ISyE Media Coverage
Highlights of some of the news coverage received by various units of the H. Stewart Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering.
MORE US STUDENTS SEEK ASIAN EXPERIENCE
The Straits Times (Singapore) - July 3, 2008
So what if economists say the continents are decoupling, young Americans figure the future is pretty much entwined. More American students than ever are heading to universities in Asia, including in Singapore, to get up close and personal with the big growth story. Among other things, they hope the experience will give them an edge at the workplace. 'As the world becomes more globalised, I will probably be interacting more and more with Asians at work,' said Ms Shayna Brownstein, 21, an industrial-engineering student at Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and one of 30 students from the college who did a short-term study programme at the National University of Singapore. After 51/2 weeks in Singapore, she was headed to Beijing for a similar programme at Qinghua University before returning home to Atlanta.
http://www.straitstimes.com (Subscription Required*)
BRAVES' NEW TOOL: A WAY TO PREDICT ATTENDANCE
MSNBC - July. 2, 2008
Any fan who attends an Atlanta Braves game knows the attendance quiz that appears for each home game on the stadium's giant scoreboard.Team executives are playing the same game, but with a bit more sophistication and more at stake than entertainment. The result of several months' work, the Braves' "Attendance Projection Module" has worked to within 3 percent and 5 percent accuracy this season, twice coming within 100 seats of predicting the actual attendance and once as close as 45.. . Schiller first approached a member of his sales staff, Ryan McFerrin, with the task of coming up with such a model last August. While juggling the project along with his other duties in the team's ticket sales department, McFerrin, an industrial design major who graduated from GEORGIA TECH in 2005, needed two months to complete the "Attendance Projection Module."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25489092/
ONLINE SCHEDULER HELPS TRACK KIDS' SHOTS
Washington Post - June 14, 2008 (Health Day News, Forbes and over 25 other mentions)
A new online tool that helps parents and pediatricians adjust childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccinations are missed has been developed by researchers at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. The new online tool is designed to ensure that missed and future vaccines are given without violating guidelines regarding vaccines and doses.
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KEEPING VACCINATIONS ON TRACK
Ivanhoe Newswire - June 2008
A recent survey found that only nine percent of children get all their vaccinations at the recommended times. Only half receive all recommended doses by their second birthday. "If the child doesn't receive the doses on time or if some of them are given at the wrong time the vaccination doesn't have the coverage that it's supposed to," Pinar Keskinocak, Ph.D., an associate professor at Georgia Tech’s H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering in Atlanta, told Ivanhoe. Using computer science and mathematical models, Dr. Keskinocak, her colleagues, and the CDC have created a new, interactive childhood immunization schedule. "What we offer is a computer program that in some sense gives the best possible scenario given that a child is falling behind the recommended schedule," Faram Engineer, a Ph.D. student at the Stewart School of ISyE told Ivanhoe. View the video at the following link:
http://www.ivanhoe.com/science/story/2008/06/434a.html
NEW SOFTWARE TOOL KEEPS KIDS’ VACCINATIONS ON SCHEDULE
MedHeadlines - May 28, 2008
Medical guidelines in the call for each child to receive about 27 doses of vaccine before turning two. Booster shots are often recommended until the child turns six. These vaccines protect the child against 15 diseases that are preventable with a proper vaccination schedule. A lot of the time and for many reasons, however, that vaccination schedule isn’t maintained adequately and vaccines get missed or delayed. Until now, a very complicated set of calculations needed to be made before administering any missed or late vaccine doses. Many factors, including the child’s age, time since last vaccine, and which other vaccines, if any, are to be administered at the same time, must all be taken into consideration before continuing the vaccine schedule. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers have developed an online tool that helps parents and pediatricians stay on schedule. After routine data is entered, the tool quickly structures an immunization schedule based on the child’s age, previous vaccination history, and time elapsed since the last vaccine. In the case of missed or late vaccinations, the software program can devise the optimum time to resume the vaccination schedule.
Read more on MedHeadlines.com.
A NEW TOOL TO MANAGE YOUR CHILD'S VACCINE SCHEDULE
US News & World Report - May 27, 2008
Children often miss getting recommended vaccines on schedule, leaving parents and pediatricians scratching their heads as to how to catch up. A new Internet scheduling tool from the federal CDC is designed to make that chore a little easier. It took me about 10 seconds to download the tool on my desktop . .The parent or pediatrician adds in which shots the child already has received, and the scheduling software (designed by a professor and graduate student at GEORGIA TECH), weighs the complex and often conflicting rules for each immunization, and then cranks out a nifty, printable color-coded chart showing how much space to leave between catch-up doses, as well as regular shots.
Read more at usnews.com.
TOOL TELLS HOW TO CATCH UP MISSED VACCINES
UPI - May 21, 2008
A software tool helps pediatricians, parents and healthcare workers determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules, researchers say. . . .Researchers at the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY created a downloadable tool that allows parents and pediatricians to ensure the missed vaccines and future vaccines are administered without violating guidelines. The software, designed by Pine Skincare and graduate student Ramirez Engineer, is available at the CDC Web site.
Read more at UPI.com.
Red Orbit.com - May 22, 2008
A software tool helps pediatricians, parents and healthcare workers determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules, researchers say... Researchers at the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY downloadable tool that allows parents and pediatricians to ensure the missed vaccines and future vaccines are administered without violating guidelines.
Read more at RedOrbit.com.
MYANMAR CYCLONE - DISASTER AID LOGISTICS
CCN Radio Interview - May 6, 2008
Bill Caiaccio with CNN Radio interviewed Julie Swann regarding logistics issues in providing disaster aid to in the wake of this weekend's destructive cyclone. Coverage was carried over the CNN Radio Network, including local radio station WSB Radio.
BIRD FLU PANDEMIC COULD COST THE U.S. $165 BILLION, GOVERNMENT PREDICTS
Researchers Pinar Keskinocak and Julie Swann, professors in the H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and co-directors of the Center for Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech, are dealing with the logistical aspects of pandemic preparedness.
http://www.care-mates.com/Blog/
UPS, FEDEX MAKE COMEBACK IN 2008 GEORGIA TECH GREAT PACKAGE RACE
Supply Chain Digest - April 20, 2008
As usual in the 2008 edition of “The Great Package Race,” a student project sponsored by The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech parcel carriers were challenged to deliver packages to some of the most remote or difficult locations in the world. In the 2007 race, DHL came away the clear winner. In 2008, UPS and FedEx made a strong comeback, with nearly identical delivery times to two of the five destinations, although none of the four carriers (DHL, FedEx, UPS, and USPS) thus far have been able to get packages into three other ship-to locations. The students ship four identical packages, one for each carrier, to far flung and often dangerous locations. . . .The students also note that UPS did much better this year in handling packages it deemed undeliverable.
http://www.scdigest.com/assets/On_Target/08-04-21-2.php?cid=1626
