fights hard, works with

strengths toward a common

goal, and remembers to stop

and celebrate achievements. Our most recent happy hour

with 107 attendees is a re-

cord-breaking testament to the friendships that are built and

the strength of this team. Anyone who asks me the

―key‖ to our success, I reply with one word: ―balance‖.

Our members have the moti-vation to change the world and

the confidence to enjoy the day. Please join us, this is such

a phenomenal time to be an Industrial Engineer from OSU,

we are in demand. They be-

lieve that IIE members can truly make 1+1= 4.

Thanks,

Bobby

Message from the President

Buck IIE Winter quarter 2011

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

By Bob Smyth (bsmyth7@gmail.com)

*Please contact us at:

ohiostate.iie @gmail.com

*Also, please check out

our new website at:

www.ohiostateiie.org

Dear Fellow ISE’s,

What a tremendous quarter it

has been!

I am lucky enough to write to you as the newly elected

President for our group, and

intend on illustrating why IIE is the premier engineering

group at OSU. Despite winter quarter acting as a transition

time, we still broke records and succeeded in every way. I

have adopted the following definition for success as origi-

nally written by our beloved Coach, Jim Tressel: ―the inner

satisfaction and peace of mind that comes from knowing I did

the best I was capable of doing

for the group.‖ I‘m continually humbled by how often our

members step up, for the good of the group. They are

proud to be buckeyes and proud of this organization,

making the rest of the pieces fall into place.

Officer transitions gave way to some incredible changes and

set us up for further success. We now have rotation repre-

sentatives which will be vocal

leaders in our classrooms and friendly faces to reach out to.

Our new officer structure af-fords increased responsibility

and more opportunities to get involved, especially at a

younger age (We have a Pre-ISE Vice President!) Our

membership is ever-growing and grew over 100 for the

first time in years! Attendance at events and

trips continues to rise, enabling

IIE to be the organization of

choice for employers to come

visit. We are now in a position to be selective, they come to

us. We were able to send 34

people to the Great Lakes Re-gional Conference at Ohio

University in February – 34 people! These students wit-

nessed the power of network-ing first hand and can now at-

test to the fact that IIE Takes You Places. Moving forward,

IIE will be sending a large group of students to Reno, Nevada

for the IIE Global Conference in May – what an incredible

opportunity.

Stay tuned for the explo-sion of events coming this

spring. We are going to in-crease the number and quality

of all programs, and even offer some never-before-seen

events. The officers are hon-estly listening to your wants

and needs, without members we do not exist! Everything

from Plant Tours to Happy Hours, we have got it covered!

IIE possesses all of the traits

of a successful team: the group

OSU Chapter

Mission Statement To be the premier Industrial Engineering stu-

dent organization committed to developing profes-

sional, academic, and social networks that openly

educates and promotes the Industrial Engineering

profession to all students.

Message from

the President 1

Chapter Mis-

sion State-

ment

1

Regional Con-

ference Up-

date

2

Intramural

Sports Up-

date

2

Speakers 3

IIE Spotlight 3

Plant Tour 4

Upcoming

Events 5

Welcome

New Officers 5

P A G E 2

B U C K I I E

Winter Quarter Activities!! IIE Regional Conference at OU From February 25-27, the

OSU IIE chapter sent 34

students to Ohio Univer-

sity for the annual Great

Lakes Regional Confer-

ence. Students arrived Fri-

day afternoon, where they registered and had a

chance to mingle with stu-

dents from the other

schools in the region

(including Wayne State,

Purdue, UM, WMU and

others). The conference

began Saturday morning

with a hot breakfast and an

opening address from the

Dean of the OU Russ Col-

lege of Engineering. Fol-

lowing the Dean, many

other interesting speakers

discussed current issues in

their respective ISE related

fields such as consulting,

health care, and of course

leadership. Ohio State‘s

very own Dr. Higle spoke at the conference, deliver-

ing a message from IIE Na-

tional. Her talk highlighted

many ways to be actively

involved with IIE beyond

college as well as re-

sources that IIE provides

for current students. The

evening started off with a

formal dinner and the in-

troduction of guest

speaker Randy Sadowski.

