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Faculty <strong>New</strong>s<br />
Penn State IE<br />
ranked among<br />
the best<br />
The Harold <strong>and</strong> Inge Marcus Department of<br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>and</strong> Manufacturing Engineering<br />
was once again ranked within the top tier<br />
of undergraduate <strong>and</strong> graduate programs in<br />
the industrial/manufacturing engineering<br />
specialty according to U.S. <strong>New</strong>s <strong>and</strong> World<br />
Report.<br />
The 2012 Best Colleges report released<br />
in November ranks universities, colleges,<br />
<strong>and</strong> specialty undergraduate programs.<br />
The Marcus Department was positioned<br />
as the fourth best program in the nation.<br />
Previously, the undergraduate program was<br />
ranked eighth. U.S. <strong>New</strong>s also ranks graduate<br />
programs in an issue released in March,<br />
positioning the Marcus Department graduate<br />
program at eighth.<br />
This is the 14th consecutive year that the<br />
department has been ranked among the top ten<br />
industrial engineering programs at both<br />
the undergraduate <strong>and</strong> graduate level.<br />
According to U.S. <strong>New</strong>s, the rankings are a<br />
tool to help prospective students better underst<strong>and</strong><br />
the l<strong>and</strong>scape of the undergraduate<br />
<strong>and</strong> graduate programs <strong>and</strong> to identify programs<br />
that would be a good fit. The rankings<br />
highlight the top programs in undergraduate<br />
engineering, business <strong>and</strong> education <strong>and</strong><br />
graduate programs in business, law, medicine,<br />
engineering <strong>and</strong> education.<br />
Aybat receives<br />
SIAM prize<br />
Dr. Necdet Serhat<br />
Aybat, assistant professor in<br />
the Harold <strong>and</strong> Inge Marcus<br />
Department of <strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
Manufacturing Engineering<br />
received the Society <strong>for</strong><br />
<strong>Industrial</strong> <strong>and</strong> Applied Mathematics<br />
(SIAM) Student<br />
Paper Prize <strong>for</strong> his paper,<br />
“Unified Approach <strong>for</strong> Minimizing<br />
Composite Norms,”<br />
co-authored with Garud N.<br />
Iyengar.<br />
In this paper, the authors develop a novel approach <strong>for</strong> solving<br />
a wide class of large-scale optimization problems that can include<br />
noisy data. The method has many important applications<br />
including signal processing of medical images (e.g., from<br />
CT scans) as well as the Netflix Prize problem to predict user<br />
ratings <strong>for</strong> films based on previous ratings. The authors also<br />
demonstrate through various experiments that the per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
of the method has promising results.<br />
Dr. Aybat received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in<br />
May 2011 <strong>and</strong> joined the Marcus Department this fall.<br />
The SIAM Student Paper Prizes are awarded ever year to the<br />
student author(s) of the most outst<strong>and</strong>ing papers submitted to<br />
the SIAM Student Paper Competition.<br />
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