The Institute of Industrial Engineers, through the Process Industry
Division-PID will coordinate the 2nd international Student Paper
Competition giving students from different countries the opportunity to
submit papers related about the use of:
Industrial Engineering
Productivity
Quality
Lean-Six-Sigma tools
There is a $1500 cash award for the first place winner thanks to the
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The following is provided as a service to our members. Please see contact details at the bottom to contact the recruiter if interested.
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The Los Angeles APICS Chapter and IIE Los Angeles Chapter invite you to our final event of 2011 at the Los Angeles Times printing plant in downtown Los Angeles. This exciting event takes place on Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 2:15 to 4:30 p.m. Free parking is available!
We look forward to seeing you as we learn about the Times’ cutting edge supply chain operation and its integral contribution to how our means of communication have evolved over time.
Key features of this tour:
The building holds the largest inventory of newsprint on the West Coast
Building is the size of a football field and 50′ high
There’s a rail spur that goes directly into the plant
Presses are 4 stories tall and produce 10 newspapers per second
One-half million gallons of ink and 1 million plates used each year
Advanced robotics deployed throughout the plant
The packaging system stacks papers onto pallets and delivers the pallets directly to delivery trucks
Funds from this plant tour will be used to support the 2012 APICS Southwest District Student Case Competition.
Event Info Date: November 17, 2011 Tour Registration: 2:15 pm
Plant Tour: 2:45-3:45 pm Networking Session: 3:45-4:30 pm Location:
2000 E. 8th Street (near 8th and Alameda), Los Angeles, CA (map)
Parking: Free on site!
Register and prepay on the Los Angeles APICS website.
Register for this exciting event on their new website! APICS Los Angeles Chapter is proud to announce the creation of our new, updated APICS-compliant Los Angeles Chapter website.
Toys”R”Us has opportunities for Industrial Engineers at their distribution centers in McDonough, GA and Reno, NV. They are seeking people with experience in time and motion studies, ROI analysis, creating labor standards, and Lean/Six Sigma/Kaizan.
If you are interested, please contact:
Aimee Lokitz
Talent Acquisition Manager
Toys”R”Us Aimee.Lokitz@toysrus.com.
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To better your odds of that your resume is being seen by a real person who can offer you a real job, here are three guideline to make your resume more effective.
As you well know, many of our universities are challenged with bringing in talented high school seniors into the industrial engineering programs as freshman. In interviews with hundreds of college industrial engineering students and young professional IE’s, few had any knowledge of what an industrial engineering program was while they were in high school and most discovered our profession after their freshman year and switched majors into the IE program.
A few years ago, the IIE Industry Advisory Board (IAB) had an initiative which developed and sponsored a YouTube video contest targeted at high school students which was created by our university IIE chapters like yours. The result was very successful on several fronts with enhanced university chapter involvement, a touch point with our professional members to the universities and a communications tool that focused on high school students which has received thousands of YouTube hits from the various universities which have posted their video’s. The winners from the IIE National Conference held in Reno last year were:
Along with knowing that this video maybe the reason why a new student selected Industrial Engineering as their major, our IAB Members have personally donated prize funds which will be presented at the upcoming IIE National Conference in Orlando, FL at the student mixer. First place winner with a monetary prize fund planned at $1000 with additional monetary prize awards for 2nd and 3rd place winners.
On behalf of our IIE IAB leadership team, we thank you in advance for considering to support this initiative for our future IE’s, along with having a great time creating the video with your chapter.
Your LA IIE Chapter is a proud donor sponsor of the 2011 1st International Student Project Competition and we made news:
Winner Selected for First PID Student Paper Competition!
Mengjie Liu, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., has been selected as the winner of the first ever PID Student Paper Competition. The winning paper is “Using Linear Programming to Minimize Cost for ACE Pharmacy.”
2011 was the first year of the PID student paper competition. The competition attracted entries from eight schools. The winner receives a cash award of $1,000, an additional $500 toward travel expenses plus the PID international trophy. The second and third place winners will receive certificates of recognition. Prize Sponsors: Hershey, DuPont and the IIE Los Angeles Chapter.
Congratulations to Mengjie Liu!
Note: Luis Armendariz, LA IIE Chapter 2012 President, will be chair of the 2nd Internationational Student Competition.
The winner of our 2011 IIE IAB YouTube contest university, Cal Poly SLO, shared a big thank you to LA IIE Chapter for sponsoring their efforts – which resulted in a winning submission. This comes by way of the IIE Industry Advisory Board…
Dear IIE Industry Advisory Board,
On behalf of the Cal Poly Institute of Industrial Engineers, we would like to thank you for your generous support for the IIE YouTube Contest this past year! Without donors like you, our club would not be able to enjoy the competitive spirit of this competition nor the opportunity to benefit schools and students beyond our own. Your donation aided our club in purchasing industry tours throughout California as well as reducing transportation costs for our members. We appreciate your kindness, and we are excited to plan even more activities which have been made possible through your support!
article by Deborah Walker, Certified Career Management Coach
Have you ever experienced brain freeze during a job interview? You are asked a question and your mind goes blank—it’s horrifying. You lose composure as well as confidence. Your interview goes down hill from there. Brain freeze most often happens as a result of behavioral or situational interview questions that are not anticipated before hand.
As a career coach, this is the most common interview problem I hear about from my clients. Read more of this post
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