<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings! </div><div><br></div><div>This is Zimo Wang from Binghamton University. I would like to share information about the upcoming IISE-DAIS  student mobile/web app competition. Thank you so much for your help! </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Zimo </div><div>==================================</div><div><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(34,114,193);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4">IISE DATA ANALYTICS & INFORMATION SYSTEMS (DAIS) MOBILE/WEB APP COMPETITION</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">The Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) announces the IISE-DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition to recognize creativity and excellence among its members and motivate them to commercialize their research/learning outcomes to accelerate the economic and societal benefits.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><br></span></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(34,114,193);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4">Scope of Mobile/Web App</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Mobile/web apps that are based on any concept, principle, technique, or application related to the field of industrial and systems engineering will be accepted.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><br></span></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(34,114,193);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4">Eligibility of Participants</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">A team can have a maximum of five members (1~3 student members and 1~2 faculty advisors). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Student members can be undergraduate or graduate students from higher education institutes in the field of Industrial & Systems Engineering (or related fields).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Student members should be enrolled at the time of the submission of the proposal.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">At least one of the students must be a member of the IISE and DAIS.</span></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(34,114,193);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4">Competition Process</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Proposal Submission:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> Teams must submit a proposal (no more than 2 pages) describing their mobile/web app via email with the subject "DAIS Mobile/Web App Competition" to the chair of the competition steering committee by</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:red;letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> Dec. 22, 2022</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">. The proposal must include 1) a list of team members and their affiliations, 2) a list of features of the mobile/web app, and 3) the target market segment(s) of the mobile/web app.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Mobile/web app submission:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> Teams must submit (a) a prototype of their mobile/web app, (b) a software design document, and (c) a demonstration video via email to the chairs of the competition steering committee by <b>Feb. 21,</b> <b>2023</b>. The competition steering committee will evaluate the submissions and select a maximum number of four teams as finalists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Oral presentation:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> The selected finalist teams will attend the 2023 IISE Annual Conference & Expo to present their mobile/web app. The presentation will include (a) technical details of the mobile/web app, (b) a business plan to justify the need for their mobile/web apps in the marketplace, and (c) a demonstration of the prototype.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><br></span></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(34,114,193);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4">Evaluation Process</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Each team will be evaluated by the following criteria:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Originality</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Technical details of the mobile/web app</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">The business plan to justify the need for their mobile/web apps in the marketplace</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">The demonstration of the prototype</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"> </span></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(34,114,193);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4">Important Dates</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:red;letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Dec. 22, 2022</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Deadline for proposal submission</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Dec. 29, 2022: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Notices of proposal acceptance</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Feb. 21, 2023: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Deadline for submission of prototype mobile/web app and documents</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">April 1, 2023: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Notification to finalist teams</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">May 20-23, 2023: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt">Oral presentations</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><br></span></p><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:2.25pt solid rgb(34,114,193);padding:0in 0in 4pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;vertical-align:middle;border:none;padding:0in;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:-0.2pt"><font size="4">Competition Steering Committee Chair</font></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif">Zimo Wang (</span><a href="mailto:zimowang@binghamton.edu" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif">zimowang@binghamton.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif">), Binghamton University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif">Xiaowei Yue (</span><a href="mailto:xwy@vt.edu" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif">xwy@vt.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif">), Virginia Tech</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Source Sans Pro",sans-serif">=================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">--</span><br></p></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="georgia, serif">Zimo Wang, Ph.D.,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Assistant Professor,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering (SSIE),<br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="georgia, serif"><font size="2">The State University of New York at </font><font size="2"><font color="#888888"><font color="#888888"><font size="2">Binghamton</font></font></font></font><font size="2"><br></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Office: EB-J16</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font face="georgia, serif">Tel.: 607-777-5012</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font size="2"><font face="georgia, serif">E-mail: <font color="#888888"><a href="mailto:zimowang@binghamton.edu" target="_blank">zimowang@binghamton.edu</a></font></font><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div></div></div></div>