IELM Newsletter, Issue No. 12

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OfP"'~TIoUNT Of

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT

T

he

Illany

world-c

l

ass contributions of Profrssor Pugcc

Tsung, IEL~' lIead of DCl'artrnenL. have been further

recognized

r('cenlly

with the aw

a

rding of

three

prrSligiolls inl('rnational honors -

Fellow

or th

e Institute of Industrial Engincer~ (111-:). liE Transactions 2009 Best Paper

A\\ard and

lhe

Outstanding

liE Publication

Award

June pro\cd a remarkable month for Professor ~'ugce Tsung, Head of lhe Deparlmenl of Industrial F.:ngineering and

Logistics

\Ianagement.

whrn

he was presented

with

lhree

lop 9\\ards from lhe Instllute of Industrial E:ngineers (liE) aL an Honors and Awards Banquet Bllhe Industrial Engineering Research Confrrence In Cancun. Me>.ico.

Among his achil'\'cm('nlS, hI'

became

one of only fivl' liE

F'rllows

in th(' Greater China Region (mainland China. liang I(ong and Taiwan) after receiving an

liE

Pellow Award 2010 for his contrihutions LO the firl(l.

118 is the worid'~ largest profeSSional society dcdiGaled solely to the StlPll0rt of thr irHillstrial engineering profesSion <HId individuals in\o!\cd in improving quality and productivity, The Litle of Fello\.\ is the organlzallon's highest classification of membership. Thollf' \\ho arc made fcllo\\s must hdve

-df'1ll0nSlrnled significant accomplishments in their professional career and in service to industrial engineering, according to liE.

Prof Tsung received the Outstanding Ill:: Publication Award for his research paper 'StalisLical Monitoring of Multi-stage Procrsses Bascd on Engineering Modcls~. In the Study. Prof Tsung and his co-aulhor develop an approach to address lhls problem. using enginccring mod('ls based on phYSical and mechanical la\Vs to represent ho\\ (IUalil y \ariations are transmitted from one stage to the next. The award is glH'n in recognition

or

an ou~slanding publica lion across all liE-focused issues and jOurnals and is a highly regarded achie'Vcmcnt for research academics in lhc field.

lie secured the liE Transactions

2009

Best

Paper Award for the samc paper. whiCh was published in !IF~ Transactions in 2008, It ji> the second time IlC has won slIch an award.

The leading [luHlemic has \.\orked

at

HKUST sincr 1097. lie rcceiH'd his

d

octorate

Ilnd master'

s

degrees

in

industrial and ol>cralions engineering from the University of ~1iehigan and

a

ilachelor degrce in mechanical engineering from 'l"ational Taiwan ul1l\ersHy.

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MESSAGE

FROM

THE DEPARTMENT HEAD

TIme l)aSSeS so quick.ly ... WiLli Lhe start of the 2010 Fall Semester already in sight. I am happy to say thaL the last

Fall and Spring SemcSlers proved extremel} fruitful. mak.ing it a rewarding academic year ror our Department. Members or

IELM

have continued to receive many diHcrcnL kinds of awards. including the liE Transactions 2009 Best Paper

Award. Outstanding l

i

E Publicalion

Award.

PO~lS

Excellence

Service Award and CI LTII " Student Day 2010 Championshl!l. This is a !'~~SUll or the

ioint

efforts and hard work of our raeully members and students. and shows lhe dedication and

commitment

to

excellence

lh(lllhe Deparlment i

n

s

p

ire!).

As crlucators. we arc always eager to discuss our latest

research findings \\llh the

wider community. Significant events organized recently include the 4th lnternallonal Lean Six Sigma Conference cum 1st lIeallhcare Improvement

Conference 2010 and the \1anuracturing Industry Leadership \\orkshOp. Through these activilies. we have been able 10 prOvide insights In LWO \er> different but highly important an'nas. dt'lIlonSlraUng hath the range of our expertise and our enthusiasm ror sharing it.

We 'Will strive to offer an even morc stlmullHing research and learning environment for OUI' faculty members and sludenLS in the future. and take the DeparlmenllO new heights

I'rof'cssor f'ug~t· TSllng Professor ;lfId Head

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IELM

FACULTY NEWS

Professor (

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Lf"r. Chair Professor. has hren 8lJPOinlf'd a Council .\/cmhrr of lIong Aong R&D Cenler (or l,olJi.~liC'" and SupplJ Chc/in \li/nagemt"nt Enabling Techno/apies. ·1ccordlnR to an artielr in the International JOUl'fI,t! of Prmluflion f:('o/Jomic,~, "llich /ooJ.:e(/ at all papers publilShc<111I the 20 core ;ournols in {he field of prorlucIJon ,1m! oprl'a/ions manil/:rtnellf during Ihe past 50 .~edr.~. !'fof 1.('(' II

os

rankrd '\'0. ti ;unOllg alll'escarcher,~

IIwJdwidl' In th(' h-indel: ond No,9 in fowf number of

{Jublications.

