Capstone 2019-2020

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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