[Iefac.list] Project case now available: 2011-2012 Material Handling Student Design Competition

[Mike Ogle]

Announcing Case Availability for the 2011-2012 Material Handling Student
Design Competition
The MHDC is offered by the College Industry Council on Material Handling
Education (CICMHE, www.CICMHE.org)

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

Teaching materials handling? Facility layout or design? Operations
management? Supply Chain or logistics systems?

Looking for a team project with real facility project data to use in
your course?

This competition, now in its 17th 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.  The five-week window for students to
work on the case may be chosen to fit your semester/quarter course
schedule.  The competition is to be performed in teams of four students
(or less), up to two of the four can be graduate students.  Case
description files may be downloaded, reviewed and distributed at any
time, but competition entries must be submitted within eight weeks from
the date that the data files for the case are provided, but no later
than June 1, 2012 without prior approval by CICMHE.    

Procedures for Faculty Advisors of Teams
A case description, judging criteria, and rules/guidelines for the
competition are already available for review on the CICMHE design
competition site at www.mhia.org/cicmhe/designcompetition.  When teams
are nearly ready to be assigned the case, faculty advisors are asked to
request the case data files from Mike Ogle at CICMHE at mhia.org.  The case
data file will then be provided.  Teams then have five weeks to work on
the case.  To allow additional time for instructors to assess projects,
pick a single entry from each school, and allow teams to assemble all
the items required, entries have up to eight weeks from the date of
initial download of the files.  Please see the full set of
rules/guidelines on the site.

Cash Prizes for Student Team Members, Travel Support for Faculty
Advisors of Winning Teams

Thanks to additional support from the Order Fulfillment Solutions
council (OFS, www.mhia.org/OFS), CICMHE will be providing cash prizes in
2011-2012 to the winning entries ($2000, $1500, and $1000 prizes for
first, second and third place) as well as winning team's home department
($500 per department for each winning entry).  In addition, OFS support
funding is available for the faculty advisors of the top three teams to
travel to the 2013 ProMat show to be held in Chicago, IL on January
21-24, 2013 to be recognized for their achievement.

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

Auburn University (2005-2006 winner)
California Polytechnic State University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Montana State University (2002-2003, 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 (2009-2010 winner)
University of Florida
University of Louisville
University of Nebraska-Omaha
University of Oklahoma
University of Pittsburgh
University of Washington
Virginia Tech (2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2007-2008, 2008-2009,
2010-2011 winner)

Get your school involved!  The case overview, competition
rules/guidelines, judging criteria, and summaries of past student design
competitions and their winners are available at the following website
address:

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

Competition Sponsors

The Material Handling Student 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, www.CICMHE.org, www.mhia.org), the Order Fulfillment Solutions
council (www.mhia.org/OFC).  This year's case materials were provided by
West Monroe Partners and are based on compilations of actual client data
files.

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

Thank you,

Mike

Mike Ogle
Managing Director, College Industry Council on Material Handling
Education
Vice President, Educational and Technical Services, Material Handling
Industry of America
8720 Red Oak Blvd. Suite 201, Charlotte, NC 28217
(704) 676-1190

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