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Professor and Student Wins Best Paper for Facility Logistics
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, May 1 2008

Russell D. Meller, a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Arkansas, and his student, Letitia (Tish) Pohl, co-authored a paper for the 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conference that won best paper for the Facility Logistics track. The paper, "Travel Models for Warehouses with Task Interleaving," considers how to design warehouses that take advantage of information technology to efficiently interleave storage and retrieval operations.

New Master's Degree for Physical Education Offered Online
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, April 30 2008

A new, online degree program at the University of Arkansas could serve many of the 1,500 physical education teachers and coaches in Arkansas who do not have an advanced degree.

The College of Education and Health Professions created the master of education in physical education degree that will be offered this fall.

“Teachers and coaches with the master’s degree can earn dramatically more money in some school districts,” said Dean Gorman, professor of kinesiology and graduate coordinator for the department of health science, kinesiology, recreation and dance.

The M.Ed. in physical education is designed to be a cohort program that can be completed in two years by taking six credit hours of classes per semester, including summer. The program gives practicing physical education professionals the opportunity to receive advanced training in their field along with the master’s degree. Internet delivery allows students flexibility to pursue the degree at a time and place that fits their schedule.

Requirements include admission to the University of Arkansas Graduate School, an undergraduate degree in kinesiology or a related field and an overall grade-point average of 2.7 on undergraduate courses.

Information about enrolling is available at http://sceao.uark.edu/OnlineDegrees/PHED/index.htm. Gorman can be contacted at dgorman@uark.edu.

Engineering Student Wins Award at Canadian Conference
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, April 30 2008

Douglas Woten, Ph.D. student in the MicroEP Program and advised by Magda El-Shenawee, associate professor in the electrical engineering department at the University of Arkansas, has won the best student award in the conference "Applied Computational Electromagnetic Symposium 2008." The conference was held in Niagara Falls in Canada, March 29-April 4. There was a first cut in the applicants from 19 papers to 10 papers for oral presentations in the conference. Woten was awarded the first place for the best student paper competition. His paper was on the subject of breast skin effect on breast cancer detection using the microwave method.

Industrial Engineering Student Wins Best Paper Award
-- Posted by tfisher on Wednesday, April 30 2008

Vijith Varghese, an industrial engineering doctoral student at the University of Arkansas, and Manuel Rossetti, his faculty advisor, won the Best Paper Award for the Modeling and Simulation Track at the 2008 Industrial Engineering Conference. The IERC is the premier international research conference in the field of industrial engineering. Rossetti and Varghese will be recognized at the upcoming 2008 conference on May 18th in Vancouver, Canada.

The paper, “A Parametric Bootstrapping Approach to Forecasting Intermittent Demand”, was chosen by a panel of reviewers in the area of modeling and simulation. The paper is part of Varghese’s doctoral dissertation and presents a new method for forecasting the demand of slow moving inventory items. The research has applications in military spare parts forecasting and in forecasting end item (stock keeping unit level) demand in the retail industry. Rossetti and Varghese will present their results at the upcoming conference.


Mathematics Ph.D. Student Admitted to Prestigious Summer Program
-- Posted by tfisher on Thursday, April 24 2008

University of Arkansas mathematics graduate student Jennifer Paulk has been admitted with financial support in Princeton University's “2008 Summer Program in Analysis and Geometry.” This very selective program admits 24 students from leading U.S.-based and international universities for three weeks of intensive research training. Paulk is writing a Ph.D. thesis under the direction of Dr. Loredana Lanzani. Paulk is the second Arkansas student to be admitted in this program. Mathematics Ph.D. student Erin Haller (who is defending her thesis this week) was admitted in the 2007 program.


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