Tag: Industrial and Systems Engineering

Grad student helping organize PPE production, COVID response in developing countries

While her University of Wisconsin–Madison engineering classmates were landing jobs or applying to graduate school, Rebecca Alcock was preparing for a summer of volunteer work in a Guatemalan mountain town and trying to sort through her uncertainty about the future. During those three months at the Engineers Without Borders office in Joyabaj in Guatemala’s Western …

Celebrating the past, planning for the future

For almost 30 years, Vicki Bier’s career at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has focused on risk and decision analysis. As a professor of industrial and systems engineering, she has used complex mathematical models to improve nuclear safety and homeland security. She served as department chair for more than five years and has graduated 18 PhD students (thus …