IISE Sustainable Development Division
Helping Industrial and Systems engineers make the world more sustainable
Industrial and systems engineering and supply chain management focus on overall efficiency improvements and cost reduction. This focus has significantly benefited all parties in society. However, sometimes the focus does not best serve the ultimate
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Industrial and systems engineering and supply chain management focus on overall efficiency improvements and cost reduction. This focus has significantly benefited all parties in society. However, sometimes the focus does not best serve the ultimate
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Lisa Earls is the Senior Operational Improvement Consultant at the University of Michigan. She spent almost 5 years at the University of North Dakota before taking this new role in 2019. We discuss how she
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A team of faculty and students from Old Dominion University’s Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering won $25,000 for its creative business model at the university’s first NATO Global Innovation Challenge. The team presented
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John Corliss shares his 40+ years of experience applying Industrial and Systems Engineering tools and problem-solving methods to the public sector. This focus on government and public sector is often overlooked for new graduates or
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This panel discussion was held at the 2020 IISE Virtual Conference on Nov 2, 2020. The focus of the discussion was aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goal 17 – Partnerships. John Corliss, Gokhan Egilmez, and
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By Brion Hurley Originally written for the October 2020 IISE SDD newsletter We want to highlight one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in each newsletter. Let’s start with Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and
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The City of Fort Collins in Colorado (USA) has been on a continuous improvement journey since 2010. They made great progress on their Income-Qualified Assistance Program (IQAP) to help residents pay their utility bills, and
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Industrial Engineer (IE) Michael Washington of the CDC discusses his team’s statistical models that help health systems monitor resources for dealing with – and tracing the explosion of – COVID cases, and how his team’s
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The following webinar was hosted by the IISE Sustainable Development Division, as part of their mission to help align Industrial and Systems Engineers with organizations working on the UN Sustainable Development goals. Watch the video,
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