February— The Chocolate Month?

OHIO IISE:

The Columbus Chapter serves the entire Eastern Half of Ohio (in the Great Lakes Region of IISE)

The Dayton-Cincinnati Chapter led by Pratik Parikh from Wright State, serves SW Ohio.

The Toledo Chapter led by Donald Paisley, serves the Toledo greater area, NW Ohio.

I researched what February is known for and yep, it is best known for Valentine’s Day

and hence Chocolate. Then I searched for images of boxes of Valentine’s Day Chocolate

and what do you know, I found one that had a bunch of Buckeye Candies in it!! see

above. Perfect.

So, as we start February, let’s think about LIVING, and LOVING, and SERVING..

See our new initiative to support the Columbus Early Learning Centers!!!

The Eastern Ohio Regional

Chapter

We have Seven things to share with you this Month:

(1) Updated Calendar of Events for 2017—don’t miss our great

line up of developmental offerings from our Chapter, see our

preview of coming attractions in this section. (repeated from

last memo)

(2) Highlights from our 26 January Lunch and Learn Webinar

on The Next Seven Habits for Young Professionals that will

accelerate Career Success.

(3) Student Members now graduated can join IISE as

Professional Members for Half Price!! See how to do

that

(4) Get to know more Council on Industrial and Systems

Engineering members—Jim Dobson, Disney

(5)Last Chance to Register for our Great Lakes

Regional Conference at Ohio University this Month

AND the IISE Annual Conference in May!! (personal

note from Scott about going to Conferences)

(6) Get to know our Members in the Chapter/Mini-Region

(7) Volunteer to join our Chapter in Supporting the

Columbus Early Learning Centers—see what and how…

(8) Integrated LeanSigma Case Study (continued)

2017 Preview of Coming Attractions:

Monthly Memos will continue every Month as has been the case this year and look for

continued innovation in terms of what we share throughout the coming year.

February 24-26: Ohio University Student Chapter Hosts the Great Lakes Regional IISE

Conference in Athens Ohio.

March 21st : Lunch and Learn Webinar--Bob Gold and Scott Sink, Applying the Science of

Persuasion to improve your impact as an ISE.

April 25th

: Annual OSU ISE Capstone Senior Design Showcase and Professional Chapter

Member Mixer.

April 26th

: Lunch and Learn Webinar—Integrated LeanSigma Capstone Project Best of Best

June 14th

: Lunch and Learn—REPEAT by Popular Demand The Second 7 Habits Successful

Young Professionals need to develop to accelerate their careers.

August 24th

: Annual Fall Kick-off Chapter Mixer, Schmooze between Professional and

Student Chapters in our Region.

September 21st: Physical and Virtual Professional Chapter Meeting and Affinity Group

Mixers

October 18th

: Annual All-Ohio IISE Dinner Event (hosted by the Dayton Chapter and

supported by the Columbus Chapter)

More To be Determined, Work in Progress

2—Highlights from our January 26 Lunch and Learn Webinar—

The Next 7 Habits for Young Professionals

What are the Second 7 Habits of Highly Successful Young ISE Professionals?

1. Seek and develop strong relationships with Mentors; 2. Build Relationships, get out there and network, Linkedin, IISE, Local/Virtual Chapters, Annual

IISE Conference, Young Professionals Organization; 3. Take Charge of your Brand—work on an aggressive plan to continue to develop your Brand; 4. Be Visible and Manage how you are Positioned—Brag, the art of tooting your own horn without

blowing it 5. Develop Curiosity and become an increasingly Broad and Deep ISE Professional; 6. Establish Thought Leadership, develop the ability to have a point of view and build your

Believability Index; 7. Learn how to Grow and Sustain your Trust Account.

Elizabeth Schweizer, Industry Advisory Board and Engineering Services at Disney, spoke to the first two habits. She shared results from an IAB/YP survey recently completed and discussed ways that IISE is providing offerings that help you find great Mentors and also help you grow professional relationships over time. Jared Dunlap, President of IISE’s Young Professional Group and Management Consultant with Accenture, spoke to Habits 3 and 4. Jared also discussed the Purpose and initiatives that IISE’s Young Professional Group has adopted and is developing and I’d encourage all of you Student Members and recently graduated ISE’s to take full advantage of this group. Jared Frederici, Regional VP for the Great Lakes Region, and Senior Consultant with the Poirier Group wrapped up our webinar by covering off the last three Habits and provided personal examples from his early career that highlighted what the Habits are, why they are important, and how you develop them.

1. Was well enrolled (138

Registered) in and attended

(68 viewed), however, we

experienced a technical

glitch (sound for the first 20

minutes)

2. We will be delivering this

same Webinar again on 14

June, 12-1, Eastern so look

for registration

3. Outstanding content and

advice offered by our three

IISE Young Professionals.

