Research Focus Areas

ISE is a diverse field and we are a faculty with wide interests and expertise. We also uniformly have an enthusiastic attitude towards interdisciplinary research. We have selected several areas to focus on (below, unranked), however this does not preclude involvement in other areas.

Human performance - includes ergonomics, human factors, work measurement, human-informational interfaces and avoidance of musculoskeletal injury. Applications of interest include truck driving (including logging) and public sector productivity. (Transportation Peak)
Safety - includes industrial hygiene, emergency preparedness, warning displays and general occupational safety.
Electronics manufacturing - includes reliability and high volume manufacturing. (Information Technologies Peak)
Homeland security - includes intruder detection, emergency preparedness, simulation, financial aspects, manpower allocation and staffing. (Information Technologies Peak)
Analysis, modeling and optimization - ISE can be a resource in data analysis, modeling of stochastic and deterministic complex systems, and optimization of large systems. Applications complementary to Ginn College of Engineering research include statistical analysis and inference, scheduling and logistics, facility design and cost estimation. In particular, ISE desires integration into the Transportation Peak. We believe we offer important and useful expertise in simulation, data analysis and modeling, human factors, ergonomics and safety that would complement and strengthen existing CE, ME and AE efforts. (All Research Peaks)
ERC - with ISE's strong national reputation and large number of NSF grants (relative to other Ginn College of Engineering departments), we believe that we can be key players in an engineering research center effort. Almost any ERC endeavor could use the research skills of the ISE faculty as lead PI's.

Last Updated: Feb 09, 2011