Fourth North American IEOM Toronto Conference
October 23-25, 2019, Toronto, Canada
Venue: Holiday Inn Toronto International Airport
www.ieomsociety.org/toronto2019/
Submission Deadline – May 30, 2019
Dear Colleagues:
You are invited to join the Fourth North American International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM Toronto) during October 23 – 25, 2019 organized by the IEOM Society International. The conference provides a forum for academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and recent developments in the field of industrial engineering, systems engineering, service engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality and reliability reengineering, operations research, engineering management, operations management and operations excellence. The event will advance theory and practice by fostering networking, collaboration and joint effort among the conference participants. The theme of the conference is "Industrial Engineering and Operations Management for Industry 4.0". Proceeding papers (double peer review) will be indexed in SCOPUS.
IEOM Society has become a premier international platform and forum for academics, researchers, scientists and practitioners to exchange ideas and provide insights into the latest developments and advancements in the fields of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. IEOM has successfully organized international conferences in Dhaka (2010), Kuala Lumpur (2011), Istanbul (2012), Bali (2014), Dubai (2015), Orlando (2015), KL (2016), Detroit (2016), Rabat (2017), Bristol, UK (2017), Bogota (2017), Bandung (2018), Paris (2018), Washington DC (2018), and Pretoria (2018) and Bangkok (2019). IEOM Toronto event will be our 4th North American Conference.
Keynote Speakers
- Dr. Jatin Nathwani, Professor and Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE), Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Environment, Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Shalabh Bakshi, Director, Digital Enterprise and MindSphere, Digital Factory Division, Siemens Canada Limited, Oakville, Ontario, Canada - Digital Enterprise "Industry 4.0" and Mindsphere "Open Cloud based IoT Operating system"
- Dr. Gursel Suer, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
- Dr. Andrew K.S. Jardine, Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical and industrial Engineering, Founding Director of the Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering (C-MORE), University of Toronto, Canada
- Dr. Samir Elhedhli, Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc., Canada, Head of Delegation for the Canadian Committee to ISO/TC279 on Innovation Management and chair of the ASQ Innovation Think Tank.
The conference will cover the following topics but not limited to:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Automation and Control
- Business Management
- Case Studies
- Construction Management
- Data Analytics
- Decision Sciences
- Defense
- Contracting
- Design and Analysis
- E-Business/E-Service
- E-Manufacturing
- Energy
- Engineering Education
- Engineering Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Services
- Financial Service Management
- Healthcare Operations and Services
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Industrial Services
- Industry Practices and Solutions
- Information Technology
- Innovation
- Inventory Management
- IoT
- Lean
- Logistics
- Maintenance Services
- Manufacturing
- Modeling and Simulation
- Operations Management
- Operations Research
- Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
- Production Engineering
- Production Planning and Management
- Project Management
- Quality
- Reliability
- Service Systems and Management
- Six Sigma
- Supply Chain
- Sustainability
- Systems Dynamics
- Systems Engineering
- Technology Management
- Transportation and Traffic
Special Tracks:
- Industry 4.0
- Global Engineering Education
- Industry Solutions
- Women in Industry and Academia
Competitions: Award certificates will be provided for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place winners.
- Undergraduate Student Paper Competition
- Graduate Student Paper Competition
- Doctoral Dissertation Competition
- Master Thesis Competition
- Undergraduate Research Competition
- High School and Middle School STEM Competition
- Sr. Capstone Design Project Poster Competition
- Simulation Competition
- Lean Six Sigma Competition
- Supply Chain and Logistics Competition
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2019
- Registration deadline: July 30, 2019
- Conference: October 23-25, 2019
Honorary Chair: Dr. Abdur Rahim, University of New Brunswick at Fredericton, Canada
Conference Chairs:
- Dr. Ali ElKamel, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Dr. Srinivas Ganapathyraju, Sheridan College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
- Dr. Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Industry Chair: Steven Sibrel, Harman International and Past Chair, ASQ Greater Detroit
Conference Website: www.ieomsociety.org/toronto2019/
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Mohammad Khadem, Ph.D.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department
Sultan Qaboos University
Muscat, Oman
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