Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Sponsored by Airbus

The IEOM Doctoral Dissertation Competition recognizes outstanding research in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering, operations research, engineering management and operations management. All submissions must be presented at the IEOM Conference. Awards will be given based on the technical content and presentation.  The winning awards will be given at the 2026 IEOM Barcelona, Spain Conference.

IEOM Competition Rubrics

• Overall content: 1-5 points
• Data analysis and results: 1-5 points
• Presentation skills: 1-5 points
• Knowledge of the topic / confident: 1-5 points
• Answering questions: 1-5 points

Publication and Indexing – Proceedings

• Papers will be published in the proceedings with DOI at CrossRef and IEOM Index. Your papers will be in open access with ISSN and ISBN.

Eligibility Criteria

• The submitter must enroll in a doctoral program or be a recent graduate from a doctoral program
• An abstract with power point presentation should be submitted
• The doctoral research must be presented at the 2026 IEOM Barcelona, Spain Conference.

Submission

Paper must be submitted online: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/abstract/index.cfm?ID=01BNySo

Judging

A group of academics / professionals will serve as judges and evaluate the papers and presentations. Scoring rubrics will be used for both parts of the judging.

Winners

1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be selected based on judging.

Competition Chair

If you have any question for the IEOM Student Competition, please contact: info@ieomsociety.org.

Winners – Doctoral Dissertation Award

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place