Buck IIE

In This Issue01 From the President

02 Involvement Fair

02 Plant Tour

03 Fundraisers

04 Speakers

06 Conference

07 Pictures

Dear Fellow ISE‘s,We are beginning to wrap up yet another successful quarter. !e IIE o"cers

started o# with a bang soon a$er the transition meeting back in March. In full force they began taking leadership in their roles as IIE o"cers. With strong leadership in IIE, we have collectively become the premier chapter reaching Gold Status for yet another year. Reaching gold status means more to IIE than a title, it means we are successfully providing a student group for fellow ISE’s that develops professional, academic, and social networks.

IIE truly does take your places. Whether it happens now or later, IIE creates a network that will last throughout your life inside and outside of your career.

Recently, 28 o"cers traveled to Orlando, Florida for the IIE Annual Conference. While we were there we networked with well over 9 di#erent schools as well as our own alumni and professionals. Each year we are able to come back and reconnect and build on those

relationships that will help grow our career opportunities.!ere are always opportunities to get involved in IIE. Whether

you are a graduating senior or a pre-ISE, there is always time to build your network. IIE is more than a student group written on your resume; IIE is a part of a foundation that provides opportunity in your future.

I look forward to our %rst semester at !e Ohio State. !e IIE o"cers have a busy summer in preparation for an eventful fall. Also, our Leadership Summit on February 2 that will give aspiring student leaders an opportunity to engage in a best-in-class leadership immersion. Everyone is invited to take part in this event. With this I want to congratulate our seniors and welcome our new ISEs. Come join us for our last happy hour of the year June 1st at Lucky’s!

From the President

“IIE is a part of a foundation that provides opportunity in your future.”

Andrea AllisonPresident IIE

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The Newsletter for the Institute of Industrial Engineers at The Ohio State University

OSU Chapter Mission Statement

To be the premier Industrial Engineering student organization committed to developing professional, academic, and social networks that openly educates and promotes the Industrial

Engineering profession to all students.

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On March 29th, IIE hosted a table at this year’s Spring Involvement Fair. Graced with a beautiful !ursday a$ernoon, IIE talked with many interested students who were either in Industrial Engineering or had an interest in switching to the major. One of the highlights of this quarter’s Involvement Fair was our newly updated poster board, which had recent pictures of IIE events, including many taken at this year’s Great Lakes Regional Conference. We passed out a variety of IIE paraphernalia, which included buttons, Regional Conference wristbands, $2-o# vouchers to our %rst Happy Hour of the quarter, and assorted candies. In total, IIE talked to over 30 students who were interested

in learning more about our organization! In addition to hosting a table, IIE also volunteered to help set-up and teardown the Fair for student group funding. Many IIE members were critical in their roles in organizing the event, but the biggest thank you may have to go out to Robyn Verho# ’s dog, Zoey, who attracted more than half of our new prospective members. Look forward to IIE also hosting a table at the huge Involvement Fair at the beginning of next year!

- Michael Schuler

Spring Involvement Fair

On Friday, May 4, thirteen students from IIE and HFES had the opportunity to conduct a plant tour of the Mid-Ohio Foodbank located in Grove City, Ohio. !e food bank works with various organizations to obtain food items and distribute them to more than 550 locations across central Ohio. It also works regularly with companies such as Kra$, Kroger and Kellogg’s. Larger companies such as these supply more than half of the food and personal care donations.

What makes the foodbank operation so unique compared to other warehouses and plants is that it is a non-pro%t. !is means that many of the struggles the foodbank has to deal with are very di#erent from those of a typical warehouse or plant. !e Vice President of Operations sat down with everyone and described the

various problems he encountered when the building was originally being constructed. He also talked about other various aspects of the business such as funding and volunteer e#orts. A$er this hour long presentation and question and answer session, the group was given a tour of the facility where daily business practices were observed and discussed in more detail.

