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2015 Silver & Bronze professional chapters take the stage
Curtains up... presenting professional
chapters earning 2015 Silver and Bronze Chapter Recognition Awards!
The Chapter Activity Report (CAR) is the basis for the Professional Chapter Recognition Program recognizing chapter improvements and progress.
Silver
Memphis (TN)
Detroit (MI)
Central Connecticut
Greater Kansas City
Raritan Valley (NJ)
Milwaukee, WI
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Rochester (NY)
Raleigh
Long Island (NY)
Richmond (VA)
Reading (PA)
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Congratulations to the following professional chapters receiving the 2015 Award of Merit: Atlanta (GA), Dallas-Ft. Worth (TX), Syracuse (NY), Puget Sound, Toledo (OH), State of RI & Prov Plant, Northwest Arkansas, Eastern Iowa-Western Illinois, IIE Hong Kong Limited, Bay Area/Silicon Valley
Most Improved Chapter Award: Greater Kansas City
Phoenix Award: Houston (TX)
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National Capital Chapter : "Made in America" Tour
 In June, fourteen IISE National Capital chapter members and friends went to York, Pennsylvania, for a fantastic Made in America Tours Event. National Capital President, Sean Gahagan ,coordinated the tour; where the attendees started at the Harley Davidson factory, watching automated guided vehicles moving motorcycles along an assembly line with an under two minute takt time! Later that morning, the team toured Revonah Pretzels in Hanover, amazed at their speed in rolling handmade pretzels (and enjoyed samples!). After a networking lunch, the tour continued at Bluett Violins, full of beautiful handcrafted instruments, and included a short concert by the craftsman himself. The tours showed a breadth of U.S. manufacturing, and the networking was top notch.
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| Part of the IISE National Capital crew at the Harley Davidson Tour
No photos were allowed inside the factory |
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- Things are rockin' in Rochester! Read all about professional chapter No. 44, Rochester, in July 2016 issue of the Rochester newsletter!
- Chapter checks for Professional and University Chapters will be mailed in September.
- Order a banner for your chapter! It looks great at chapter meetings and chapter events. Just ask the Pittsburgh professional chapter and Wright State university chapter - they love their new IISE banners!
 Free Webinar: Lean Transformations-Learnings, Lessons and Tips to be presented by IISE Columbus Chapter and CISE on Sept. 27 at 12 p.m. Eastern Time. More information and registration- University Chapter Recognition Awards have been designated. Award winning university chapters will be announced in October issue of Chapter Leader News
- Need to access your chapter roster? Contact Pam Patterson
- Recognize outgoing chapter officers by downloading the Certificate of Appreciation.
- Promotional materials- click here
- Submissions Open! Student SHS Simulation Competition sponsored by FlexSim. Entries are now being accepted for the 3rd Annual SHS Student Simulation Competition.Gather a team of four
 students (maximum) to solve a "real- world" healthcare situational case study using FlexSim's simulation software. Your team could win a prize of up to $2,500. Click here for deadlines and more information. - Update your chapter logo to reflect the IISE name change or
create a logo for your chapter. For information on creating chapter logos, click here. - What's Columbus (OH), Professional Chapter No.1, up to? Find out
Twin Cities (MN), Professional Chapter No. 38, added 11 new members in July bringing chapter membership to 127. Way to recruit!
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INTERNATIONAL
2016 Mexican Regional Conference ...one of the best events in Mexico!
 Instituto Polit�cnico Nacional - UPIICSA, IISE University chapter No.735, hosted the 2016 Mexican Regional Conference held March 17-22. Attendees were fortunate to hear a different distinguished keynote speaker each day of the conference such as Anos Cantos; p ersonal and business coach , writer, radio and television communicator , entrepreneur and leader of women. Conference highlights featured representatives from NESTLE and CANACINTRA - MICROSOFT - CONAII. Attendees could also benefit from workshops, tours and much more! Congratulations to IISE university chapter, Instituto Polit�cnico Nacional - UPIICSA for an amazing conference! Read more about the conference (In Spanish)
 The conference offered a tour of the ancient city of Teotihuacan, located in the Basin of Central Mexico. Teotihuacan was the largest, most influential, and certainly most revered city in the history of the New World, and it flourished in Mesoamerica's Golden Age. Dominated by two gigantic pyramids and a huge sacred avenue, the city, its architecture, art, and religion would influence all subsequent Mesoamerican cultures, and it remains today the most visited ancient site in Mexico.
At left: Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan
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Some of the attendees who toured Teotihuacan
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| Need your input! And thanks!
Modeling and simulation (M&S) is a critical discipline that examines how to construct and analyze decision-making scenario models that can be applied in a wide variety of application areas. The creation of a Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Division within the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineering (IISE) has been proposed. IISE needs your feedback! Please take 2-3 minutes to complete this survey.
