This annual competition is a great way for IIE Northeast Region students to share their research with faculty, company representatives, and peers.  Thriving on well-written papers and excellent presentations, this competition allows for generic research entries, thesis based work, or projects from internships and/or co-ops within industry.  Monetary prizes are awarded to the top three participants.  We encourage each chapter attending to submit papers from students who have shown a deep, knowledgeable understanding and interest of their topics to compete with the best and brightest students in the region. 

Digital Entries due by March 19th, 2010. Email entries to iieconference.psu@gmail.com.

Here are a few guidelines for the competition:

Eligibility

• Students must be in their Junior or Senior years and must have written the paper in one of those two years
• Papers may either be projects completed in industry or undergraduate research projects
• Entrants must be IIE members
• Each university is allowed to submit up to two papers
• Papers and oral presentations must be in English
• Multi-authored papers are eligible providing that names of all of the authors appear on the paper
• Only entrants from schools in the Northeast Region will be eligible to win

Formatting

• 8.5 x 11-inch paper
• Should not exceed 20 pages including appendices
• Font must be Times New Roman, point size 11
• 1-inch margins
• Single spacing
• Must submit a digital copy (.pdf, .doc, .docx)
• Faculty advisor or department head must certify that the paper is undergraduate work and that the student is a member of IIE

Presentation

• Presentations should be 10 to 12 minutes long
• An additional 3 minutes will be allowed for questions
• Posters or PowerPoint Slides are acceptable (bring digital copy on USB drive)

Judging

• Three judges will be present to deliberate and score entries
• 75% based on written presentation and 25% based on oral presentation
• Oral presentation for finalists cannot exceed 15 minutes plus three minutes for questions that come from judges and students whom are outside of the presenter’s chapter

Winners

• Monetary prizes will be awarded to the top three participants

• First place winner will participate in the international competition

• If the first place winner cannot attend the international competition, the second place winner will be asked to participate

• Winners will be announced at the banquet Saturday night

For full details about the technical paper competition please visit the official IIE Technical Paper Competition Information Site.

The Pennsylvania State University

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