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tssoclatc PI'OIc8.50r. lJa~ h(H'n cfrc/ed iict-Prt'silh'lIl of III(' InSIilUll' of II/dustrial

Bng/nN'rs (Jlong 10.0111:).

PrOr .. 880r \tllth .. 11 Tsrn •. Chair Professor. has been

aJlllo/flIed \anl'.:wgl'rofrs.'Ior al Vanpng Tecllnological

L'nJlersily In Sinpaporc.

1-.,OrrMtUlr FU8er Tsang. lIe,lflof OCPMLI1ICIII. has /)('('n elCCled /o,'dllor-in-Chief of Quality Technolog}, .1nd Qu,1nlitallH' Hlwal:('wrnt. Hr hilS also heen inlilrd 10 /)r

Ihe bla-f'acific represtl/latin' of the International Activif/rs Commiller of the Institute for Opf'rilUons R('s{'rH'ch aJl(I Mf.lnagcIfICfJ/ Scicl/ce (INfORMS). I'rof

'li>ullg· S allard-IVinning paper -Statistical MoniloriJlg Of

A!ul!i'SIl1RI' Processc,; BaS('d on Enginef'ring

Mudr:/s-jlllfJliS/I('(/ in IfI~ Trami{JcCions in 2008 has been higlJllg/Jled

by academic pII/ll/shers Taylor 6: Francis as onc of the mOSl-('i/('d articlc$ (rolll 2006-08.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

FACULTY

POMS Excellence Service Award

Professor Chung-Yce Lee. Chair Professor. has received an

Excellence

Sen

ice Av.ar(i fro III the Production and

Operations Management SOciety (PO~1S) for his

contributlons as a Hoard Member and Regional Vice-Presidenl

for

Australasia.

American Society for Quality Fellow

Professor Fugco Tsung. Head of

De

p

anmeol.

has been

elected a Fellow of the American Society for Ouality (ASO) in recognition of his slgnHicant COlllribuLions La the ficld.

This is the organization's highest honor. Prof Tsung received

the accolade -for truly oUlSlanding academic achievements

in the rlcld of Iluali1y; for professional activities spanning

many years and without national boundaries; and for personal initiath'es in promoLing educational programs and applicalion prOjects throughout Asia". according to his citation. ASO Is the largest proressional association and leading authority globally on quality improvement. quality control and cenHicallon in all riclds including

manuracturing. educaLJon. lleaJLhcare. the service sector and governmen1. The Society has more than

100.000

members worldwide. There are only fOlll' ASO fellows ill

Greater China to dale. Prof Tsung is an ASQ Certified Six Sigma I3lack l3elt and an ASO Atlthori'lcd Six Sigma Master Black Belt Trainer.

SOLA-AIR Products BI-annual Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention

Proressor Ho-Yin Mal.'.. ASSistant

Proressor. received an Honorable Mention at the SOLA-AIR Products

Si-annual Dlsserlation Award ror

his dissertation on "Integrated Supply Chain D('slgn Under UncenaillLy". The award, spoosored by INFORMS and Air

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_--Products and Chemicals. Inc. focuses on the area of location analySIS.

2009 Management Science Distinguished SeNlce Award

Professor Oian Llu, Assistant Professor. has received Ihc

2009

~lanagcml'nl Science Dislinguished Service

Award.

Management Science is INFORMS' ftagshil) iournal.

George Nlc:holson Student raper c.ompetltlon, Honorable Mention

Proressor Jihel1{l Zhang.

AssiSlant I'roresso!'.

reeeivrd an Honorable Mention in the George Nicholson Student

Paller Competillon for his paper '~'Iuid

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---Models of Many-sener Oueues wl,h Abandonment-.

'" rillen 1'0 hen he was still a student. The compelHion

saw nine papers reach lhe finals. 1l is held annually La honor outstanding student papers in the ricld of

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rescilrch and management sciences.

