We’re excited to host the annual Western Region technical paper competition. This is a great opportunity to show off your industrial engineering expertise through a paper explaining your ISE work – from past research, a project for a company/internship, a class project, or something else entirely.
By submitting your paper here, you’ll have the chance to present your work at the Western Regional Conference.
The deadline for submission is February 1, 2025.
Prizes
Cash prizes will be awarded for the first, second, and third-place winners:
- 1st place: $300 cash prize & opportunity to present at the IISE Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA
- 2nd place: $150 cash prize
- 3rd place: $50 cash prize
Submission requirements
Submitter requirements
- The author must be an undergraduate student when the paper was written.
- Paper can be projects done for a company as part of a course, internship, or other activity. They may be undergraduate research projects done at the home institution.
- A faculty member may serve as an advisor on a project, but the work should primarily be done by the students.
- A faculty member cannot be a co-author of the paper.
- Only IISE members are eligible to participate.
- Each participating university, including the host institution, may submit up to two papers as entries.
Paper requirements
- Formatted on letter (8½-inch x 11-inch) paper
- No more than 20 pages including appendices and visuals
- Times New Roman, 11 point font
- Margins of 1 inch (2.5 cm) all around
- Single spacing
- All text justified (not left aligned or centered)
- The following information should be placed at the top of the first page:
• Paper title: 16 point Times New Roman bold and centered.
• Author(s) listing: 12 point Times New Roman bold, centered and include names, university, city, state, zip code and country. - Text should be organized into sections and subsections, with an introduction and a conclusions section being advisable. A single line should separate paragraphs; no indentation should be used. Font guidelines are as follows:
• Section headings: numbered, 12 point, bold, upper and lower case, left-justified and leave one blank line above only.
• Section sub-headings: numbered, 11 point, bold, upper and lower case, left-justified and leave one blank line above only.
• Regular text: 11 point Times New Roman, full justified and a single line between paragraphs. - Sub-bullets must be indented.
- Figures, tables and their captions
Tables and figures when included in the main text need to be as close to the point of their introduction as possible. It is noted that figure and table numbering should be independent. Captions guidelines are as follows:
• Figure captions: 10 point Times New Roman, centered and place below the figure, leave one blank line above and below.
• Table caption: 10 point Times New Roman, centered and place above the table, leave one blank line above only. - Equations should be centered and numbered, with the number in parentheses, positioned flush to the right margin. Preferably, they should be prepared with an equation writer.
For more information on requirements, please visit the IISE website: https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=863