23 March, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CST – DFW IISE Webinar – Low Code / No Code Technologies.

DFW IISE Chapter places its focus on low code no code technologies this March 2023 to encourage the Industrial Engineering community explore becoming citizen developers.

Citizen developers are business users or non IT professionals with little to no coding experience that build applications with IT-approved technology. 

Citizen developers building applications are an answer to the increasing backlogs in IT departments to cater to requirements of business. 

Low Code / No Code platforms bring flexibility and agility in organizations to decentralize application development ensuring IT teams do not end up becoming the new bottlenecks.

Speaker: “UV Subba Rao” is Director of Manufacturing Industries Cloud at Siemens Digital industries software with 25 years of deep experience in manufacturing business transformation using technology. He today leads the tactical and strategic initiatives as thought leader and industry evangelist for smart manufacturing technologies and low code platforms. He has an MBA degree from Michigan State University – Eli Broad, a Masters degree in software systems and a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Moderator: Nikhil Joshi is an Entrepreneur and Industrial Engineer leading the professional development activities of the DFW IISE Chapter. He is the founder & CEO of SNic Solutions, a multi-national company that implements digital transformation technologies in manufacturing organization.

To Register: Low Code / No Code Technologies Registration

7 March, 12:00pm – 1:00 pm CST -Creating an Inclusive Workplace Culture

Join Scott Sink, IISE Global Performance Excellence Webinar Lead, and Diana Berry, IISE Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chairperson as they host Yuri Ramirez, Director of Intel Global Engagement Program Office as he shares how Intel is creating inclusive workplaces.

To Register:   Register for Creating an Inclusive Workplace Culture –Intel

9 March, 10:00 am – 11:00 am CST -Integrated LeanSigma:  how to train it and do it.

Scott Sink, IISE Global Performance Excellence Webinar Lead, will share what he’s learned about training and doing Integrated LeanSigma, Creating ILSS/BPI Programs in organizations over the past 17 years.  Scott will share what he did successfully at MDS, a Global Life Sciences company in Toronto and then what learnings from the ILSS Certification Program in ISE at Ohio State with over 30 different sponsoring organizations and with our 300+ students that went through the program.  

To Register:  Register for ILSS Scott Sink

28 March, 10:30 am – 11:30 pm CST – IISE Webinar – Best Practice Case Studies: Flex Organizational and Operational Excellence Program Overview

Please consider joining Scott Sink, IISE Global Performance Excellence Webinar Lead,  with Eduardo Toledo, VP Quality and Operational Excellence, Flex for an overview of the Flex Organizational Excellence Program.

Eduardo is also a member of the Council on Industrial and Systems Engineering. 

Eduardo will provide you all with a solid executive summary of Flex’s Global Organizational Excellence Program and share how ISE’s are contributing, have contributed, to their ILSS Journey.

To register: Best Practice Organizational Excellence Programs: Flex Case

Please join us on Tuesday, February 21st at 6pm for the annual Engineers Week joint meeting with the University of Texas at Arlington IISE Student chapter. 

There will be a panel discussion featuring several of our DFW IISE Professional chapter members. Topics will include: continuing education as an IE, role of an IE in manufacturing and production, and transitioning from full/part time student to an entry-level IE position.

Following the panel discussion there will be a presentation of the outstanding Junior and Senior award. Then closing out the meeting with ice breakers, food, and networking.

We hope to see you there!

Date: Tuesday, February 21
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Nedderman Hall, Room 100
416 Yates St
Arlington, TX 76010

Parking is available at Faculty/Staff Parking Lot F12

The Future of the Digital Industrial and Systems Engineer

Monday November 28, 2022

Join us for a webinar focusing on The Future of the Digital Industrial and Systems Engineer presented by Dr. Ben Amaba.

Date: Monday, November 28, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CST
Where: Join Zoom Meeting
              Meeting ID: 840 7698 1921
              Passcode: 547699

Click here to view the event details on IISE Connect and download to your calendar.

Abstract:
    Many systems today are enhanced and modified digitally while being integrated into physical systems in our world. Digital modernization with software, data, analytics, IoT, and artificial intelligence (AI) is embedded through sensors and actuators with Edge Computing, but digital transformations could be more successful. Technology is changing how we design, collect, analyze, operate, maintain, and decommission our legacy systems. Not only are digital systems and tools impacting our end products, the design and implementations are changing and at risk. Change warrants the way we should be accountable to protect the public’s welfare, security, health, safety, and environment (HSSE). ISEs are becoming the profession of choice for these quantitative, digital systems. The road to digitization is accelerating with globalization, COVID 19, supply chain challenges, new workforce design, and economics. The basic principles, methods, and laws that ISEs professional engineers are being presented a unique opportunity. The public looks to the profession to guide them. Accidents and fatalities have already occurred with improper fundamentals outside of the ISE Professional Engineers purview and oversight. We must incorporate and govern technology as we have did using classic engineering methodologies where ISEs orchestrate the physical, mathematical, and social science fundamental laws and not ignore that the systems will continue to be technology enabled. 

