Sami Umut Can, Tim Carnes, Jie Chen, Yinan Huang, Baldur Magnusson and Tuohua Wu were hooded by their advisors at the 2010 ORIE Graduation Ceremony on May 29. The traditional ceremony celebrates the transition from student to scholar. Read more
Speakers at the weekly Engineering Enterprise Colloquium provide insight into the many ways in which engineers are involved in the work of business and other enterprises. Several speakers in the past year are ORIE alumni. Read more
With the appointment of Dr. Victoria Averbukh as University Chapter Director, Cornell now has a chapter in the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), a worldwide organization offering certification, training and educational programs. Read more
At the 2010 ORIE graduation ceremony, 2010 graduate Jeffrey Dimiduk was called to the stage to present an award to his grandfather, ORIE's first Ph.D. graduate Richard W. Conway, deemed a loyal alumnus for giving back "in a very special way." Read more
Cellphones are dense with technology and nearly ubiquitous in the United States and other countries: nearly 90% of US households have at least one of them. Unfortunately for customer and vendor alike, handset models fail and get returned and replaced. For a company like Verizon Wireless, returns of cellphones due to manufacturing defects, accidents or other reasons have extensive implications for the supply chain as well as for the level of customer satisfaction. 'Reverse logistics,' a phrase that covers the process by which a returned phone is either scrapped, or repaired and resold or... Read more
Undergraduates and Master of Engineering students have voted for Faculty Member of the Year and Teaching Assistant of the Year. Huseyin Topaloglu, Peter Jackson, Yinan Huang and Tia Sondjaja were selected. Read more
While next fall many of their classmates will be working in manufacturing, consulting or finance, two recent ORIE graduates will be teaching in high schools. Both attended the same high school in Hawai'i before coming to Cornell. Megan Akamine Megan Akamine '10 has been selected for the Teach for America Corps. After training at a Teach for America summer institute in Georgia, she will teach math at a school in her home state of Hawai'i. Megan's mother is a public school teacher on Oahu, where Megan attended Punahou, the elite alma mater of President Barack Obama. At Cornell, Megan plays club... Read more
Amy Chen '10 described her summer at Thevi Cosmetics as a member of the first group of Kessler Fellows, at Entrepreneurship@Cornell's Celebration 2010. She helped change the marketing orientation of the company. Read more
U.S. call centers employ about 3 million people. Many centers base resource allocation on mathematical models. Prof. Mark Lewis has been awarded two grants, one to adapt models to innovations in call center operation and one to advance the broader theory. Read more
In 2001 M.Eng. students designed a shotgun for Ithaca Gun Company, which ceased production before the gun could be manufactured. Now a successor company has put the gun into production. Read more
