Industrial Systems Engineering is Fun Improves Our World
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ah
what’s common between pokemon go
disney ride and trauma care it is an
industrial and systems engineer
today i’m going to show you a small peek
into the world of industrial and systems
engineering
but before i dive into my talk i’m going
to be using the acronyms ises a lot
because i’m an engineer so i’m used to
using acronyms right
out of habit ise stand for
industrial and systems engineering
growing up my dad always raised me by
saying that
i should be an engineer as he never got
to finish his engineering degree
because of financial constraints and
when you hear the word engineering
you probably don’t associate it with
words like
fun exciting engaging etc right
it’s probably more words like mathy
number crunching boring
i was of that opinion too i thought
engineering was very heavy
and definitely not fun until i got
introduced to ise by my dad
who was in supply chain and logistics in
a manufacturing company
i was just fascinated to learn that ise
was about humanizing technology
and had applications in everyday life
this motivated me
to pursue my masters and phd in ise
in the us have you ever wondered
how the characters in pokemon go show up
in augmented reality
well my team has worked on looking at
enabling
the technology for how augmented reality
characters
shows up in a certain way in a certain
time
when working on this project i realized
that people get
very excited to see an augmented reality
when you show the right information
at the right place at the right time so
we looked at how
we can enable these characters to show
up in a certain way
based on the user location and user
preference so user could
place a character in one location and
have another user pick up that character
based on his preference as an isc
i have to think about how user
experience is a very important factor
in designing systems
now isn’t this a common living room
scene now where everybody is accessing
education through computers when i was
working for intel several years back
we looked at how kids in india
use classmate pc which is intel’s
sensor enhanced laptop for access to
education
intel’s worldwide impact of classmate pc
was to provide access to education in
emerging countries for k-12 education
we found that kids tend to keep their
laptops on their bare skin
and this can actually burn them because
the thermal limits on these computers
need to be much
cooler than the standard temperatures
which is about 95 to 98 degree
fahrenheit
so as an ise i have to think about how
to translate these user requirements
into the product requirements
don’t we all get excited to go to disney
it could be the rides it can be the
stay it could be the thrill of meeting
the characters right will you be
surprised if i tell you
there is an ise behind making this
experience magical for you
disney actually employs ises to design
systems to bring the magical story of
disney to life
disney parks have this specific brand
called
imagineering where they employ ises to
design systems
for a variety of roles such as right
simulations
statistics guest flow and even quality
control
imagine washing 240 000 pounds of
laundry
every day or 30 000 costumes
or how about transporting 200 thousands
of guests
every day with just 260 buses
all of those operational efficiencies
are actually managed by an isc
so that you can have an enjoyable and an
attractive experience
now doesn’t this feel like a roller
coaster ride from a cheery picture of
disney
i jumped right into trauma so this
is a project that we worked on looking
at how
to train pre-hospital trauma care
so that we can improve health care for
improving patient safety so in this
project
we looked at how we can use live virtual
and constructive environments
to create simulations with the live
agents and the constructive environments
to improve healthcare imagine
if the emt could actually send your
vitals to the hospital
even before you reach the hospital so
that the doctors can take care
and make an action plan even before you
reach the hospital
so that you can have literally
life-changing decisions
we work to develop mobile applications
where
doctors can view the vitals at a glance
using variable computing and can create
these
action plans so that you get better care
as iscs we work in healthcare industry
to look at process improvement patient
safety
and planning in today’s world
people use sick technology like never
before
for social media checking emails
scheduling supply chain logistics the
list is
endless will you be surprised if i tell
you that from where a jug of milk needs
to be placed
to when to order your next groceries or
all handled by an isc
yes blame the irc for the extra bag of
chips you didn’t need
or the gum packet that you picked on
your way out of a store
we are at tedx dayton here today which
stands for technology
entertainment and design and ises are at
the center of it
isa encompasses this broad area of
applications
in ise’s design systems to integrate
human
and technology to make people feel
connected
and have an enjoyable experience
my dad inspired me to think beyond
traditional engineering
and to look at things from a different
perspective such as
applications in industrial and systems
engineering
we need a makeover to get people to
think about
engineering and how engineering is
actually fun
no matter where you go and what you do
there is an ise making sure that you go
through your
grocery store more efficiently or
make your online purchases with a snap
of a finger thank you
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