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Student Case Competition - Logistics and Supply Chain Challenge

  • 1.  Student Case Competition - Logistics and Supply Chain Challenge

    Posted 01-05-2018 22:05
    Dear colleagues,
    The Logistics and Supply Chain (LSC) Division of IISE invites nominations for the Student Case Competition. Any team with three to four student members can attend the competition to showcase their problem solving capability and analytical skills on a related LSC case.
    The case study and data for both undergraduate and graduate teams will be posted on the link around mid-January.
    If possible, please encourage your students to participate. You may want to use this case competition to enrich your class activities.
    Respectfully,
    Krystel

    Student Case Competition in Logistics and Supply Chain

    The Logistics and Supply Chain Division of IISE invites nominations for the Student Case Competition. Any team with three to four student members can attend the competition to showcase their problem solving capability and analytical skills on a related LSC case. The winning teams, first, second and third places, of the competition will be recognized at the LSC Town Hall Meeting to be held at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo in Pittsburgh, May 20-23.

    Eligibility Criteria

    The Logistics and Supply Chain Challenge is open to undergraduate and graduate students to compete and showcase their problem-solving capability and analytical skills on a related logistics and supply chain case. The eligibility criteria are listed as follows:

    • Teams must consist of four or five members of IISE for undergraduate students and two or three members of IISE for graduate students.
    • All team members must belong to the LSC division.
    • Team members should be from the same institute (but can be enrolled in different disciplines).
    • There is no limit on the number of teams competing from the same institute.
    • The teams must demonstrate innovative use of logistics and supply chain concepts in the analysis of the case.

    The teams can be nominated by a faculty advisor or self-nominated. The following documents will be required from each attending team:

    • One-page contact information including the names, email addresses, university name and department information for all of the members of the team highlighting the contact person for the team.

    Each student team would turn in a 4-page "memo" describing their analysis, procedure and results.

    Deadlines

    The application is due by midnight on March 16, 2018 (CST) and all of the application documents must be emailed, as a single PDF, to Krystel Castillo at Krystel.Castillo@utsa.edu by the contact person of the team before the due date for full consideration. There is no application fee.

    The winner will notified by March 30, 2018.

    Flyer Template

    2017 Winners

    Logan Baillie
    Dalhousie University

    Fangzhou Sun
    Virginia Tech

    2014 Winner

    Ying Zhang, Leandra Church and Jinglu Song
    University of Tennessee



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    Krystel Castillo
    GreenStar Endowed Associate Professor in Energy
    Director of the Texas Sustainable Research Institute
    University of Texas-San Antonio
    San Antonio TX
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