This event marks the start of a week long orientation program organized by the School of Industrial Engineering for its incoming graduate students. The orientation is mandatory for all incoming graduate students.

IE Faculty and Graduate students are welcome to submit proposals for the upcoming SHS/ASQ Conference and Expo 2010. The conference is scheduled to be held from February 25-28 at Atlanta, GA. The theme for the 2010 conference is " Building Better Health Care Systems "

The IE GSO is having a picnic at Happy Hollow park on the 19th of July at 4pm. The venue is at Shelter 2 at the park. Graduate students along with family are welcome to attend.

Professor Ravi Anupindi
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
"Integrated Optimization of Procurement, Processing and Trade of
Commodities in a Network Environment"