Announcements

IISE membership has its benefits — like lowered costs every time you ship with UPS. Members can save up to 50% on shipping costs, which is good to know, especially during the holiday season. IISE offers several affinity benefits to members available year-round.

Coming to your screen Nov. 9 at 11 a.m. ET: Data Science 101 Webinar with Edd Biddle, Watson Senior Data Scientist and UKI Technical Principal at IBM Expert Labs. This 1 hour lecture focuses on how best to approach data science projects by performing a deep dive into a well-established methodology called CRISP-DM (CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining). You'll learn the importance of business understanding, data understanding and data preparation. 

Present your work, get noticed and make your innovations known worldwide at the largest event for ISEs in 2023! Submit your abstract now for consideration. Simply summarize the main points of your paper that you plan to present at IISE’s Annual Conference & Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 20-23 and enter by Nov. 11.

If you attended the Lean Six Sigma & Data Science Conference in Atlanta Sept. 19-21, thank you. We can't wait to see you next year in Atlanta Sept. 18-20. In the meantime, enjoy highlights from the 2022 event - photos and podcast breaks at iise.org/Lean6Data.

UPDATE: The new deadline to submit a poster abstract for the Lean Six Sigma & Data Science 2022 conference is Sept. 9. That means there's still time to show off your latest research at #Lean6Data2022 in Atlanta next month! More info here: link.iise.org/lssds-poster

LSSDS Poster Contest - Hurry To Submit and Win

ISEs can enjoy Topgolf at #Lean6Data2022.

The Lean Six Sigma & Data Science Conference Sept. 19-21 in Atlanta offers ISEs a chance to join fellow process improvement gurus Sept. 20 for a night at Topgolf – teeing off toward giant outfield targets in a high-tech golf game while talking shop with some of the industry’s leading pros. Sign up now; space is limited.

Tiered Huddle System Detailed Case Study—Emory Healthcare

Performance Excellence Webinar

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET Aug. 2
Presenter: Victoria Jordan, Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety, Emory Healthcare

This webinar covers a detailed case study on Emory’s very successful deployment of Tiered Huddles and includes Q&A from the audience. Part II follows, with a discussion on how to apply the insights Jordan shares in other settings. 

Kick off your #Lean6Data2022 conference experience Sept. 19-21 in Atlanta with pre-conference education. This year’s workshops offer a unique professional development opportunity to learn from experts in the field while networking with peers, all at a reasonable price.

From Engineer to Leader … Livestream course Aug. 1-2 is now taking registrations. Managers need the skills and knowledge in which engineers are typically not trained – like leadership, communication, organization, change management, empathy and more. Instructor Timothy J. Greene, Ph.D., helps equip you with these skills. IISE members save $350 on course fees.

Be sure to get in your Best Paper and Poster Session submissions by July 15 for the upcoming Lean Six Sigma & Data Science Conference Sept. 19-21 in Atlanta ... Just go to the “Competitions” menu for details and submit your entry today!

IISE runs insightful, innovative webinars year-round with expert presenters. Performance Excellence series and society/division webinars cover ISE trends, hot topics and more. Take a break this summer and sign up for a webinar for free.

Sustainability Footprint-Handprint Workshop at UniValle Colombia

11 a.m. ET, July 11

Social media tools are ready for you to share as attendees, speakers, exhibitors, sponsors and partners at the Lean Six Sigma & Data Science Conference Sept. 19-21 in Atlanta! Grab your images and text messages today.

July 25-29, Norcross, GA /

Five-day course prepares you for the professional engineering licensure exam. Instructors will cover all major elements of the PE exam, refreshing your knowledge of IE topics, terminology and formulas; working through practice problems; and identifying areas to focus on during exam prep. Participants will receive a specially developed set of review notes available only to registrants.

ISE magazine has earned a regional bronze award in the Azbee Awards of Excellence by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. IISE Managing Editor Keith Albertson authored the winning piece “ISE students help deliver a shot in the arm” in the August 2021 issue.

IISE held its first in-person Annual Conference & Expo in three years May 21-24 in Seattle, giving attendees a chance to honor the profession’s best and brightest with live applause and appreciation. Congrats to the winners!

Take advantage of two in-depth, preconference workshops at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo in Seattle May 21-24:

 

"What is the Theory of Constraints and How Can It Be Used to Improve Patient Flow?" Presenters: Danilo Sirias, Saginaw Valley State University and Gary Wadhwa, 8 a.m. - Noon, May 21 | "Aligning Productivity with Retention via Compassionate Servant Leadership" Presenter: Dr. Rupy Sawhney, University of Tennessee, 1 - 5 p.m., May 21

The Lean Six Sigma & Data Science Conference Sept. 19-21 in Atlanta offers a global hub for sharing organizational transformation discoveries. ISEs are invited to submit abstracts by May 22. Inspire discussion and development and put yourself and your organization at the forefront of the industry. Plus, connect with other great minds. 200 words or less - submit today.

Sign up now for a new one-day workshop, “Advanced Manufacturing of Flexible Electronics and Nondestructive Testing for Quality Assurance,” on Saturday, May 21, 2022, as part of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2022 in Seattle. The workshop is generously sponsored and organized by the University of Washington, Iowa State University, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and SEMI-FlexTech. The workshop is FREE for participants, but pre-registration is required.

Congrats to Wenhai Experimental School China (Zhejiang Province). IISE National Chapter (DC) President Chris Tupino, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, presented the 2022 Future City award for Excellence in Systems Integration sponsored by IISE to the Wenhai School virtually on March 23. Watch the video presentation at https://link.iise.org/FutureCity22 (IISE award at 53:07).

