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It has become an annual fall tradition for
IIE Twin Cities to host an IIE student
networking event and this fall is no
different.
The IIE Student Chapter from NDSU and
members of the U of M IE graduate
program are joining forces with IIE Twin
Cities to tour some local companies during
the day: GE Power & Water, Stratasys and
Boston Scientific. In the evening, they will
network with professional IEs to broaden
their horizon on what their future careers
can offer.
We will begin the evening with social hour
(appetizers included!), followed by short
presentations by the IIE Board of Directors,
and conclude with friendly competition in
Dave & Buster’s expansive arcade. Feel free
to bring a friend and stop in or depart at any
time during the evening!
This event is a great way to network with
students, recruit potential talent and share
your experiences and career progression.
We hope to see you there!
PROVIDING A NETWORK WITHIN MINNESOTA AND SURROUNDING AREAS TO COLLABORATE ABOUT INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Annual Networking Event with IIE Students
Chapter 38 Newsletter
Join us to connect with some IIE students and share in some friendly competition at Dave & Buster’s
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MEMBER NEWS ......... 3
CHAPTER ACTIVITY REPORT UPDATE .......... 5
UPCOMING EVENTS . 7, 8
NOVEMBER
2014
IIE Twin Cities
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Did you know? The Twin Cities has the 3rd highest employment level in Industrial Engineering compared to other national metropolitan areas.* 1. Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI 2. Los Angeles –Long Beach-Glendale, CA 3. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 4. Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 5. Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn, MI 6. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA 7. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 8. Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ 9. Chicago-Joliet-Naperville, IL 10. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA (*According to the Occupational Employment Statistics of the US Bureau of Labor).
Date Friday, November 7th, 2014 Time 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm Place Dave & Buster’s, 11780 Fountains Way, Maple Grove, MN Cost Free to both Members and Non-Members RSVP An e-invitation has been sent. If you did not receive the invite,
please send your RSVP to [email protected].
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It is scholarship time again! We are accepting
individual student scholarship applications for the
2015 year. Please send applications to:
[email protected] if you are interested or
know a student who wishes to apply.
Lastly, nominations are open for 2015 board
positions. Board participation is an excellent way to
build your leadership skills and to grow your
professional network. I'm proud to say board
retention is very high but we are always looking for
new volunteers to bring new ideas and energy into
our growing chapter. See the following page on
elections for more details.
Our past president, Eric Situmbeko, is running for
Regional IIE Vice President. Please vote for Eric to
continue representation for IIE Twin Cities at the
regional level!
I wish you all a happy fall season and look forward
to seeing you at one of our upcoming events.
Sean
President Sean Dveris, Target [email protected]
President – Elect Tracey Bauer, Electric Machine Company [email protected]
Past President Eric Situmbeko, Innovent [email protected]
Treasurer Jeromy Knapp, RedEye by Stratasys [email protected]
Events Director Kayla Bosak, Target [email protected]
Events Director Jeff Meyer-Quarberg, Donaldson Co. [email protected]
Membership Director Allison Shaver, UPS [email protected]
Website Director Bree Bowersox, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Newsletter Director Jenna Weiland, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Social Media Director Britta Rowan, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Student Liaison Director Ryan Adams, Boston Scientific [email protected]
Board Member at Large John Spriggs, 3M [email protected]
Board Member at Large Stephanie Tom, Target [email protected]
2014 IIE Twin Cities Officers and Board Members Contact Information
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What a great summer! IIE was busy with many events:
• Brilliant Bracelets engineering workshop in
partnership with the Society of Women
Engineers (SWE) and Girl Scouts
• Our highest attended ever Annual Bean Bag
Tournament and BBQ
• Industry connecting events at Modernistic
printing, Seagate and CAT
This fall and winter IIE has a great lineup of tours and
networking in conjunction with student chapters from
our region. I hope you are able to join us at one of our
last two events in 2014.
I would like to personally thank our event hosts for
providing quality tours this past year. They have been
very supportive of our chapter by donating their time
and effort. I would also like to thank our events
directors, Kayla Bosak and Jeff Meyer-Quarberg, for
their dedication and tireless work to schedule these
events.
Sean Dveris, IIE Twin Cities President.
