2017 IISE Global and regional undergraduate student technical paper competition winners

Global, 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners:

1st Place:
Western Region:

Mohammed Alhathal and Bader Alhathal
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
"Distribution Warehouse Design, Process Improvement and Waste Reduction at Empire International"

2nd Place:
Northeast Region:

Zoe Sierra Commons
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
"Managing Traffic Flow: Union Pacific Railroad"

3rd Place:
Canadian Region:

Lawrence Dovich
Ryerson University
"Data Driven Improvement in Logistics Management"

Regional 1st place winners:

Central & South American Region:

Daniel Castillo Gomez
Universidad de los Andes
"On the Design of Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Recycling Systems: A Multi-objective Optimization Approach"

Great Lakes Region:

Nick Perkins
Purdue University
"An Automation Tool for Long-range Capacity Reports"

Mexican Region:

David Lopez Azuara
ITESM - Queretaro
"Transport Routing Costs Optimization in the State of Queretaro (Mexico): A Sustainable Application for Decision Making"

Mid-Atlantic Region:

Alexandra Davis
West Virginia University
"Energy Assessment - The City of Morgantown"

North Central Region:

Jigar Patel
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Using Linear Programming to Assess Single Warehouse Lumber Distribution Network"

South Central Region:

Lauren Yeagle
University of Oklahoma
"Usability Analysis of Online Weather Interfaces"

Southeast Region:

Jack Francis
Mississippi State University
"Supply Chain Cost Analysis for Additively Manufactured Biomedical Implants"