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UB Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Centers

Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation

Co-Directors: Professor Rajan Batta and Professor Jun Zhuang
Location: 435 Bell Hall
Web site: http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/Research/RISST

The mission of this center is to improve the maintenance and inspection of aircraft through research that combines human factors and technical expertise. We have more than fifteen years of research and development leadership in aviation inspection and maintenance involving human factors. Our successful innovation, in cooperation with major airline research partners, has assisted the FAA through the Office of Aviation Medicine and Sandia National Laboratories. Close links are maintained to quality assurance and maintenance in other manufacturing and transportation industries, and cooperation is close with other innovative resources, such as the Center of Multisource Information Fusion.

Center for Excellence in Global Enterprise Management

Interim Director: Professor Li Lin
Location: 436 Bell Hall
Web site: http://wings.buffalo.edu/gemc

The Center for Excellence in Global Enterprise Management (GEM) was established in 1998 to conduct leading-edge research, driven by industrial need, with results that have immediate impact. GEM also delivers technology know-how that enables enterprises to improve their operations.

GEM provides an arena for collaboration in both frontier academic research and high-impact industrial developments. Joint industrial and academic ventures include supply chain management and manufacturing system design in the manufacturing industry, and efficiency, cost, and service quality improvement in the service industries, covering all aspects of enterprise management.

Past projects have included assistance in the design of manufacturing facilities at American Axle and Delphi Automotive, supply chain management projects at Lockheed Martin and General Motors, and efficiency and patient flow improvement at various health care organizations, such as Erie County Medical Center, Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, Saint Vincent Health System, and Catholic Health System’s Home Care.

Center for Multisource Information Fusion

Co-Directors: Professor James Llinas and Professor Moises Sudit
Location: 339 Bell Hall
Web site: http://www.infofusion.buffalo.edu

The Center for Multisource Information Fusion (CMIF) is a joint initiative with government and industry created through a U.S. Air Force–sponsored contract with the Calspan–University at Buffalo Research Center (CUBRC) in October 1996. The center’s focus is on basic and applied research in multiple-source information processing environments, such as in multiple-sensor or multiple-instrumented systems. Such environments occur frequently in defense applications for advanced surveillance and reconnaissance systems, as well as in robotics, civil infrastructure systems, medical monitoring systems, intrusion detection systems, intelligent transportation systems, and environmental monitoring applications.

While the initial focus has necessarily been on Department of Defense and intelligence community type problems, this highly multidisciplinary technology is broadly applicable to many problems. The center is conducting research in cyber security, service-oriented architecture, situational awareness, impact assessment, and sensor management. In addition to three baseline tasks started under its founding grant, CMIF has received numerous additional grants from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Army, intelligence agencies and government organizations, as well as various industrial partners.