VIRTUAL TOUR

2001

Monday, July 9, 2001

Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Mr. Guy Gervasi, vice president for Commercial Development of the Chemical Technology Group of Koch Industries visited the Lab.

Friday, April 6, 2001

Dr. Chang-Young Sohn and Dr. Sang-Hun Kim from the Daewoo's Institute of Advanced Engineering in Kyonggi-Do, Korea, visited the Lab.

Thursday, April 12, 2001

Prof. Kittinan Unnanon from North Carolina A&T University visited the Lab as part of a joint research project.

Wednesday, May 30, 2001

Representatives from Dassault Systems, Delmia and IBM's CATIA program group visited the Lab as part of a tour of Georgia Tech lab facilities.

Thursday, June 21, 2001

Five students from the College of Engineering's PREP program visited the Lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering at Tech.

Monday, June 25, 2001

Three students from the College of Engineering's PREP program visited the Lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering at Tech.

2000

Wednesday, February 23, 2000

Mr. Bill Lindler, senior account manager for EAI, visited the Lab to demonstrate EAI's Open Virtual Factory Software products.

Tuesday, June 20, 2000

Nine students from the College of Engineering's PREP/MITE program visited the Lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering at Tech.

Friday, June 23, 2000

Dra. Ing. Ceclia Smoglie, director of the Mechnanical Engineering Department at Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires, visited the Lab as part of her visit to Georgia Tech to promote exchanges between the two universities.

Monday, June 26, 2000

Three visitors from Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton visited the Lab as part of a visit to Georgia Tech to find out more about capabilities in the area of manufacturing. They included Dr. Dilip Soni, Dr. William Landi and Dr. Xiping Song.

Tuesday, June 27, 2000

Forty students from the College of Engineering's PREP/MITE program visited the Lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering at Tech.

Wednesday, June 28, 2000

Mr. Nuno Vaz, director of GM's University Research Partnerships, visited the Lab as part of his visit to Georgia Tech.

Tuesday, July 11, 2000

Ten students from the College of Engineering's MITE program visited the Lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering at Tech.

Thursday, July 13, 2000

Four students from the College of Engineering's MITE program visited the Lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering at Tech.

Tuesday, July 18, 2000

Fifteen students from the College of Engineering's MITE program visited the Lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering at Tech.

Monday - Wednesday, December 18 - 20, 2000

The Keck Lab hosted a visit to Georgia Tech by representatives of GINTIC Manufactuirng Institute, including Dr. U Yee Hsun, Director, Division of Manufacturing Information Technology Division, Mr. Goh Kia Mok, Group Manager, Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling, and Dr. Peter Lendermann.

1999

Friday, January 21, 1999

Twenty students from Prof. Jane Ammons' ISyE 6540 class visitied the Lab. The students are doing a lab assignment this quarter to configure a "virtual model" of an assembly machine to minimize its cycle time.

Thursday, February 4, 1999

Prof. Dah-Chuan Gong, chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan, visited the Lab. Prof. Gong is an alumnus of ISyE at Georgia Tech.

Wednesday, February 24, 1999

Twenty-eight students from Prof. Jerry Banks' ISyE 4898 class, Hot Topics in Industrial Engineering, visited the Lab for a tour and demonstration.

Tuesday, March 16, 1999

Prof. Teck-Seng Low visitied the Lab during his visit to Georgia Tech and ISyE. Prof. Low is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

Thursday, March 18, 1999

Joshua Pas, a prospective IE graduate student visiting the department from Purdue, stopped by to visit the Lab.

Jim Moore and Frank Taylor from Ford Motor Company visted the Lab during their stay at Georgia Tech announcing Ford's grant to the Institute.

Friday, March 26, 1999

Mr. Tom Joyce, Dr. Kris Lehman and Ms. Karly Bialkowski of Meritor Automotive visited the Lab as part of a visit to Georgia Tech. Meritor is a supplier of automotive components and was formerly part of Rockwell. Mr. Joyce is vice president and treasurer; Dr. Lehman is manager of college relations, and Ms. Bialkowski is a college relations specialist.

Monday, April 5, 1999

Mr. Howard Fleisig and his son Charlie Fleisig visited the Lab. Mr. Fleisig is a Georgia Tech alumnus (IMGT '72), and his son is thinking about attending Tech and enrolling in IE.

Friday, April 9, 1999

A number of visiting faculty from schools that are members of the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3) visited the Lab. Formed four years ago, Global E3 is a consortium of schools to which Georgia Tech belongs. It primarily coordinates undergraduate student exchange programs. The visitors included:

• Dr. Karlheinz Borchert, director of the International Center, University of Applied Sciences, Technische Fachhochschule, Berlin
• Hélène Cerbelaud, industrial relations director, École Nationale Supérieure de L'Aéronautique et de L'Espace, Toulouse
• Dr. Micelle Guenin, executive director of Academic and Industrial Affairs, Institut National des Sciences Appliqquées de Lyons, Lyons, France
• Mr. Gilles LeBrishoual, program manager, Global Engineering Exchange for Engineers and Entrepreneurs (GE4), Paris
• Dr. Roger Moret, professor and vice president, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
• Yves Serizier, director of corporate relations, Institut Superiur D'Electronique de Paris, Paris

The faculty were visiting to learn more about Georgia Tech and its facilities. The tour was organized by Amy Bass of the GT International Programs Office.