All in all, the tour was a unique and di#erent opportunity in witnessing how IIE can take you places. A special thanks to Dr. Lavender for helping make this trip possible and HFES for their assistance in helping set up this tour.

- Andrew Yanai

Mid-West Ohio Foodbank Tour

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We’ve had several very successful fundraisers this quarter. We’ve held 4 fundraising events and 3 Happy Hours this spring. With one more of each in the works for the end of the quarter, we have the opportunity to %nish very strong this quarter from a fundraising standpoint. While we have a lot of fun at all of the fundraisers, there are two in particular that I want to highlight.

IIE Fundraisers

BD’s Mongolian Grill – Dr. Sen Guest Grilling:

!e title pretty much says it all, but Dr. Sen was the guest griller at our annual BD’s annual guest griller event. Dr. Sen did an excellent job working the grill, and %ring up some delicious BD’s creations. Soon a$er starting, Dr. Sen was &ipping swords and everyone had a great time. Again, we thank Dr. Sen for volunteering to do this for us!

- Chris Treiss

IIE Presents – A Night with the Bands:

!is was a brand new fundraising event held at Skully’s. Despite being on a Wednesday night, we managed to get more than 60 people to come out and support IIE and the bands. !e opening act was !e Medley, which consists of IIE’s own Robyn Verho#, Sam Besozzi, and Aaron Steinberg. !e next band was !e Ritual Tones which consists of Alex Martinez, Cli# Fox, Jordan Hawkins and Tom Bina. Both bands rocked the house. A special thanks to both bands and everyone who came out!

Dr. Sen:Best of luck in your new position and

thank you for everything you have taught us!

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!e Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) o$en quotes “IIE takes you

places.” I truly believe in this statement; graduating with an Industrial and Systems Engineering degree really does give me a huge platform to jump start my career. As a pre-Mechanical Engineering student, I attended an info session for P&G where I met Bobby Smyth, the previous IIE president. He looked over my resume and asked what I wanted to do with my career. I replied that I want to be working with people - with engineers and with others - and have the opportunity to advance and

manage a group of engineers. I continued that I may even want to

sell engineering devices or services. I knew I liked the

business aspect yet the design and engineering aspect as

well. Bobby said that I had just described what an ISE can do. Ever since that encounter and the switch from pre-ME to pre-ISE, I knew this major was the place for me.

One of my greatest accomplishments in my professional life occurred last summer when I was promoted to Branch Manager of the Findlay, Ohio o"ce with Vector Marketing. I was my own boss selling Cutco

Cutlery. I ran

interviews daily, hired sales representatives, ran training weekly to teach the new employees how to sell knives, and held team meetings to motivate and continue teaching the sales representatives I had developed. Presently, I sell Cutco to new and previous customers. !rough this experience I realized how much I love working with people and leading through example. I feel this job, along with the entrepreneurship minor that I am currently pursuing, has led to a great start professionally and correlates well with ISE. In addition, I was recently selected to represent Ohio State studying overseas in the Czech Republic this summer. Understanding other cultures will aid me in the job market as I am interacting with people of di#erent cultures and backgrounds. So why do I want to be an Industrial and Systems Engineer? !e truth is that I am positive this is where I belong. To me, being an IE means utilizing academic, social, and professional skills to increase overall e"ciency within any company. I see myself designing e#ective ways to save my company money, acting as a liaison between other engineers and business and %nancial professionals, and presenting our ideas to a client or others. !ere are so many di#erent professions I can pursue as an IE, most of which I am sure I will love and which will allow me to achieve success. Attending the regional conference here at Ohio State, has provided me with the con%dence that “I AM IE” (Michael Giuliano). !e opportunities are tremendous; ISE is exactly where I belong and it will take me to “!e places that I will GrOw” (Rob Savage).

