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CONFERENCE AGENDA

Friday March 22, 2013

                    4:00 – 6:00                   Hotel check-in
                                                                        * Holiday Inn or Hilton Garden Inn

                   6:00 – 10:00                  Informal Welcoming Event - Come meet the Pitt Student Chapter at a favorite campus bar! 
                                                                        * Fuel and Fuddle (212 Oakland Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213)

Saturday March 23, 2013

                  8:30 – 9:30                  Conference registration/Continental Breakfast/Info packet and t-shirt handout at conference venue                                                                           * Ballroom of the William Pitt Union (corner of Bigelow Blvd and Fifth Ave) 

                  9:40 – 9:45                   Welcome - Annie Jones, Conference Head Chair

                  9:45 – 10:15                  First plenary speaker - Manufacturing Realm
                                                                        * Ann Samler, Vice President of Solution Design at GENCO

                  10:15 – 10:45                 Second plenary speaker - Healthcare Realm
                                                                        * John Innocenti, President of UPMC Presby of Shadyside

                  10:45 – 11:15                 Third plenary speaker - Retail Realm

                                                                        * Dan May, Senior VP, Supply Chain at Giant Eagle

                  12:00 – 1:15                  Break for lunch - explore Pitt's Oakland campus!

                  1:15 – 1:30                   I.I.E. update - President of the I.I.E

                                                                          * Doug Rabeneck

                  1:30 – 1:45                   I.I.E. Young Professionals

                                                                          * Emily Forcke

                  2:00 – 3:00                   Breakout Session #1

                                                                        * Q-and-A/Advice Panel held by recent IE grads 

                                                                        * Hands-On Process Improvement Activity

                                                                        * Resume critique/workshop

                  3:00 – 4:00                  Breakout Session #2

                                                                         * Q-and-A/Advice Panel held by recent IE grads

                                                                         * Hands-On Process Improvement Activity

                                                                         * Resume critique/workshop

                  4:00 – 5:00                   Presentation of paper competition contenders

                  5:15 – 6:15                   Formal dinner (included in registration)

                                                                        * Transportation via Molly’s Trolleys to the LeMont, a Pittsburgh landmark!

                  6:30 – 7:15                  Dinner service

                  7:15 – 7:35                  Dr. Bopaya Bidanda 

                  7:40 – 8:25                  Final plenary speaker

                                                                        * Mel Schubert, Site Director, Lockheed Martin, Retired

                  8:30 – 10:30                  Professional networking event

 Sunday March 23, 2013

                  9:30 – 10:00                  Breakfast offered at conference venue 

                  10:00 – 10:30                 Paper competition winners and awards presentation

                  10:30 – 11:00                 Conference closing remarks

PAPER COMPETITION DETAILS

Submissions of technical papers will be accepted for review until 11:59 PM on March 8, 2013.

Paper submissions will be reviewed by a pannel of judges consisting of University of Pittsburgh faculty and members of the Pittsburgh IIE Senior Chapter.

The authors of the submissions will have the opportunity to give a ~10 minute presentation of the paper on Saturday March 23 to the conference attendees and the pannel. The overall winning paper/presentation will be announced the following day at a short awards ceremony.

Please submit entries as an attachement to aej18@pitt.edu specifying your school and the submission title in the subject of the email. Be sure to include the author's name on the paper submission.

Please reference http://www.iienet2.org/Details.aspx?id=863 for layout and criteria requirements and rules.

HOTEL DETAILS

Holiday Inn @ Pittsburgh University Center

100 Lytton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Ph: (412) 682-6200  Fax: (412) 681-4749

 Nightly Parking Charge: $18.00

**The group code must be entered to receive discounted rates.

Hilton Garden Inn

3454 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213

(412) 683-2040
 

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