The Operations Research / Industrial Engineering Group, OR/IE, is a major technical area within the Mechanical Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Austin. This area has been teaching and conducting research for many years. The faculty do research across many fields. Undergraduate students take many introductory and technical courses taught by OR/IE faculty. Graduate students also take courses taught by OR/IE faculty, as well as work in the Department and research labs as research and teaching assistants.

Research within this group includes the following topics: dielectric and conventional drying, combustion, IC engines, gas turbine blade cooling, turbulent transport, drag reduction, thermal radiation in absorbing/emitting/scattering media, HVAC, energy management and conservation, numerical simulation of turbulence, viscous and hypersonic flow, laser measurement techniques, electronics cooling, interfacial heat and mass transport, liquid metal magnetohydrodynamics, thermal analysis of manufacturing processes, solar radiation measurement, solar energy applications, micro and nano-scale thermal/fluid transport and systems, thermal/fluid issues in laser material processing, and energy conversion.

The Student Chapter of INFORMS publishes a newsletter each semester that keeps OR / IE students informed about the program at UT and beyond.

 

Operations Research / Industrial Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Cockrell School of Engineering | The University of Texas at Austin
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