Department of Industrial Engineering
4207 Bell Engineering Center
1 University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-3156
Fax: (479) 575-8431
Capstone 2019-2020
Team Awards
- Project of the Year: Casey Randolph, Project Manager; Jillian Hatfield, Brandon Fangio,
Sullivan Siebken, and Xavier Wills team members.
Project Title: Expediting Pricing Analyst Workflow by Categorizing Sales Proposals using Logistic Regression and Machine Learning
Industry Partner: ArcBest
- Data Analysis Award: Cayman Carlisle, Project Manager; Elizabeth Bean, James Gairhan,
Annie Peta, and William Warren team members.
Project Title: Improving the Re-Scheduling of Steel Bar Downstream Processes by Predicting Rework Tendencies and Processing Times
Industry Partner: Gerdau
- Modeling Award: Alexandra Gentile, Project Manager; Irina Britten, Brock Dunn, Wesley
Nimmo, and Keith Scheffler team members.
Project Title: Optimizing Intermodal Dray Driver Scheduling under Daily Freight Imbalance using Stochastic Optimization
Industry Partner: J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
- Decision Support Award: Clay Ferguson, Project Manager; Alex Hendrickson, Jonah Murrey,
Wade Shike, and Andrew Watson team members.
Project Title: Reducing Expiration and Returns in Sterile Processing using Reorder Point and Economic Order Quantity Methods
Industry Partner: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Impact Award: Karlton Haney, Project Manager; Chase Daril, Trevor Perry, Jack West,
and Bryan Withers team members.
Project Title: Minimizing Operational Cost of Fleet Allocation using Linear Programming
Industry Partner: ArcBest
Individual Awards
- Outstanding Project Managers: Clay Ferguson, Casey Randolph, and Cayman Carlisle.
- Outstanding Team Members: Alex Hendrickson, Kayla McKeon, and Tevari Barker.
- Outstanding Faculty Advisors: Professor, Manuel Rossetti; Professor, Sandra Eksioglu; and Associate Professor, Justin Chimka.
- Outstanding Industry Partners: Alex Hoge and Trenton Cason, ArcBest; Joseph Sanford and Kevin Sexton, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; and Garrett Rea, The Hershey Company.
Additional projects the Capstone Experience Teams completed were:
- Project Title: Improve Staffing Strategies to Meet Seasonal Patient Census Variation
using Discrete-Event Simulation and Optimization
Team Members: Brianna Gomez, Project Manager; Matthew Phillips, Brandon Satterwhite, Mason McLaughlin, and Ana Guerra
Industry Partner: Arkansas Children’s Northwest Emergency Department
- Project Title: Improving Manufacturing Shop Process Visibility through Simulation
Modeling
Team Members: Kaitlin Erickson, Project Manager; Erin Hills, Ryan Sheppard, Patrick Simpson, and Anna Watkins
Industry Partner: Dassault Falcon Jet
- Project Title: Predicting Customer Financial Risk
Team Members: Griffin Mathews, Project Manager; Natalie Akers, Tevari Barker, Chandler Little, and Alex Souvanouphong
Industry Partner: J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
- Project Title: Improving Forecasting Methods for Course Enrollment Using Predictive
Modeling, and Course Balancing Methods Using Nonlinear Programming
Team Members: Alexander Johnson, Project Manager; Carlos Sanabria, Carlos Diaz, Bradley Taylor, and Ali Alsufayan
Industry Partner: Institutional Research and Assessment at the University of Arkansas
- Project Title: Forecasting Innovation Product Rollout Sales through Machine Learning
Techniques
Team Members: Paul Sherrod, Project Manager; Ryan Hamilton, Elliot Porsch, Caroline Rhomberg, and Madison Stacy
Industry Partner: The Hershey Company
- Project Title: Automating Vehicle Routing Summaries with Simulation for Uncertain
Node Locations
Team Members: Nathan Clark, Project Manager; Justin Blair, John Foltz, Sierra Wagner, and Mary Pollmann
Industry Partner: J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
- Project Title: Reducing Triage Protocol Errors in the Arkansas Trauma System using
a Neural Network Algorithm
Team Members: Henley Wells, Project Manager; Maria Rene Arandia, Miles Gagnepain, Diego Rodriguez, and Donna Quedens
Industry Partner: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Project Title: Maximizing Violation Capture Rate through Simulation and Optimization
of Parking Control Officer Routing
Team Members: Jeremy Muniz, Project Manager; Douglas Kamarade, Kayla McKeon, Christine Rheinberger, and Franco Suito Alayza
Industry Partner: University of Arkansas Transit and Parking