3. Were you a Student Chapter IISE member and

then didn’t Join IISE as a Professional Member?? We have over 200 Student Chapter Members who have not ‘converted’ to professional members since

2012!! Only 10% of the Graduating ISE’s matriculate to their Professional Society.

We want to change that in OHIO!!

Our aim is to create additional value for, to create a compelling reason for you to convert from being a

student Chapter Member to becoming a Professional Member. Be and ISE for Life and take advantage

of all the career development opportunities IISE has to offer. I joined my first year out and have been a

member since 1973 and have accrued tremendous value from being an ISE for life with IISE.

If you don’t receive an e-mail from us with this offer, just send me a note,

sink.22@osu.edu and I’ll sign you up to start to receive the benefits of being

in our Virtual IISE Chapter for All Ohio.

S A , A Z

Did you know? That Student Chapter

members can convert to Regular

Professional Member Status for half price

their first year out of School?

YEP, only $77.00—That’s a Cyber

Monday type DEAL!!

And, did you know that to encourage this

conversation, our Professional Chapter

has gotten IISE to extend the ‘grace

period’, we’re inviting all Student

Chapter Members who didn’t convert all

the way back to 2012!!!

4—Get to know the CISE (Council on Industrial and Systems Engineering) The Council on Industrial and Systems Engineering is 20+ ISE’s who are in essentially the top ISE role in their organization. The intent is to have as many industries, sectors, types of ISE applications represented as possible. Our Purpose is two fold:

1—provide a benchmarking forum for the individuals in the group and 2—to serve our profession and professional society

We value Sharing, Learning, Growing, Serving, Integrity, Excellence.

Meet Jim Dobson:

At Disney Jim is focused on: Operational Process Improvement, New Business Development (Resorts

and Disney Cruise Lines, Demand/Capacity Modeling, Health Benefits and Wellness Strategy, Guest

Experience Initiatives, and Digital Business Expansion.

The Walt Disney Parks and Resorts IE Team serves as an internal business consulting organization,

providing decision support to senior Disney Leaders. There are approximately 100 Full Time IE Cast

Members and 25 ISE College Co-op/Interns Globally. This IE team provides critical decision support

through objective and detailed analytics. Areas of focus are: enhancing guest experience, maximizing

assets and capital investment, reducing operating expenses/increasing profitability, process design and

improvement, and capacity/demand modeling and strategy. IE Disney supports two Domestic Sites, the

Disney Cruise Lines and Four International Sites.

The Team’s is structured in support areas: Operations Research, Park Operations, Resort Sales and

Travel, Line of Business Strategy and Operations, Facilities and Operations Services, and Project

Development. They partner with Operations, Finance, Workforce Management, Imagineering,

Consumer Insights and Revenue Management.

Disney has been a long term member of CISE and a strong partner with IISE and we are fortunate to

have Jim as our most recent representative from Disney on the Council.

Jim is Senior Manager, Industrial Engineering, for Walt Disney Parks

and Resorts. His BSIE is from Clemson University and he minored in

Economics. He also received his MS in Industrial and Systems

Engineering and Business from Georgia Tech.

Jim is originally from Chattanooga, TN and currently resides in

Windermere, FL.

Prior to joining The Walt Disney Company, Jim was employed by

Sonoco and was a Plant Operations Superintendent and also did

SixSigma/Lean Internal Consulting and ISO 9000 Plant Certification.

5—Last Chance to Register!!! 25 February, 2017

2017 IISE Great Lakes Regional Conference

When: February 24-26, 2017 (main conference content on Saturday February 25, 2017)

Where: Ohio University in Athens, OH

Theme: Finding the IE in Relief

Get Involved! As a professional member of IISE, you know that regional conferences play a special role in advancing

Industrial and Systems Engineering. Successful conferences are all about collaboration and starting

important conversations. There are several ways you can help make this event a success:

Volunteer to serve as a session speaker (on a topic related to the theme)

Suggest & provide contact information for a potential speaker

Recruit local talent for your company at the career fair

Invite your company to sponsor the event

BE THERE! Register for and attend the conference and engage in meaningful conversations with

other attendees

Conference Details & Session Speakers - Cami Jones at (937)-768-1149 or

camijones.go@gmial.com

Sponsorships & Registration - Nick Loree at (330)-727-5756 or nl520610@ohio.edu

Career Fair - Jeremy Sams at (443)-564-6331 or js671112@ohio.edu

Conference Website to register https://www.ohio.edu/engineering/glrc17/index.cfm

Go to this link http://www.iienet2.org/annual2/ and click on Register to

ensure you get the early bird discount!!

