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Recent ARCS Events

In early February 2025, twenty ARCS Atlanta members had the exceptional opportunity to tour the new 1.2M square feet UPS Southeast Metro Automated Routing Terminal (S.M.A.R.T.) HUB in SW Atlanta. Members viewed this high-speed processing facility and learned about its ability to reduce time-in-transit and enhance flexibility within UPS’s efficient SMART hub-and-spoke network.  The Atlanta hub can process approximately 100,000 parcels per hour via a highly orchestrated series of conveyors, chutes, belts and, ramps, into waiting trailers for transfer to another UPS location, or into package delivery vehicles bound for area businesses and residents. 

It is the second-largest ground package processing facility in the United States and the fourth-largest package operation in the UPS worldwide network. The new Atlanta sortation and delivery center is part of an expanded network of regional hubs designed to improve efficiency, service levels and reliability.

 

 

Thanks from Scholar Laura Redmond

"I want to thank you again for supporting my career development, and I look forward to encouraging the development of future scientists as an ARCS Scholar Alum."

Thanks from Alum Alejandro Toriella, PhD, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech

Thank you very much for your support.  It meant a lot.  I had the opportunity to return to Tech as a faculty member last year.  I’m very happy to be back and hope I can advise a future ARCS scholar soon!

Thanks from Alum Eliot Quon, Postdoctoral Researcher at National Renewable Energy Laboratory

ARCS Foundation has been a highlight of my academic career thus far, thank you for the support!