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Panel Sessions<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Submission Link: https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/abstract\/index.cfm?ID=8fwmHJ5<\/a><\/strong>
\nRegistration Link: https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/attendee\/index.cfm?ID=ORne27j<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Panel<\/h1>\n

Leadership, inclusion and the Future of Engineering Management<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

3:00 – 5:00 pm (Thursday, November 26, 2026) – Room 2<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Topics of interest (But not limited to)<\/span><\/h3>\n

Gender Disparities in Leadership Positions, Implicit Bias and Stereotypes, Work-Life Balance and Family-Friendly Policies, Career Advancement and Promotion, Gender Pay Gap, Networking and Professional Development, Discrimination, Recognition, Policy Advocacy<\/p>\n

Panel Chair
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\"\"Dr Dilupa Nakandala<\/span><\/strong>
\nProfessor, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies<\/strong><\/span>
\nSchool of Business, Human Resources & Management<\/strong><\/span>
\nWestern Sydney University, Sydney, Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Professor Dilupa Nakandala\u2019s research interests are in innovation and technology transfer management and supply chain management. Her research has been recognised by funding from the Australian Research Council, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia and Western Sydney University. She has published her research in top-tier journals, including Decision Support Systems, Knowledge-based Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Supply Chain Management Journal, Int\u2019l Journal of Production Research, and Int\u2019l Journal of Technology Management. She has also published several book chapters and in practitioner journals and was the lead author of the \u2018South Asia\u2019 chapter of the latest UNESCO Science Report.<\/p>\n

Dilupa obtained BSc in electrical and electronic engineering (First Class Hons) at the University of Peradeniya, MBA in management of technology at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and PhD in innovation studies at Western Sydney University. Dilupa possesses a rare and diverse research method skillset where those qualitative and quantitative research skills enable her to do studies using the case study method, fuzzy expert systems, genetic algorithm, agent-based modelling, and structural equation modelling. She teaches innovation, entrepreneurship, and project management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.\u00a0Before joining academia in 2007, she held multiple roles in engineering, integrated solution designs, quality assurance, business, process and project management, and compliance in a multinational business environment for over eight years. She is also a certified Project Management Professional in PMI, USA and a Design Thinking practitioner and has the PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification.<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker I<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker II<\/p>\n

\"\"Rahima Khatun<\/span><\/strong>
\nElectrical Engineer at K1 Save Energy &<\/strong><\/span>
\nFounder and CEO, Leading Women Australia and D RYMA Group<\/strong><\/span>
\nMelbourne, Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I, Rahima Khatun, an experienced Electrical Engineer background professional at the K1 Save Energy. Concurrently, the founder and CEO of the Leading Women Australia and D RYMA Group. The Leading Women Australia is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to advancing women\u2019s leadership, equity, and representation. Through leadership programs, advocacy, and partnerships, we are creating pathways for women to thrive in engineering, construction, and other traditionally male-dominated industries. Furthermore, we provide coordination service in the government health industry as a registered provider. where at D RYMA GROUP, we lead a mission to deliver innovative and sustainable engineering solutions that transform industries and communities. At D RYMA, we focus on harnessing technology, research, and engineering excellence to design smarter, more energy-efficient systems that respond to the global demand for sustainability and resilience. \u201cI lead multi-disciplinary projects across energy, defence, and sustainable infrastructure, turning blueprints into operational impact\u2014from validating military systems at Tectonica Australia to developing a hydroelectric micro-grid with Engineers Without Borders, and streamlining national engineering inventory systems at Hanes Brands Inc. I am a dynamic engineering leader and internationally recognised speaker, appeal by IEEE Bangladesh to keynote on global educational migration and engineering research and projects, and by the University of Melbourne & IEEE Women in Engineering to lead seminars on engineering career strategies, where I translate a decade of industry experience into actionable frameworks.
\nI am honoured to be recognised as a Women in Construction Ambassador and Mental Health in Construction Ambassador, actively advocating for diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing in technical industries. My community involvement extends to serving as a Board Member at Wellsprings for Women and as a System Change Youth Employment Advisor at the Brotherhood of St Laurence, where I contribute to advancing equity and opportunity. I hold a Master of Engineering Management from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, complemented by certifications in Business Management, WHS, and CNC Machining. My mission is to shape a future where engineering solutions are sustainable, leadership is inclusive, and women are fully represented at every level of decision-making.<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker III<\/p>\n