One thing I was told by my professors at Ohio State when I graduated was that I should

be a member of IISE, my professional society. They told me that a M.D. would never

think of not being a member of the AMA for life so why would an ISE not be a member

of IISE for life. That made sense to me and I joined IISE in 1973 and have been a

member ever since.

This is a HABIT that I’m glad I created and it has paid off for me over my career in

many, many ways.

6—Get to know our IISE Members in the Columbus Virtual Chapter and Mini-Region

Meet Sadie Evans:

From July of 2008 until January of 2014, Sadie was a Management Engineer with Akron Children’s

Hospital. She conducted studies to analyze process capability and also work on right sizing staffing,

assisted in facility design initiatives, and completed a number of Integrated LeanSigma Projects that

improved employee retention and reduced laboratory late charges.

Since January of 2014, Sadie has been in the role of Senior Analytics Coordinator. In that role she

supports Hospital Administrators in establishing structure and governance relative to the Hospital’s data

assets, has developed and designed Qlikview dashboards, and works with data analysts and end users

across the hospital to access data and use it well.

Outside of Work—did you know?

Sadie works with Akron Internationals, an organization that connects with International Students at the

University of Akron. And, she is a member of the Dan Evans Band, a two person band with her

husband Daniel who entertains at assisted living facilities in the Akron Area.

Sadie will be one of the breakout session speakers at our Great Lakes Regional Conference in Athens, at

Ohio University in February so don’t miss her there!!

We hope to entice Sadie into becoming more active in our Columbus-Eastern Ohio Chapter of IISE in

the coming year.

Sadie received her BSISE and MSISE from Ohio University in

2006 and 2008 respectively. She is a certified LeanSigma Green

Belt in Healthcare from Johns Hopkins Medicine (2010).

Sadie had Internships with Honda of America in Marysville and

East Liberty, OH in 2004 and 2005. In 2006, her internship was

with Nationwide Children’s Hospital in the Business Process

Improvement Department.

Then she joined Akron’s Children’s Hospital in July of 2008 and

has been there since that.

7—IISE Chapter 1 supports “Learning thru a Lifetime” at

Columbus Early Learning Centers

Industrial and systems engineers make things better in any industry —Solving

complex problems is our common objective. IISE Chapter 1 has chosen to volunteer

in our community to make a difference – and we need your help!

Which organization are we starting with?

Columbus Early Learning Centers (CELC) operates four locations in the Central Columbus Community.

Of the nearly 300 children that are served at these centers each year, nearly 75% live below 150% of the

federal poverty level. To make early childhood education affordable, 95% receive public assistance or

CELC scholarship funds to give all children access to the education they deserve.

http://www.columbusearlylearning.org/

What has already been done?

OSU student IISE members volunteered at the CELC 130

th anniversary gala on Thursday,

January 26th

and helped to pull off a great event for 230 guests honoring Dr. Lillian Lowery,

President & CEO of FurtureReady Columbus. The theme of the evening and their year,

“Learning thru a Lifetime” was showcased during the “career” silent auction – of course one of

the top packages was that of an Engineer!

IISE Student chapters throughout Ohio have agreed to hold happy hours during February &

March with donations going to buy center supplies

How Can I Help?

Volunteer: o Wednesday, March 1

st @ 10:30am-12pm -Teach a 30 minute STEM class to 4&5 year

olds with other IISE members (supported by classroom teachers). Champion Location -

Approximately 4-6 volunteers needed.

o Thursday, March 2nd

@ 12:30pm-2pm - Teach a 30 minute STEM class to 4&5 year

olds with other IISE members (supported by classroom teachers). Approximately 6-8

volunteers needed.

o Ongoing project (in person/remote ~ 2 hours over 2 months) – act as an adviser to the

OSU IISE student chapter who will be working on 3 key improvement projects for the

center. These include database creation, 5S management of classroom materials and a

HUD parking proposal. Kickoff will be in the evening on Tuesday, February 28th

@ 6pm

at the CELC Champion Center. Details to follow.

Donate: o Time (remote ~30 min): Research STEM activities that parents

can perform at home

o Supplies (remote ~15min): Help CELC fulfill their Amazon wish list as shown below.

How Do I Sign Up?

Register here https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/22N35RH and we will contact you

with further details.

8—Integrated LeanSigma Final Stage and Gate Case Study #2 DEFINE STAGE Here is the next stage of Ellie’s Project, C—Concept Design

Ellie’s Project required the Design for LeanSigma Roadmap/Methodology because we were

reengineering the process. So the next stage is called Concept Design. Here’s her write up.