Student case competition in Logistics and supply chain (lsc)
The Logistics and Supply Chain Division of IISE invites nominations for the Student Case Competition. Any team with three to four student members can attend the competition to showcase their problem solving capability and analytical skills on a related LSC case. The winning teams, first, second and third places, of the competition will be recognized at the LSC Town Hall Meeting to be held at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida, May 19-22.
Eligibility Criteria
The Logistics and Supply Chain Challenge is open to undergraduate and
graduate students to compete and showcase their problem-solving capability and
analytical skills on a related logistics and supply chain case. The eligibility
criteria are listed as follows:
- Teams must consist of four or five members of
IISE for undergraduate students and two or three members of IISE for graduate
students.
- All team members must belong to the LSC division.
- Team members should be from the same institute
(but can be enrolled in different disciplines).
- There is no limit on the number of teams
competing from the same institute.
- The teams must demonstrate innovative use of
logistics and supply chain concepts in the analysis of the case.
The teams can be
nominated by a faculty advisor or self-nominated. The following documents will
be required from each attending team:
- One-page contact
information including the names, email addresses, university name and
department information for all of the members of the team highlighting the
contact person for the team.
Each student team would turn in a 4-page “memo”
describing their analysis, procedure and results.
LSC Case Description and Data (graduate students)
LSC Case Description and Data (undergraduate students)
FAQ
Deadlines
The application is due by midnight on March 16 (CST) and all of the application documents must be emailed, as a single PDF, to Krystel Castillo at Krystel.Castillo@utsa.edu by the contact person of the team before the due date for full consideration. There is no application fee.
The winner will notified by March 30.
Flyer Template
2017 Winners
Logan Baillie
Dalhousie University
Fangzhou Sun
Virginia Tech
2014 Winner
Ying Zhang, Leandra Church and Jinglu Song
University of Tennessee