Learn how to use the fastest growing and easiest to use work measurement system to achieve tangible business results using reliable data. Register now for the MODAPTS Certification Livestream - IISE Training Center, April 11-13. 

ISE magazine is a regional finalist in the 2021 Azbee Awards of Excellence. IISE Managing Editor Keith Albertson earned the nod for his August 2021 article "ISE students help deliver a shot in the arm" about a group of industrial engineering students at Iowa State University who applied their classroom knowledge to help create a centrally located vaccination site on campus. Azbees are presented by the American Society of Business Publication Editors.

Women in #STEM fields face challenges throughout their education and careers. In honor of Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Institution is displaying 120 statues of #WomeninSTEM around DC from March 5-27. Check them out!

The Lean Six Sigma & Data Science Conference - presented by the Operational Excellence Division Sept. 19-21 in Atlanta - offers a global hub for sharing organizational transformation discoveries. ISEs are invited to submit abstracts by April 18. Inspire discussion and development and put yourself and your organization at the forefront of the industry while connecting with other great minds.

You could be the next Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering Award recipient. Enter by March 2. Details: iise.org/innovationaward

Congrats! Nick Sahinidis, a professor of ISE at Georgia Tech, is the latest IISE member to be chosen to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest honors in engineering. NAE praised him “for contributions to global optimization and the development of widely used software for optimization and machine learning.”

The Energy Systems (ES) Division is calling for nominations for two board directors whose terms will begin on June 1, 2022, with a two-year commitment.  Nominees must be a current IISE member and an ES Division member. If you are a current IISE member, you can choose to be an ES Division member for free. Self-nomination is welcome!  

 

The vision of the ES Division is to become the premier division for researchers and practitioners committed to advancing excellence in innovative modeling and exploring industrial and systems engineering tools for energy systems.  Main responsibilities of the division board director include: i) attending division board meeting, ii) organizing division actives (e.g., leading awards committee and scheduling division presentations) in IISE Annual conference, and iii) participating in other division activities (e.g., division newsletters and division webinars).   

 

ES Division currently has four great board directors, and they are Assistant Professor Ahmed Aziz Ezzat at Rutgers University – New Brunswick, Assistant Professor Benjamin D. Leibowicz at University of Texas – Austin, Associate Professor Ekundayo Shittu at George Washington University, and Associate Professor Pingfeng Wang at University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign.     

 

Please consider joining us and spend 5 minutes to complete and submit this Nomination form at your earliest convenient time. Please contact me for any other questions.  

IISE professional members have elected new leaders. Balloting was held from Dec. 13, 2021, to Jan. 28, 2022, to choose leaders for three Board of Trustee positions, two posts on the Technical Operations Board and six regional operations vice presidents. The winners, who assume their posts April 1, are:

 

• President-elect: Eileen Van Aken, professor and department head of the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech
• Senior vice president, international: Gino Lim, professor and chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston
• Senior vice president, industry: Renee Thiesing, Vice President of Products at Simio LLC
• Technical vice presidents, Technical Operations Board: Nadiye Erdil, associate professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of New Haven; and Omar Ashour, associate professor of industrial engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College
• Regional vice president, Asia: Min Xie
• Regional vice president, Central and South America: Martha Ramirez-Valdivia
• Regional vice president, México: José Cervantes-León
• Regional vice president, Northeast: Michael Testani
• Regional vice president, Southeast: Dean Athanassiades
• Regional vice president, Western: Shokoufeh Mirzaei

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The Operations Research Division Nominating Committee is making a call for nominations for 1 President-Elect and 2 dynamic directors whose terms will begin June 1, 2022.  All nominees must be current, regular members of the Operations Research (OR) Division. Students are not eligible.   Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to serve your division in a significant way. If not you, then perhaps someone you know is qualified to take a leadership position on the OR Division Board.   Participating in a leadership role for the division is a challenging, yet at the same time, very rewarding experience. Each year, we attempt to maintain a broad distribution of board members with a balance between academia, industry and government representation.   The position is a two-year commitment with fantastic opportunities to network and give back to the profession. Generally the time commitment is three to five hours per month - about half of the time is during traditional business hours - with the term beginning June 2022. Interested candidates or nominators should complete the nomination form by January 28, 2022, for consideration by the OR Nominating Committee. Take a few minutes to consider submitting your name or that of a colleague to astraub@iise.org at IISE Headquarters.    Contact Katie McConky nominating committee chair, if you have questions about the positions and responsibilities. Please consider giving back to your profession through a Society leadership position.

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Donald Harold Liles, Ph.D., age 74, of Arlington, Texas, passed away on Jan. 7, 2022. Condolences to family, friends and the ISE community at large. He was a longtime faculty member in the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Arlington. The college website expressed that “Liles truly cared about students..." A memorial service will be held Friday, Jan. 21, 2-3 p.m. at Moore Funeral Home, 1219 North Davis Drive, Arlington. Following the memorial service will be a graveside service from 3-4 p.m. at Moore Memorial Gardens at the same address.

Stanley Elson Honig of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Paris, France, died on Dec. 3, 2021, aged 93. Condolences to family, friends and the ISE community at large. He was a Life Member of IISE for 64 years. “After a ten-year career as an Industrial Engineer in the New York area he moved to Lancaster in 1962 and joined the firm of Hershey and Gibbel in Lititz as a Partner. He retired as Treasurer of the Lititz Mutual Insurance Company in 1993. Subsequently he served as a Director of the Old Guard Insurance Group.”