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Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department

Cal Poly Pomona WESTEC Team Lance Ideker receives the William B. Johnson Award
Manufacturing Engineering Students from the IME Department swept their available events at the WESTEC Manufacturing Challenge in Los Angeles on March 27. Team members are Robby Leuer, Dika Handayani, Lance Ideker, Trevor Law (not pictured), Xavier Lopez, Stephen Casillas, Elias Tahhan, Benjamin Nguyen, Brandin Watson, Diana Seanez, and Donato Corona. Also in the picture on the left are Bill Johnson, Ed Halloran, and AMS Advisor Dr. Victor Okhuysen. On the right Lance Ideker is shown receiving the William B. Johnson Leadership Award and Scholarship for his great job leading the design effort as well as the student organization, AMS. The AMS team designed and built a 3D printer...an amazing job in a short perior of time. Thanks also to Prof. Dixon Davis for his contributions to the team's effort.
Amanda Smith wins First Prize at Promodel Simulation Competition

Internal IIE Vice President Amanda Smith wins First Place at the International Academic Portion of the Predictive Analytics with Simulation Conference held in Orlando, Florida. The competition was hosted in conjunction with the 2011 ProModel Solution Conference. The other two finalists were teams from Mexico and the United Kingdom.Miss Smith was judged by a panel of industry and academic professionals. Among them was the co-author of the Simulation using ProModel textbook that is used at CPP and creator of the ProModel software, Dr. Charles Harrell (shown in photo). She brought home not only a two-thousand dollar cash award, but 20 temporary full licenses of the ProModel software to be installed on the lab computers in Building 17. Sample of Mandee's simulation
IME Department at the IIEConference in Reno

IIE Awards - Cal Poly Pomona industrial engineeing students, faculty, and officers at the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) International Conference in May. Shown in the center is IE student Ben Tran who won First Place in the International Paper Competition (second place was Georgia Tech). Faculty Advisor Dr. Kamran Abedini is second from right. On the far right is IIE officer and Industrial Advisory Council member Kaz Takeda.Polycentric article
25th Anniversary of Challenger Disaster

25th Anniversary of the Challenger Disaster
- Students and Faculty from Professor Davis and Dolske's EGR 402 Ethical Considerations class attended a symposium at Chapman University honoring the seven astronauts who lost their lives inthe Challenger Space Shuttle disaster 25 years ago. Also shown in picture is "Whistleblower" Richard C. Cook and Project Engineer Allan McDonald who tried to stop the launch at the Cape. Each have subsequently written books about their experiences.

Gold Tournament!!! Circor to Sponsor Fundraising Event for IME Department Scholarships

  • Monday, April 30, 2012, 1:00 p.m. will be the starting time for the Circor Aerospace Charity Golf Golf Course LogoTournament created specifically to raise scholarship funds for IME & ME Students at Cal Poly Pomona and support several other charities. The tournament will be held at Vellano Country Club in Chino Hills. MFE Alum and Circor engineer Daniel Granillo is coordinating the effort along with students, faculty, and Circor employees. For registration and tournament information please see the downloadable flyer or refer to the tournament website! Thank you to everyone involved in planning and coordinating the event.

Impaction Status!!!!!!

  • Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering are not impacted majors at this time. If you are interested in an exciting career in either of these fields, please apply or see below for additional information .

New Administrative Support Coordinator: Kimberly Davis !

IME Department Administrative Support Coordinator Kimberly Davis

  • If you come by the IME Department office, please welcome Kimberly Davis. Gail Hall retired at the end of June and Kimberly took over in the IME Department office on September 1. Kimberly is new to Cal Poly Pomona campus as an employee, but has visited the campus many times.

Items of Interest

Linda Russell

  • IE Graduate Linda Russell (2004) has been writing and recording music for her band Raindrum. Click here to see some of their music videos.

Dixon Davis receiving outstanding faculty award

General IME Department Information

IME Program Information

IME Student Organizations

IME Student News

  • IE Student Kim Collins (far right) is President of the Broncettes Dance Team of Cal Poly Pomona. The Broncettes perform at basketball games and other campus events. Broncettes Dance Team

  • IME Student Jeff Weintraub elected ASI President for 2008-2009
Jeff Weitraub, IME Student and ASI President
  • IME on the JMT - Aleksandra Davis (BS Business, MS Business), Dixon Davis (MFE, MSEM), David Rosenkrantz (MFE student), IME Professor Phil Rosenkrantz, and Bill De Witt (MFE) on the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California

    IME on the JMT