President’s Message
FIND US: iietwincities.org @IIETwinCities IIE Twin Cities
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2015 IIE Twin Cities Board of Directors Elections! Nominations for IIE Twin Cities Board Members are now open for a Jan-Dec 2015 term. Please send an e-mail to [email protected] if you'd like to run for a position or if you'd like to nominate someone else by November 20th, 2014. Serving on the IIE Twin Cities Board of Directors provides you with the benefit to: - Network with other IE and process improvement professionals - Lead the chapter to fulfilling our vision to be recognized as a premier organization in the Twin Cities by providing superior value to students, IE professionals, and continuous improvement professionals - Lead committees - Help develop strategy and action plans to accomplish the chapter's vision - Have fun! Chapter Elected Positions: These positions are voted positions by Chapter 38 membership. Members can nominate other members or themselves. 1. Events Director • Plan Tours, Social Events, and/or other Professional Development events and send out invitations to members • Work hand-in-hand with speakers/event hosts to create a positive experience for both them and IIE • Update surveys for each event using the survey template and record result and attendance for future event planning and
reporting
2. Membership Director • Welcome new members and encourage renewal of membership for expired members or members • Facilitate mass-communication to the chapter membership and respond to member e-mails
3. Web Director • Maintain and update the IIE Chapter 38 website with chapter information and event details • Communicate with National IIE to keep current with website requirements and improvement upgrades
4. Newsletter Director • Create and distribute chapter newsletters to inform members of events, publicize chapter information, encourage involvement
from inactive chapter members and promote IIE • Submit chapter newsletter to IIE National Newsletter Competition
5. Social Media Director • Engage member discussion, facilitate job postings, and communicate chapter
activities through the active use of social media, such as LinkedIn and Twitter
6. Student Liaison Director • Connect with student chapters and promote industrial engineering as a major • Promote attendance to one or more IIE current events as well as involvement
after graduation
7. Board Member at Large • Responsibilities to be delegated by Chapter President (assist other board
members with events, extra projects, etc.) Please see our website, www.iietwincities.org, contact current president Sean Dveris, at [email protected], with any questions!
Member News Upcoming Board of Director Nominations
Welcome New Members!
We currently have 121 members!
• Peter Nelson – St. Jude’s • Smriti Neogi • Jeremiah Johnson – Boston Scientific
IIE Twin Cities would like to welcome new members, renewed
members and members who transferred into our local chapter:
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Local Job Opportunities
For more information on these jobs go to iienet.org, click on ‘Career Center’ and search jobs by location.
Tenured Professor, Dept of Ind & Sys Eng, U of M Minneapolis, MN
Head of Suppy Chain Management, Gillette Children's St. Paul, MN
Product Engineer, Medtonric Fridley, MN
Manufacturing Supervisor, Dow Chemical Edina, MN
Lean Manufacturing Lead, Valmont Industries Farmington, MN
Material Flow Engineer Steffes Corporation, Grand Forks, ND Steffes Corporation is a privately held metal fabrication company that has been providing innovative manufactured products for over 50 years. We are committed to providing quality products and services to our customers. Steffes Corporation is experiencing fantastic growth and we are searching for candidates that are truly passionate about progressing their careers. Position Overview This position is responsible for the design, implementation, and improvement of the material flow process. This position also creates effective, safe, and on-time material delivery systems that control movement of materials from the point of receipt to the point of use in the right amounts, at the right time, in the right place with minimal system cost. They are responsible for coordinating with department supervisors, materials replenishment staff, and material handling personnel. This role facilitates a Systems Thinking approach to optimize the flow of materials throughout fabrication, welding, painting, and assembly steps of production. Minimum Qualifications and Experience
• Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering or related field • Five (5) or more years of experience in manufacturing flow environment
Key Competencies This role requires successful implementation experience with Point Of Use material flow systems. The incumbent will be a self-directed learner who has a high degree of self-motivation and adaptability. The ability to use current technical concepts, apply critical thinking and manage within the dynamics of the team. This roles requires strong attention to detail, problem solving; detail orientation; decision making; oral and written communication. Visit www.steffes.com to learn more about Steffes Corporation, view full job description, or to apply for this great career opportunity!
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Chapter Activity Report
Focus On: Growth and Retention: What does this mean to IIE Twin Cities?
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There is no shortage of professional development and networking opportunities out there to entice
your participation, especially as social media continues to increase the ability to market something
new. When working to retain and grow membership and participation, this is just one challenge that
IIE chapters face. You may ask, “What’s an organization to do?!”
Collaboration IIE Twin Cities also strives to
support and be involved with
other professional
organizations. Society of
Women Engineers (SWE),
American Society of Quality
(ASQ) and Association for
Manufacturing Excellence
(AME) are some of the groups
that we have collaborated
with in recent years. As
Industrial Engineers we often
touch every part of the
process and these connections
can be invaluable. This may
also spark an interest in IIE
amongst a new audience - you
don’t have to be an IE to
benefit from the
methodologies and
experience!
Variety IIE Twin Cities strives to offer a wide range of activities to bring a little something to everyone.
Our strategic plan defines eight as the minimum number of “diverse value-driven events”. Some of
these events are recurring favorites: Bean Bag Tournament and BBQ, November Student
Networking and December Social. Others are a result of the networking that occurs in our daily
lives as Industrial Engineers. New Board members often bring new tour options. A board member
may meet another professional whose endeavors overlap or influence us as IEs (ergonomics
research, quality program deployment or traffic engineering) and then arrange to have them
speak. Participants at an IIE Twin Cities event often suggest or request a specific topic or tour or
even offer to host IIE at his/her own employer.
Marketing
The more opportunities we have to look good, the more likely we are to draw an audience.
