Overall Conference Program

September 26, 2018 (Wednesday)

13:00 – 20:00 Registration
20:00 – 22:00 IEOM Meetings

September 27, 2018 (Thursday)

07:00 – 17:00 Registration
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome Address Ronald Mason, Jr., J.D., President of the University of the District of Columbia, Washington D.C.
10:00 – 11:00 Opening Keynote: Dr. Bruce Kramer, Senior Advisor, National Science Foundation
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall

11:30 – 12:15 Keynote II: Dr. Pamela McCauley, Program Director – Innovation Corps- National Innovation Network Sites Program (I-Corps Sites), National Science Foundation and Professor and Director of the Ergonomics Laboratory, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida – Union Building

12:15 – 13:00 Keynote III: Dr. Russell R. Barton, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA and Vice President, INFORMS Sections and Societies – Union Building

13:00 – 14:30 Buffet Lunch
13:40 – 14:00 Thursday Lunch Keynote: Dr. Jack L. Price, Director of Research, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USA

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions
18:00 – 19:30 Poster Session and Student Chapter Mixer

September 28, 2018 (Friday)

07:00 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 18:00 Lean Six Sigma Workshop
08:00 – 09:30 Parallel Sessions

09:30 – 10:15 Friday Morning Keynote I: Dr. Jose Luis Guerrero-Cusumano, Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA – Union Building

10:15 – 11:00 Friday Morning Keynote II: John H. James, Jr., Executive Director, Missile Defense Agency

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Buffet
13:40 – 14:00 Friday Lunch Keynote: Professor Cecilia Nembou, President and Vice-Chancellor, Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions

19:00 – 22:00 CONFERENCE AWARD DINNER
Awards Keynote: Dr. Claudia Rankins, Program Officer, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, National Science Foundation

September 29, 2018 (Saturday)

07:00 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 09:30 Parallel Sessions

09:00 – 10:15 Saturday Morning Keynote I: Veronica L. Nelson, Executive Director, Advancing Minorities’ Interest in Engineering (AMIE), Washington D.C.

10:15 – 11:00: Saturday Morning Keynote II: Dr. Rupy Sawhney, Professor and Heath Fellow in Business & Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Executive Director of CASRE (Center for Advanced System, Research and Education), University of Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall
8:00 – 11:30 High School and Middle School STEM Poster Competition
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Buffet
13:40 – 14:00 Saturday Lunch Keynote: Dr. Abby Ilumoka Nwabizour, Program Director, Engineering Education, National Science Foundation

14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions

Other Activities

Dedicated IEOM Global Engineering Education Sessions
Dedicated IEOM Industry Solutions Sessions
Dedicated IEOM Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Sessions
Poster Sessions
Undergraduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by SIEMENS
Graduate/Postgraduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by EATON Corporation
Capstone Senior Design Project Poster Competition
Undergraduate STEM Research Competition
Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Masters Thesis Competition
Simulation and PLM Competition
High School and Middle School STEM Project Competition

Exhibitors and Sponsors Opportunities

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