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December 2012    |    Volume: 44    |    Number: 12

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FEATURES

What’s on your holiday wish list?

Some of IIE’s young professionals share the coolest gifts they hope to get
By Monica Elliott 

Greening your reverse logistics

Decision-making model can help organizations recapture value
By Ali Haji Vahabzadeh and Rosnah Binti Mohd Yusuff 

Looking east for diversity

Female engineering academics – and their supporters – converge in Turkey
By Michael Hughes 

From battlefield to shop floor

Lessons of war can be applied to setting priorities for improvement projects
By Satya S. Chakravorty 

New solutions for production dilemmas

Risk-based planning and scheduling is the wave of the future
By David Sturrock 

FRONT LINE

Top stories in this month's industrial engineering news

  • UA-Huntsville students design glove that functions as wireless keyboard
  • Research by Cornell ergonomists concludes ergonomics must be applied to green building design
  • Report: Workplaces are getting safer in Australia, but more improvements are needed
  • ASU researchers develop software that can estimate greenhouse gas emissions across urban landscapes
  • St. Louis hospital, medical school use lean to aid stroke patients
  • Book of the month: The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, System and Processes by Edward D. Hess and Jeanne Liedtka
  • "Physical Internet" could save billions of dollars, cut CO2 emissions

PERSPECTIVES

Performance by Kevin McManus

Building lessons

Management by Paul Engle 

The maturity model

Health Systems by D. Junell Scheeres 

Transition management: Making it personal

Innovation by Nabil Nasr 

Sustaining the food chain

Member Forum by J.P. Purswell 

The PE exam – updated

FOCUS

This month in IIE news

The December issue includes information about the nominees for open positions on the IIE Board of Trustees and Technical Operations Board as well as voting process details. Nominees were asked the following question: If you are elected, how will you make things better for industrial engineers through your position? 

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QUOTE/UNQUOTE

"There’s really no limit to what you can achieve with a STEM degree, especially in engineering or computer science. Our goal is to bring greater awareness to these fields and help middle and high schools students realize that they have the ability to excel." 

- Norman Dotson, a senior in industrial and systems engineering at Wayne State University and president of Wayne State’s Engineering Student Faculty Board. Read the Front Line section of the May issue to learn more about the board's drive to pitch STEM careers to young people in Michigan.

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