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Supply Chain and Logistics Student Adolfo Rocco Defends Thesis to Earn PhD in Operations Research
January 19, 2021

Adolfo Rocco, a graduate student assistant studying under SCL faculty members Alan Erera and Alejandro Toriello, recently…

Karen Fite, who served as interim vice president and director of the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), has retired after 27 years of service. David Bridges, director of EI2’s Economic Development Lab (EDL), has assumed the interim vice president role.
January 7, 2021

Karen Fite, who, for the past 18 months has led the Georgia Institute of Technology’s economic development efforts as interim vice president and director of the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), has…

<p>Participants prepare to fight a fire in an immersive training experience using the IOMEGA virtual reality platform in the SIReN Lab.</p>
December 15, 2020

The Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL) is the largest such group in the world, and it provides researchers with many opportunities to help solve global supply chain and logistics problems. The latest addition is the SIReN…

<p>The Gibson Generating Station is a coal-burning power plant located in Gibson County, Indiana. (Credit: Emily Grubert, Georgia Tech)</p>
December 3, 2020

Decarbonizing U.S. electricity production will require both construction of renewable energy sources and retirement of power plants now operated by fossil fuels. A generator-level model described in the Dec. 4 issue of the journal Science…

<p>Biomade Logo. BioIndustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE), a nonprofit that recently won a seven-year, $87 million award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).</p>
December 1, 2020

This story by Brad Dixon was first published to chbe.gatech.edu.

Georgia Institute of Technology is a…

When one or more coronavirus vaccines receives FDA emergency use authorization, it will launch a major public health and logistics initiative. (Getty Images - not for republication)
November 30, 2020

When one or more coronavirus vaccines receives FDA emergency use authorization, it will launch a public health and logistics initiative unlike any in U.S. history. 

Hundreds of millions of doses will have to distributed nationwide…

<p><strong>Jialei Chen</strong>, a Ph.D. student in the H. Stewart School of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.</p>
November 17, 2020

Jialei Chen, a doctoral student in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and a graduate research assistant in the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI), won two Best Student Paper Awards at this year’s 2020…

A closeup of Georgia Tech's iconic Tech Tower
November 13, 2020

Industrial Internet of Things in 2020 was presented by Alain Louchez at the IoT for Manufacturing Symposium organized by the Factory Information Systems Center at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute on November 11, 2020. …

The Kickoff of InVenture Prize 2021
October 7, 2020

By Jessica Barber

           On Wednesday, September 16, the Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) hosted the kick-off session for the 13th Annual InVenture Prize. With over $35,000 in prizes, the…

<p>Details of a redesigned face mask developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology are modeled on this mannequin.  (Credit, Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech)</p>
September 4, 2020

Imagine a reusable face mask that protects wearers and those around them from SARS-CoV-2, is comfortable enough to wear all day, and stays in place without frequent adjustment. Based on decades of experience with filtration and textile materials…