ISE Student Takes 3rd Place at IIE Regional Conference

February 13, 2009

Carl Morris

Carl Morris appears third from left.

Senior industrial and systems engineering student, Carl Morris, won 3rd place honors in the engineering competition during the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Region 3 Student Conference held at Louisiana State University on February 13 – 15, 2009. The Region 3 is composed of 16 universities in the southeastern United States including Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Florida, Auburn, Louisiana State University, and University of Puerto Rico. Carl’s presentation and paper “Semi-Markov Decision Process for Determining Transshipment of Critical and Slow-Moving Medical Goods” was based on research he conducted with ISE Professor Mingzhou Jin.

The ISE department is proud of Carl, and congratulates him on this terrific achievement.