IISE has an active and thriving membership, and exciting things are happening in our local chapters through our virtual events, and elsewhere in our regions. Because of this, we have redesigned our regional newsletter to focus on what you, our membership, are doing. 

The Greater Kansas City professional chapter is one of the south-central region's professional chapter Gold Award winners for 2020! Ian Giese, President, and a strong leadership board work to provide engaging and unique opportunities for their 64 members. Recently, chapter members were treated to a construction site tour of the new KCI single terminal project at Kansas City's international airport. The single terminal will be a hub for cross-country travel, providing travelers with an impressive experience full of unique services and new amenities. Should plans be fulfilled for Kansas City hosting the 2025 IISE annual conference, attendees will be able to share in this experience and see what Kansas City engineering and IISE is all about! Read More

The 84-member chapter is lead by Kirsten Jensen and a strong slate of chapter leaders. Their quarterly chapter newsletter, The Org Chart, is jam packed with 10 pages of  information including member spotlights, industry highlights, chapter events, relevant articles, student chapter information, chapter metrics with charts, development resources, online resource links, and more! The Wichita chapter has recently been busy with their all-member meeting, virtual meetups, movie night, and a golf scramble. They will soon be hosting a Kansas Chapters Seminar on Lean Digital Transformation by Dr. John Huffman. Read more

by Ani Yam and Carsten Scherber

Bake-sales, car washes, and selling club merchandise are a few of the many ways that student organizations fundraise. A successful event not only allows students to build relationships with one another, but also gives them the opportunity to serve their community and to support the organization that they are passionate about.

The Iowa State Student Chapter (#823) of IISE first started fundraising through pizza sales. Pizza was purchased every week, and the students would set up a stand by the front entrance of Black Engineering (home to the Iowa State Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering department). Profits were small - raising only a few hundred on a good week, or even landing in the red on slower weeks. There were other fundraising efforts made, including partnerships with a few of the campus-town restaurants to earn a portion of the proceeds during a 3-4 hour block of time. Regardless, fundraising events started with the goal of strengthening the faculty-student relationships within the department more so than raising money to invest back into the chapter, only because they were never particularly successful. Click to read more.

Student Chapter 632 has had a very active and engaging year.  They have held conferences, networking events, seminars, and certification trainings. Click to read more about the students of Chapter 632.

It is common for students to face situations in which they require guidance in their career path and feel uninformed about what they will do upon graduation, which is why the Student Chapter of Industrial and Systems Engineers 783 (IISE 783) held a series of conferences during the week of February 02 to 05, 2021. Click to read more about our chapter events.

On September 3, Chapter 666 at BUAP, presented the conference "Alcanzando Metas y Tips Para la Vida Profesional" (Reaching goals and Tips for Professional Life) with Ing. Zaira Olvera Gómez, who works in New Product Introduction in Tesla, Germany. The conference was broadcast live directly from Germany and was attended by 380 people. Click to read more about this exciting event.

Having the goal of getting the freshman year students to live the experience of one of the most awaited traditions of our school, we organized the second edition of our Virtual Integration Rally, our main target was to freshman students to have the opportunity to share some quality time in a slightly different way with games and activities using the ZOOM Platform. Click to read more about our chapter events.

Amid the pandemic mental health is a serious issue that has affected students worldwide concerning many doubts, insecurities, anxiety, stress, among others fears and emotions. That is why Student Chapter 977 UNITEC Honduras decided to address this issue by organizing a live conference event in collaboration with the editorial McGraw-Hill. This conference was aimed toward addressing students', educator's and public in general insecurities and fears. During the conference highest peak there were over 280 people attending.  Read more