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Icebreaker
Technical Paper Competition
Lunches & Dinners
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Workshops
Wine & Cheese Social
Company/Student Panel
Job Fair
Dinner & Awards Banquet

 

Icebreaker  (top)

Attendees from various schools get a chance to meet one another in a fun and interactive way. Conference participants will eat a light meal accompanied by opening comments from the University of Florida chapter.

 

Technical Paper Competition (top)

Competition participants will present their papers to a panel of distinguished judges in the field of Industrial Engineering. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top presentations and the overall winner will receive an invitation to present at the National IIE Conference later in the year.

Judges – We are looking for judges who are familiar with core industrial engineering practices, especially subjects such as work design and human factors, facilities design, material handling, operations research, simulations, and supply chain management.

 

Lunches and Dinners (top)

Throughout the conference we will host several lunches and dinners where conference participants can sit down for a social meal.  Based on a company’s level of sponsorship, a certain number of tables will be “sponsored” by that company.  We are planning on having a speaker at every hosted meal.

Speakers – One of the ways companies can help with this conference is to provide speakers for our lunches and dinners.  A typical speaker should have extensive experience working as a manager, consultant, engineer, or any possible career path of an industrial engineer.  A speaker does not have to hold a degree in industrial engineering, but should be able to offer advice concerning career choice, management techniques, mentoring, or general engineering practices.  Graduates from the University of Florida and members of IIE are desirable, but not required.

 

Photo Scavenger Hunt (top)

Conference attendants become acclimated with the University of Florida campus and learn about the university’s history.

 

 

Workshops (top)

Brief interactive discussions sponsored by companies providing representatives.  Corporate representatives will present on their choice of a wide variety of topics related to the field of industrial and systems engineering.

Workshop facilitators – We are searching for workshop facilitators from industry.  A facilitator should be able to lead a workshop that focuses on a key industrial engineering tool or subject matter.  Such topics may include lean manufacturing, six sigma, simulations, supply chain management, statistical software packages, design of experiments, and ethics.

 

Wine and Cheese Social (top)

This is an opportunity for students, faculty, and corporate representatives to network in a relaxed setting.

 

Company/Student Panel (top)

A panel comprised of the region’s student leaders will reverse roles with the companies.  Instead of having the students ask companies what they look for in an industrial engineer, the companies will ask the students what they look for when deciding “Where do I fit in the corporate puzzle?”

 

Job Fair (top)

The job fair will be a career fair only for industrial and systems engineers. This event will allow the students attending the conference to speak in an informal setting to the corporate sponsors and learn more about companies in which they are interested.

 

Dinner and Awards Banquet (top)

Highlighted by our keynote speaker, this professional-attire banquet is a way for the University of Florida chapter of IIE to wrap up the conference with a formal dinner and presentation of various awards given throughout the conference.

Keynote speaker – We are looking for a high profile speaker who can help bring a successful conference to a close.  The keynote speaker should satisfy the speaker criteria mentioned above.

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