Kong Ergonomlc:s Sodety Fellow

Proressor Richard So. Associate Professor.

has been made a Fellow or the Hong t..ong

8rgonomlcs Suciety. He also delivned a

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HONORS

AND

AWARDS

STUDENTS

POMS·HK Conference Best Student Paper Winners

PhD candidates XI Yang. supervised by Professors Rachel

Zhang and "aiile Zhu. and Jlc Zhang, supervised by

Professors Jeff Hong and Rachel Zhang. were awarded

PirSl Prize and Second Prj/(' respecli-.cly in the Best

Student Paper CompetitiOn at the First PO~IS-IIK International Conference. The event was organized by the

Pl'Oduction and Operations Management SOCiety (rOMS)

-lIong !..ong Chapter,

Double Success at liE (HK) FInal Year

Prolect

CompetItion 2009-10

IELM learns lOok. ll'.O major I)rizes althc

m;

(11K) Final Year

Project Com pet ilion 2000-\ 0, including the lOp award. Au Wing Lam. Llu Man Lung, Sun On Lee and Wong Tsz Wan received the Champion award for their project focusing on corporate revenue managcmenL of advertising. Thc sludy

aimed LO help companlcs allocaLe their advcrtising IHlllgClS

cfrectively t.hrough developing an optImization model and

~le(lia Planning Analyzer computcr program to provlc!r Insight on advertiSing planninG deciSions for muillpic

mcdia.

A project by Gong Yeo lie Long. Ng lIiu-ping and Yang Yang gained the Second Runner-up prize. The team looked InLO

-Decision Making In Mass Vaccination Through Epidemic

Modeling-. The Innovali\'c project pUl foP,\ard a

vaccination deployment model wllh the help of optimization

a

nd

simulaLion techniques. The conlest

\\8S

organized by

the Institute of

Industrial Engineers (liong Kong).

Hong Kong RFiD Awards U-21 RFiO 2009. Certlflcate

of Merit

CharI Yun Kit. Calvin Wong Ka Wan. Wong Shlng Yin and Vall

Tok Ming received

a

Certificate of Merit

a

t

the liang f,;ong

RFID Awards U-21 RPID 2000. organized by GSI Hong

Kong.

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HONORS AND AWARDS

STUDENTS

CllTHK Student Day 20 I 0

CongraLUlations to OUI' tram

or

five - lie Long, Gong Ye, ~la Miu Yin, Yang Yang and Ale>.. Yap Shaw Liang - who 'Won Llle Championship al

CI tTl I K Student Day 2010, Eight other tertiary institutions from

I-long f..ong and \1acall l)BrUclpated along with HKUST. The main

roclls

lay

in

honing I)<lrtlcipants' problem solving

anel presentation

~kills. ~~ach learn was required to come up with solutions

ror

recent

logistics and transport issues within a specifiC time period, and then defend lheir PI'oposals against criticism from othrr reams. The event

\\'8S organIzed lIy The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong.

2010 University Football Intramural Competition

The Department' s

rootballtcarn

gainrd second place in the 2010 University Football Intl'amural Competllion, arranged by IIKUST' s

Sports

Assoc

i

ation,

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EVENTS

Toast to £EM Alumni Association's First Annual Dinner

In Marcil. gralluaws of Ihe MSc in E:ngineCl'ing EnLCl'Ilrisc

Management established their own Engineering Enterprise

Management Alumni Association (Ef:MAA). A series of

interesting acLivilies have since been planned. the first being

the F:EMAA's inaugural Annual Dinner held in May. Mol'c than

100 alumni and faCility members panieillHLed. enabling

gra

duates and

pror

ess

or

s

to

catc

h up

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in some cases after a

long while. Everyone was delighted La meet again at the

dinner. creating a memDl'able occasion enioyed by all.

Insight on

Six Sigma

The 'Ilh jrllernaLional Lean Six Sigma Conference curn

1st Ilealthcarc Improvement Conference 2010.

co-organized by !ELM and Lhe Six Sigma InstitulC. was

held on March 20. The event which proved a huge

success. was attended by scholars from

world· renowned academic insUlutions as well as

professionals and executives from companies and organizations across the globe. At the conference.

distinguished experts and a<.:adcmics ~harcd tileir

insights on recent developments in six sigma. IL

(liso provided a useful platrorm for exchange

between educators, manufncturing speCialists. bUSiness rcpresentatives. proFcssional associations. government officials and

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EVENTS

M.dnland Manufuturlng leadership Workshop Looks Ahud

With China becoming the manufacturing powerhouse for the

world. there is a growing demand

ror

its industries to upgrade and transform. Wor'klng wllh the local government in Zhcjiang Province. Ht..LST' s Advanced \1anuFacluring Institute (A~Il)

recently

organized

a

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l

Hccchcd lwo-week

workshop

for

mainlanu manufacturing irHlllslry leaders. Allending lh('

\\orkshop were CEOs and COOs from companies Wilh re\cnues

of

100

million

R\1B \0 I

billion RMB.

The ]lrogram contrnl covcrrd five modules: Stralegic Planning. Decision MaKing, lIumdn Resource Dc\elopflH'M, OpcrMion ManagemenL and I nlernct of Things. It also provided

a

varirly of teaching and lrarning methods,

combining classroom lectures, hands-on lab sessions. case discussion. prOJecl competitiOn,

small group discussion, and

siLr vlsilS.

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