[IISE Faculty List] Call for Nominations: IISE Opex Division’s Teaching Award

[Farnaz Ghazi Nezami]

*Call for Nominations for the
IISE Operational Excellence Division’s Teaching Award*



IISE's Operational Excellence Division offers a number of awards to
recognize the contribution of individuals to advancing the knowledge and
practice of operational excellence concepts. The 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
division now invites nominations for the Operational Excellence Teaching
Award. The award will be presented at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, in
Montreal, Canada, May 18-21.



*Eligibility Criteria*

·       The candidate must be a member of IISE.

·       The course for which they are being recognized must be an
operational excellence (process improvement) course within an industrial
engineering department or a closely related program (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,
total quality management, process improvement, etc.).

·       Course materials for which they are being recognized must have been
developed and taught by the candidate for at least two times or more.

·       The awardees for the past five 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 operational excellence (process improvement)
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 operational excellence (process
improvement) 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 operational excellence (process improvement) systems

·       Student Satisfaction: evidence that teaching of operational
excellence (process
improvement) 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 in the same
department and one from a student who enrolled and completed the course

·       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 *One PDF File via
email. *



The deadline for nominations is *Feb 9, 2024*. Please email the entire
package to Farnaz Ghazi Nezami (fghazinezami at kettering.edu), Associate
Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Kettering
University. The winner will be notified by *March 8, 2024.*



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*Farnaz Ghazi-Nezami, PhD, CSSGB*
Associate 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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