Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Overview

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I think Laura's Internet or something wasn't great so I'm guessing she'll pop back on in a second.

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So I think that Esther is going to do this year and experience I'll catch anybody who's interested in grad school who signed up an any general questions but if you can do anything about majors or like the mechanics of declaring things or anything related to that that would probably be helpful.

I'm going to I'm going to drop out just in case Laura is having trouble because we're all on.

I'm gonna drive out soon.

I think that's the plan.

So Meredith, what's The Plan B. If Laura's Internet is down because of the wind, can you welcome people and tell them it'll be just a couple minutes before she can join us?

Yeah, I can do it. I think Esther and I can fill time, yeah?

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I am I do recruitment and I focus a lot on the on line program for engineering management. Oh here we are OK so are we ready to go?

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OK, so I'm there to Foca ran I work in the industrial and Systems Engineering Department undergrad director Laura Kudo is going to be presenting. She is having some Internet issues related to the weather. If you're in Western New York, you may know that we have a lot of wind up an Ester. Jose is here with us. Esther is currently a senior at UB. Can I see an then? Noel Matthews is here from.

Advising and she's going to be our expert on all things undergraduate advising an majors etc. OK.

So I'm going to ask Esther to tell us a little bit, not about how she chose UV, but what she has enjoyed about being at you. Be so, Esther, I'm going to give it to you for a second.

OK, um can you hear me OK?

Alright, perfect uhm, so there's a lot of things have enjoyed about IC UM. So First off a little bit about how I chose IOC.

If you guys are incoming freshmen, you probably know at this point that you'll say yes, 199 and so to try your freshman seminars, so that's actually how I ended up finding out about IE in choosing IE. So that's a pretty great course to take. So after I chose IE.

I think the things I've enjoyed the most are that it's a small program in a really big school, so that means you get a lot of individual attention. I know most professors in IE by name. I know like Meredith and well like we will see each other in the hallways. and I like the students ourselves. We're really good friends, so it's been a really good experience. 'cause it doesn't feel like you're just a number in a big system, so it really helps the small school size, but.

On the other hand, you're in a Super Big University, so you get all the benefits of that like a great school transportation system and a lot of options for food and stuff like that, so that's been really great. Other things I love about, IE.

Love is a lot of fun. Uh, we go bowling the go to conferences. UM, almost anyone who's interested gets to go to a conference funded by the club with your regular attendance and stuff. We decorate cookies, you know the whole deal. It's really like a family.

And this is another thing that a doctor CUDA will talk about coming up. But we have this room called Bell 216. It's one of the collaborative learning spaces for dedicated for industrial and systems engineering students. So this is a place where we actually spend a lot of our lives. Then you know, invert when we were actually on campus.

You are all gathered together and pretty much anytime of the day. Um, anytime of the night, even up to like midnight or one. If you're working on homework, that's due the next day and you have a question. You just go there and someone else will be working on that same homework guarantee. That probably means a bunch Mr. Procrastinating, but you survive anyway.

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I did get a text from Doctor CUDA without her power is out, so I'm going to run through the slides and then at the end hopefully will have some questions. Anne, I will ask you more about your experience at that point. Does that sound good?

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Yeah alright, let's do it.

All right, uhm, so I make things run effectively and efficiently. There's a lot of problem solving and processes.

You'd see a picture here of the simulator for UM, Jamie, Kings, Professor, Kings, Uh.

Driving simulation lab and then we also have cheese hours 3D printing. He printed the least dense object. It's actually a Guinness Book of world records entry. So very exciting and we always highlight the median pay you'll see at the bottom here. It a lot depends on geography and industry, but our students tend to do pretty well.

Did you want to add anything now?

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Excellent, thank you.

These are some of the types of jobs that are grads have gotten. You see this.

The student who has the Disney Mickey Mouse ears. She got her dream job in Disney World and you'll also notice that we have the typical engineering kind of things like a logistical director. But notice that they're there for.

You know, we also have students who work at M&T doing process improvement. We have students doing working at a clothing line, so it's not just you know necessarily. Your traditional industrial engineering jobs.

