SSIE Department celebrates 2022-23 successes in student achievement, research
The fall semester at Binghamton University is in full swing, and the Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science is building on a productive 2022-23.
Department news
The SSIE Department now offers an engineering management track at the MS graduate level. Classes and projects prepare students for a variety of industries, from manufacturing, energy, transportation, healthcare and information systems to scientific research, military and government operations.
SSIE’s Executive Program in Health Systems, a one-year master’s degree offered in Manhattan or online that applies industrial and systems engineering principles to healthcare settings, celebrated 10 years of providing accessible graduate education. The program is open to all disciplines and prepares those with a bachelor’s degree with the skills to apply data-driven analytics to improve healthcare processes.
Research news
Assistant Professor Bing Si, in collaboration with clinical scientists from Mayo Clinic and Harvard University, will develop novel statistical machine models to analyze thousands of young individuals’ health data and predict cardiometabolic risks in adolescents and young adults. The five-year project recently received a $2.5 million R01 award from the National Institutes of Health, with $1.8 million coming directly to Binghamton.
Assistant Professor Congyu “Peter” Wu will be part of a University of Texas at Austin research project focused on the risk factors for metabolic syndrome in Latina women. The cluster of conditions includes obesity, high blood pressure, high triglyceride levels and low HDL cholesterol levels that can lead to heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes. The National Institutes of Health granted $3.35 million to UT Austin, with Wu and Binghamton University receiving $291,571.
Student news
Undergraduate Kaan Asar and master’s student Daniel Osafehinti, both studying industrial and systems engineering, took part in the Trinational Innovation and Entrepreneurship Immersion Program last fall. As part of the first-ever collaboration among students from Watson College, Vishwakarma University in India and the School of Integrated Innovation (ScII) at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, they helped to create an Uber-like app for ambulances that could summon assistance in underserved countries.
SSIE students continue to do well at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference’s FlexSim competition. Teams simulated an improved emergency room system using FlexSim software — a modeling program none of them were familiar with at the beginning of their journey.
A piece in this year’s Watson Review magazine highlighted senior capstone projects from different departments. The SSIE project team built a better scheduling system for Binghamton University’s Institute for Child Development. The new system optimizes child services for children with autism.