[Iefac.list] Material Handling Design Competition

[Russell Meller]

Announcing the 2007-2008 Material Handling Student Design Competition

http://www.mhia.org/cicmhe/designcompetition

Teaching materials handling? Facility design? Operations management?  
Supply Chain or logistics systems? Looking for a team project?

This competition, now in its thirteenth year, provides an opportunity  
for you to offer a five-week team project for your class in the fall,  
winter or spring semester/quarter.  It is a way to have students use  
real-world data to design a manufacturing / warehousing facility and  
apply what they have learned regarding material handling,  
warehousing, facility design and operations management.  Competition  
entries are due on June 1, 2008.

Cash prizes will be awarded to the winning entries ($1500, $1000, and  
$500 prizes for first, second and third place) as well as winning  
team's home department ($500 per department for each winning entry).  
The competition is to be performed in teams of 4 students (or less),  
up to two of the four can be graduate students.

In the past eight years, teams from the following schools have won  
cash prizes and/or honorable mentions:

Auburn University (2005-2006 winner)
California Polytechnic State University
Montana State University (2006-2007 winner)
New Mexico State University
North Carolina State University
Ohio University
Penn State University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Texas A&M University
University of Arkansas
University of Florida
University of Louisville
University of Nebraska-Omaha
University of Oklahoma
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
Virginia Tech

Get your school involved!  The complete project description, contest  
guidelines and summaries of past student design competitions and  
their winners are available at the following website address:

http://www.mhia.org/cicmhe/designcompetition

Contest Sponsors

The Design Competition is sponsored by the College Industry Council  
on Material Handling Education (CICMHE is part of the Material  
Handling Institute and Material Handling Industry of America) and  
Modern Materials Handling Magazine.  This year's case materials were  
provided by Bastian Material Handling and was based on an actual  
client implementation.

Please direct any questions you may have about the competition rules  
and eligibility to Mike Ogle (mogle at mhia.org).

Thank you,

Russ Meller (for Mike Ogle)


Russell D. Meller
Hefley Professor of Logistics and Entrepreneurship
Director of the NSF Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution
Department of Industrial Engineering
Deputy Director of the Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics
4207 Bell Engineering
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR  72701
(479) 575-6196
(479) 575-8431 (fax)
rmeller at uark.edu



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