ISME Student Awards

Student Awards

• Congratulations to former graduate students: Sandra Hoefer, Shoroq Akeel and Joshua Chippeaux for winning the second place in the Charles K. “Chuck” Nelson Student Paper Competition 2019 with their IME 553 graduate paper: "Trade Journal Literature Review of the Effect of Nature on Production Planning and Inventory Control".

• Alok Dand, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial, Systems and Manufacturing Engineering, was awarded the best student paper award in the Engineering Economy Division at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2019 for the paper titled “Analysis of Airline and Passenger Delay Costs Using FAA Data.”  The research work was completed in collaboration with faculty advisors Mehmet Bayram Yildirim (ISME Department) and Khawaja Saeed (Barton School of Business). The paper uses U.S. domestic airline data from 2013-2017 to investigate factors that contribute to delays and examines their economic impact.

• The IME 452 Work Systems class incorporated a service learning project in Spring 2019, and three groups won awards at the Service Learning Spring 2019 Showcase.  We are so proud of our Industrial Engineering students!
  
  
  
  
• An IME Senior Design project “Cessna Metal Bond Flow Improvement' presented by Coty Sandfort was awarded second place at the IIE Regional Student Paper Competition in Stillwater, OK on February 25-26, 2011. The project was accomplished by Anish Gupta, Coty Sandfort, and Sarah Stallard in the fall of 2010. This competition includes IE students from Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Winners at the regional level then compete at the international level. In the last 10 years, students from WSU have placed 13 times and won seven times. Of the 7 trips to the international competition, WSU has placed 5 times and placed first internationally three times. No other IE program has a comparable record.

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