  About the division
The Lean Division collaborates with IIE to support the mission of the institute, provide member value and promote the entire discipline. Members of this division are interested in advancing their knowledge of lean practices across industry domain. Focus areas include healthcare process improvements, non-traditional lean implementations, use of six sigma and value engineering methods as well as critical thought leadership on various strategic, operational and organizational initiatives. The division members host the annual lean best practice award, the lean teaching award and the lean student paper competition. The lean division is perceived as the voice of technical specialty by developing, maintaining and disseminating a body of technical knowledge in domain of lean and continuous improvement practices.
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Division Board 2014-2015
President: Sharon Johnson, Associate Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Past President: Tina Augustiady, Business Transformation Leader and Master Black Belt, Integrated Supply Network
President-elect: Laurence Clements - Managing Partner, Convergent Results, LLC
Board Members:
David Cochran, Associate Professor and Director, IPFW Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering
Brian Galli, Manager of Quality Measurement and Lean Practicioner, EmblemHealth
Sampson Gholston, Associate Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Dave Harry, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Trainer, and CEO & President, Process Whisperer™ Consultants LLC
Rajesh Joshi, Director, Product Marketing, Turf & Utility Vehicles, Kubota Tractor Corporation
Tom Shambeau, Industrial Engineering Manager, Deere & Co.
Hun-da Wan, Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio
Aaron Yanuzo, Director, Process Improvement, WVU Healthcare
View pictures of the Board
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Conference chairs Conference Track Chairs
ISERC: Hung-Da Wan, David Cochran 
Applied Solutions: Laurence Clements, Rajesh Joshi
Best Practice Award Chair: MD Sarder
Teaching Award Chair: Fazleena Badurdeen
Student Paper Competition Chair: Ahad Ali |
Lean Activities at the IIE Annual Conference - Nashville, Tennessee
Get involved and be part of the action. Please join us at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 31 in Room 109 and participate in the judging of the finalists as they present their entries in the Applied Solutions Best Practices awards competition.
View Lean activities at the IIE Annual Conference
 Nashville.
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| Correction! Incorrect answer to Ask the Expert question was published in March 2015 issue of Lean News
The incorrect link to the answer to the Ask the Expert question below was erroneously published in the March 2015 issue of the newsletter. Here's the question and the correct answer.
Question
How do I convince my leaders and associates to practice lean? Answer
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Build Your Lean and Six Sigma Skills with Pre-conference Workshops - IIE Engineering Lean & Six Sigma Conference 2015
The Engineering Lean & Six Sigma (ELSS) Conference 2015 features two great opportunities to learn new skills during full-day pre-conference workshops on September 30.
Join Brad Bossence, regional vice president of LeanCor Supply Chain Group, for a discussion of Total Supply Chain & Systems Thinking. During this course, you will review lean chain guiding principles, extended value stream mapping, resource allocation, inbound and outbound logistics and more.
Review Rapid Process Improvement with Object-Oriented Simulation with David T. Sturrock, co-founder and vice president of Simio LLC. Learn how to use simulation, rapid modeling and 3-D animation to solve real problems effectively.
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Submit an article
The Lean Division of the Institute of Industrial Engineers is continuously searching for new material to provide to its membership. If you would like to contribute and see your articles in the newsletter and on the website, please submit your article to Larry Clements, director of the IIE Lean Newsletter at
[email protected]
Articles should be approximately three to four pages in length. It should be single-spaced, 12 point, Times New Roman and in Word format. Graphs, diagrams, pictures and charts can also be included. Please also include a two or three sentence biography; however, they must be in a separate file and saved as a .jpg file. Contact information can be included at your discretion.
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Feedback
We welcome your input. Please send submissions and feedback to Larry Clements, Director of the Newsletter at [email protected]Please include "Lean e-Newsletter" in the subject line of your message.
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Going to Annual Conference in Nashville?
Join us!
Lean Division Town Hall
Monday, June 1
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Fisk 1 Room - RH
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