WISE Executive Director, Professor Jatin Nathwani delivered the opening keynote on October 23.
Program:
October 22, 2019 (Tuesday)
13:00 – 20:00 Registration
20:00 – 22:00 IEOM Meetings
October 23, 2013 (Wednesday)
07:00 – 17:00 Registration
09:30 – 9:40 Welcome Address
09:40 – 10:20 Opening Keynote I:
Dr. Jatin Nathwani, Professor and Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy, Executive Director, Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE), Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Environment, Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
10:20 – 11:00 Opening Keynote II:
Shalabh Bakshi, Director, Digital Enterprise and MindSphere, Digital Factory Division, Siemens Canada Limited, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
“Digital Enterprise “Industry 4.0” and Mindsphere “Open Cloud based IoT Operating system”
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall
11:30 – 12:00 Tuesday Keynote III:
Ahmad K. Elshennawy, Ph.D., Professor, Executive Director of The UCF Quality Institute, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida, USA
12:00 – 12:30 Tuesday Keynote IV:
Jeffrey Jones, Plant Manager, Etobicoke Casting Plant, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ontario, Canada
12:30 – 1:00 Tuesday Keynote V
13:00 – 14:30 Buffet Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Wednesday Lunch Keynote:
Dr. Gursel Suer, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions
18:00 – 20:00 Poster Session and Student Chapter Mixer
October 24, 2019 (Thursday)
07:00 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 09:30 Parallel Sessions
09:40 – 10:20 Thursday Morning Keynote I:
Dr. Andrew K.S. Jardine, Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering, Department of Mechanical and industrial Engineering, Founding Director of the Centre for Maintenance Optimization & Reliability Engineering (C-MORE), University of Toronto, Canada
10:20 – 11:00 Thursday Morning Keynote II:
Peter Merrill, President, Quest Management Inc., Canada
Knowledge and Skills for Industry 4.0
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall
11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Buffet
13:30 – 14:00 Thursday Lunch Keynote:
Eric Ayanegui, CPMM, CRL, Director Operations Engineering, Cintas Corporation, Houston, Texas, USA
14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions
18:00 – 22:00 Tours
October 25, 2019 (Friday)
07:00 – 17:00 Registration
08:00 – 18:00 Lean Six Sigma Workshop
08:00 – 09:30 Parallel Sessions
09:40 – 10:20 Friday Morning Keynote I:
Todd Deaville, Director of Engineering and R&D, Magna International Inc., Toronto, Canada
10:20 – 11:00: Friday Morning Keynote II:
Dr. Samir Elhedhli, Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
11:00 – 11:30 Networking Break at Exhibition Hall
8:00 – 11:30 High School and Middle School STEM Poster Competition
11:30 – 12:00: Friday Morning Keynote III:
Dr. Birsen Donmez, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation, University of Toronto, Canada
12:00 – 12:30: Friday Morning Keynote IV
12:30 – 13:00: Friday Morning Keynote V
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Buffet
13:40 – 14:00 Friday Lunch Keynote:
Mr. Lee Childers, Chief Executive Officer, Tooling Tech Group, Macomb, Michigan, USA
14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Sessions
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 18:00 Parallel Sessions
19:00 – 22:00 CONFERENCE AWARD DINNER
Awards Keynote
Other Activities
- Dedicated IEOM Global Engineering Education Sessions
- Dedicated IEOM Industry Solutions Sessions
- Dedicated IEOM Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Sessions
- Poster Sessions
- Undergraduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by SIEMENS
- Graduate/Postgraduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by EATON Corporation
- Capstone Senior Design Project Poster Competition
- Undergraduate STEM Research Competition
- Doctoral Dissertation Competition
- Masters Thesis Competition
- Simulation and PLM Competition
- High School and Middle School STEM Project Competition
- Exhibitors and Sponsors Opportunities