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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The Material Handling Capstone Design Competition 2022-2023 deadline extended.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sponsored by MHI and College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE), the purpose of the competition is to recognize outstanding material handling applications and encourage student interest in the material handling industry.
Thanks to generous MHI sponsorship, monetary prizes (to be shared among the students on the winning teams) of $2000, $1000, and $500 will be awarded to first, second, and third place teams, respectively.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Submission Deadline:</b> Submissions accepted before <s>May 20, 2023</s>
<b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">June 1, 2023</span></b>, at
<a href="https://www.mhi.org/cicmhe/competition"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://www.mhi.org/cicmhe/competition</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Eligibility criteria:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Project work in the area of Material Handling or Supply Chain.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Design project work completed by undergraduate or master’s level enrolled students within the 2022-2023 academic year.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">The project demonstrates design, or application, of material handling principles.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">Any project completed for course credit, regardless of the format of the course/project, e.g., length, multidisciplinary, size of team, etc.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Submissions must come from a department faculty member, capstone coordinators, or mentors of the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Jen Pazour, Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:pazouj@rpi.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">pazouj@rpi.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Christine Nguyen, Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Northern Illinois University
(</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:cnguyen@niu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">cnguyen@niu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Co-chairs of the CICMHE and MHI Student Design Competition</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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