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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">This is a reminder about the 2025 IISE QCRE Student Interaction and Poster Competition session. This is a great opportunity for students to network with peers and faculty
members. We highly recommend our student members to participate and faculty members to encourage their students to participate. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Participation: QCRE Student Interaction and Poster Competition</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#202225"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2025 IISE Annual Conference & Expo</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">May 30 – June 3, 2025, Atlanta, Georgia
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Track</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Student Poster Competition is under the sponsorship of the
<b>Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Mississippi State University</b></span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Quality Control & Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Track of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is inviting QCRE student members to participate in
the Student Interaction and Poster Competition Session at the IISE Annual Conference 2025.<br>
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In the Student Interaction session, students will have opportunities to interact with peers and panelists from academia and industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the Student Poster Competition session, students will be given the opportunity to display their research posters. A winner will be selected by a panel of judges. The
main judging criteria are based on three aspects 1) Appearance and structure (poster visually attractive, easy to read, flow logically), 2) Content (technical contribution is clear, objective is well developed, problem is well motivated), and 3) Discussion
(the poster provokes quality discussion, poster author shows a good understanding of the content, the presenter professionally responses to questions). The winner of the Student Poster Competition will be awarded a certificate and a monetary prize of $200.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Note the Student Interaction and Student Poster Competition are two separate sessions and need to be registered separately using the links below:<br>
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<b>Student Interaction</b>: <a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FCVpCtL7Da41Q4TxLA&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C14df4d72cbe94f9e55bc08dd715fe1f0%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638791379041962565%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KaAy5AZG47l6fzE9%2FGPTZ41mCFApNBRKGaH7NsrSXyA%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://forms.gle/CVpCtL7Da41Q4TxLA" title="https://forms.gle/CVpCtL7Da41Q4TxLA">forms.gle/CVpCtL7Da41Q4TxLA</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Student Poster Competition</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:
<a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FTmoeLVwGVehk6jek8&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C14df4d72cbe94f9e55bc08dd715fe1f0%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638791379041984760%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=tCnbqgvyf5IK%2BcGl1MBt%2FpXLltQEXqNKXJ1PTf2QUrU%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://forms.gle/TmoeLVwGVehk6jek8" title="https://forms.gle/TmoeLVwGVehk6jek8">
forms.gle/TmoeLVwGVehk6jek8</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br>
by <b>April 30th, 2025</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Additional Information</b>: Participation in these two sessions is free of charge. Students who participated before are welcome to participate again. Students who are on the job market and/or have poster presentations will be given higher priority. Prior
to the conference, the participants will be asked to submit their posters (for Student Poster Competition participants) and/or two-page introduction slides (for Student Interaction participants) to co-Chairs electronically by May 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2025.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The poster session participants are required to bring their physical posters to the conference. Each poster should not exceed 36 inches tall x 48 inches wide. The photo
and poster will be included in a brochure for maximal visibility, which will be distributed to Department chairs and employers who have an interest in recruiting QCRE students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please feel free to reach out Co-chairs of these sessions for any questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Chao Wang (<a href="mailto:chao-wang-2@uiowa.edu" title="mailto:chao-wang-2@uiowa.edu">chao-wang-2@uiowa.edu</a>) University of Iowa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Haifeng Wang (<a href="mailto:wang@ise.msstate.edu" title="mailto:wang@ise.msstate.edu">wang@ise.msstate.edu</a>) Mississippi State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Haifeng<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Haifeng Wang, Ph.D.</span></b><b><span style="color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Assistant Professor | Co-Graduate Coordinator</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F4E79;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN">Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Hardy Road, Mississippi State, MS 39762</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#171717;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#171717;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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