Therefore, in recent years, IIE Twin Cities Board of Directors has worked to better utilize media
options. This year, for example:
- Newsletter Director, Jenna Weiland, helped the Board of Directors to make this newsletter
valuable, informative and “easy on the eyes”
- This year Social Media Director, Britta Rowan, initiated a blog on the National IIE website to
share some of our activities
- Chapter members have also helped to make LinkedIn a source for local discussion, job
opportunities and networking in general
- The IIE Twin Cities website was updated in recent years and Webmaster, Bree Bowersox, can
now more easily adapt and update appearance and content
In addition, Board Members traveled to the Regional Student Conference and also established a
specific roll for Student Outreach (thank you to Ryan Adams for establishing and maintaining
communications with a variety of new educational institutions). Finally, every event should be
something to talk about because, as they say, word of mouth is the best advertising!
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6 Annual Bean Bag Tournament and BBQ, July 2014 Past Event Recap
The annual IIE Twin Cities Bean Bag Tournament BBQ continues to be one of our most successful
of the year. Apparently IEs enjoy beverages, grilling, bean bags, and networking on beautiful July
days! Past President, Eric Situmbeko, worked tirelessly behind the grill to cook up some mean
burgers and brats. Student Liaison, Ryan Adams, brought a photo booth with props and folks
were able to get goofy for the camera! Thank you to everyone who came and took part in the
fun. Congratulations to Josh Gravelink and Kyle Schroeder for winning the Bean Bag tournament
this year and to John Spriggs and Matt Ladhoff for being runner’s up!
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After the presentation we toured the plant
and saw firsthand how IEs at Seagate use
tools such as simulation, Andon and Lean
Manufacturing to optimize lead time. The
amount of space and money tied up in capital
equipment makes it important to optimize
scheduling and uptime. After the tour we had
a great happy hour and networking at Joe
Sensor’s. Thanks, Seagate, for hosting a very
informative tour!
In September, Seagate hosted a fabulous
tour of their wafer manufacturing facility in
Bloomington where they make heads/data
readers for hard drives. The tour began with
an overview of Seagate, hard drive global
supply chain, the Bloomington facility and IE
roles within the company. The IE group at
Seagate is an extremely passionate and
energized group. It was fascinating to hear
and see the tools they use and how they
navigate through the evolving data storage
landscape.
Red Eye Tour, September 2014 Past Event Recap
Get to Know Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota
You are invited to learn more about the University of Minnesota Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Meet faculty, hear about our undergraduate and graduate programs, learn about ways your company can get involved and provide insight into what you look for in ISyE graduates.
AGENDA: • 9:45-10:00 am: Welcome reception with food and coffee • 10:00-11:00 am: Learn about ISyE at the University of Minnesota • 11:00-12:00 pm: Open Forum – what do you want to see in our graduates?
We welcome you to forward this invitation to colleagues who may be interested in attending. Thank you for your partnership, and we look forward to seeing you on December 5th!
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering University of Minnesota
Date Friday, December 5th, 2014 Place University of Minnesota
1130 Mechanical Engineering, 111 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN RSVP Online by Wednesday, November, 26th, contact [email protected] with any questions.
Department Head Professor Shuzhong Zhang
Director of Graduate Studies Professor William Cooper
Director of Undergraduate Studies Professor Lisa Miller
December IIE Twin Cities Event
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What is IIE?
IIE is the world’s largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering
profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training,
research and development of industrial engineering.
With approximately 15,000 members and 280 chapters worldwide, IIE’s primary mission is to meet the ever-
changing needs of industrial engineers, which includes undergraduate and graduate students, engineering
practitioners and consultants in all industries, engineering managers, and engineers in education,
research and government.
What is IIE Twin Cities?
The IIE Twin Cities Chapter 38 provides a network for individuals within Minnesota and surrounding areas to
collaborate about industrial engineering. Our members include professionals with industrial engineering degrees, both working in IE and non-IE roles and
professionals working in IE related functions.
We provide monthly events which include topics in professional development, Lean, Six Sigma, Quality,
process improvement and tours at distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, hospitals and consulting firms. We also promote the industrial engineering profession by providing scholarships to IE students and becoming
involved with several student IIE chapters.
November 7 IIE/Student Chapter Joint
Networking Event 10 IEEE: A Panel Presentation on
Home Automation 17 INCOSE: MNSure Lessons
Learned – The Current Status of Healthcare Reform in MN
December 5 Get to Know Industrial &
Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota
10 MNASQ: The Cost of
Corrective Actions
TBD IIE Social Event & Toy Drive Details on all IIE Twin Cities events can be found at www.iietwincities.org. Details on all other events can be found at www.mfests.org.
Events are subject to change.
Upcoming Events
Toy Drive and Social Event
Date TBD in December Place TBD Cost Pay for bowling if desired, free appetizers! RSVP An Evite® invitation will be sent. For more information please contact [email protected]
Keep an eye out for details on the last IIE Twin Cities event of the year – a social gathering and toy drive. Admission to this event will be FREE to members with a donation to Toys for Tots!
Now accepting applicants for the 2014 IIE Twin Cities student scholarships until November 29th!
Applicants must have completed at least one year of undergraduate course work and be a member of IIE. Applications will be reviewed by the IIE Twin Cities Board of Directors and winners will be chosen for $250 scholarships. Please visit our website, www.iietwincities.org, for more information and applications. Winners will be notified in writing before the end of the year.