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Dr. Renata Klafke<\/strong><\/span>
\nLecturer in Management<\/strong><\/span>
\nSchool of Business and Law<\/strong><\/span>
\nCentre for Regional Economies and Supply Chains<\/strong><\/span>
\nCentral Queensland University, Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am a lecturer in Management at School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, Melbourne Campus, Australia. With a PhD in Business Management (finished in July\/2021), I bring over 20 years of experience to the academic and research world. Before PhD, I worked in various roles with the world\u2019s leading organizations such as P&O Nedlloyd (today Maersk), Votorantim Cements, Springer Carrier, etc. My research portfolio includes over 25 publications mostly in high-quality journals (Q1 and Q2). In addition, I secured research grants totalling USD 32,000.<\/p>\n

I stepped into the academic world in 2013 (once my little girl was born) and received the opportunity to work with universities from many places, including Brazil, Germany and Australia. My global experience includes studying, researching, teaching, and collaborating in countries like German, Brazil, England and Australia. All these things allowed me to bring diversified and multicultural knowledge to the classroom. I have enjoyed teaching a range of business management subjects\/units such as international business management, supply chain management, research in business, culture and globalization, and business theories, among others. As a practitioner academic, I effectively integrate theory with practice to improve students’ skills for competitive job markets. Given the changing industry and educational dynamics, I constantly evaluate, review and update learning materials as well as participate in the development of new subjects and courses.<\/p>\n

I also contribute to the academic community through editorial and reviewing activities for several reputable journals (Q1 & Q2). I am a reviewer for the International Journal of Knowledge Management (ABDC B, Q2), International Journal of Emerging Markets (ABDC B, Q2), Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education (Q2), Personnel Review (ABDC A, Q1), SAGE Open (Q1), Asia Pacific Business Review (Q2), among others. These roles reflect my ongoing commitment to advancing research in my fields of expertise.<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker IV<\/p>\n

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Panel<\/h1>\n

Supply Chain Analytics and Optimisation<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

9:00 – 11:00 am (Thursday, November 26, 2026) – Room 1<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Topics of interest (but not limited to)<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Resilient and Risk-Aware Supply Chain Design, Multi-Objective Optimisation: Cost vs Service vs Sustainability, Real-Time and Digital Supply Chains, Inventory and Logistics Optimisation in the E-commerce Era, Data Challenges in Supply Chain Analytics, Human-in-the-Loop vs Autonomous Supply Chains, Advanced Optimisation Techniques in Practice, Supply Chain Analytics for Sustainability, Future of Supply Chain Optimisation.<\/p>\n

Panel Chair:<\/span>
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\"\"Dr Spring Zhou<\/span>
\nAssociate Professor, School of Business<\/span>
\nFaculty of Business and Law<\/span>
\nUniversity of Wollongong, Australia<\/span><\/h3>\n

Dr<\/strong>\u00a0Quan (Spring) Zhou<\/strong> is an Associate Professor at School of Business, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Wollongong. She obtained a PhD in Operations and Supply Chain Management from University of Auckland in 2016 for her research in managing medical supplies in national reserves. Prior to joining University of Wollongong, Spring worked as a lecturer at Massey University (2016-2018) and a Research Fellow at University of Auckland (2016) in New Zealand. Her research interests are in supply chain management, non-profit operations, inventory management of perishable products, and agricultural value chains.<\/p>\n

As a strong proponent of practice-inspired research, Spring is passionate about combining her research interests with practical needs. Spring has been actively involved in practice-driven, applied research. For example, her PhD project was motivated by the serious expiration problem in the medical reserve stocks. In that project, she studied rotation schemes and provided suggestions on managing the medical supplies, considering the perishability of long-life medical products. Spring has also worked with\u00a0AgResearch<\/i>\u00a0in New Zealand to evaluate on-farm changes when delivering desirable credence attributes for agri-products and explore ways to motivate changes in land use practices.<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker II<\/p>\n