- Robyn Verho#

Student Spotlight

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!is quarter our department had the honor of hosting Matt Dadosky, the Director of Supply Chain Planning for Caterpillar, to speak to our students about how CAT is utilizing Industrial Engineering and the ideas of continuous improvement. Matt, a 24 year veteran at CAT, spoke about the history of Caterpillar and the challenges they have faced since their beginnings as one of the %rst companies on the NYSE. Matt then went over CAT’s new Caterpillar production system (CPS) and the ways in which it has bene%tted the company since its origin in 2005. CAT wanted a system that could standardize the way they do business across their entire supply chain. By taking “Best in Class” ideas from companies like Toyota, CAT built this new system to focus on four main areas: People, Quality, Velocity and Cost. CPS itself has three main areas of focus: Operations, Culture, and Management, as well as 15 core disciplines that are speci%cally designed to minimize the 8 forms of waste. Caterpillar has seen so much success with CPS at its own production facilities that it is

now starting to roll it out to its suppliers and dealers and maximize productivity over their entire supply chain.!e very next morning, Matt gave another talk to the members of Dr. Scott Sink’s Lean Six Sigma capstone about how LSS and the DMAIC process are used at CAT and more speci%cally about the implementation of CPS on the supplier end. From a student’s perspective it was extremely interesting to see the application of everything that we have been taught and to see and hear the real problems associated with an LSS project.

So if you’re interested in a Fortune 100 company that utilizes all the talents of an Industrial Engineer, check out…

JoinTeamCaterpillar.comFacebook.com/catcareersTwitter.com/catcareers

- Mike Deegan

IntramuralsIntramurals are a great way for students

in IIE to get to know their classmates in a less formal, more exciting atmosphere. !is spring, the IIE team played sand volleyball. !e team consisted of about 15 people and was a good mix of upper and lowerclassmen. Despite the team’s unfortunate record, the nice spring weather was enjoyed by all!

-Renee Ulstad

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!e 2012 Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference took

place in Orlando, Florida May 19 – May 23, 2012. Keynote speakers, research sessions, applied solution sessions, workshops, exhibitor demonstrations, and networking events are a few of the sessions that the conference included. Student Track Sessions are a popular resource for student attendees to learn about di#erent industries, networking skills, %nancial sessions, and more.

!is year there were over 600 students present at the conference either presenting their research and

papers, or involved with a student chapter of IIE. Our Ohio State

chapter took 28 students to the conference – a record-setting

attendance number. Our students also supported

Ohio State faculty and other students that presented at conference.

Andrea Allison and Andrew Wharton, President and Executive Vice-President of OSU IIE, presented the Best Practices of our student chapter. Ben Freidenberg, the new Construction Division Liaison presented his update, Greg Van Amerongen presented his NSF research that he completed

last summer in

Puerto Rico, Kate Fisher had two di#erent presentations during the conference about sustainability, and graduate students: Minjiao Zhang and Saumya Goel presented their research titled: “A Branch-and-Cut Method for Dynamic Decision-Making under Joint Chance Constraints.” Ohio State Faculty presenters at the Conference from our department included: Dr. Steven Lavender, Dr. Carolyn Sommerich, Dr. Phil Smith, Harry Pierson, Dr. !eodore Allen, Dr. Shahrukh Irani, and former Department Head, Dr. George Smith. Also in attendance were Dr. Suvrajeet Sen, Dr. Scott Sink, and Dr. Jerald Brevick, as well as our former Department Head, Dr. Higle.

!e conference started with a networking mixer on Saturday, May 19 where the President and President-Elect of IIE National were in attendance. !e Ohio State chapter also met students from other IIE student chapters from across the country including: Oregon State University, California Polytechnic State University, Rutgers University, and many others. Keynote speeches were given each morning of the conference that addressed relevant issues faced by today’s industrial and systems engineers, as well as highlighting emerging areas of the profession, such as sustainability.

Overall, the conference was a great way to end the year. !e conference attendees created bonds between themselves and other IE students from around the world, while being exposed to world-class IEs. We are hoping to send a large group next year to the 2013 Institute of Industrial Engineers Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 18 – May 22, 2013.

-Briana Schultz,

IIE National Conference 2012

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