<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Times New Roman">Hello All,</font></span><div><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Times New Roman">The deadline for IISE Annual Conference QCRE Student Best Paper Competition has been extended from <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">02/09/2025 to </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">02/14/2025 (11:59 PM local time of the lead author)</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Forms and details can be found from the QCRE official website (link: </span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iise.org%2FDetails.aspx%3Fid%3D29058&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C598475019979436c817b08dd43bbf59a%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638741196901076111%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2F84RGzuWnebMPfoFBnngXOiSLUFPD7FK4muD6ifDL1U%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=29058" shash="pNQegoU9nE1yj/BwsYfhmVtCpgirWDwNXdmtmHcVNCMonMWSt4CAFdK3UjvnrZ+lpaAvHOuBq8nBzTnHzVU+xOTuvPYaLzZD74C3F/X/ua9hYKbHYKuwvvPBpzJSnRFF5y38sJY0NUhJiAYdOBRT5jiBsQRKJblqRhpIX6wefIQ=" style="color: rgb(29, 107, 129);">https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=29058</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">). Please see the below message for full details.</span></font></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Times New Roman"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Times New Roman">Best,</font></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Times New Roman">Syed</font></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.666667px;">————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————</span></font></div><div><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IISE QCRE Student Paper Competition (<span style="color: red;">Deadline extended to Feb 14<sup>th</sup>, 2025</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For presentation at the 2025 IISE Annual Conference & Expo<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">May 31 – June 3, 2025, Atlanta, Georgia, USA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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 IISE Annual Conference & Expo. The winners will be acknowledged in the QCRE newsletter and the website. <span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Eligibility Criteria<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Both undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit papers. The following conditions apply to all submissions for this competition: <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
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110%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The paper topic must fit the QCRE themes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol start="2" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
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inter-ideograph;line-height:110%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The student must be the first author and an IISE QCRE member.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;line-height:110%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;line-height:110%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The paper must not have won or been considered for an award in another competition.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;line-height:110%;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Previous finalists who wish to compete again should submit an entirely different paper. Past winners are not eligible for the competition.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Important Notes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
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110%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
line-height:110%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Papers submitted for this competition will NOT be published in the ISERC proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol start="2" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;line-height:110%;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Formatting and Submission Guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
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line-height:110%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Entrants must submit (1) a blinded and unblinded version of the paper and (2) <b>a formal signed statement from the student and the advisor (attached to the end of this document)</b>, <b>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.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><ol start="2" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0in; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0in;"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;line-height:110%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">All submissions should be in electronic format (.PDF files ONLY) to both coordinators (in a single email), <a name="_Hlk120789082">Dr. Zimo Wang (</a></span><a href="mailto:zimowang@binghamton.edu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px;">zimowang@binghamton.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and Dr. Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui (</span><a href="mailto:shf006@shsu.edu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px;">shf006@shsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">) by<b><s><u><span style="color: red;"> 02/09/2025</span></u></s><u><span style="color: red;"> 02/14/2025 (11:59 PM local time of the lead author)</span></u></b><span style="color: red;">. </span>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 <b>Late</b> <b>March 2025</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;text-align:justify;text-justify:
inter-ideograph;line-height:110%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">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.</span> </b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The submitted paper must follow the format or will be returned without review.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Competition Coordinators</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui (</span><a href="mailto:shf006@shsu.edu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px;">shf006@shsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">), Sam Houston State University <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Zimo Wang (</span><a href="mailto:zimowang@binghamton.edu"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px;">zimowang@binghamton.edu</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">), The State University of New York at Binghamton<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">QCRE Student Paper Competition – Submission Statement Form<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Please type or print all information.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border: 2.25pt double windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Title of Paper ________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Name, affiliation, and email for each author<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium; padding: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">(Designate one person as the primary author. The primary author will make the oral presentation at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo QCRE Track)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Student Ethical Statement: It is certified that this work is the original work of the author(s) and it was completed while the author(s) were students<span style="color: blue;">.</span> It is also confirmed that the primary author is a member of IISE and he/she is a full time student. Finally, it is certified that this work has not been accepted for publication elsewhere at the time of submission.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <u> </u> <u> <o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Lead Author Name Signature Date <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Advisor Statement: I confirm 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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <u> </u> <u> <o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Advisor Name Signature Date <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; border: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">No paper shall be received without this certification. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; font-size: medium; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: justify; line-height: 17.6px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.133333px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p></div></body></html>