And, uh, we're located on the third floor, 3rd and 4th floor of Belle Hall. There's 22 full time faculty. The junior class size is about 60 students, so everybody knows, everybody's name. Is Esther alluded to earlier, and the program is ranked #25 for IE programs in the United States, and there is an active undergraduate student club that will talk more about soon.

Here are some of the areas that we have courses and curriculum in um.

Anything you want to add, no. Well, I just want to show the pictures first before we go into the next.

OK, alright um every senior does a capstone project. It's based on an internship that they do some of many of the internships are paid which is a nice perk.

At the bottom here you see companies that students have done capstone projects and internships in. The idea is that they show to the rest of the Department anyone who wants to come to the presentation what they learned in their experience, and it's a really helpful resume, resume building tool and learning tool as well.

Um and anything else before I go to the next one. Oh well.

Nice, thank you.

Alright, the student facilities that we mentioned earlier one is 216 Bell, which is on the 2nd floor and it's a really nice place just to do homework. Get some nice social time with friends. There are big screen TV's that you can do work on. I understand that sometimes people watch movies on them. Not sure if that's the intention, but anyway it's a nice place just to relax and get some work done after awhile.

There's also a lab for 27 Bell, The Experiential Learning Laboratory. A lot of interesting industrial work that they simulate there. There's also a 24 hour, Seven day a week computer lab that is on the first floor or very proud of that. Anything else you want to add, Noel.

Excellent thank you and we have the icy research areas we mentioned she earlier our undergraduate director, Lorca Ludo does a lot of research in.

Here she is in the lower right hand corner here um alot of things with sensors and helping in Healthcare, helping people make sure that they move efficiently. Probably Esther can talk about this in much more detail than than I can. Will talk about it soon and the we have a student quote here about what they like about the Department. So they like the size of the Department an the ability to do research.

Um and a diverse area of research activities and it is a marketable degree with a lot of opportunities. So I'm going to give you 10 seconds to read that on your own.

I just glanced at the chat. If you're having issues with hearing anybody, sometimes it can help to refresh the browser or to use. If you're using Chrome to use fire Fox, or vice versa. Laura Caputo, our undergrad director, is in the chat. I think that she's probably on through her phone connection, so if you have any specific questions about her research or about undergraduate education, feel free to jump in there as well.

So what you can expect in the first year at ISC, so you're going to take some courses to get ready for class is in the major.

There's also the discovering industrial engineering as a major, which introduces students to the field in general, and there are case studies and examples, and then you're learning to navigate. You be. In general, Esther can tell us a little bit about that beginning time and how that worked for her in a minute. Meeting new friends and professors, and we encourage you to join the ISC undergrad club.

All right, uhm here a couple tips from our current students. Uhm, I am going to give you a second to read this, but generally join clubs, connect with people etc. So I'm going to pause for 1 second.

Alright, anything you want to add Noel.

All right, and we have some pictures of the undergraduate clubs. Esther get ready. I'm going to call you in a second. I see a picture of you right here with a doing a club activity and bowling as Esther mentioned earlier. I'm not sure about this road trip, but.

And, uh, some. Going to conferences and other activities we actually have. If you've gone on the tour of of the Department, there's actually A.

Activity that I exceeded at one point with the go bike Buffalo organization, where they I guess cut in half at least the time that it took to create a pedestrian walkway and they're invited back multiple times. So it's like a really practical application of process improvement and they put it to work in the community.

So no well do you want to add anything before we.

Bring Esther in.

Excellent, thank you so Esther, can we call you? Hopefully you haven't lost power.

No.

Oh, OK.

Alright, so, uh, can you tell me a little bit about? Or tell Nicole Noelle and I say a little bit about the first semester that you were at you VM. Kind of how that how you found your way.

Uhm, OK, so I was also an international student, so the first semester of us, a lot of information, I think by.

So I actually came in aerospace engineering and at first there's this typical one. Great thing about you be is actually that the first semester for engineers is the exact same for everyone. So at least in the first, almost actually the full first year, but especially the first semester, exact same. So there's no pressure to feel like you're trapped into one when you come in, which was really nice for me. And then you take ES199, which is another course where you basically get one on one time with.

