2019 IISE Global and Regional Undergraduate Student Technical Paper Competition Winners

Winners

1st place:
Central & South American Region
Annel Saavedra
Universidad San Francisco de Quito
"Industrial Engineering applied to Food Science: The use of Mixolab for Quality Evaluation of Wheat Flour
Partially Substitute by Soursop Residues Flour for Bread Production through a Process Mixture Design"

2nd place:
U.S. Southeast Region
Marie Ozenua
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Improving Mobility for Commuting of Warehouse Workers"

3rd place:
U.S. South Central Region
Madison Tischhauser
Kansas State University
"Assembly Line Improvement Project for Great Plains Manufacturing of Salina, KS"

Regional 1st Place Winners

Canadian Region:
Jessie Yeung
University of Waterloo
"IMRT with Sliding Window Technique: An Optimization Model and Demonstration"

Mexican Region
Claudia Puente Contreras
Universidad  Politecnica de San Luis Potosi
"Reducing Customer Complaints over Cold-drawn Tubes Defects"

U.S. Great Lakes Region:
Aseel Faddah
Wayne State University
"Determining the Optimal Production Schedule for Automobile Powertrains using Deterministic Approach"

U.S. Mid Atlantic Region:
Lauren Carpenito
Virginia Tech
"Development of Criteria for Stepdown Status"

U.S.  North Central Region:
Nirmal Prakash
University of Illinois at H=Urbana-Champaign
"Modeling Wi-FI Signal Interference for Municipal Wireless Network Planning"

U.S. Northeast Region:
Brittany Yesner
Rutgers University
"Statistical Analysis of 3D-printed Porous Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications"

U.S. Western Region:
Maha Shah
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
"Production Planning and Workflow Improvement of the Fiberglass Department at S. Bravo Systems"