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<P><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: blue">2015 IEOM Orlando Conference - Submission Deadline extended to May 31<SUP>st</SUP> </SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in -13.5pt 0pt 0in"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #050199">IEOM International Conference on </SPAN></B></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in -13.5pt 0pt 0in"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Operations Excellence & Service Engineering</SPAN></B> <BR>
<B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: fuchsia">Orlando, Florida, USA</SPAN></B> <BR>
<B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">September 10-11, 2015</SPAN></B> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in -13.5pt 0pt 0in"><A href="http://www.iieom.org/icmoe2015/" target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #0563c1">www.iieom.org/icmoe2015/</SPAN></A><BR>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in -13.5pt 0pt 0in"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Venue:</SPAN></B> <B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #003399">Rosen Plaza Hotel, International Drive</SPAN></B> </P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: red">Deadline: May 31, 2015</SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">The IEOM Society is organizing</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black"> an International Conference on Operations Excellence and Service Engineering to be held </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">in Orlando, Florida</SPAN> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">during September 10–11, 2015</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">. The venue is</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black"> the Rosen Plaza Hotel – International Drive. The theme of the conference is “</SPAN><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: green">Achieving and Sustaining Excellence in Quality, Service and Operations</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">”. The conference provides a forum for academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and recent developments in the field of industrial engineering, service engineering, manufacturing engineering, systems engineering, operations research, engineering management, operations management and operations excellence. The event will advance theory and practice by fostering networking, collaboration and joint effort among the conference participants. You are invited to deliver a talk at the 2015 IEOM Orlando Conference.</SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Presentation can be given with an abstract. Full paper is optional. Participants can present theoretical and applied research with abstract. All full papers will be subjected to double peer review. Accepted papers will be published in the CDROM Proceedings.</SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">With the great success of the Global Engineering Education Series at Dubai IEOM Conference, 2015 IEOM Orlando Conference will have a dedicated session on Global Engineering Education. A special focus will be given on </SPAN><I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000">Engineering Education in the Americas</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">. Thirty six featured speakers will participate from various parts of the world and will address engineering education challenges and opportunities. Each speaker is required to submit a title of the presentation, abstract, a short biography and “head-shot” photo. All presentations will be included in the 2015 IEOM Orlando Conference proceedings and in the printed program booklet. If you are interested in delivering a presentation as a distinguished speaker at the 2015 IEOM Orlando Conference Global Engineering Education session, September 10-11, 2015, please contact Dr. Anwar Rahman </SPAN><A href="mailto:rahman.industrial@gmail.com"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#0563c1>rahman.industrial@gmail.com</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black"> or Dr. Ahad Ali </SPAN><A href="mailto:aali@ltu.edu"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#0563c1>aali@ltu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black"> (IEOM Orlando Conference Chairs). Details can be found in the website: </SPAN><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=183"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#0563c1>http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=183</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">IEOM Industry Solutions sessions will showcase the industrial case studies and their impacts of the industrial solutions using IE / OM tools and techniques (lean, six sigma, FMEA, simulation, design of experiments, optimization, TOC, PLM, CAE, statistical analysis, etc.) IEOM 2015 Orlando Conference will have a dedicated session for the Industry Solutions where distinguished practitioners provide their presentations including their experiences and journey to be successful. Twenty four speakers will be from various part of the world to address industrial challenges and opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability. Each speaker needs to submit a title of the talk, abstract and a short bio as well as power point presentation prior to the conference. Speaker’s bio, phone and title will be included in the printed conference program booklet. Details including presentations will be published in the CDROM proceedings and conference website.</SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Keynote Speakers:</SPAN></B></P>
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<LI><B><I>Dr. Helmuth Ludwig,</I></B> Executive Vice President, Digital Enterprise Realization and Chief Manufacturing Officer, SIEMENS PLM Software
<LI><B><I>Dr. Pamela McCauley</I></B>, Professor & Director of the Ergonomics Laboratory, Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
<LI><B><I>Dr. Miguel Gastón Cedillo-Campos,</I></B> Professor in Logistics Systems Dynamics, Senior Researcher, Mexican Institute of Transportation and Founding President, Mexican Logistics and Supply Chain Association (AML) </LI>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">ONLINE Submission Site:</SPAN></B> <A href="http://www.xcdsystem.com/icmoe2015/" target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #0563c1">www.xcdsystem.com/icmoe2015/</SPAN></A> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Student competitions are arranged: </SPAN><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=344"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#0563c1>http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=344</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: black">. Award certificates and cash prizes will be given for the first, second and third place winners for each category: </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=186"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: navy">Undergraduate Paper Competition</SPAN></A><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000"> sponsored by SIEMENS </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%" align=center><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=190"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: navy; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%">Graduate Paper Competition sponsored by </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: #c00000; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%">EATON</SPAN></A> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%" align=center><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=196"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: navy; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%">Senior Capstone Design Project / Final Year Project (FYP) Competition Details</SPAN></A> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%" align=center><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=193"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: navy; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%">Undergraduate Research Competition Details</SPAN></A> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white; TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%" align=center><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=199"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: navy; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%">High School STEM Project Competition Details</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; COLOR: navy; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%"><BR>
</SPAN><A href="http://iieom.org/icmoe2015/?page_id=114"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT: 130%"><FONT color=#0563c1>Poster Competition</FONT></SPAN></A><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"> </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">The upcoming 2015 Orlando Conference will provide great value to the participants. You and your students are encouraged to participate in this event. </SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Thanks for your attention.</SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Regards,</SPAN></P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Dr. Anwar Rahman, University of Southern Mississippi<BR>
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Conference Chair<BR>
</SPAN><A href="mailto:rahman.industrial@gmail.com"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif"><FONT color=#0563c1>rahman.industrial@gmail.com</FONT></SPAN></A> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Dr. Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University<BR>
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: black">Conference Co-Chair<BR>
</SPAN><A href="mailto:aali@ltu.edu"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT color=#0563c1>aali@ltu.edu</FONT></SPAN></A> </P>
<P style="BACKGROUND: white"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif">Conference Site: </SPAN><A href="http://www.iieom.org/icmoe2015/" target=_blank><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, sans-serif; COLOR: #0563c1">www.iieom.org/icmoe2015/</SPAN></A> </P>
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