[IISE Faculty List] IISE QCRE Division Student Best Paper Competition

[Zimo Wang]

Greetings!

This is Zimo from Binghamton University. I would like to share information
about the Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) division's
best student paper competition at the IISE Conference 2025.

Could you help spread the information below? Thanks in advance for your
help!

Regards,
Zimo



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IISE QCRE Student Paper Competition

For presentation at the 2025 IISE Annual Conference & Expo

May 31 – June 3, 2025, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

The Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) division of the
Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is sponsoring a
student paper competition as part of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May
31 – June 3, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The purpose of this
competition is to honor outstanding papers in the field of quality and/or
reliability engineering research and practice. Awards will be presented at
the QCRE town hall meeting during the IISE Annual Conference & Expo. The
winners will be acknowledged in the QCRE newsletter and the website.

Eligibility Criteria

Both undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit papers. The
following conditions apply to all submissions for this competition:


   1. The paper topic must fit the QCRE themes.
   2. The applicant must be a full-time student at the time of submission.
   3. The student must be the first author and an IISE QCRE member.
   4. The paper must present original research results and cannot be
   accepted for publication elsewhere at the time of submission (it can,
   however, be submitted and/or under review for possible publication at the
   time of submission for this competition).
   5. The paper must not have won or been considered for an award in
   another competition.
   6. Previous finalists who wish to compete again should submit an
   entirely different paper. Past winners are not eligible for the competition.

Important Notes

     1. Papers submitted for this competition will NOT be published in the
ISERC proceedings.

   2. IISE and the QCRE division do NOT own the copyrights of the papers
   submitted for this competition. However, the papers must be available for
   the recommendation to IJDS.

Formatting and Submission Guidelines


   1. Entrants must submit (1) a blinded and unblinded version of the paper
   and (2) a formal signed statement from the student and the advisor
   (attached to the end of this document) affirming that the majority of
   the original results presented in the paper are due to the student's
   efforts rather than the advisor or other collaborators involved in the work.
   2. All submissions should be in electronic format (.PDF files ONLY) to
   both coordinators (in a single email), Dr. Zimo Wang (
   zimowang at binghamton.edu) and Dr. Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui (
   shf006 at shsu.edu) by *02/09/2025 (11:59 PM local time of the lead author)*.
   Late or incomplete submissions will be ineligible for the competition. All
   submitted papers will be reviewed and ranked by the reviewer committee, and
   the finalists will be announced in Late March 2025.
   3. Papers must be within 8 pages (the page limit does not include
   references but includes appendices; format with 1-inch margins, single
   column, single-spaced, 12-point font, in Times New Roman) and must begin
   with an abstract of 250 words maximum. The submitted paper must follow
   the format or will be returned without review.

Competition Coordinators

Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui (shf006 at shsu.edu), Sam Houston State University

Zimo Wang (zimowang at binghamton.edu), The State University of New York at
Binghamton
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-- 
Zimo Wang, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor,
School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering (SSIE),
The State University of New York at Binghamton
Office: EB-J16
Tel.: 607-777-5012
E-mail: zimowang at binghamton.edu
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