A student leader, Uhm. And then you also have small groups. For other courses you're taking and the one that is really important to me was going through all the different majors, so I haven't even heard about industrial engineering at that point specifically. And when I did, is this literally like a light bulb went in my head and I was like that's what I'm supposed to do like this is the engineering I was thinking of in my head but didn't know existed. So I changed my major to IE.

And that's the first semester and I think right afterwards, I contacted a professor in the Department, um doctors, long sword to join him for research, and I am still working with him doing research. So I think my very first year. Some of the connections I made I got lucky in that I was able to keep them throughout. That answers your question.

Yes, thank you um, and can you tell us a little bit about an activity like a fun activity that you guys did? Maybe something uhm?

That involved IE as well. Not that making cookies does not in Hawaii.

Sure.

Yes, I.

Uhm, well, I think the most fun activity for me with the E club, uh, has been going to conference.

Um, so, um, we went to Florida last summer. Uhm, I wasn't actually in the universe. The pictures that were here, that was the year before us.

And I think it was really cool seeing how um, big IES like seeing the amount of people who do IE and also like realizing how far I reaches into the medical field, the aviation field, like literally every field you can think of, there's doctors and scientists and all sorts of people who have IE backgrounds an it makes them better at what they do.

I always like you guys are hearing it now and we've always heard it, but just seeing that in action 'cause that's what the conference does was super awesome. I got to present my research there, which was also really nice in a presentation.

Night.

And yeah we play a lot of games network with people from other universities there's a pool in the hotel you know there's all that stuff so hot tub too anyway yeah that was one of the fun things.

So I just remember when we were talking about presenting the poster competition, can you tell us a little bit about kind of how that works and.

How you got involved in that?

The poster competition.

Yeah.

Uhm yeah. OK, so at Florida actually presented a paper but.

Um, so the reason I basically worked on one project, my whole the whole time I've done research. I think the first year I've worked with doctors one I was a little bit confused about what was happening. I joined this a freshman, which again is something people say, you know, you can't get research experience as a freshman, but I did and it was great. I was confused, but I think confusion leads to a lot of learning too, because when you know nothing, you can only go up from there.

So I got to interact with precedent and so on. And uhm, there was this one time they were doing a project project on wildfires and I got interested and I kind of did a spin-off of that project. I was working on prescribed fires, which is a way to mitigate wildfires, and essentially that turn from like a small data analytics thing. I was doing one semester to an optimizing it and then making a poster competition in the IE. The Department actually has a poster.

Uh, present poster competition. So then I participated in that and then I participate in the UV light poster competition. And then I got enough confidence to present it in a regional conference in the National Conference. So that's.

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Nice, OK, I was afraid I was putting you on the spot but then I was like wait a second. She's presented at all of those places. So nice. Uhm no, I'll do you have any thoughts or questions?

I still have a follow up, I think I'm curious about a class that you it doesn't have to be your favorite, but one that you really enjoyed and also it doesn't have to be. IE can be anything you want to talk about.

Uh, sure, so one of my favorite courses was IE 373, which is Optimization One.

It's generally believed to be the first real IE course, so you know you take the math and the physics, and then there's like engineering economy, which is technically in IE course. But once you get to Optimization, which is like the base for most IE work, I would say.

Uh, it was really exciting to finally, uh, take that course, but it was also wonderful for stop by a wonderful Professor, Unimposing Altoros. It was, uhm.

He was just sold passionate about the course and I think that made such a difference. Like I remember one time we like Mike and I had a question and we stopped by his office at like 8:00 PM and that kind of Hail Mary situation. He was there and he was willing to spend like half an hour with us doing that and it is also really intense course which was a lot of fun. I think that was the first time that you shouldn't really bonded because the homework for that close of course would take like 6 Seven hours to do not to scare you.

It's genuinely fun. I hate 6 to 7 hour homeworks. It was truly a bonding experience. It was like solving a puzzle each time.

Really during the course.

An so there was a question in the chat that know all is answering, but the question is how do internships Co OPS work? I'm curious about.

You move toward your senior year. Did you have an idea of what you wanted to do for your internship?

