HSyE Awarded $1.7M and Graduates 7th Class of Students
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The Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute recently graduated its seventh class of students in late August from its healthcare systems engineering internship program. The program provides students with hands-on experience working on a variety of research problems and participating in clinician-engineer research teams. Participants included engineering, biomedical, nursing, public health, health management, mathematics, and statistics students from 21 states and 4 countries.
HSyE also received 3 awards totaling $1.7 million to help the Veterans Health Administration implement “lean” Toyota Production System methods across the national VA healthcare system. HSyE director and senior scientist Professor James Benneyan is a nationally recognized expert on the use of Lean and related systems engineering methods to improve healthcare, and has previously served as principal investigator of a $10 million VA systems engineering center.