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<P><B><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><EM><I><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: windowtext">Apologies for cross-posting<BR>
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</SPAN></I></EM></SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues:</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">IEOM Society is organizing IEOM 2015 Conference in Dubai at Hyatt Regency during March 3-5, 2015. The event is sponsored by IEEE and INFORMS. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">All conference full papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore and indexed. Please follow IEEE format for full paper submission. You can present your research with abstract only as well. Please submit paper(s) or abstract(s) online:</SPAN></P>
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<P><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Online Paper/Abstract Submission Link:</SPAN></B> <A href="http://www.xcdsystem.com/ieom2015/"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#1155cc>www.xcdsystem.com/ieom2015/</FONT></SPAN></A> </P>
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<P><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #00b050">Submission deadline:</SPAN></B> <I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">August 30, 2014</SPAN></I> </P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Following are the key highlights of the program:</SPAN></P>
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<LI><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Dr. G. Don Taylor</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">, Charles O. Gordon Professor and Department Head, Grad Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA and Past IIE President (Opening Keynote)</SPAN></LI>
<LI><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Chris Smith</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">; Vice President & Managing Director of Boeing Saudi Arabia</SPAN></LI>
<LI><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Dr. Chris Backhouse</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">, Professor of Product Innovation, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK</SPAN></LI>
<LI><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Dr. Leland Blank</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">, Professor and Dean of Engineering, American University of Sharjah, UAE and Past IIE President</SPAN></LI>
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<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Global engineering education including a penal session. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Panelists: <BR>
</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">- Dr. Funso Falade</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">, President, African Engineering Education Association<BR>
- </SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoyer</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">, Secretary General of the International Federation for Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)<BR>
</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">- Dr. Abu Masud</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">, Interim Dean of Graduate School and Boeing Global Engineering Professor at Wichita State University and <BR>
</SPAN><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">- Dr. Hamid Parsaei</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University (College Station) and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University Qatar </SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Industry solutions</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Operations excellence</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Poster sessions</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Capstone student paper competitions</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Student paper completion</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">IEOM annual awards</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Panel sessions</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Town hall meetings</SPAN></LI>
<LI><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">And many more </SPAN></LI>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">You can see details in the conference website: </SPAN><A href="http://www.iieom.org/"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#1155cc>www.iieom.org</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">. </SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">All presentations of global engineering education, industry solutions and operations excellence will be published in the Conference CDROM proceedings. Based on all the programs and a unique diverse participants from more than 70 countries around the word, it would be a great value added event. I hope, you would not miss it.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">We look forward to seeing you in Dubai.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Regards,</SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt'>Dr. Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University<BR>
Conference Chair<BR>
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Majid Abab, The Boeing Co. and Resh Plaha, Crystal Quality, UK <BR>
Industry Solutions Chairs<BR>
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Dr. Abdur Rahim, University of New Brunswick - Fredericton, Canada<BR>
Honorary Chair<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">IEOM Society<BR>
</SPAN></B><A href="http://www.iieom.org/"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#1155cc>www.iieom.org</FONT></SPAN></A> </P>
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<P><FONT color=#00b050><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: fuchsia"><FONT color=#00b050>Join IEOM Society as a Member online:</FONT></SPAN> </FONT><A href="http://iieom.org/ieom/membership/"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#1155cc>http://iieom.org/ieom/membership/</FONT></SPAN></A> </P>
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