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Focused Research Labs, Centers And Groups
Following are various labs, centers, and groups that currently exist within the Stewart School and that are formed around an array of educational and research themes. The level of activity across these groups and alliances may vary substantially.
Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL)
The Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL) is a unit of Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, the nation's top Industrial Engineering program by US News & World Report for 20 consecutive years. SCL is the largest supply chain and logistics leadership institute in the world providing comprehensive research, education, and outreach programs. SCL's mission is to enable supply chain professionals, businesses and international governments to transform complex supply chains, improve logistics performance and trade, and increase competitiveness by applying education, innovation and solutions (emerging practices).
Director: Don Ratliff, Ph.D.
SCL Related Research Entities
- Integrated Food Chain Center
Overview: The IFC Center was established by Georgia Tech's Supply Chain and Logistics Institute as a collaborative effort among academic, government and industry constituents. Our vision is to assure that growers, processors, retailers and logistics providers can deliver on their "quality promise" in highly efficient ways through the use of systematic and synchronized linkages throughout their supply/cold chains. - Center for Health & Humanitarian Logistics
Overview: The Center for Health & Humanitarian Logistics is developing methodologies and technologies to facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid to disaster sites around the world to plan for disaster relief and to effectively execute humanitarian efforts. Additional research focuses on developing concepts and tools for optimizing health care delivery processes by applying cutting edge supply chain engineering principles to the design of health care delivery systems. The Center works with government and non-government organizations, particularly those in developing countries. - Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation & Research Center
Overview: The Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation & Research Center will provide new opportunities for innovative collaboration between private and public sectors, universities, and logistics stakeholders focused on improving Panama’s logistics performance. As part of the Center’s strategic goal of enabling Panama to become the trade hub for the Americas, the Center’s research program will build a repository for logistics and trade information and develop analytics to facilitate logistics and trade decisions. The Center will also focus on human capital development in logistics competency by educating students and professionals in logistics and trade. - Georgia Tech Costa Rica Trade Innovation & Productivity Center
Overview: The Costa Rica Trade, Innovation & Productivity (TIP) Center is a joint development of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the College of Management at Georgia Tech in partnership with PROCOMER and the Chamber of Industries in Costa Rica. The initial focus of the center is to improve new and existing trade, improve logistics productivity, and support competitive strategies. 
The Logistics Institute Asia-Pacific (TLI A-P)
The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific is a partnership between the National University of Singapore and the Georgia Institute of Technology for research and education programs in global logistics. TLI-AP is modeled after The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech, which has wide industry recognition as one of the best institutes for education and research in logistics. The partnership of TLI-AP with Georgia Tech provides logistics expertise which caters to the logistics needs of the industries across the world today focusing on global logistics, information technology, industrial engineering and supply chain management.
Director: John Bartholdi, Ph.D.
Tennenbaum Institute
Established through a $5 million gift from Georgia Tech alumnus Michael Tennenbaum, The Tennenbaum Institute is the first multidisciplinary center of its kind, uniting academic, government, and corporate experts to create industry shaping business models. The Tennenbaum Institute focuses on developing business practices and organizational cultures that help existing enterprises become more cost-effective and competitive. The Institute has major initiatives in global manufacturing, healthcare delivery, and energy management. Georgia Tech, a well-recognized leader in technological innovations, is a natural partner for researching and developing transformation initiatives.
Director: Bill Rouse, Ph.D.
The Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute
Taking a holistic approach to re-energizing U.S. manufacturing and
shepherding new technologies across the valley of death, the Georgia
Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI) catalyzes collaborations of
industry/government with many units across the Georgia Tech campus -
from engineering to science to business to policy. In addition to
working closely with academic faculty and students, GTMI personnel
collaborate with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia
Manufacturing Extension Partnership and Georgia Tech's technology
transfer functionaries and business incubators on additive processes,
materials, rapid certification and supply chain realignment.
Executive Director: Ben Wang
Modeling & Simulation
Research & Education Center
MSREC's mission is to create and support cross-disciplinary research and development
activities, including researchers in core M & S areas, supporting technologies,
and innovative applications. It will develop and maintain education programs
to train M & S practitioners, educators and researchers.
Director: Christos Alexopoulos, Ph.D.
Health Systems
Institute
The Health Systems Institute (HSI) is creating a new model for healthcare delivery
through integrative interdisciplinary solutions, drawing from medicine, engineering,
computing, management and public policy.
The Institute's mission is to develop and implement novel
multidisciplinary and collaborative research, education, and outreach programs
to transform health care delivery systems and lead the nation away from an
ineffective, reactive, disease-focused system to achieve a cost-effective,
pro-active, health- and wellness-focused system.
Center
for Operations Research in Medicine
The Center for Operations Research in Medicine, founded in 1998, is a collaborative
education and research center established between the Stewart School of Industrial
& Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and medical researchers
in different disciplines. Our mission is to foster interdisciplinary education
and research efforts involving the development and application of sophisticated
techniques from the field of operations research including mathematical modeling
and computational algorithms to address problems in medicine, including medical
diagnosis, optimal treatment design, drug delivery, and early detection, target
intervention, monitoring and controlling of disease.
Director: Eva K. Lee, Ph.D.
W.M. Keck Virtual Factory Lab
The W. M. Keck Virtual Factory Lab is the ISyE home for model based systems engineering applied to discrete event logistics systems. Research in the lab uses a state of the art systems modeling language, model transformation technology, and commercial off-the-shelf optimization, simulation, and statistical analysis tools to create domain specific design and operational decision support for warehouses, factories, and global supply chains.
Director: Leon McGinnis, Ph.D.
Energy, Sustainability and Natural Systems
Research areas include biomimicry, the impacts of globalization, recycling, the environmental impacts of products and manufacturing systems, and energy efficiency for freight transport. ISYE faculty collaborate broadly with faculty from other schools at Georgia Tech, especially through ECDM, ECLIPs and the Center for Biologically Inspired Design.
Director: Valerie Thomas, Ph.D.
System Informatics and Control
The research and educational program of the SIAC group focuses on the effective modeling, analysis, monitoring, and control of manufacturing and service systems in a data rich environment by integrating data analysis methods with engineering domain knowledge. This multidisciplinary group features expertise in systems modeling and informatics, automation and control, prognostics and performance monitoring, quality and reliability, and industrial statistics.
Director: Jianjun (Jan) Shi
Systems Monitoring and Prognostics (SMP) Laboratory
The SMP Laboratory was established in 2007 by Prof. Nagi Gebraeel at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The SMP Lab is located in Room 462 in the Manufacturing Research Center (MARC) at Georgia Tech. Our research activities focus on leveraging sensor-based data streams to improve the predictability of unexpected failures of engineering systems and to advance the effectiveness of subsequent operational and logistical decision making.
Outline of Research Agenda
Our research agenda can be classified into the following parts:
- Development of Degradation-Based Prognostic Models for Real-Time Applications.
- Development of Adaptive Operational and Logistical Decision Models.
- Experimental Degradation Testing and Condition Monitoring.
Director: Nagi Gebraeel Ph.D.