He addressed the confer-

ence and gave an inspira-

tional and highly unconven-

tional speech that champi-

oned following your

dreams and not being

afraid to change your real-

ity. Overall, many agree

that the conference was a

large success. If you are

interested in sharing in this

wonderful experience you

will not have to wait long

or travel far. OSU will be

hosting the upcoming

Great Lakes Conference in

2012, and it promises to

be one of the best confer-

ences so far!

—Kelsey Larsen

Intramural Sports Update

Look for emails in the beginning of

Spring quarter to get involved in IIE

Intramurals.

Intramural Basketball

Team IIE went undefeated in regular season play under the

elite coaching of Jordan Aronhalt and managing of Marga-

ret Lautar. Each week the team took over the court and

dominated. Playoffs did not go as well for Team IIE. Their

undefeated season put them in the top bracket. They had

a first round bye and lost in the second round of play.

Look for emails in the beginning of Spring quarter to get

involved in IIE Intramurals. —Margaret Lautar

P A G E 3

B U C K I I E

Speakers

Do you have any interest in working for the biggest food

and nutrition company in the world? Are you interested

in moving around the country learning about all aspects

of a phenomenal corporation? Then working for Nestlé

may be for you! This company looks for interns who are

finishing up their junior year. As an intern you will be

taking on 1-2 major engineering projects as well as a

community service project. If you enjoy your internship

experience with Nestlé, you can go on to take a full time

position with them! The full time position begins with a

five-year rotation. After the successful completion of

your rotation, you can hope to be placed directly into a

management position throughout the company. Nestlé‘s

headquarters is located in Glendale, CA and as an em-

ployee, you will complete orientation and graduation of

your rotation here. Nestlé makes a conscious effort to

provide relocation benefits for each move including, but

not limited to, packing your items, shipping them, helping

your spouse with relocation of a job, etc. There is no

doubt, that if you want a thriving career with a burgeon-

ing company, then Nestlé is your go to employer.

—Kelsey Larsen

If you have an interest in working with the largest com-

pany in the world, and seek to expand your knowledge

of Logistics Engineering, then Walmart is the company

you‘ve been seeking. As a Logistics Engineer you will be

placed in a fast-paced, leadership-oriented environment

that is at the heart of ―saving people money so they can

live better‖. While focusing on sustainability and automa-

tion, Walmart, on average, saves $3,100 per household

per year regardless of whether you shop with them or

not. You can expect to be hired directly into a role that

will test and challenge your skills as both an engineer and

a leader. With many opportunities to excel, rapid career

growth within the company is not uncommon. Boasting

annual revenues of $419 billion, and the title of the larg-

est company in the world, Walmart holds a promising

future for both its new hires, and eventual leaders.

—Kelsey Larsen

IIE Spotlight When I say Disney, what do you think of? You

could think of the Disney channel on your TV, you could

think of the parks they have around the world (or just

Walt Disney World/Land in USA), you could think of the

numerous great TV shows, movies, and entertainment

they provide, or you could even think of ESPN and ABC

being owned by Disney. So what does all of this have to

do with IIE? Let me tell you; I had an industrial engineering

internship at Walt Disney World for this past fall, and it

was unbelievably awesome. What else would you expect?!

It was my first internship experience and it was a

great one. I have learned so much about culture, the real

world, and industrial engineering as a whole. Disney

World has a great industrial engineering department that

is respected throughout the parks and company, as well as,

throughout the business world. Usually, every year and a

half there is an article in the New York Times on Disney‘s

industrial engineering department and their innovative

queue line/entertainment ideas. During my internship, I

worked on solutions to issues affecting waiting times and

how to reduce them to increase the guest experience.

On a day-to-day basis, I collected data from a vari-

ety of methods; some required me to go into the parks

and collect it, others did not. I analyzed the data to see

where the ―bottleneck‖ was or where we think there is

room for improvement, from there, we brainstormed a

variety of solutions. After that, we presented them to the

customer (the operational cast-members) to see if they

liked the idea or which solution they thought would be the

easiest to implement. Overall, I learned how to collect,

analyze and present data in a way that made it easy for the

operational team to implement the solutions and increase

the guest experience. I

worked on about eight

projects total, some re-

quire no more than a

week of my attention, and

some lasted the whole

term. It was an awesome

experience and a great

learning opportunity; defi-

nitely worth the quarter I

took off and I made a lot

of good connections plus

lasting friendships!

