Congratulations to our 2015 undergraduate class!
This past week at the CORS/INFORMS 2015 conference in Montreal, Two Management Engineering (MGMT) teams won the top two prizes in the 2015 Student Paper Competition in the Undergraduate Category. A third team was placed among the finalists (out of a total of 5 finalist teams from across Canada). Presented papers were all based on capstone design projects.
CORS/INFORMS is an annual joint international meeting of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) organization.
First Prize, Undergraduate Category:
Zhara Bodla, Ahad Ismail, Ra’ad Daoud, AbdulRehman Shaheen
Redesigning Fischer Canada’s Facility Layout and Scheduling Operations.
Honourable Mention, Undergraduate Category:
Jordan Moreau, Ian Gresel, Mohamed Hashem, Andrew Scott
Feeding Iqaluit: a Consolidated Shipment Ordering System
Finalist, Undergraduate Category:
Chia Lin Huang, Allison Ngsee, Samantha Poon, Amanda Thompson
Slowdown or Speedup: Examining Effects of Length of Stay on Readmission Rates to Hospitals