Biography:
    Dr. Ben Amaba has been working in industry and technology for 35 years. He has been awarded Fellow for Industrial and Systems Engineering and serves as a Director for the National Society of Professional Engineers. He served as the Global Chief Technology Officer for IBM,’s Industrial Sector making him responsible for automation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions. Dr. Amaba earned his BS in Electrical Engineering, a Master’s in Engineering/Industrial Management, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Miami.

    Dr. Amaba is a registered and licensed Professional Engineer in several states with International Registry; certified in Production, Operations, and Inventory Management by APICS ®; LEED® Accredited Professional (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design); and certified in Corporate Strategy by Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

    Dr. Amaba holds a copyright for Process Activity Flow Framework® and Patent for Energy Optimization in 5G-RAN Moderation. Dr. Amaba is prominently featured in “Giving 2.0,” by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen with Stanford Business School, which details contributions to bolster and promote STEM education and careers, and is an Alexis de Tocqueville Society/United Way Member, which recognizes local philanthropic leaders.

Join us for a webinar focusing on Driving and Deploying IE Principles in Engineering presented by Marsha Williams, AVP Engineering / Product Development at Cox Communications.

Date: Thursday, September 29, 2022
Time: 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm CST
Where: Join Zoom Meeting
              Meeting ID: 833 4819 2760
              Passcode: 667314

August Puzzlor:

Rules for IISE Puzzlor: 
Entry

• To be eligible, you must be a dues-paying member to IISE with affiliation to Dallas-Fort Worth, and/or have affiliation with IISE DFW via IISE Connect (Virtual Members) 

Rules of Play

• The contest will run from April 1^st, 2021 to September 30^th, 2021. 
• On the first of each month, a new question will be released to the community.  
  • A question will be a “textbook” sort of question intended to identify key skills an IE might be responsible for knowing 
  • Responses may come in the form of an excel spreadsheet (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm), word document (.doc, .docx), pdf (.pdf), or image(.jpg, .bmp, .png).  
    • If, for example, you use MATLAB, Python, or any other software to solve the problem, please do not respond with that software’s file type as your answer. These should be converted to one of the above submission options 
  • Participants will have the entire month to submit their response to bstrevens19@gmail.com 
  • Responses are due 11:59 PM of the last day of the month to be considered for prize eligibility 
• Questions will derive from topics included in the IISE Body of Knowledge (BoK)  
  • Other topics still related to IE will be considered, but primarily, questions will relate to some topic within the BoK. 

Scoring

• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a correct response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting the most innovative response*  
  • * “Innovative” is subjective and determined by the board. This might be a response that is most appropriately detailed, thorough, unique, most efficient, or uses an unconventional methodology.  

Prizes

• At the end of the year, the top 3 members in scoring will each receive a $100 cash prize, to be distributed via check or visa gift card (TBD). 

In the month after the question was submitted, a video will be made available reviewing the topic and going over the submitted responses. The scoreboard will be available on IISE Connect. 



And here is the August 2021 Puzzlor: 

You are the quality control supervisor for a wire manufacturing company. Periodically, you select a sample of wire specimens to test for strength. Experience has shown that breaking strengths of wire are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 200 pounds. A random sample of 16 has a mean of 6200 pounds. You want a 95% confidence interval for the mean breaking strength for the population.

July Puzzlor:

Rules for IISE Puzzlor: 
Entry

• To be eligible, you must be a dues-paying member to IISE with affiliation to Dallas-Fort Worth, and/or have affiliation with IISE DFW via IISE Connect (Virtual Members) 

Rules of Play

• The contest will run from April 1^st, 2021 to September 30^th, 2021. 
• On the first of each month, a new question will be released to the community.  
  • A question will be a “textbook” sort of question intended to identify key skills an IE might be responsible for knowing 
  • Responses may come in the form of an excel spreadsheet (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm), word document (.doc, .docx), pdf (.pdf), or image(.jpg, .bmp, .png).  
    • If, for example, you use MATLAB, Python, or any other software to solve the problem, please do not respond with that software’s file type as your answer. These should be converted to one of the above submission options 
  • Participants will have the entire month to submit their response to bstrevens19@gmail.com 
  • Responses are due 11:59 PM of the last day of the month to be considered for prize eligibility 
• Questions will derive from topics included in the IISE Body of Knowledge (BoK)  
  • Other topics still related to IE will be considered, but primarily, questions will relate to some topic within the BoK. 

Scoring

• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a correct response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting the most innovative response*  
  • * “Innovative” is subjective and determined by the board. This might be a response that is most appropriately detailed, thorough, unique, most efficient, or uses an unconventional methodology.  

Prizes

• At the end of the year, the top 3 members in scoring will each receive a $100 cash prize, to be distributed via check or visa gift card (TBD). 

