The Business Value of Process Improvement and Industrial Engineering Principles for a Competitive Business Advantage, 24 March 1-2 PM  

Dr. Maurice Cavitt is an MBA, PfMP, PgMP, PMP, and CLSSBB. He is in a general manager, overseeing the Walmart Grocery Supply Chain from a corporate level. 
He is an Adjunct Professor with Sam Walton College of Business and College of Engineering.

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Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health, 20 April 12-1 PM  

This presentation is by Farzan Sasangohar, Ph.D. He is the Director of the Applied Cognitive Ergonomics Lab. He is also an IE professor at Texas A&M. He is the author of Provider Burnout and Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned From a High-Volume Intensive Care Unit.  

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Proposed General Body Meeting, 11 May 6-7 PM 

This GBM is open to the membership and graduating seniors from our affiliate student chapters. We will talk about the state of the organization, and host an open discussion about the future.

Excel Tutorial with UTA Students, 3 March 12-1 PM  

This is an interactive tutorial for the students on how to use Excel VBA. It’s a repeat of the Excel VBA webinar the professional chapter did last year. This time the participants will be encouraged to follow along by building the amortization table and writing the code. 

The Business Value of Process Improvement and Industrial Engineering Principles for a Competitive Business Advantage, 24 March 1-2 PM  

Dr. Maurice Cavitt is an MBA, PfMP, PgMP, PMP, and CLSSBB. He is in a general manager, overseeing the Walmart Grocery Supply Chain from a corporate level. 

He is an Adjunct Professor with Sam Walton College of Business and College of Engineering.

Effects of COVID-19 on Mental Health, 20 April 12-1 PM  

This presentation is by Farzan Sasangohar, Ph.D. He is the Director of the Applied Cognitive Ergonomics Lab. He is also an IE professor at Texas A&M. He is the author of Provider Burnout and Fatigue During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned From a High-Volume Intensive Care Unit.  

Proposed General Body Meeting, 11 May 6-7 PM 

This GBM is open to the membership and graduating seniors from our affiliate student chapters. We will talk about the state of the organization, and host an open discussion about the future.

Doctor Componation spoke about the evolution of the industrial engineering profession.

The professional chapter gave out the outstanding student awards with attendant scholarships. Congratulations to Kara Annis and Abigail Werner.

The IISE DFW chapter will be sponsoring two students to attend the national conference in May.

Biplap Bhattachary spoke. You can hear it when we upload the webinar to IISE Connect and the IISE DFW Google Drive.

Then we had a several professional members speak to students about what it is like to work out in the field.

There are several upcoming events for IISE UTA student chapter members.

Meet the Orgs is Wednesday, 2/24 from 11-1. That is through MavOrgs.

The IISE DFW professional chapter will be holding an Excel skills workshop Wednesday March 3rd 1-3 on Zoom.

You can view the full webinar from the IISE Connect Dallas-Fort Worth Community. It is saved as a library item named:
Feb 2021 IISE DFW – UT Arlington Student Chapter Joint Meeting

It is also available through the IISE DFW Google drive at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tR6HxVrq0xxgsg2P4i-hGIw6-CnqlITV
It is in a folder of the same name: Feb 2021 IISE DFW – UT Arlington Student Chapter Joint Meeting

Here are some updates about the virtual IISE DFW E-Week joint meeting:

1. Schedule:

Tuesday 2/23/2021 18:00-20:00

18:00 – 18:15: IISE Student chapter introduction

18:15 – 18:45: 1^st speaker [Dr.Componation]

18:45 – 19:00: Outstanding student award by DFW chapter

19:00 – 19:30: 2^nd Speaker [Biplab Bhattacharya]

19:30 – 20:00: Panel Discussion

2. Zoom meeting:
   I have confirmed with the student chapter about the Zoom meeting.

Topic: E-Week IISE Joint Event Zoom Meeting

Time: Feb 23, 2021 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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3.  Student awardees:
   Kara Annis (Junior)
   Abigail Werner (Senior)

4. Panel discussions:

“It would be great if the panel can talk about how to get involved with the professional chapter after graduation and its benefits, also as our main topic we can have industry 4.0 and data analytics in the industry, if possible.”