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| In case you missed this at 2016 Annual Conference
Technical Best Practices: Proven approaches for website, contact, and event management
If you did not attend the Volunteer Leadership Training (VOLT) session at the 2016 Annual Conference in Anaheim, you need to view this premium presentation given by IISE Young Professional President, Jared Dunlap.
 Jared covers the following software in his presentation: Squarespace, Asana, Basecamp, Mailchimp, Evite, Word Press, Poll Everywhere, Survey Monkey View Jared's presentation
Find out the answers to these questions:
- Are there easier ways to assign tasks and manage progress?
- How can we communicate more effectively?
- Are there easier ways to manage our website?
- Are there easier ways to handle payments?
- How do we efficiently survey our members?
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Networking Tip:
Pay attention to grooming and dress- you never know where or when you will
meet someone.
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New Feature!
What students want to know... Members of the Regional Operations Board answer questions
Question? Why did you choose your field?
Answer! by Jennifer Cross, Vice-President for Student Development
 I actually hadn't heard of industrial engineering until a recruiter at the University of Arkansas called me when I was looking at colleges. He told me about industrial engineering, and what appealed to me most was that he described it as a cross between business and engineering. At that time, I was torn between majoring in business or majoring engineering (civil, chemical, or ceramic). I liked the application setting of business (big picture, organizational) but the problem solving and analytical aspects of engineering. Thus, when I heard about IE it sounded like the perfect fit for me and it turned out to be.
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Memphis (TN) Professional Chapter
 On August 4, IISE Memphis (TN) Chapter hosted a tour of Memphis International Airport. This was a three hour tour which included breakfast and a bus tour of Fed Ex Operations and the Tennessee Air National Guard.Great event planning, Memphis! |
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Winners - 2016 YouTube Video Contest 
Sponsored by IAB Industry Advisory Board
 Purpose
To promote the industrial engineering profession to high school students, teachers and college counselors. Winners were announced at the 2016 annual conference. Winner received $1,000.
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Meet a member of your Regional Operations Board
Kevin Taaffe - Regional Vice President of Mid-Atlantic Region
 Kevin M. Taaffe, Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Taaffe has 25 years of industry and academic experience in operations research using simulation and other planning tools. In particular, Dr. Taaffe focuses on healthcare logistics problems that range from patient flow to operating room scheduling to emergency evacuation. Solution methodologies for these areas have involved simulation, dynamic programming, and risk-based optimization motivated by the newsvendor problem. Dr. Taaffe also enjoys working on industry- sponsored projects that bridge the gap between theoretical research and application. He is a member of IISE, INFORMS, and the OR Society, and he serves on several editorial boards as well as serving as a track chair for multiple conferences.
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Nominate now for IISE's Scholarships!
Recognize academic excellence and campus leadership!
 IISE's scholarships and fellowships are valued up to $4,000 and award graduate and undergraduate student members. Students must be nominated by a department head or faculty advisor and will be considered based on their scholastic ability, character, leadership and potential service to the profession.
Deadline for nominations is November 15
with the exception of the SHS scholarship, which is December 1.
For eligibility criteria and more information , click here.
Contact Bonnie Cameron at bcameron@iise.org with questions.
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Professional Chapter
Deadlines
Sept 30
HQ Action
Chapter dues checks issued
University Chapter Deadlines
Sept 30
Suggested
Review UCAR requirements
Sept 30
HQ Action
Chapter dues checks issued
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Member news
from
Central Connecticut
Professional Chapter
Jonna Gerken of IISE Professional chapter, Central Connecticut,
was recently selected as the FY17 President-Elect of the Society of Women Engineers, having recently completed four years as Director of Membership Initiatives. She is a Project Manager at Pratt & Whitney, leading the start-up of international OEM facilities. Jonna has been a member of IISE for over 20 years, serving as the President of her collegiate chapter at Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute.
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The largest recorded jellyfish ever found, washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870, had a bell with a diameter of 7 ft 6 in. and tentacles 121.4 ft long.
Longer than a blue whale
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Nominate a colleague, peer or student
for IISE
Honors & Awards
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Regional Vice Presidents
Sr VP International
Eileen Van Aken
Asia
Central/South America
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Take advantage of benefits offered to IIE members by IIE Service Partners!
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Spotlight on Website
This issue of
Chapter Leader News
spotlights
as an outstanding website!
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Reactivated
Portland (OR)
United States
Pending Reactivations
University of New Haven
United States
Nashville
United States
Univ.Popular Autonoma del Est. de Puebla
Mexico
Lancaster-Harrisburg
United States
Chartered
Instituto Polit�cnico Nacional (IPN) - Campus Guanajuato
Mexico
Carribean Chapter -
Instituto Tecnol�gico de Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Universidad Veracruzana
Mexico
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
India
Pending Charters
American University of Beirut
Lebanon
Applied Science University
Jordan
Lawrenceville Tech
United States
American University of Ras Al Khaimah
United Arab Emirates
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