Halil Şen, our PhD student in the Industrial Engineering Program, was awarded the third place with his paper "A Simple, Fast, and Effective Heuristic for the Single-Machine Total Weighted Tardiness Problem" in the student paper competition at the 13th International Conference on Project Managament and Scheduling (PMS 2012). The conference is one of the premier meetings with a long-standing tradition in his field and was held in Leuven, Belgium during April 1-4.
