2nd Place Capstone Design Project Award (Industrial)
Project Title: Improving Staff Scheduling at Michael Garron Hospital Using Automation and Optimization / Project Supervisor: Professor Vahid Sarhangian
The Capstone team of Joshua Lee, Aaron Burkett, Kelvin Lo and Beliz Zorbozan developed a scheduling tool for their client, Michael Garron Hospital. The hospital previously used a largely manual process for assigning part-time staff to fill open shifts for their Environmental Services team. Included in the manual process was managing shift distribution fairness according to collective bargaining agreement rules, and seniority-based hospital preferences while ensuring full coverage in critical areas. The automated Excel-based tool used a mixed-greedy approach to allocate these shifts and reduce approximately eight hours of weekly manual work to around 10 minutes.
Full article at: MIE News