Yeah, totally. So I I'm currently in my third internship, so I had my first internship in junior year. Uhm, I kind of I know a bunch of students who got an internship like this summer between software engineer. So I was kind of disappointed that I didn't get one at that time. But I did an intramural project, which is another great resource. You be engineering offers.

So we basically did a project with a few other engineering students, guided by professor.

Kind of pro Bono and the professor helped us.

Um kind of understand how like a real life project works and then with that experience, uhm, I applied for an internship and I interviewed and I basically told him about what my intramural project was. It was like warehouse optimization.

Well, I gather food that sounds great. We'd love to have you onboard. Uhm, so I, I really enjoyed that internship and then I had another internship that summer, which I really did not enjoy. It was in like database management and I felt it was.

Pretty far from what I wanted to do with my life, but I was really helpful because I thought I would really enjoy it and I would have rather found out in an internship then in a full time position later on. And then I came back to manufacturing at a puzzle company last semester and so I actually got to do that again for my capstone. So I did Buffalo games in the fall last year and I spoke to RIE 494 capstan advisor and I was able to continue that on which.

A lot of fun.

Nice, thank you.

So you are you done with your capstone? Or is that an on going?

I'm.

A kind of thing.

Yeah.

That

So I actually just wrapped up my capstone project, but I'm still looking at my internship working on other things that are not captain related.

Actually another thing, if you take the elective IE 460 which is lean with Doctor Kazuichi who is doing so great these days because she's like the online education and visitor for sunny. Another great professor we have I.

So that course also requires you to take a do a real life project, so that's another project. I'm doing a Buffalo game, so there's a lot of.

Cool ways to get mentored by professors in the real world or in real world projects.

So I actually wanted to just.

Appreciate the student. The perspective student who asked the question. I know there are more of you and potentially more questions, so I'm just curious about.

How your how you're kind of going through this process, and if you have any questions for us about making a decision or about kind of what the.

Pros and cons are of IE or we're probably only going to talk about the process, but it's actually Esther. You know she's here to answer your questions and her knowledge is really important. And Noelle knows a lot as well. And doctor Caputo is also in the chat and she can answer questions. She is the director of undergraduate studies for our Department, so I would love to hear from you guys and we're going to keep talking until we see questions.

Um so, but we really want to know what you want to do. You want to know so?

Anybody?

OK, I'll wait it out after put her email in the chat, I can also put my email in the chat. Thank you. Know well, um alright.

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Faster, sorry to keep picking on you.

My sacrifices.

Can you talk a little bit about how you decided on next steps after you be? I'm not sure if that's super relevant for the students yet, but it's something that they all face so.

Yeah, so I'm kind of insanely indecisive person as murder, so I actually still thinking about what I wanted to do pretty early on. I think sophomore year, um. So about sophomore year. I was like, you know, I'm not going to go to grad school. do I want to become a professor someday? do I want to?

Get into industry, so that's why I kind of did the internship an the UM I became a student leader for a course which is kind of like AT and all that stuff. So so I kind of had a general idea of what I wanted.

Um and I decided that I don't have enough experience to do what I want us doing for it, and I wanted to go to grad school. Um, at some point and after talking to some people, it really is the best way to do this. To just do it continuously, Valley brain still fresh in it.

So I applied to the Bunch of grad school so integrate programs and I.

After getting admitted, then there was the process of trying to choose which one, and now I'm going to MIT for a grad program in business analytics and that was really cool because I didn't even know that program existed. I applied to a different program that I might see and they found me, so yeah.

It was kind of how I found my way.

In the future, there's a bunch of questions in the chat.

Can I just add really quickly that this information is specifically for undergraduates? Anybody who is looking at graduate programs, we are actually going to have another Ms information session in about 10 days, so I'm happy to answer any questions about graduate programs in the chat if you'd like, but just want to make sure that it's clear that this information is for undergraduate programs.

And Noel, can I just confirm one of the students was asking about who they talk to to change their major? This is an advising conversation. I'm guessing, yeah.

A student asked about graduates of the IE program and what kind of jobs that they get and I just wanted to go back to the slide and also a lot depends on the area that the students are specializing in. We have a great career office that students can meet with to talk about what they are interested in and they can get a lot of connections and ideas from that.

