IEOM Professional Chapters
IEOM Professional Chapter can help practitioners in the development or enhancement their skills, including: leadership, communications, organization, planning, time management, budgeting and finance, and other professional skills. Those can help to enrich for their career and to be successful in longer term. If any is interested to establish an IEOM Professional Chapter in a country, region or city, please submit the professional chapter establishment form [PDF, *.doc] to info@ieomsociety.org.
For any question, please contact Professor Don Reimer (Director of Chapter Development): info@ieomsociety.org.
Professional Chapter Development Resources
- Professional Chapter establishment form.
- Professional Chapter Suggested Activities
- Chapter certificate
- Chapter bylaws
- IEOM Society Membership Management Site
Suggested Professional Section Activities
Workshops and Seminars – The chapter can sponsor workshops and seminars that focus on industrial engineering and operations management. Panel discussions featuring subject matter experts could be featured by industry segments: manufacturing, health, hospitality, education, chemical and plastic, food processing, etc.
Industry Speakers – Chapters could sponsor events in which experience industrial engineers and operations managers present current issues faced by industry. This may also provide an opportunity for chapters to engage their alumni. This type of an event can also provide an opportunity to network and learn about potential employment.
Plant Tours – Chapter members should participate in various industry plant visits. This activity will expose members to industrial engineering and operations management in faced by industry and organizations.
Communication Development – Chapter may consider an activity that focuses on professional communication development – oral and written. Effective communication skills are an important success factor in the engineering and management disciplines. Enhancing the communication skills of chapter members adds value to their membership and their future.
Career Development – The chapter should also focus on career development by reaching out to Industrial Engineering and Operations Management alumni who can provides ideas and tips on engaging employers. Industry human resources managers also may provide insight into the career opportunities. The chapter should also promote the value of internships and co-ops.
Networking – The chapter should do everything possible to encourage its members to build a network of individuals who may be able to assist in opening doors in the future. These contacts are critical to the long term growth and career success.
Best Practice Contest – Chapter can sponsor a poster contest that has an industrial engineering and operations management focus. Posters provide an opportunity to display industry best practices.
Fund Raising – Chapters should engage in fund raising activities including picnic and outdoor activities. This is necessary to support the various chapter events.
Membership Building – Chapters must continue to recruit new members. The IEOM Society will recognize the outstanding chapter membership growth each year at its annual conference.
Community Outreach – Chapters should engage in promoting industrial engineering and operations management as an outstanding career opportunity. This activity could focus on high school students. In addition, the members of the chapter could provide industrial engineering consulting to not-for-profit organizations.
Alumni Relations – Chapter should considering establishing an alumni IEOM chapter. It is important to maintain and build relationship with alumni.
Training and Certification – Chapter can arrange some refreshment classes for certification and training for continuous improvement and continuous education. Chapter can facilitate IEOM Lean Six Sigma certification and other certifications.
IEOM Professional Chapters
AFRICA
- IEOM Society of Algeria
- IEOM Society of Botswana
- IEOM Society of Cameroon
- IEOM Society of Egypt
- IEOM Society of Ethiopia
- IEOM Society of Ghana
- IEOM Society of Kenya
- IEOM Society of Libya
- IEOM Society of Mauritius
- IEOM Society of Morocco
- IEOM Society of Namibia
- IEOM Society of Nigeria
- IEOM Society of Senegal
- IEOM Society of South Africa
- IEOM Society of Tunisia
- IEOM Society of Uganda
- IEOM Society of Zimbabwe
ASIA and AUSTRALIA
- IEOM Society of Armenia
- IEOM Society of Australia
- IEOM Society of Azerbaijan
- IEOM Society of Bangladesh
- IEOM Society of Bhutan
- IEOM Society of Brunei
- IEOM Society of China
- IEOM Society of Hong Kong
- IEOM Society of Beijing
- IEOM Society of Xiang Tan
- IEOM Society of Cambodia
- IEOM Society of East Timor
- IEOM Society of Egypt
- IEOM Society of Fiji
- IEOM Society of India
- Pune
- Delhi
- Kolkata / Calcutta
- IEOM Society of Indonesia
- IEOM Society of Japan
- IEOM Society of Kazakhstan
- IEOM Society of Kyrgyzstan
- IEOM Society of Malaysia
- IEOM Society of Maldives
- IEOM Society of Nepal
- IEOM Society of New Zealand
- IEOM Society of Pakistan
- IEOM Society of Papua New Guinea
- IEOM Society of Philippines
- IEOM Society of Singapore
- IEOM Society of South Korea
- IEOM Society of Sri Lanka
- IEOM Society of Taiwan
- IEOM Society of Thailand
- IEOM Society of Uzbekistan
- IEOM Society of Vietnam
EUROPE
- IEOM Society of Austria
- IEOM Society of Belgium
- IEOM Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- IEOM Society of Bulgaria
- IEOM Society of Croatia
- IEOM Society of Czech Republic
- IEOM Society of Denmark
- IEOM Society of Finland
- IEOM Society of France
- IEOM Society of Germany
- IEOM Society of Hungary
- IEOM Society of Iceland
- IEOM Society of Italy
- IEOM Society of Latvia
- IEOM Society of Netherlands
- IEOM Society of Norway
- IEOM Society of Portugal
- IEOM Society of Russia
- IEOM Society of Spain
- IEOM Society of Switzerland
- IEOM Society of Turkey
- IEOM Society of Ukraine
- IEOM Society of UK
MIDDLE EAST
- IEOM Society of Bahrain
- IEOM Society of Greece
- IEOM Society of Iran
- IEOM Society of Iraq
- IEOM Society of Jordan
- IEOM Society of Kuwait
- IEOM Society of Lebanon
- IEOM Society of Oman
- IEOM Society of Palestine
- IEOM Society of Qatar
- IEOM Society of Saudi Arabia
- IEOM Society of UAE
- IEOM Society of Yemen
NORTH AMERICA
- IEOM Society of Canada
- IEOM Society of Toronto
- IEOM Society of Montreal
- IEOM Society of Calgary
- IEOM Society of Vancouver
- IEOM Society of Chicago
- IEOM Society of Connecticut
- IEOM Society of Mexico
- Monterrey
- New Mexico City
- IEOM Society of Michigan
- IEOM Society of New York
- IEOM Society of San Francisco
- IEOM Society of Texas
- EOM Society of Washington DC
SOUTH AMERICA
- IEOM Society of Argentina
- IEOM Society of Brazil
- IEOM Society of Chile
- IEOM Society of Colombia
- IEOM Society of Costa Rica
- IEOM Society of Dominican Republic
- IEOM Society of Haiti
- IEOM Society of Honduras
- IEOM Society of Panama
- IEOM Society of Peru
- IEOM Society of West Indies
Representatives
Algeria: Dr. Abderrahmane Benbrik, University M’Hamed BOUGARA at Boumerdes
India: Dr. C. B. Gupta, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Raj.)
Finland: Dr. Ahm Shamsuzzoha, University of Vaasa