Management Engineers Awarded for Capstone Design Papers

Friday, June 26, 2015

Congratulations to our 2015 undergraduate class!

This past week at the  conference in Montreal, Two Management Engineering (MGMT) teams won the top two prizes in the 2015 Student Paper Competition in the Undergraduate Category.  A third team was placed among the finalists (out of a total of 5 finalist teams from across Canada). Presented papers were all based on capstone design projects.

CORS/INFORMS is an annual joint international meeting of the Canadian (CORS) and the (INFORMS) organization.

First Prize, Undergraduate Category:

Zhara Bodla, Ahad Ismail, Ra’ad Daoud, AbdulRehman Shaheen

Redesigning Fischer Canada’s Facility Layout and Scheduling Operations.

Honourable Mention, Undergraduate Category:

Jordan Moreau, Ian Gresel, Mohamed Hashem, Andrew Scott

Feeding Iqaluit:  a Consolidated Shipment Ordering System

Finalist, Undergraduate Category:

Chia Lin Huang, Allison Ngsee, Samantha Poon, Amanda Thompson

Slowdown or Speedup: Examining Effects of Length of Stay on Readmission Rates to Hospitals