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<b>Call for Participation: QCRE Student Interaction and Poster Competition</b></div>
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<b>2026 IISE Annual Conference & Expo</b></div>
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May 16 – 19, 2026, Arlington, Texas</div>
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<b>Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Track</b></div>
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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 2026.<br>
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In the Student Interaction session, students will have opportunities to interact with peers and panelists from academia and industry.</div>
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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).</div>
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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><a class="" name="_Hlk182248397">Student Interaction</a></b>: <u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA99c293cc-5667-fd1c-f150-ac3fa2cf62b5" href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FGYSzFFRT85qNVHk7A&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C04ce9ef8ed354ad8087808de1ca9e1e3%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638979713328618111%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jsZvNh1zrUKDlJyyX9lwJOdpGoLygXg0YN9yllstBj4%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://forms.gle/GYSzFFRT85qNVHk7A">https://forms.gle/GYSzFFRT85qNVHk7A</a></u>
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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 10th, 2026.</div>
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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.</div>
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Please feel free to reach out Co-chairs of these sessions for any questions:</div>
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Chao Wang (<u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA101cafb8-7302-4866-116f-a7c235e943da" target="_blank" href="mailto:chao-wang-2@uiowa.edu">chao-wang-2@uiowa.edu</a></u>) University of Iowa</div>
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Xiaowei Yue (<u><a style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA387f6cc5-915a-2193-8029-651aa2cd7940" href="mailto:yuex@tsinghua.edu.cn">yuex@tsinghua.edu.cn</a></u>) Tsinghua University</div>
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