discuss his approach to improving the driver shortage problem in the trucking industry. -
Seminar Series | Emmett Lodree
February 3, 2017
Please welcome Emmett Lodree to the ISE Department. Lodree is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Alabama. He will discuss the effectiveness of various donation-collection strategies for transporting relief supplies from local warehouses to the hands of disaster victims. -
Seminar Series | Martin Wortman
January 27, 2017
Please welcome Martin Wortman to the ISE Department. Wortman is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. He will discuss the three operations-engineering principles that motivated the need for government regulation of safety-critical protective systems. -
Seminar Series | ISE Ph.D. Research Presentations
January 20, 2017
Come join Ling Zhang as he shares how his research is revolutionizing how one-way car-sharing networks operate. Joining Ling is Lokesh Narayanan, who explains how he is assessing 3D biofabrication processes. -
Seminar Series | New Graduate Student Orientation
January 13, 2017
Come join ISE’s faculty, staff and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation (434 Daniels Hall). We will help you learn all the various policies and procedures, as well as recent changes from the NC State Graduate School.
2016
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Seminar Series | Mary Cummings
October 21, 2016
Please welcome Mary “Missy” Cummings to the ISE Department. Cummings is a professor from the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke. -
Seminar Series | Edwin Romeijn
October 14, 2016
Please welcome Edwin Romeijn to the ISE Department. Romeijn is a professor from the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. -
Seminar Series | ISE Ph.D. Research Presentations
September 30, 2016
Come join Katie Basinger as she shares how her research is revolutionizing the way burn patients are being treated. Joining Katie is Sha Luo, who explains how she is streamlining inventory systems. -
Seminar Series | Bertha Chang
September 16, 2016
Join ISE in welcoming NC State Engineering Librarian Bertha Chang as she shares the resources and services available to ISE graduate students. Resources that will be demonstrated include engineering literature databases, patent resources and citation management software. -
Seminar Series | Michael Kay
September 2, 2016
Join ISE professor Michael Kay as he covers the basics of getting started with your research and what is needed to complete a dissertation or thesis. -
Seminar Series | New Graduate Student Orientation
August 19, 2016
Welcome, new ISE Graduate Students!! Come join ISE’s faculty, staff, the GSA Student Group and fellow graduate students at our New Graduate Student Orientation. -
Seminar Series | Thayer Morrill
April 8, 2016
Don’t miss Thayer Morrill from NC State’s Economics Department. Morrill shares the inner workings of assigning students to schools. -
Seminar Series | Amin Khademi
April 1, 2016
Don’t miss Amin Khademi from Clemson University. He will discuss his development of a flexible optimization framework for real-time ambulance management -
Seminar Series | Knut Haase
March 4, 2016
Don’t miss Knut Haase from Hamburg University. -
Seminar Series | Jonathan Bard
February 26, 2016
Join ISE as we welcome Jonathan Bard from the University of Texas at Austin. Bard discusses how his team improved the scheduling systems for medical residents at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. -
Seminar Series | Joy Olabisi
February 12, 2016
Don’t miss Joy Olabisi from the Rochester Institute of Technology as she shares how “teams of teams” are driving innovation. -
Seminar Series | Jens Brunner
February 5, 2016
Don’t miss Dr. Jens Brunner from the University of Augsburg as he shares the value of the flexibility of shift scheduling at hospitals. -
Seminar Series | Mark Spearman
January 29, 2016
Don’t miss Mark Spearman from Physics Factory as he shares the “Laws” of how production-inventory systems behave
The Importance of Seminars

Guest speakers from industry and other universities give you valuable learning opportunities outside the classroom. In addition, these events introduce new technologies, research and trends in industrial and systems engineering. As a result, you gain a better understanding of real-world challenges and modern engineering solutions.
Industry professionals connect classroom concepts to practical applications. Therefore, you learn how companies improve systems, reduce costs and manage complex operations. These discussions also help you understand workforce expectations and career opportunities in different industries. You can also hear firsthand stories about leadership, teamwork and innovation from experienced professionals.
Faculty members from other institutions bring unique research experiences and perspectives to campus. Moreover, they share new ideas that encourage collaboration and critical thinking. By learning from experts with different backgrounds, you strengthen your communication skills and broaden your understanding of the field.
These events also help you build professional relationships before graduation. In turn, these connections can support internships, research opportunities and future careers. You may even discover career paths or industries you had not previously considered. Networking with professionals also helps you develop confidence when discussing technical topics and career goals.
Most importantly, attending a seminar prepares you to become an adaptable and innovative engineer. Because industries continue to change, you must understand emerging technologies and evolving workplace expectations. Through these experiences, you stay informed, engaged and ready to succeed in a rapidly changing profession. In addition, you gain exposure to different industries, career paths and problem-solving methods. These experiences help you think creatively, adapt quickly and prepare for long-term professional success. You also learn how professionals communicate ideas, manage projects and lead teams in fast-changing and technology-driven work environments.