The Symposium was held Friday, March 23 2012 in the Davis Centre foyer. Senior Management Engineering students showcased 11 innovative designs spanning operations research, supply chain, and the design and management of information systems. Projects were applied to a variety of industries including health care, finance, education, food, web commerce, and agriculture.
The Management Engineering symposium was held in conjunction with Nanotechnology Engineering and Software Engineering.
List of Projects
Team 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11
Team 1: Business Process Re-Engineering
Ju Peng Chen, Wen Qin, Pativet Sathiensamrit, Joonha Shin, Xian Ni Yu
In for-profit organizations, it is critical for the organization to have control over its costs and resource utilization in addition to a robust pricing strategy. This project provides real-world consulting value to an engineering services company that is currently struggling to generate profit due to failure in these three areas. The project involves the integration of core business processes designed using industry best practices and an implementation of a core supporting technology to enhance management and operational capabilities. The new process design aims to strengthen the operational core of the organization in order to support future growth.
Team 2: An Interactive Solution to eBooks
Kynan Gallagher, Rashid El-Ladki, Ahmer Rafiq
The project demonstrates the capabilities of multi-touch surface tablets and how they can be leveraged to enrich the educational experience. The interactive solution to eBooks will provide students with an application that gives them access to interactive, collaborative and modifiable content in their textbooks and course documents. The prototype application is being tested on the Blackberry Playbook, though the application is fully compatible with the iPad and Android tablets.
Team 3: SteriPro Operations Analysis
Alex Dueck, Michael Quinlan, Christopher Smellie
The project presents a decision support system for SteriPro, a Mississauga-based company that provides surgical instrument sterilization services for hospitals. Through simulating the facility and its operations, performance metrics with regards to throughput time, queue lengths, and optimal configurations were measured and analyzed. The tool aides SteriPro stakeholders in making decisions regarding capacity for servicing additional hospitals, resource addition and allocation, and facility policies and planning. To date, this decision support system has been used to visually describe production processes and volumes to clients
Team 4: Information Resource Allocation and Scheduling Application (iRASA)
Timothy Annan, Karen Choi, Amanda Leduc, Curtiss Luong
Scheduling hospital operating rooms to minimize patient wait times is a government mandated objective facing hospitals nationwide. While scheduling priority surgeries to occur more often seems like a simple task over the long-term, balancing the impact these surgeries have on hospital resources over the short-term is not. Many scheduled surgeries require a few days of in-patient bed occupancy and use of scarce hospital resources, yet these resource draws are rarely considered when scheduling surgeries. This project designs a software package (iRASA) that solves the operating room scheduling problem by focusing on wait times in addition to in-patient bed requirements and limited surgical resources.
Team 5: Cloud Commerce Network
Tayfun Uzun, Adam Wright
This project demonstrates a unique tag-based e-commerce website. Cloud Commerce Network allows anyone and everyone to sell and market their products with business tools that have traditionally only been available to big-business. Buyers can stumble-upon sellers` products, discovering new products that they may not have found with a text-keyword search.
Team 6: Automated Foreign Exchange Trading System
Arsha Amirghazee, Pranav Sampat, Yu Sheng Zhan
The project allows novice investors to learn about the Foreign Exchange market by conducting trades using an automated foreign exchange strategy. The strategy takes into account the nature of its users, and hence prevents high-risk trades. Due to the educational component of the project, each trade is analysed and explained. The aim is for users to understand the market and to be able to create their own strategies in the future. Automated strategies can yield greater returns compared to conventional trading, because they leverage on the fact that the foreign exchange market is open almost 24 hours a day.
The software created is open source and can be found here.
Team 7: Financial Statement Visualization Tool
Korey Cheung, Matthew Guilherme, Dairai Nyabando, Alphonse Vermeulen
This project assists personal investors by generating visualizations from publicly-listed companies ' financial statements. Using the Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement and Balance Sheet, this tool transforms the data from tables and numbers into easy-to-read figures. Using a historical view and a competitor comparison of these three financial statements, users are able to make better stock selections, and avoid getting caught up in over-hyped companies. The goal of this project is to help individuals produce a more accurate valuation of a company, independent of the current price. On display will be accurate pictures of high-profile technology IPOs, under-valued oil companies and a comparison of various Canadian banks.
Team 8: Implementing Off-Peak Deliveries in the GTA: Costs, Benefits and Challenges
Jessica McPhee, Ari Paunonen, Taufiq Ramji
Using data provided by Nestlé Canada, this project will demonstrate the feasibility and provide a framework for implementation of night-time deliveries in the GTA while avoiding negative impacts on capacity, service times, or cost. The presentation will also examine potential regulatory, conceptual, and inertial obstacles, while discussing the potential benefits to industry, public, and government stakeholders.
Team 9: Inventory DEcision Analysis and Support (IDEAS)
Dhanusha Ambagahawita, E. Jordan Frost, Andrew Novokowsky
Through the application of forecasting, inventory analysis, and statistics, IDEAS (Inventory DEcision Analysis and Support) System provides ACMS Export Incorporated with both the size of their next order as well as the supplier to order from. The overall goal is to match the supply, with an unknown product mix, to the customer demand while providing an easy to use system.
Team 10: Web Service to Facilitate Supply Chain Information
Harleen Ahuja, Pierre-Yves Beaudet, Rachit Shankar, Suraj Srinivas
This project involves the development of a web service to facilitate communication between different entities in the seed industry that use the same web based inventory tracking solution. The main web application has been developed by Bespoke Inventory Solutions and the team is developing a safe and secure method to facilitate communication between the many different entities. Because of the complexity of the seed industry, a specialized solution is needed that will address the concerns of the different entities. The major functionalities of this system include sending orders, processing requests and shipping requests. The communication is done such that the information in the message is secure and complete.
Team 11: Integrated Point of Sale System
Yousif Al-Khder, Anirudh Cavale, Ji Jong Hong, Tharaneesan Nadarajah
The project demonstrates the amalgamation of Management Engineering and Software Engineering principles to create a point of sale system for a local optical store. The software removes any unnecessary paper processes and redundant tasks while providing store with accurate order tracking, inventory tracking and customer information management. The highlight of this project is the seamless implementation of an inventory reorder point system into the software, which will work to prevent overstocking and stock-outs.