Academic
Competitions
Each year, as is tradition with the IISE Conference, competitions are held between delegated teams of
students from the various universities attending the conference. Students must work as a team to
showcase their abilities and complete an assigned task in the allotted time period.
Case Study
The most popular of the competitions, students are exposed to a real-life problem provided by a sponsoring organization and challenged to devise and present a realistic solution within 4 hours
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Results:
1st Place : Polytechnique Montréal
David Labonté, Mathieu Parizeau, Dominique Therrien, and Sarah-Chloé Lacoste
2nd Place: Concordia University
Nima Sajedi, Taieb Ben Thabet, Mehdi Boudiffa, and Andrew Abouaccar
Simulation Competition
Teams of up to three students develop over eight weeks a solution to real-world problems and cases with the aid of the Rockwell Automation simulation package: Arena.
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Results:
1st Place : Concordia
Adrienne Richard, Nickolas Turmel, and Nada Kharrague
2nd Place: UQTR
Amélie Corriveau, Alexandra Rousseau, and Audrey Cossette
3rd Place: Dalhousie
Cecil Ash, Ian Kerr, and Dylan Camus
Technical Paper
Delegates from each university write and present a paper on a problem tackled during internships, course projects, or research. The winner of this competition advances to represent Canada at the IISE International Conference
Results:
1st Place : Polytechnique Montréal
Valérie Léonard
2nd Place: Dalhousie
Peter Drohan
3rd Place : Polytechnique Montréal
Roxanne Desrosiers
Theoretical Exam
A test of the theoretical knowledge of the participating teams who collaboratively complete a challenging three-hour exam to test their knowledge of industrial engineering concepts
Results:
1st Place : Polytechnique Montréal
Jean-Philippe Boilard, Vincent Tremblay, Mathilde Ricard, and Eolie Maurice
2nd Place: University of Waterloo
Reed Rogers, Alyssa Hopkins, Sarah McCurdy, and Allison Jacobs
3rd Place: UQTR
Antoine Proulx, Jean-Nicolas Guay, Sarah Charbonneau, and Camille Hamelin-Allard