Monday, April 12, 1999

Dr. S. Manivannan, who was a professor in the ISyE department several years ago, visited the Lab.

Wednesday, April 14, 1999

Dr. Enui Park and Dr. Bala Ram (from North Carolina A&T) and Dr. Gary Rubloff and Dr. Jeffrey Herrmann (from the University of Maryland's Institute for Systems Research) visited the Lab. They were hosted by Dr. Marc Goetschalckx.

Thursday, April 22, 1999

Several reprentatives from The William Carter Company visited the Lab to find out more about its activities and projects. Attendees included Scott Posey, director of logistics engineering, Dave Foy, director of manufacturing enginering, David Richard, industrial engineering manager, and Colin McLachlan, technical services manager.

Thursday, May 13, 1999

Six students from Alpha Pi Mu, the IE honor society, visited the Lab to find out more anout the research and educational activities conducted here.

Friday, May 14, 1999

Dr. Jimmie McEver from RAND Corp. visited the Lab as part of a visit to Georgia Tech.

Tuesday, May 18, 1999

The Keck Lab hosted an "open house" for students and faculty from ISyE and other departments. Approximately 20 attendees watched presentations on the Lab and its current projects, and then came into the Lab and saw demos on the work being done. The two main demos were the Contol of Flexible Automation project, featuring the Lab's robot cell, and the Integrated Warehouse Design Tools project.

Thursday, June 3, 1999

Two faculty from Sao Carlos Federal University in Brazil visited the Lab. They are Paulo Rogerio Politano, head of the Computer Science Dept., and Orides Morandin Junior, vice-head of the Computer Science Dept.

Thursday, June 3, 1999

The Keck Lab hosted the spring quarter Warehouse Roundtable discussion group. Industry attendees included:

• Scott Posey, William Carter Co.
• Dave Richard, William Carter Co.
• Bill Dexheimer, EXE Technoligies
• Jim Apple, The Progress Group
• Michael Amirhosseini, UPS Worldwide Logistics

Wednesday, June 9, 1999

Fifteen students from the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico visited the Lab to find out more about simulation work at Georgia Tech. They were hosted by Prof. Dave Goldsman.

Tuesday, June 22, 1999

Seven students from Georgia Tech's PREP and MITE programs visited the Lab to learn more about industrial engineering.

Tuesday, June 29, 1999

Eighteen students from Georgia Tech's PREP and MITE programs visited the Lab to learn more about industrial engineering.

Wednesday, July 14, 1999

Prof. Suren Dwivedi from the University of Southwestern Louisiana visited the Keck Lab. Dr. Dwivedi is Chair Professor in Manufacturing in the Deoartment of Mechanical Engineering.

Tuesday, July 20, 1999

Seven students from Georgia Tech's MITE program visited the Lab to learn more about industrial engineering.

Wednesday, July 21, 1999

Three visitors from MAPICS, Inc. visited the Lab as part of a visit to Georgia Tech sponsored by the Corporate Laiason Program.

Tuesday, July 27, 1999

Seven students from Georgia Tech's MITE program visited the Lab to learn more about industrial engineering.

Monday, August 23, 1999

Thirty-fice students from Prof. Chen Zhou's ISyE 4256 course (Applications of Robotics and Automated Data Collection) were given a demo of the Lab's robotic cell. They will be using the cell for a lab assignment this semester.

Monday, September 13, 1999

Dr. Leigh-Anne Darden, Michael A. May, George Titteton III and Penny Malone from United Technologies visited the Lab as part of a visit to Georgia Tech organized by the Corporate Liaison Program.

Monday, October 11, 1999

Guy Millner and his nephew, prospective Tech student James Granger, visited the Lab as part of their visit to Georgia Tech. They toured a number of robotics-related labs at Tech.

Friday, October 22, 1999

The ISyE Alumni Advisory Board toured the Lab.

Thursday, October 28, 1999

Dr. Guillermo Hernandez and twleve IE students from Universidad del Mayab, Mexico, visited the Lab as part of their visit to ISyE at Georgia Tech.

1998

Friday, January 16, 1998

Prof. Sunn-Ho Kim, associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Myong-Ji University in Korea, visited the lab.

Tuesday, February 17, 1998

Leigh Meister and Michael Amirhosseini from UPS World-Wide Logistics visited the Virtual Factory for a tour and demonstration, and also to discuss collaboration between UPS-WWL and Georgia Tech.

Tuesday, April 7, 1998

Jack Worthy from the College of Engineering brought five students from the PREP program to visit the Virtual Factory Lab.

