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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: 17.12px;">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 Atlanta, Georgia, May 31-June 3, 2025.</span></div>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The candidate must be a member of IISE.</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">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.).</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Course materials for which they are being recognized must have been developed and taught by the candidate for at least two times or
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The awardees for the past five years are not eligible to apply for this award.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Evaluation Criteria</b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">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.</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Leadership: demonstration of creating or fostering leadership and excellence in the teaching of operational excellence (process improvement)
techniques and tools</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Design and Content Quality: the appropriateness/relevance of the course content to educating the target audience</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">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.</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Innovation: use of innovative approaches to teach the principles and practices of operational excellence (process improvement) systems</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">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</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">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:</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">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</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Course syllabus and supporting items such as samples of different instructional materials used</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Summary copies of teaching evaluations</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Curriculum vitae of the candidate</span></p>
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A one-page reflective statement by the individual being nominated</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">All supporting documents in the nomination package should be submitted in
<b>One PDF File via email. </b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The deadline for nominations is<b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: red;"><b>Feb
10, 2025</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">. Please email the entire package to
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Farnaz Ghazi Nezami (<a href="mailto:fghazinezami@kettering.edu" id="OWAc41f12ce-4ce4-4ae7-a7af-b16fcba92def" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">fghazinezami@kettering.edu</a>),</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Associate
Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Kettering University. The winner will be notified by
<b>March 10, 2025.</b></span></p>
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