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Join Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference in Zimbabwe (Virtual)

  • 1.  Join Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference in Zimbabwe (Virtual)

    Posted 10-22-2020 06:33

    Dear Colleagues:
    Join us at the VIRTUAL IEOM Zimbabwe Conference - outstanding keynote speakers, 15 global engineering education speakers, 15 industry solutions speakers, student competitions, panels and 300+ technical presentations. You can see the conference program here -  http://www.ieomsociety.org/program-harare2020.pdf

    International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
    Harare, Zimbabwe, December 7-10, 2020
    A Virtual Conference
    Host: University of Zimbabwe
    http://ieomsociety.org/harare2020/

     

    IEOM Society is organizing an International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management in Harare, Zimbabwe during December 6-8, 2020. Due to coronavirus situation, the conference will be virtual. If situation permits, there will be some onsite sessions at the University of Zimbabwe campus. The conference aims to provide a forum for academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and recent developments in the field of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. The conference is also expected to foster networking, collaboration and joint effort among the conference participants to advance the theory and practice as well as to identify major trends in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. 

    IEOM Society International is a nonprofit professional organization. IEOM Society's core purpose is to globally foster critical thinking and its effective utilization in the field of Industrial Engineering (IE) and Operations Management (OM) by providing means to communicate and network among diversified people, especially in emerging countries, motivated by similar interests. IEOM has successfully organized previous international conferences in Dhaka (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2011), Istanbul (2012), Bali (2014), Dubai (2015), Orlando (2015), Kuala Lumpur (2016), Detroit (2016), Rabat (2017), Bristol, UK (2017), Bogota (2017), Bandung (2018), Paris (2018), Washington DC (2018), Pretoria (2018), Bangkok (2019), Toronto (2019), Riyadh (2019), Dubai (2020) and Detroit (2020). 

    Authors can submit full paper(s) or abstract(s) only. Authors MUST use the conference template to prepare papers or abstracts. IEOM Society encourages to submit full paper(s). All full papers will be subjected to double peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings and indexed in SCOPUS, EBSCO and IEOM Forefront. Any submission implies that an author will deliver a virtual or oral presentation of the paper or abstract. Selected papers will be published in IJIEOM (International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management). 

    Keynote Speakers

    • Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo, Chief Executive Officer, Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (ZIMCHE), Harare, Zimbabwe
    • Esther T. Akinlabi, Director, Pan African University for Life and Earth Sciences Institute (PAULESI), Ibadan, Nigeria - African Union Commission
    • Henk Viljoen, Siemens – Xcelerator, Portfolio Development Manager Siemens Digital Industries Software, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
    • Douglas Mboweni, Ph.D., Group Chief Executive Officer, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited, Harare, Zimbabwe
    • Robert Van Til, Chair and Pawley Professor of Lean Studies, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Oakland University, Michigan, USA
    • Professor Mqhele Dlodlo, Vice-Chancellor, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Ascot, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – "Innovative Industrialisation – the Impact of Education 5.0 on University Operations in COVID-19 Times"
    • Corrado La Forgia, VP Operations Manager and Managing Director, BOSCH VHIT – CR, Offanengo, Lombardy, Italy
    • Marco Lübbecke, Professor of Operations Research, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
    • Quinton Kanhukamwe, Vice Chancellor, Harare Institute of Technology, Harare, Zimbabwe
    • Professor Maneesh Kumar, Professor in Service Operations, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
    • Nidhal Rezg, Ph.D., Professor and Director of LGIPM, Director General of UPS DITEX, University of Lorraine Metz, France
    • Ephraim Tobela Gwebu, Vice Chancellor, Solusi University, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
    • Professor David Simbi, Vice-Chancellor, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
    • Professor Thong Ngee GOH, Emeritus Prof., Dept. of ISE and Former Head of Industrial and Systems Engineering & Dean of Engineering, National University of Singapore

    SPECIAL TRACKS

    • Global Engineering Education (GEE)
    • Global Business Management Education
    • Industry 4.0
    • Industry Solutions
    • Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA)
    • Panel Sessions on GEE and WIIA

    CONFERENCE CHAIR

    Professor Charles Mbohwa
    Pro-Vice Chancellor Strategic Partnerships and Industrialisation
    University of Zimbabwe
    Mt Pleasant, Harare, Zimbabwe 

    CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

    • Perkins Muredzi, Dean, School of Industrial Sciences & Technology, Harare Institute of Technology, Zimbabwe
    • Londiwe Cynthia Nkiwane, Associate Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Fibre and Polymer Materials Engineering, National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
    • Wilbert Mtangi, Director: Institute of Materials Science, Processing and Engineering Technology, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe

    ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    • Tawanda Mushiri, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zimbabwe
    • Loice K Gudukeya, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zimbabwe
    • Ignatio Madanhire, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zimbabwe
    • Wilson R. Nyemba, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Zimbabwe
    • Michael Mutingi, Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, Department, Mechanical and Marine Engineering, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia

    International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Harare, Zimbabwe, December 7-10, 2020 - http://ieomsociety.org/harare2020/