Industrial Engineering

The Industrial Engineering Department is proud to announce its selection of outstanding individuals for this academic year. We would like to extend our warmest congratulations to Dr. Sohyung Cho, who has been named the Outstanding Teaching awardee, Craig Eversmann, who has been selected as the Outstanding Alumnus, Seth Bedwell, who has been recognized as the Outstanding Senior, and Ashley Vandersand, who has been named the Outstanding Junior.

These individuals have demonstrated exceptional lead...

Faculty Position FY24-009
July 26 2023

Position Title
Full-time Instructor

Hiring Unit
Industrial Engineering  

Job Description/Responsibilities
The Department of Industrial Engineering (IE) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) invites applications for a full-time instructor position, non-tenure track. As part of the SIUE School of Engineering, the Department offers an ABET-accredited B.S. degree program, and a graduate program with both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.

Diver...

According to the 2020 United States Census, one in 44 children in the U.S. has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelemental disorder characterized by difficulties with communication, social, verbal, and motor skills. Research shows most children who have ASD are not diagnosed until age four or older, even though ASD can be reliably diagnosed by age two. 

Now, with the support of a Sustaining Illinois Seed Grant from the Illinois Innovation Network, Southern Illinois University ...

Three IE senior design teams advanced to 2022 SOE senior design showcase. Details about those three projects are as follows:

Team with Esma Yagmur Evlicoglu, Elif Asena Kapelman, Saadet Kilic, Sefa Kocak, Bugen Naz Kocoglu, Murat Can Kuvelet presented Standin’ Desk Riser. This is a cost-effective solution for office workers and students to raise their existing desks to a personalized standing level. The product is designed to achieve enhanced ergonomics, safety, and stability, and it supp...

Seth Voelker is the Operations Manager for Essex Industries where he oversees all operations for a $30M business with majority of the business for Blackhawk helicopters. His core belief is in the respect for and development of people and the practice of going to Gemba to find the answers.

 Seth has 20 years of experience in industrial / manufacturing engineering and has worked in the automotive, retail, boating and aerospace industries. In the past 20 years Seth has setup state of the ar...

Ms. Kay Guse, IE alumna who has recently retired from Boeing, has dedicated annual IE scholarship for outstanding IE students. The Kay Guse Family IE Scholarship is an annual award starting from Spring 2022. The details on the scholarship are as follows:

The Kay Guse Family Industrial Engineering Scholarship Endowment was established to provide support for students in the SIUE Industrial Engineering program. Recipients must pursue a degree in industrial engineering and demonstrat...

IE graduate student, Sanaz Eshraghi's MS thesis research (Advisor - Dr. Eneyo) is featured in June 2021 Issue of ISE Magazine (https://www.iise.org/isemagazine/details.aspx?id=51906). A brief summary of the research is as follows:

Enhance synergy of DMAIC, value stream maps to boost production: a case study to improve shipping time in circuit board manufacturing, Sanaz Eshraghi and Emmanuel S. Eneyo

Competition has driven manufacturers to improve product quality, time to market, cost structure...

Up to six (6) new IE graduate students will receive 25% GA support (10 hours / week) for their first semester in the IE graduate program. Students who receive the 25% GA support are not eligible for other GAs. The GA includes a monthly stipend ($600) and tuition waiver. The GA may be extended to following semesters contingent upon satisfactory academic performance.

Eligibility
To be eligible for consideration for a GA, an applicant must have been admitted to the IE graduate program and have not ...

Dr. Onal, Associate Professor of IE Program, has been elected as the new president-elect of the Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He will serve as the president from June 1st, 2021 to May 30th, 2022. As the DAIS President, he will be honored to continue to implement and strengthen activities and novel practices that support the meaningful work of our data analytics and information systems community. His objective i...

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering industrial engineering seniors Brittany Booten, Stephen Holdenried and Jacob Muenchau have been selected to participate in the virtual global finals of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)/Rockwell Undergraduate Student Simulation Competition. 

Booten, from St. Louis, Holdenried, from Edwardsville, and Muenchau, from Freeburg, will attend the IISE Annual Conference and Expo Oct. 31-Nov. 3 at the Hyatt Regen...

IE graduate student, Elif Daysal had a successful defense for her MS thesis research on April 16, 2020. It was the first time IE program had a student’s defense meeting on a remote platform using Zoom application. Elif’s research, titled 3D modeling and analysis of cardia adipose tissue (CAT) using echocardiographic images: a feasibility study, has been advised by Dr. Lee. One of main contributions Elif has made out of the thesis research is: Experimental results show a promising evi...

Jessica Lagerhausen (BS IE ’13), recipient of 2019 IE Outstanding Alumni Award shared her career path with audience, which encompasses most of significant industrial engineering skills/fields during 2020 IE Career Planning Session on February 18, 2020. Jess’ presentation inspired audience with her passion in quality control, lean production and operations management. IE students, faculty and IPAC members were impressed by success in her career endeavor. Here is her biography:

As a r...

Three IE senior design teams competed during 2019 School of Engineering Admit Day Event.

Automated Solution Suspension Machine team has designed an automated machine to overcome the problems encountered with handmade pharmaceutical solution and suspension making (Ali Caglayan, Altug Sonmez, Batuhan Hazar Aydogan, Berkay Canogullari, Sena Boncuk, Hakan Bugra Kaynar).

Robo-Checkers team has designed an automated checker board which will allow users to play the game with people around the wor...