So the answer is, it really depends on what you're interested in, but here are some. This list is some jobs that are graduates have gotten.

Um, what else we have here? Can you specialize in an eye discipline? Oh, such as human factors are statistics as an undergrad.

Um?

So my understanding and Esther you can correct me. IE is, uhm, is the major. You can certainly do research in another area. You tend to specialize even more as you go into grad school, but I'll open it up to the other experts.

So to add to that people definitely use electives to kind of specialize in one of the specialties they want to know more about so like manufacturing or data analytics and you can even talk to faculty or advisors like Malaga and like to see new year to see if you can take electives.

Like other programs like computer science and stuff like that that's more on a case by case basis but also since you mentioned statistics one of my really good friends in IE he actually is double majoring in IE and statistics only taking him one year extra.

Took a lot of advising to do that and he isn't taking that many extra courses he did come in with a bunch of AP credits but.

Yeah that's also something you can look into.

My other friends of mine just stuff like statistics like horses for your electives if you really want to but we also have 2 statistics courses in the program which was pretty comprehensive.

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Well, I think we might have a special guest if you need to drop off. No, I think were good, but otherwise are we can have a special guest. So Walter I really admire your questions. I hope that we have answered them but please feel free to follow up. We're definitely here.

You can't hear me, yeah, um Esther can you type in the chat about the refreshing the browser or moving over to the other browser? I'm not sure I can do two things at once.

Um?

Huh.

Fire Fox right the recommended one.

Yeah, if there in fire Fox to move over to Chrome or vice versa or just to refresh. We've been having this issue periodically that for whatever reason some people are able to hear at different times. Anybody else? Do you have any questions for us? Will stay on as long as you have questions, but if you don't have questions then we're going to we're going to leave and we don't want to leave anything unanswered.

I'm gonna give you a full minute of silence, so if you have any burning questions, you must ask bonow we really want to make sure that you know what I is. If we haven't been clear about anything about what I is, we'd love to tell you more, uhm?

So.

The minute started about 10 seconds ago.

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Esther, is there anything else that you intended to talk about that you haven't touched on yet? You can totally say no. Uhm, no pressure. But if you can think of anything, let us know.

Um.

No Wally Duke, sorry go ahead.

No.

Aren't manners.

So uhm.

OK.

Not really I don't really have anything that I have plans on but.

Um.

Yeah, surely fine. We just we were planning on doing 30 minutes for presentation and 30 minutes for Q&A. Uhm, I think we burn through the presentation pretty quickly. So again, you have 15 more seconds to ask questions in the chat. No pressure, but.

Uh.

While we're closing up I can give you a few things from the advising standpoint definitely after you deposit make sure you fill out your orientation data farm in the advising office we will either make your first semester schedule so we try to keep all of our engineering students in a cohort this way you're taking those math courses the science courses your seminar course which is an introduction to the University as well as to engineering you're with peers so not only from industrial engineering but from.

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Engineering as a whole so you're really getting to know your classmates and whatnot if you have AP credits or if you have college level courses coming in and we feel that you might want to use them or you might be using them we will contact you to make an appointment and actually talk to an advisor before we just put you in a cohort so for example if you have say math 141 which is calculus credit coming in we want to know if you're going to use that for sure if you're comfortable going on to the next level course and then we can build your cohort around that so this way your seminar your science course.

Baby your English class would be in the cohort but you might just be you know the next level up from math so we talked to every student that has AP and transfer credits coming in we usually start making schedules in may this year it might be a little bit later just because of the deposit deadline being pushed back to June 1st so we will take that all into account but it's rolling so whenever it students deposit we grab you in batches and then go ahead and make the classes so a lot of students have questions on well you get courses yes we do make sure that you're in those first semester courses.

Anytime.

No matter what major you're in and what not so you don't have to worry about that we will get everybody seated in those classes you are welcome again to contact me if you have questions or want to check on your AP or your transfer credits and see how they'll fall in if you have additional questions on IE or courses you might be taking please send them and I can pass out accordingly or reach out to doctor cavuto as well.

Thank you.

Good then.

Hey everybody, thank you so so much.

Oh, I think we still have a group here.

OK, take care bye bye.