Driving Productivity and Efficiency
February 21, 2012 Leave a Comment
Late announcement! IIE LA members are invited to join LA APICS for their February Professional Development Meeting. Please RSVP to LA APICS – see below for registration info…
Attend our Professional Development Meeting scheduled for Thursday, February 23, 2012 with an interactive case study on “X-Ray Your Organization” with Daniel Feiman, MBA, CMC. Read more of this post
February 8, 2012 Leave a Comment
On behalf of the LA Chapter, we are preparing activities where you can participate to enhance your network, career, share and learn skills or just achieve personal growth. But we need your help to answer this short survey so we can identify your needs and prepare our activities for this year and the years to come.
We do not want to miss your feedback and we sincerely appreciate your participation. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HQGY6NL
Regards
Luis Armendariz
President, IIE Los Angeles Chapter
February 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
We have published the first edition of our 2012 calendar of activities and events. We will be revising this as the year goes on and as events become confirmed. Please check our EVENTS section regularly for the latest.
See the calendar here…. Read more of this post
January 31, 2012 Leave a Comment
Our team of volunteers will present their report to all in attendance. Join us to learn about what engineering analysis was done and what operational improvements lie ahead. This is a really wonderful project that allows IE’s of all backgrounds to give back to our local community and to better the lives of people directly and indirectly.
Where: Ability First, 3812 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90037 map | directions
When: 2/11/1, 10:30 – Noon
January 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
On behalf of the IIE Los Angeles Chapter, I would like to wish each of you a very productive year, and to wish you all Professional Success in 2012. We all make lots of resolutions at this time of year and how we want to do better in both our personal and professional aspirations. Many of us honestly, can only stick to one or maybe two at the most even at that, it’s very hard to keep focus.
For those of you who want to improve on their skills and develop new ones, the IIE Los Angeles Chapter will have activities throughout the year where you can participate in:
We will have plant tours, workshops, conferences, webinars, networking opportunities, support to your certifications, student paper competitions, and team projects where you can learn, apply or share your knowledge.
Welcome to the 2012! I look forward to meeting each and every one of you in our professional meetings and I am very much looking forward to serving you this year. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing organization and truly excited about our activities this year and your involvement with IIE Los Angeles.
Respectfully,
Luis Armendariz, P.E. MBA, LSS
President, IIE Los Angeles Chapter
LuisArmen100@gmail.com
December 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
Download the flyer here: IIE_PID_Intl_Student_Comp_2012b
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:
There is a $1500 cash award for the first place winner thanks to the
sponsorship of DuPont and Hershey’s Read more of this post
November 24, 2011 Leave a Comment
Bulletin from IIE National. Last year your LA IIE chapter donated $$ to support the efforts of Cal Poly SLO who won the competition.
IIE Student Chapters – You-Tube Video Contest
(sponsored by the IIE-Industry Advisory Board)
Update: 11/23/11
Purpose: To promote the Industrial Engineering profession to high school students, teachers and councilors
November 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
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:
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.
November 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
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:
2011 IIE IAB You-Tube Contest Winners:
volume is very low on this YouTube upload
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVb3O05Yh_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D14B0oizvgg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3xWAt_KO2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB5mTKsqvMs
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.
October 30, 2011 Leave a Comment
Posted by Luis Armendariz
Your LA IIE Chapter is a proud donor sponsor of the 2011 1st International Student Project Competition and we made news:
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.
Read the complete article on IIE’s website: http://www.iienet2.org/Landing.aspx?id=887