In the month after the question was submitted, a video will be made available reviewing the topic and going over the submitted responses. The scoreboard will be available on IISE Connect. 



And here is the July 2021 Puzzlor

A company is currently paying a dividend of $5 per share. The current market value for a share of the common stock is $40. The company’s financial report shows:

After tax earnings of 3.5 million
Total assets of 20 million
Liabilities of 5 million
500,000 shares of common stock

Determine the:
A. Earnings per share
B. Book value per share
C. Return on book value
D. Proportion of retained earnings
E. Return on equity

Reminder that our GBM is tonight!

IISE DFW is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: IISE DFW General Body Meeting

Time: Jun 22, 2021 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 859 8937 5345

Passcode: 446025

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June Meeting Notice:

IISE DFW will be having its General Body Meeting on Tuesday, 6/22. The meeting is tentatively planned to start at 6 PM.

June Puzzlor:

Rules for IISE Puzzlor: 
Entry

• To be eligible, you must be a dues-paying member to IISE with affiliation to Dallas-Fort Worth, and/or have affiliation with IISE DFW via IISE Connect (Virtual Members) 

Rules of Play

• The contest will run from April 1^st, 2021 to September 30^th, 2021. 
• On the first of each month, a new question will be released to the community.  
  • A question will be a “textbook” sort of question intended to identify key skills an IE might be responsible for knowing 
  • Responses may come in the form of an excel spreadsheet (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm), word document (.doc, .docx), pdf (.pdf), or image(.jpg, .bmp, .png).  
    • If, for example, you use MATLAB, Python, or any other software to solve the problem, please do not respond with that software’s file type as your answer. These should be converted to one of the above submission options 
  • Participants will have the entire month to submit their response to bstrevens19@gmail.com 
  • Responses are due 11:59 PM of the last day of the month to be considered for prize eligibility 
• Questions will derive from topics included in the IISE Body of Knowledge (BoK)  
  • Other topics still related to IE will be considered, but primarily, questions will relate to some topic within the BoK. 

Scoring

• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a correct response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting the most innovative response*  
  • * “Innovative” is subjective and determined by the board. This might be a response that is most appropriately detailed, thorough, unique, most efficient, or uses an unconventional methodology.  

Prizes

• At the end of the year, the top 3 members in scoring will each receive a $100 cash prize, to be distributed via check or visa gift card (TBD). 

In the month after the question was submitted, a video will be made available reviewing the topic and going over the submitted responses. The scoreboard will be available on IISE Connect. 



And here is the June 2021 Puzzlor

Data Set

	j
i	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Low	7.6	8.2	6.8	5.8	6.9	6.6	6.3	7.7	6.0
Moderate	6.7	8.1	9.4	8.6	7.8	7.7	8.9	7.9	8.3	8.7	7.1	8.4
High	8.5	9.7	10.1	7.8	9.6	9.5

Rules for IISE Puzzlor: 
Entry

• To be eligible, you must be a dues-paying member to IISE with affiliation to Dallas-Fort Worth, and/or have affiliation with IISE DFW via IISE Connect (Virtual Members) 

Rules of Play

• The contest will run from April 1^st, 2021 to September 30^th, 2021. 
• On the first of each month, a new question will be released to the community.  
  • A question will be a “textbook” sort of question intended to identify key skills an IE might be responsible for knowing 
  • Responses may come in the form of an excel spreadsheet (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm), word document (.doc, .docx), pdf (.pdf), or image(.jpg, .bmp, .png).  
    • If, for example, you use MATLAB, Python, or any other software to solve the problem, please do not respond with that software’s file type as your answer. These should be converted to one of the above submission options 
  • Participants will have the entire month to submit their response to bstrevens19@gmail.com 
  • Responses are due 11:59 PM of the last day of the month to be considered for prize eligibility 
• Questions will derive from topics included in the IISE Body of Knowledge (BoK)  
  • Other topics still related to IE will be considered, but primarily, questions will relate to some topic within the BoK. 

Scoring

• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting a correct response 
• One (1) point will be awarded for submitting the most innovative response*  
  • * “Innovative” is subjective and determined by the board. This might be a response that is most appropriately detailed, thorough, unique, most efficient, or uses an unconventional methodology.  

Prizes

• At the end of the year, the top 3 members in scoring will each receive a $100 cash prize, to be distributed via check or visa gift card (TBD). 

In the month after the question was submitted, a video will be made available reviewing the topic and going over the submitted responses. The scoreboard will be available on IISE Connect. 


And here is the May, 2021 Puzzlor

Data Set for Analysis:

	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
ETS	$729	$812	$750	$701	$755	$819	$740	$695	$745	$792	$684	$687	$702	$844	$722	$707	$708	$786	$714	$698
Linear	$729	$812	$750	$701	$755	$819	$740	$695	$745	$792	$684	$687	$702	$844	$737	$735	$735	$733	$731	$730