Recent CELDi News Items:
NSF I/UCRC
announces Research Experience for Veterans (REV).
(April 2012)
The IE Challenge
2012 recently took place at the University of Arkansas. For more
information and a slideshow of pictures,
click here.
Russ Meller Receives
Funding from European Commission (April 2012)
Russ Meller, Ph.D., professor of logistics and
entrepreneurship in the University of Arkansas's industrial engineering
department, discusses his current work as a researcher with the school's Center
for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution.
Link
to video. (April 2012)
CELDi Student Researchers, Barbra Lombardi (University of Arkansas) and Steven Roauch (Virginia Tech) recognized for best poster award at the 2011 Fall CELDi IAB Meeting. (Oct 2011)
CELDi Director, Russ Meller, and VT Site Director, Kimberly Ellis, host Physical Internet Meeting in Chicago Oct 20-21. Link to PI . (Oct 2011)
CELDi Student Researcher, Yazhe Feng, at Virginia Tech, wins the IIE 2011 RAS Student Paper Contest. RAS (Railway Applications Section), a subdivision of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences), sponsored the student research paper contest on analytics and fact-based decision making in railway applications. (October 2011)
CELDi Student Researcher, Hector Vergara, at University of Arkansas, wins I.E. Graduate Student Recipient of E.J. Sierleja Memorial Scholarship from IIE. Link to read more. (June 2011)
CELDi researchers win another NSF Fundamental Research award. The National Science Foundation awarded $196,336 to University of Missouri, Columbia for support of the project "Logistics of Biomass Based Energy: Positioning CELDi as the Leading Enabler of Biomass Logistics." This project is under the direction of CELDi researchers Wooseung Jang, Cerry M. Klein, Harold E. Garrett, James S. Noble, Michael L. Cook. (July 2011)
CELDi Director Russ Meller recognized by IIE as
a leading researcher in the field of facility logistics.
Link to read more.
(June 2011)
Berkeley Site welcomes new CELDi members, Genentech, Bayer Health Care, BioMarin. New CELDi UC Berkeley website launched: http://celdi.berkeley.edu/ (June 2011)
UA CELDi Faculty Researcher Manuel Rossetti nominated and selected to attend NSF Sponsored Workshop on The Science of Cloud Computing to present CELDi CDP project, "Supply Chain Network Simulator Using Cloud Computing." (2011)
Berkeley joins CELDi
as a new academic partner specializing in Biopharmaceutical Operations. (January 2011)
2010
CELDi project at Medical Center Hospital to save $250,000/year and improve service to patients. CELDi researchers at Texas Tech, Jennifer Farris and Tim Matis designed a three-phase approach for solving the backlog problem in the emergency room at the regional hospital in Odessa, Texas resulting in significant savings to the hospital and patients. (Nov 2010) Read the article
Clemson students Wennian Li and James Zabel awarded "Best Student Poster" at the Fall 2010 IAB Meeting with their poster for CDP project, "Helping Green Belts Use What They Know."
CELDi welcomes new memberships this fall at University of Missouri, Bayer Crop Science and Missouri Department of Transportation.
Center Director, Russ Meller receives the Apple-Reed Award from the Material Handling Education Foundation for his contributions, dedication and service to the material handling logistics field (Oct 2010). Link for more information
CELDI professors Wooseung Jang and James Noble at the University of Missouri develop model to make winter asset and road maintenance service more effective and efficient (Aug 2010). Read more about this project recently published in IIE Transactions (2010) 42, 675–689.
CELDi welcomes new Deputy Director, Jeffrey S. Smith, Ph.D., Auburn (Aug 2010)
CELDi Physical Internet Initiative launch receives the attention of Arkansas Senators Lincoln and Pryor (July 2010). Read more
CELDi welcomes new memberships this summer at Virginia Tech, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and at Lehigh, Mallinckrodt‐Baker Chemical Company.
Two CELDi universities win NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) awards for 2010. University of Arkansas and Oklahoma State University will continue working with teachers and students in the region through the popular education programs, IE Challenge and Network Flow Model Models in Transportation and Logistics. University of Missouri also received funding for an undergraduate student through the Research Experience for Undergraduates program.
CELDi IAB awards $150,000 in research funding for 2010 Center Designated Research Projects. (April 2010) Projects funded include:
"Supply Chain Network Simulator Using Cloud Computing," P.I. Manual Rossetti at the University of Arkansas.
“Development of Logistics Efficiency Metrics”, P.I. Rene Villalobos and Arnie Maltz at Arizona State University.
“Congestion-Based Design of Supply Chain Networks,”
P.I. Ricki Ingalls at Oklahoma State University.
Oklahoma teacher and CELDi RET recipient, Mark Thomas, recognized as Oklahoma Outstanding Teacher by the Mathematical Association of America. (May 2010)
CELDi IAB recognized student researcher Na Deng, University of Missouri, with "Best Poster Award" at the April 2010 IAB meeting in Atlanta, GA. for her poster "Inventory Replenishment Strategy Using International Shipment Consolidation."
Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Lehigh add four new CELDi memberships. TTU added City of San Pedro, Mx and Medical Center Hospital, Odessa, Tx. OSU added Entero Technologies. Lehigh added MHI Consulting.
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