Author: Cindi Mason

Sign up to learn more about resources available to women at Wichita State at the “100 for Her” table 10 a.m.-1 p.m. April 8 at the Rhatigan Student Center. The “100 for Her ” video presentation and digital magazine provides participants with 100 informative resources for women.

The Heskett Center will host a women’s self-defense class 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 13 at the Heskett Center (Room 145A). The class is $10 per person. The class is lead by Wichita State alumni Cindy Coughenour.

For more information or to attend the class, contact cindy@fearlessandfemale.com and include the message “I want to register for class date 4-13-2022.”

Dr. Ehsan Salari — associate professor of industrial, systems, and manufacturing engineering —  will present on “Organ Motion Management in MRI-guided Radiation Therapy using a Control-theoretic Approach”  at 11 a.m. Friday, March 25 via Zoom.

Internal organ motion poses a major challenge in the radiation treatment of lung and abdominal cancers. If unaccounted for, organ motion during radiation delivery may lead to under-dosing of cancer cells or overdosing of normal tissue, potentially causing treatment failure or normal-tissue toxicity. A new generation of radiation therapy devices are equipped with an onboard magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to provide a real-time view of the patient anatomy with a high temporal resolution during radiation delivery. The anatomy visualization offers the opportunity to devise motion mitigation strategies in which the radiation treatment plan actively adapts to anatomical variation in real time during irradiation. This research proposes a control-theoretic approach to organ motion management for intensity-modulated radiation therapy. The proposed approach uses the real-time MRI information to monitor the delivery of radiation dose and dynamically adjusts the treatment plan in response to dose discrepancies that may occur due to respiration-induced motion.

Dr. Laila Cure, a Wichita State assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, will present about “Modeling and Analysis of Contemporary Work Systems” at 11 a.m. today, March 11 via Zoom.

This presentation will investigate the dynamics of various types of work systems using statistical modeling techniques. A work system is described as a productive system involving humans executing tasks over a period to meet performance expectations. The definition includes, but is not limited to repetitive systems, which are the basis of state-of-the-art-work analysis methods.

Cure received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the University of South Florida in 2011. Her research focuses on the use of analytics and mathematical modeling techniques to understand and design operations involving humans interacting with technology in uncertain environments. Cure currently teaches Work Systems, Production Systems, Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems, and Data Analytics. She is also the faculty advisor for the Wichita State Student Chapter of the Association for Supply Chain Management.

Dr. John Huffman will return to the  Industrial, Systems, and Manufacturing Engineering Colloquium to discuss artificial neural systems for machine learning 11 a.m. today, March 4 via Zoom. His presentation will include a demonstration of an artificial neural system and will end with a question and answer session. The virtual event is open to all interested faculty, staff, and students.