—Corey Green

Don’t miss Epic and Whirlpool info

Sessions! Checkout the calendar for

more details!

P A G E 4

Plant Tours On Friday March 4th, IIE

took a tour of the OSU

Medical Center. Jim, our

host, started the tour with

an overview of what Indus-

trial Engineers do in health-

care. His career path began

in manufacturing. He

wanted to help people with

his job, so he moved into

healthcare. He was been in

this field for twenty-four

years, and his focus is on

labor productivity and

benchmarking. Ron, alum

of our ISE department, be-

gan in the steel industry,

and then went back to get

a PhD in ISE. He has been

working on scheduling pa-

tients to balance the labor

of nurses. Valerie, another

OSU ISE grad, uses lean, six

sigma and other classic ISE

tools. She enjoys her job

because, in her own words,

she is ―improving people‘s

lives.‖

After the overview, we

toured the Ross Heart

Hospital. This hospital is

unique because it is special-

ized—over

200 other

hospitals

from 17 countries have

come to benchmark with

this hospital. The tour em-

phasized how the building

was designed for efficient

logistics, flexibility, growth

and education. The Ross is

in the 99th percentile for

customer satisfaction. Rich-

ard, the Associate Execu-

tive Director of Ross,

guided the tour and said

that the hospital is ―high

tech combined with high

touch.‖

The hospital tour then

transitioned to the clinical

labs, located on the third

floor of the Ross. Kevin,

Director of Clinical Labs,

explained the processes in

detail. The lab does all the

blood work for the hospi-

tal. They have an automatic

centrifuge that caps, un-

caps, sorts and divides the

blood work for the techni-

cians. They also have an

automated refrigeration

stock area that holds their

blood inventory. The ma-

chines have andon lights,

and there are stat boards

visible in all areas of the

lab. The spare parts are 5S-

ed, and machine mainte-

nance is performed in-

house to save time and re-

pair cost.

This state-of-the-art medi-

cal center is continuing to

expand. A nineteen-story

building is currently in con-

struction. Additionally, the

OSU Medical Center re-

cruits from our depart-

ment. Some of our fellow

ISE undergrads are a testa-

ment to this because they

are currently interning with

the medical center. If this

field is of interested to you,

opportunities await on the

other side of campus!

—Janet Pae

B U C K I I E

Upcoming Events

P A G E 5

Remaining Winter Quarter Events

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 we have an Epic Info

Session at 7 pm in Scott 100 hosted by IIE, HKN,

and ASME

Thursday, March 10th, 2011 we have the Whirl-

pool Info Session at 6:30 pm (Baker 120)

Friday, March 11th, 2011 is the last IIE happy

hour for the quarter from 6-8 pm

Location is Bernie’s Bar on 16th and High

All you can eat and drink – tickets $10

Relax with friends before buckling down for finals!

Watch for upcoming Spring quarter events:

IIE will host both an ISE intramural softball team

and intramural sand volleyball team open to any ISE

and pre-ISE student!

Beginning of the

quarter happy hour!

Stay tuned during

week 1 or 2 for de-

tails. Plant tours! Service opportuni-ties!

National Conference—Reno, Nevada!!

Welcome New Officers! President

Bobby Smyth.22

Executive Vice President

Elizabeth Schweizer.16

VP of Special Projects

Brent Miller.4624

VP of Operations

Joe Oravec.9

VP of Membership

Andrea Allison.169

VP of Communications

Andrew Wharton.86

VP of Finance

Amira Senouci-Bereksi.1

Plant Tour Coordinator

Michael Schuler.78

Chapter Development Chair

Erica Unkle.1

Grad Student Rep

Nick Boyd.319

Rotation Reps

Fall ‗09 - Shannon Smith.5936

Spring ‗10 - Jon Clune.13

Fall ‗10 - Sarah Koop.10

Spring ‗11 - Kelsey Larsen.92 &

Courtney Kasuboski.1 Fall ‗11 - Henry Ip.14

Director of

Digital Operations

Ryan Volpe.42

Newsletter Editor

Kelsey Larsen.92

External Ambassadors

Christina Lee.3443

Kate Fisher.901

Fundraising Chair

Courtney Kasuboski.1

E-Council Reps

Joe Kontak.6

Andrew Rizkallah.1

Erica Loughry.10