Senior Design Program (SAINT)

The University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial Engineering is committed to providing students with opportunities for hands-on learning. The SAINT Program - Sponsor an Industrial Engineering Team - is a vehicle through which senior industrial engineering student teams experience hands-on learning while working to find solutions to the real-life engineering and business problems of their sponsor organizations. Past SAINT Program projects have been featured in local publications and have been presented at national engineering conferences.

Highlights

Award-Winning Packaging

Pitt’s Dechen Xie, Emily Bosworth, Nathaniel O'Stafy, Tianyi Hu, and Juliana Capozzi placed third the prestigious MIH College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) Capstone Design Project.

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Best Overall Senior Design Project in SSoE - Spring 2024

The overall winner of the Spring 2024 Design Expo was RocketWatch: GEO Satellite Threat Assessment System. Congratulations!

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Project Highlight: Matching Moms to Mentors Through Machine Learning

A group of IE students developed a new tool to help NurturePA allocate resources to moms needing support throughout southwestern PA

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Designing Healthcare Solutions Across Silos

Pitt industrial engineering students collaborate with UPMC teams to design real-world solutions to healthcare challenges

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