OREM News History

Lyle Professor Halit Üster in the Operations Research and Engineering Management department was recently featured in the Tampa Bay Times with his op-ed titled, "We can prepare better for hurricanes. Here's how."

Dr. Çetinkaya's collaborative research on sustainable remanufacturing practices was featured in the August 2021 issue of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Magazine. *[This “Research” section is provided for informational purposes only with permission of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers from the August 2021 issue of ISE magazine, Copyright©2021. All rights reserved. www.iise.org/ISEMagazine.]

Emergency logistics has largely overlooked the important interdependence between evacuation (demand) and relief (supply) sides. This grant investigates such integration from the perspective of both cost- and operation-effectiveness in emergency preparedness planning.

The senior design team of Ahmed Alefari, Emma Hanson, John Clay Richard, James Stine, and Jessica Wang were finalists in the CSBS 2021 Data Analytics Competition. This year's topic from the Conference of State Bank Supervisors was to develop and test a model for forecasting bank failures. The SMU team was awarded a $2,500 prize.

Niloofar's dissertation is on the development of solution methods for large-scale stochastic convex programming problems with recourse. Her research includes the design of data-driven algorithms, their theoretical analysis, and computational implementation.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

Lyle and SMU Cox School of Business are conducting collaborative research to help providers develop a plan using a statistical model to predict potential patients for diabetes testing up to ten years before there are noticeable symptoms.