Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems News

Industrial engineering Ph.D. student Christopher Hernandez shares what it’s like interning with the global security and aerospace company.

Researchers found that changing the font to one better suited to an individual resulted in a 35% increase in reading speed while maintaining comprehension.

Implications of this work include a better understanding of opportunities and appropriate tools for short-term prediction of future trends when variability is high, as well as replacement strategies for datasets with missing values.

The funds will be used towards priority areas in UCF’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, such as the Engineering Leadership and Innovation Institute (eli2) and Senior Design Boot Camps.

The Readability Consortium will explore ways to enable the world to read better by tailoring text to the individual.

The finding comes from an examination of posts labeled controversial on social news aggregation site Reddit.

Early studies have shown researchers can accelerate some adults’ reading by more than 25 percent by personalizing the digital-reading experience.

University Also Receives Software Grant from Company

Director of UCF’s Ergonomics Laboratory uses personal and professional experiences to empower other women in STEM to achieve success.