Student Activities
Choose from a wide variety of sessions that are relative to your specific areas of interest. Sessions will include opportunities for students to interact with peers and with practicing professionals. The annual conference also offers evening socials and a networking mixer organized by student host chapters. Business casual attire is required.
This student competition is for papers and projects demonstrating or describing the use of industrial engineering tools in a construction environment. The papers should demonstrate or describe the use of techniques such as lean methods, quality management, green technology, simulation, optimization, automation and alternative materials. Open to graduate and undergraduate students.
The DAIS division solicits applications for the DAIS Best Student Paper Competition at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo. In order to be qualified for the award, the students must submit a paper (invited or contributed) for the conference using the usual submission process, fill out an application and present their work at the conference. Candidate papers will come from those submitted to the DAIS Track and accepted through the regular submission process. Open to graduate and undergraduate students.
IISE-DAIS Mobile App competition is designed to provide students with opportunities of developing practical mobile apps and taking business initiatives for the mobile apps in the field of industrial and systems engineering. The objectives of the seventh IISE-DAIS Student Mobile App Competition are (1) to motivate students to use their creativity in developing mobile apps that are based on theories and practices of industrial and systems engineering or related fields; and (2) to develop a business plan to justify the need for their mobile app in the marketplace.
Energy Systems Student Focused Session
The Energy Systems Division invites all students interested
in energy related topics to a student focused session. Students will interact
with Energy Systems board members to learn about student opportunities in the
division such as the ambassador program. Students will also be encouraged to
share their ideas about how they can be better served by the division. They
will also have the opportunity to ask questions about the Energy Systems
Division and the energy field in general.
The competition recognizes outstanding papers in the field of lean research and practices written by a graduate or an undergraduate student. Papers should demonstrate or describe the use of techniques such as simulation, lean principle implementation, alternative designs, kaizen implementation, etc. The winner will have the opportunity to present the paper in track session. The award will be given in the lean track.
This award recognizes scholarly work as well as ability to communicate results effectively from an undergraduate student or student teams. This award will encourage more participation from undergraduates in research and in division-level activities. Furthermore, since the award includes a presentation to decide the winner, students are encouraged to improve both their written and technical presentation skills. Engagement will encourage student members to become regular members beyond graduation.
The purpose of this competition is to honor outstanding papers in the field of quality and/or reliability engineering research and practice. The winner must be able to present the paper in the QCRE track at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo. The award will be presented at the QCRE Town Hall meeting during ISERC and be acknowledged in the QCRE Newsletter and in the Honors & Awards program. Candidate papers will come from those submitted to the QCRE track and accepted through the regular submission process. This competition is open to both graduate and undergraduate students.
The Society for Engineering and Management Systems (SEMS) papers should demonstrate or describe the use of techniques that improve productivity and quality through effective and economical managerial techniques and philosophies. Both undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit papers. The winners must present their papers in the Engineering Management Track at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo.
Sponsored by Rockwell Automation
Teams of three IE undergraduate students solve a real-world situational case study using the Rockwell Automation simulation package, Arena. Student team members and their faculty advisor are not required to be members of IISE to enter, but they will become members if they are one of the three teams selected to compete at the finals courtesy of Rockwell. Three finalists must be able to attend the IISE Annual Conference & Expo and present their solutions.
IISE Innovative Design Competition
The IISE Innovative Design Competition was launched at the
conference in 2016 and was a great success.
This year, we hope to further expand participation in the event. Multi-university teams will be formed at the
conference to design a new product and to present their 5-minute concept pitches
in front of a live audience and a judging panel of industry professionals. It is
encouraged but not required that all team members attend the team presentation
(at least one team member must attend and present). However, to participate, each team member
must be available to attend the entire team working session on Monday. If you have any questions about the
competition, please contact Dawn Strickland (dawn.strickland@gatech.edu), vice president of student development at IISE.
Sponsored by John Deere
The competition recognizes excellence in technical writing at the undergraduate level. First place winners from previous regional conferences will move on to participate in this competition. The finalists must be able to attend the IISE Annual Conference & Expo to give oral presentations in front of their peers and professional IEs.
Interested in volunteering for the conference?
Contact Bill Gibbs to be connected with a volunteer leader.