Department of Industrial Engineering
4207 Bell Engineering Center
1 University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-3156
Fax: (479) 575-8431
Larry and Gwen Stephens Undergraduate Research Laboratory
The Larry and Gwen Stephens Undergraduate Research Lab provides state-of-the-art facilities
including the latest computer hardware and software designed for industrial engineering
projects.
The lab provides individual work space for up to 15 undergraduate students. To be
eligible for a space in this lab, a student must be engaged in research with an Industrial
Engineering faculty member. In addition to a workspace, 24 students assigned to the
lab are provided with a laptop computer.
Computers and Other Hardware
19 Dell Latitude E6420 wireless laptop computers with Windows 7 Enterprise 64 Bit Bit 2.93GHz Intel Core i7 870 Quad Core processors, 8.0GB of RAM, and solid state hard drives 1 HP Color LaserJet 4700 network color laser printer 1 HP LaserJet 2430 network laser printer.
The software package on each computer includes:
Autodesk AutoCAD 2012
Eclipse
IBM ILOG AMPL and CPLEX
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2010
Minitab
NetBeans
Palisade DecisionTools
R Software
Reliasoft Suite
Rockwell Arena 14.0
SSH Secure Shell Client
Symantec Endpoint Protection
The MathWorks MatLab 2011a
Visual Studio 2010
Wolfram Mathematica 8
Generous funding for this laboratory was provided by Larry and Gwen Stephens. Larry Stephens is a 1958 BSIE graduate from the University of Arkansas, Department of Industrial Engineering and President of Mid-South Engineering. As one of the charter members, Larry was the driving force that organized the Arkansas Academy of Industrial Engineering and became its first president in 1986.