We are expecting 3-4 panelists. If you are willing to support the panel discussion, please let Yuan Zhou know by this Thursday (2/18). Her email address is yuan.zhou@uta.edu.

Currently we have Shernette Kydd as one of the panelists.

Happy New Year IISE DFW!

The IISE DFW chapter is opening applications for two new committees to aid in the organization expanding our reach. The two committees are:

Student Affairs Committee

Student Affairs Director Isaac Villareal would like to develop a sustainable process that enables interactivity with UTA, A&M, and A&M Commerce chapters and potentially other Universities. If you have either of the following interests, please consider applying

1. Project Management
2. A passion for teaching/aiding the next generation of IEs

Special Projects Committee

Vice President Yuan Zhou has two projects that need additional assistance

1. Simulation-based Decision Making for Patrol Officer Deployment
2. Reopening Strategy Trade-off Study from COVID-19 Pandemic

Please have applications submitted by 18 February 2021. Selections will be announced 1 March 2021.

 Google link to committee application:

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Zoom audiovideo presentation of David B. Reid, P.E., presentation on how Chick-Fila uses industrial engineering methodologies to make Chick-Fila the #3 restaurant in the country and highest grossing per location restaurant in the nation. He outlined the top 10 ISE practices they use.
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The webinar is on our Google Drive

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David Reid, IE PE of Chick-Fila and self-described Chicken Engineer, presented to the IISE DFW chapter on 12/4/2020. He credits industrial engineers with the fact that Chick-Fila has the highest profit of any restaurant, 7 million dollars per location per year.

Their continuous process improvements have explained why Chick-Fila has gone from #37 to #3 in total sales in the United States, and this is notable given that they are not open on Sundays. And this is credited to the ISE best practices they follow.

The Top 10 IE Lessons from Chick-Fila

1. Know your S-curve.

2. Focus your resources: time, talent, energy.

3. Pareto prioritize everything.

4. Understand the value equation.

5. Optimize the whole value stream.

6. Create better problems (smaller, cheaper, more easily solved, fewer).

7. Harness the power of industry 4.0.

8. Deploy lean at the front line.

9. Adopt leader standard work.

10. Go agile.

Thank you, Mr. Reid, for speaking to the IISE DFW chapter.

Webinar Date:  Friday, 12/4/2020

Time: 11-12 CST

Presenter:  David Reid, P.E.

Company:  Chik-fil-a

Speaker Bio:

David Reid, P.E. leads a team of ISyEs who innovate and improve processes at Chick-fil-A.  David has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech but found his passion for industrial engineering at Michelin Tire Corporation.  David is a business-minded IE manager with the heart of a teacher and a passion for process improvement.  He loves to spark the same passion in the next generation of leaders.  David blogs at http://www.leanu.info and can be reached at  www.linkedin.com/in/davidbreid. He is available to teach introductory to advanced Lean and IE training for all levels of organizations.

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Topic: DFW IISE Webinar (Chick-fil-A)

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  IISE Healthcare, Ergo and Annual Conferences in 2021 Go ALL-VIRTUAL!

On the first day of each month, IISE DFW will send out a new question testing your knowledge of the topics listed in the IISE Body of Knowledge. Submit your responses, and be eligible for a $100 prize!

Did you know that October’s Puzzlor challenge is still underway? Send us your answer by Saturday, 10/31, to be considered for the prize.

The month following a puzzlor, we will publish a video to our IISE Connect page going over the responses we received and the solution. We hope you find this fun, and informational!

October Puzzlor: Time Value of Money

You decide to invest in a small investment fund. You plan to invest $1,000 into this fund at the end of each year. This fund advertises a 3% interest rate, compounded annually. In year 5, you plan on depositing an additional $1,200 dollars due to an anticipated bonus at work. You will withdraw the funds in year 10.

1. Draw a Cash Flow Diagram for the anticipated investment

2. What is the Future Value of this investment at year 10?

3. What is the Future Value of this investment at year 10, if the interest was compounded monthly?

4. If you decided to invest the same amount of money each year instead of the $1,000 annual deposit plus the one-time deposit of $1,200 in year 5, how much would you deposit each year (compounded annually)?

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 October 1^st, 2020 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).