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

ASIA

Australia

Australia
Fiji
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
New Zealand
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu

EUROPE

Albania
Andorra
Austria
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Ukraine
UK

MIDDLE EAST

NORTH AMERICA

SOUTH AMERICA

Central America and Caribbean

Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Curacao
Costa Rica
Dominica
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Grenada
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Nicaragua
Panama
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent
Virgin Islands (UK)
Virgin Islands (USA)
West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago)

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