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Winda Nur Cahyo, PhD<\/strong><\/span>
\nAssociate Professor<\/strong><\/span>
\nFaculty of Industrial Technology<\/span>
\nUniversitas Islam Indonesia (UII)<\/span>
\nSleman, Yogyakarta, Indonesia<\/span><\/h3>\n

Winda Nur Cahyo is an Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering, Universitas Islam Indonesia. He holds a PhD from School of Mechanical, Material, and Mechatronics, the University of Wollongong Australia. He is currently the head of Master Program in Industrial Engineering, Universitas Islam Indonesia since 2018. His expertise and research interest are on the field of Engineering Asset Management and Industrial Management. He is also member of The Institute of Asset Management and also one of the founders of Indonesian Asset Management Community. He published numerous articles in reputable international journals and international conference. He is also a reviewer in reputable international journals and conference and technical committee in several reputable international conference.<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong> The main steam turbine is the most critical equipment in the geothermal power plant. When this machine fails, the whole unit stops and the loss of production is very severe. Every year the asset manager must decide whether the turbine is still economical to operate, or the time has come for the replacement. The calculation of the life cycle cost (LCC) is normally the basis of this decision. In the current practice, the LCC is often calculated with the fixed values: the failure rate, the energy price, and the outage duration are each represented by a single number. In the real plant the turbine is getting older, so the failure rate is increasing, and the maintenance cost is moving together with the age of the machine. This research builds a framework where the uncertain inputs are treated as the random variables, not as the fixed numbers. The failure history is filtered to the major corrective events and fitted with the distribution of Weibull, and the simulation of Monte Carlo with 10,000 runs generates the future maintenance events and the outage hours. Every simulated stream is converted into the equivalent annual cost (EAC). The output of the framework is not a single replacement year, but a range of years with a probability attached to every year in the range. The framework is tested on the main steam turbine of the geothermal power plant in Indonesia, where the turbine has been in service for ten years and the analysis horizon is thirty years. The shape parameter of the Weibull fit is 2.23, which places the turbine in the wear-out phase. The EAC minimum is found at the operational year 23 with the value of USD 609,598 per year for the baseline strategy. The condition-based maintenance scheme is also simulated, and the result shows that the economic life shifts to the year 27 with the annual cost reduction of 4.2%.<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker III<\/p>\n

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David Aaron Karr, CPEng, FIIEA<\/span>
\nPresident<\/span>
\nIndustrial Engineers Australia (IEA), Australia<\/span><\/h3>\n

David Graduated as an Industrial Engineer BSc (Eng Mech in the Industrial Option) in 1976 at University of Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa in 1976. He received a Graduate Diploma in Engineering at Wits 1979. David has worked in various Production and Industrial Engineering roles in manufacturing, service industries and consultancy for over 45 years in South Africa, Canada and Australia. He also has training experience as a lecturer(casual) at TAFE(technical college) for 13 years.<\/p>\n

He has worked for Siemens(Routing Eng) and Colgate Palmolive(IE) (South Africa), Pirelli Cables(IE) and Canada Post(IE) (Canada), BOC Gases (Australia)(Production & Project Manager) across production quality, project management, supply chain management, design and improvements of production line and layouts of work area and data optimisation.<\/p>\n

Industry experience included batch and process type manufacturing as well as large and small sites mainly with large multinational or national companies.<\/p>\n

He has its own Business Consultancy undertaking passenger surveys, time and motion studies , setting up preventative maintenance systems for various clients and introduction of digitised autonomous processes. David has been very active in professional organisations in Canada (Canadian Society of Industrial Engineers (CSIE) and in Australia (Industrial Engineers Australia (IEA) and Engineers Australia (EA). He is a fellow and Federal President of Industrial Engineers Australia and Chartered Professional Engineer of Engineers Australia.<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker IV<\/p>\n

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Panel Speaker V<\/p>\n

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