Monday, April 20, 1998

Terry Kersey, Leigh Meister and Michael Amirhosseini from UPS World-Wide Logistics visited the Virtual Factory Lab to discuss a potential project between UPS-WWL and Georgia Tech.

Thursday, June 25, 1998

Twelve students from the College of Engineering's PREP program visited the Virtual Factory Lab for a lab tour and demonstration.

Tuesday, June 30, 1998

Thirty students from the College of Engineering's PREP program visited the Virtual Factory Lab for a lab tour and demonstration.

Thursday, July 2, 1998

Lic. Rafael D. Toribio, rector from the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, visited the Virtual Factory Lab with two associates. They were visiting Georgia Tech and were guided by an undergraduate industrial engineering student.

Wednesday, July 15, 1998

Dale Atkins brought twelve attendees from a Logistics Institute short course for a demonstration in the Virtual Factory Lab. The group, from Siemens, was attending a short course titled "'Strategic' Business, Logictics and Manufacturing Systems."

Thursday, July 23, 1998

Fifteen students from the College of Engineering's MITE program visited the lab to learn more about Industrial Engineering.

Thursday, July 30, 1998

Ray Kanth and Gunju Oyeleye from AMP visited the Virtual Factory Lab.

Friday, September 11, 1998

The following faculty from the Industrial Engineering Department of Sakarya University in Turkey visitied the lab:

Dr. Harun Resit Yazgan
Dr. Emin Gurdogan
Dr. Ibrahim Cil

They were escorted by ISyE graduate student Gurdal Ertek.

Thursday, October 8, 1998

Dr. Mercedes Talley, from the W. M. Keck Foundation, made a site visit the lab to meet with students and faculty and to discuss progress to date in realizing the lab's mission.

Tuesday, December 1, 1998

Ms. Jane Gaboury, editor of IIE Solutions, toured the lab while on a visit to the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She was hosted by Prof. Jerry Banks.

Tuesday, December 8, 1998

Heinz Weigl, simulationist from EASL Solutions in Vienna, Austria, visited the lab.

Thursday, December 17, 1998

The Lab hosted the first warehouse roundtable discussion group, with a number of attendees from industry. Participants included Michael Amirhosseini (UPS Worldwide Logistics), Jim Apple (The Progress Group), Glenn Coller (Ford), Terry Kersey (UPS Worldwide Logistics), Steve Mulaik (The Progress Group), Dan Ockerman (Manhattan Associates) and Steve Stuk (Manhattan Associates).

Monday, December 21, 1998

Dave Papp from Deneb Robotics visitted the Lab to find out more about how students and faculty are using Deneb's simulation software in research and education applications.

1997

Tuesday, May 20, 1997

Professor M. M. Hoda, Principle Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, visited the Virtual Factory Lab.

Thursday, June 12, 1997

The Virtual Factory Lab held its second industry focus group. Industry representatives included:

• George Marushak, Eastman Kodak
• James Cavendish, General Motors Research and Development
• Kumar Bhaskaran, IBM Manufacturing Research
• Dave Gustashaw, Inteface
• Bethany Bruner, Interface (Georgia Tech co-op student)
• Phyllis Woodsen, interface
• Paul Cole, Lockheed-Martin
• Lynne Russell, Lucent Technologies

Monday, June 23, 1997

Five students enrolled in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering's PREP program, a summer program for high school students interested in engineering, visited the Virtual Factory Lab to find out more about Industrial Engineering.

Friday, June 27, 1997

Eleven students enrolled in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering's PREP program, a summer program for high school students interested in engineering, visitied the Virtual Factory Lab to find out more about Industrial Engineering.

Friday, July 11, 1997

Two Florida high school students interested in engineering visited the Virtual Factory Lab to find out more about Industrial Engineering.

Monday, July 28, 1997

Thirty-one students from the MITE Program visited the Virtual Factory Lab. These are minority high school students interested in engineering.

Friday, August 8, 1997

Prof. John Casali visited the Virtual Factory Lab. Prof. Casali is department head of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Virginia Tech.

Tuesday, September 2, 1997

Profs. Der-Baau Perng and Chin-Fu Yang visited the Virtual Factory Lab. They are both with the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

Prospective graduate student Eda Kemahlioglu visited the Virtual Factory Lab as part of her visit to ISyE at Georgia Tech.

Thursday, October 30, 1997

Willam A. J. Van Schaik visited the lab. He is with the Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Friday, December 5, 1997

Prof. Wayne J. Davis.of the General Engineering Department at the University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, visited the Virtual Factory Lab. Prof. Davis is director of the Manufactuirng Systems Lab at UIUC. He showed a web-based manufacturing simulation application developed at UIUC.

Wednesday, December 10, 1997

Dr. Sanjay Jain, Group Manager of Systems Technology Division at the GINTIC Institute of Manufacturing Technology in Singapore and Dr. Stephen Turner, senior lecturer at the University of Exeter in the U.K., visited the Virtual Factory Lab. Dr. Jain gave a seminar titled "Parallel and Distributed Simulation for Virtual Factory Implementation."