The IEOM Society is continuing to organize the Sixth International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. The conference will be held March 8-10, 2016 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The venue is the JW Marriott KL, a 5-star flagship boutique hotel in Kuala Lumpur’s central business district. It is located in in the heart of the exciting “Golden Triangle”, the city’s prime business and shopping district and adjoined to the prestigious Starhill Gallery.

IEOM Society will publish full papers of IEOM 2016 in IEEE Xplore like IEOM 2015 Dubai. IEEE Malaysia Section is sponsoring our event in KL. The following steps are required to publish your paper in IEEE:

• Submit your full paper by the deadline
• The paper must be accepted by the IEOM publication team
• Revise your paper according to reviewers and publication team’s comments
• Received the final notification that the quality of the paper is good enough for IEEE Xplore publication
• Convert your final manuscript into PDF through PDF XPRESS (instruction will be provided after final acceptance). Before Creating a PDF, you have to add the copyright notice (978-1-4673-7762-1/16/$31.00 ©2016 IEEE) to the bottom of the first page of your source document.

Online Submission:  www.xcdsystem.com/ieom2016/

All papers are subject to peer review. Authors can submit full paper(s) or abstract(s) only. The IEOM Society encourages the submission of full paper(s). Any submission implies that an author will attend the 2016 IEOM Conference in Kuala Lumpur and present the paper or abstract.

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2015

If you are interested to serve as a trach chair, please sen an email to conference@iieom.org. As a track chair, you may have the following responsibilities:

• Attract quality submissions
• Determine acceptance of abstracts submitted to your technical area, if necessary.
• Re-assign abstracts to another technical area, if necessary.
• Assist in the paper review process.
• Coordinate with session chairs.
• Nominate a paper for consideration for Best Paper for the track. A track chair cannot nominate his/her own paper from his/her own track for best paper consideration.

Based on the requests, we are scheduling two sessions of ABET workshops on Program Assessment. Seats are limited; therefore, we suggest you make your reservations early.  

Keynote speakers

Dr. Rupy Sawhney, Heath Fellow in Business and Engineering and Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Dr. Hans-Juergen Hoyer, Secretary General of the International Federation for Engineering Education Societies (IFEES), Executive Secretary of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) and Resident Scholar in Global Engineering at Marquette University
Mr. Rajiv Ghatikar, Vice President and General Manager, Siemens PLM, ASEAN/Australasia

We are expecting another exciting event in Kuala Lumpur. Some the events and activities that are planned include the following: outstanding keynote speakers, global engineering education track, industry solutions track, student competitions, panel sessions, recognition and awards, exhibition, poster displays, student chapter activities and tours. Sponsorship opportunities are available.

Faculty, researchers, students and industry practitioners will receive great value of participating in the 2016 IEOM Kuala Lumpur event. This unique international conference provides an opportunity to network with representatives of more than 70 countries. This dynamic event is charged with excitement that encourages an opportunity to collaborate with conference participants across the global.

We look forward to seeing you in KL.

Thanks for your time and attention.

Dr. Ahad Ali (LTU) and Dr. Abdul Talib Bon (UTHM)
Conference Chairs, IEOM 2016 KL
http://iieom.org/ieom2016/

Partner Universities
Lawrence Technological University
Sabanci University, Turkey
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
University of New Brunswick at Fredericton, Canada
University Technology Petronas, Malaysia

Corporate Partners

Hitachi Solutions East Japan,
Ltd, JAPAN

Partner Organizations
International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)
Management Science and Operations Research Society of Malaysia (MSORSM)

Sponsors
IEEE
Siemens

IEOM Society: www.iieom.org