[Iefac.list] IISE Lean Division’s Lean Teaching Award_ Deadline Extended

[Farnaz Ghazi Nezami]

*Call for Nominations for the IISE Lean Division’s Lean Teaching Award*




*Lean Division’s Lean Teaching Award*



IISE’s Lean Division offers a number of awards to recognize the
contribution of individuals to advancing the knowledge and practice of lean
concepts. The Lean Division’s Teaching Award is given out annually to honor
the services of a person/group of people who have developed curriculum and
disseminated courses in the subject area. The Lean Division now invites
nominations for the 10th Lean Teaching Award.

The award will be presented at the Honors and Awards Banquet at the IISE
Annual Conference at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando, Florida, May
19-22, 2018.



*Eligibility Criteria:*

·         The candidate must be a member of IISE.

·         The course for which they are being recognized must be a lean
course within an industrial engineering department or a closely related
program from an academic institution (examples of closely related programs
include systems engineering and engineering management, examples of course
titles might be lean manufacturing systems, lean system modeling and
simulation, lean logistics, lean supply networks, lean practice and
management, just-in-time production system, lean six-sigma, etc).

·         Course materials for which they are being recognized must have
been developed by the candidate.

·         The awardees for the past 5 years are NOT eligible to apply for
this award.



*Evaluation Criteria:*


The following criteria will be used by the judges in evaluating the
applications submitted. Applicants are encouraged to provide supporting
documentation to demonstrate their contributions in these areas.

·         Leadership: Demonstration of creating or fostering leadership and
excellence in the teaching of lean techniques and tools.

·         Design and Content Quality: The appropriateness/relevance of the
course content to educating the target audience.

·         Applied Learning: The development and use of materials to empower
students to apply and implement lean techniques through the use of games,
hands-on simulations and assignments/projects, etc.

·         Innovation: Use of innovative approaches to teach the principles
and practices of lean systems.

·         Student Satisfaction: Evidence that teaching of lean concepts are
of value to department, student and community as shown in the course
evaluations and statements from students.

Nominations may be made by a faculty colleague or a student who has taken
the course from the candidate. The nomination package must consist of the
following:

·         Letters of support from the nominator and two other individuals;
at least one of the three letters must be from a faculty member and one
from a student

·         Course syllabus and supporting items such as samples of different
instructional materials used

·         Summary copies of teaching evaluations

·         Curriculum Vitae of the candidate

·         A one-page reflective statement by the individual being nominated



*All supporting documents in the nomination package should be submitted in
pdf format only. For large documentations, the submission can be made on a
CD or via other means such as FTP access or www.yousendit.com
<http://www.yousendit.com/>.*



Deadline for nominations is* February 28, 2018. Please e-mail the entire
package to Farnaz Ghazi-Nezami (fghazinezami at kettering.edu
<fghazinezami at kettering.edu>, Assistant Professor of Industrial
Engineering, Kettering University.*



Lean Teaching Award Chair:

Farnaz Ghazi-Nezami, PhD, Kettering University

*Farnaz Ghazi-Nezami, PhD, CSSGB*
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department
Phone: (810) 762-7974
Fax: (810) 762-9924
1700 University Avenue ~ Flint, MI 48504
*Kettering University*
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