Karishma Albal

ASU industrial engineering students Nathan Chmelnik and Katelyn Johnson organized the virtual 2021 conference of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers for the U.S. Western Region, which was held in February 2021. “We got to do a lot of trailblazing in terms of organizing the online conference space, especially for IISE, which was very new to this kind of virtual setting,” says Johnson, who is the vice president of conference operations for the ASU chapter of IISE.

Scott Danielson, an associate professor in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, was recently named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his contributions to mechanical engineering education. More than 3,000 members of ASME have attained the status of Fellow, including several faculty members in the Fulton Schools.

Look up the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus on the Arizona Department of Health Services website, and you will see the extent of the pandemic in each county. But how did the disease spread throughout Arizona? And how can we know what areas will be more severely affected in the future?