Department Highlights
Rankings
- #16 public university in graduate school rankings
Faculty Highlights
- 2 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member
- 8 Faculty members who are Fellows in 14 Different Societies, including INFORMS, IEEE, HFES
- 5 Faculty members with NSF CAREER Awards, 1 of which was awarded in 2023
- 5 Faculty members (3 core faculty, 2 joint faculty) in top 2% of most-cited researchers worldwide
Grants
- Over $70 million in grants since 2019
- Federal grants from NSF, AFRL, NIH, DoE, DoD, FAA, and others, with some examples from the recent years below
- NSF + Amazon, Fairness in Artificial Intelligence Program. Fairness in artificial intelligence with human in the loop, 2021-2024: $240k (of $1M total) (Ohio State PI: Parinaz Naghizadeh)
- NIH, The Spine Phenome Project: Enabling Technology for Personalized Medicine. 2021-2024: $3.1 million (PI: William Marras)
- AFRL, Development and Administration of a Robust Consortium of Minority-Serving Institutions for the Advancement of AFRL’s Research and Workforce. 2020-2026, $40 million, research contract (PI: Michael Groeber)
- NSF, Convergent Graduate Training and EmPOWERment for a Sustainable Energy Future, 2019: $3 million (PI: Ramteen Sioshansi)
- DoE, ARPA-E, A Grid that’s Risk-Aware for Clean Electricity (GRACE), $293k of $2.4 million (Ohio State PI: Antonio Conejo)
- Grants in collaboration with more than 20 industrial partners including Amazon, Cisco, American Electric Power (AEP), Honda, Ford, GM, Lockheed Martin, Novelis, Gojo / Purell, Infinity Labs, and Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Federal grants from NSF, AFRL, NIH, DoE, DoD, FAA, and others, with some examples from the recent years below
- State of Ohio Grants, with an example below
- Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation, Investigating an Engineering Control to Reduce Sonographer Work-related Injury. 2022-2024, (PIs: Carolyn Sommerich and Steve Lavender)
Society Leaderships
- Carolyn Sommerich: President, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2022-2023
- Guzin Bayraksan: Chair, Stochastic Programming Society, 2019 -2022
- Ramteen Sioshansi: President-Elect, IISE Energy Systems Division, 2021
- Mike Rayo: Director, Student mHealth Design Competition, Human Factors in Healthcare, 2017-2020
- Michael Groeber: Member, Materials Innovation Committee, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
- Gary Allread: President, Applied Ergonomics Society, 2022-2023
Category: Faculty