December 2016                                                   Maufacturing & Design Divison Newsletter

M&D Webinar

Title: IDDEAS - Innovating Design Decisions in Engineering and Applied Systems -The Case of Medical Devices

Presenter:
 Lourdes Medina, Ph.D, associate professor, University of Puerto Rico at
Mayagüez.

Medical device development (MDD) is complex, with impact on different stakeholders and covering a wide range of technologies, intended uses and context of uses. Regulations along with the wide taxonomy of "users" provide additional levels of complexity for new designers entering this field.
For the webinar recording, click  here .

The Manufacturing & Design Division would like to thank Dr. Deborah Thurston for her webinar titled  "Impact of Visual Models on Risk Attitude and Decision Tradeoffs in Aircraft Component Repair". This webinar was presented on January 14, 2016, and it is available on the M&D division website. Click to view M&D  archived  webinars.


IISE Annual Conference 2017

The Manufacturing and Design Division of the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) is sponsoring the Manufacturing and Engineering Design Track at the 2017 IISE Annual Conference and Expo. The conference is a forum for exchanging knowledge and discoveries in the industrial and systems engineering research and practitioner communities. The 2017 IISE Annual Conference and Expo will be one conference and there are no longer separate ISERC and Applied Solutions sessions. This exciting change will bring researchers and practitioners together to share the latest advances in manufacturing and design. To see the additional changes for the 2017 IISE Annual Conference and Expo, please  click here.
Best Paper Award

The M&D track has a standard procedure for selecting and awarding the best paper award during the conference. All full papers submitted to the M&D track at the conference will be automatically evaluated for best paper award competition. 

The track chairs will recommend a short list of about five papers using recommendations and ratings from the reviewers. 

Subsequently, a best paper award committee is formed and the committee performs a double-blind review process on these candidate papers in order to choose the best paper for the M&D track. The best paper award will be recognized at the IISE Annual.


Best Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award recognizes excellence in a conference paper whose primary contributor is a student member of the IISE Manufacturing and Design Division and encourages students to present their paper at the IISE Annual Conference. 

For students interested in being considered for this award, full paper submission should be made via the conference's regular submission process by the Jan. 30 deadline. In addition, a nomination form must be completed by faculty advisors and submitted via email to  Guha Manogharan, by February 7, 2017. For a copy of the nomination form, feel free to contact any of the board members.
 
Click here  for Best Student Paper Award and the criteria and eligibility .

Outstanding Young Investigator Award

The Manufacturing and Design Outstanding Young Investigator Award recognizes Manufacturing and Design (M&D) Division members under the age of 35 for their technical contribution to manufacturing and design. Email nomination form to  John Jackman.

Deadline for nominations is February 15, 2017. For details about the Outstanding Young Investigator Award  click here.


Outstanding Service Award

The Outstanding Service Award recognizes contributions to and leadership in public and community matters, the Manufacturing and design Division, the manufacturing engineering profession, or the manufacturing industry. Deadline for the nominations is February 15, 2017. For more details please  click here.  Email nomination forms to Lourdes Medina.

IISE 2016 M&D Division Awards Recipients

2016 M&D Track Best Paper Award -
Title:  Stochastic Multi-Objective Simulated Annealing for the Optimization of Machining Parameters
Corresponding author: Krystel Castillo
 
2016 M&D Student Best Paper Award -
Title:  Experimental Investigation of Micro Scale Contact Fatigue Wear Damage of EBM-Built TI6AL4V Surface, Student author: Sanjay Shrestha, Youngstown State University (sshrestha02@student.ysu.edu)
 
2016 M&D Outstanding Young Investigator - Guha Manogharan, Youngstown State University (gpmanogharan@ysu.edu)
 
2016 M&D Outstanding Service Award - Lourdes A. Medina, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez ( lourdes.medina@upr.edu )

Student Travel Grants for ISERC 2016 Conference

We would like to recognize student recipients of the NSF Travel Grant Award for the presentation of the papers at the ISERC 2016 Conference. Two students who presented papers in the M&D track were recipients of the travel grant:
Picture shows all student grant awardees, their advisor and ISERC 2016 conference chairs

Ilka Rodríguez graduate student at University of Puerto Rice Mayaguez, advised by  Lourdes Medina

Arkopaul Sarkar, Ph.D student at Ohio University, advised by  Dusan Sormaz 
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Emergent Leader Award and Recognition

Lourdes Medina, Ph.D,  associate professor at University of Puerto Rice Mayaguez, has been recognized in 2016 with two awards:

Emergent Leader by the College of Engineers and 


Land Surveyors of Puerto Rico (known as CIAPR)  and  Recognition at the 4th Research Academy for Faculty & Postdoctoral Fellows Symposium at  UPRM - "for outstanding contribution and dedication in public and education outreach, research and creative endeavors during the 2015-2016" .

Jan. 9 | Norcross, Ga.
Jan. 24 | Los Angeles
Jan. 30 | Norcross, Ga.

Newsletter preparation:

 Dusan Sormaz, Ph.D, media director for the M&D Division, prepared this newsletter.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact him at  sormaz@ohio.edu.