IT Coordination Meeting 2012-1, Berlin

Date: 26 January 2012 to 29 January 2012 
Application: 03.January to 20.January 
Participation Fee: 30-40 €

The IT Committee will have its 1st IT Coordination Meeting this year. We will work on improving the ESTIEM Portal and on building a strong IT team for 2012.

Are you interested in IT and working in our team? Please contact the VP of Admin (Jean-Yves.Lemelle@estiem.org) or the Committee Leader (Israel.Pohl@estiem.org) for more information.

BrainTrainer Coordination Meeting, Tallinn

Date: 27 January 2012 to 30 January 2012 
Application: 17.December to 15.January 
Participation Fee: 40 €

The BrainTrainer has completed its first successful year as an official ESTIEM Project. We organized two events (Eindhoven and Bucharest) and had a productive CoM in Zagreb. Our aim with the BrainTrainer Coordination Meeting in Tallinn is to get together and work on important issues regarding the project such as:

• Grants applications for the events
• Developing training structure and collecting ideas for appropriate training packages
• Brainstorming about a trainer database
• Brainstorming about cooperation with ESTIEM trainers and EPIEM
• Company brochures, partner trainer companies
• Working on central organised certificates for participants
• Ideas for promotion (posters, brochures, gadgets)
• Recording scenes for the promotion video

And of course you are going to experience the wonderful city of Tallinn with the most beautiful Estonian girls and the macho Estonian guys.

[Unofficial] - Post BT CoM, Tallinn – Riga – Vilnius

Date: 30 January 2012 to 02 February 2012
Application: Contact our VP of Education (Marc.Hedler@estiem.org)

After the BrainTrainer CoM we’ll additionally have a small roadtrip through the Baltics. Starting from Local Group Tallinn we’ll also visit Local Group Riga and Vilnius to meet up with ESTIEMers from other great cities in the Baltics.

1st joint Academic Event, Bad Wildbad

Date: 24 February 2012 to 26 February 2012
Application: 27.December to 15.January 
Participation Fee: around 25 €

Due to environmental considerations as well as the natural and economic limits of resource usage, the need for new, sustainable technologies is continuously increasing.

The 1st joint Academic Event of ESTIEM and ESTIEM Alumni taking place February 24th to 26th, 2012 in Bad Wildbad near Karlsruhe (http://www.cvjm-sonnenberg.de/ferienheimcvjm ) will therefore focus on the topic "New Technologies in Future Markets". Besides gathering knowledge about sustainable development, we’d also like to use the event to foster academical and social exchange between ESTIEM and ESTIEM Alumni.

Participants:

• 15 ESTIEM Alumni à participation fee: 55 €
• 10 ESTIEMer à participation fee: 25 €

If you want to participate, please apply with a max 1 page long motivation letter until 15th of January 2012 to Diana Voll (Diana.voll@estiem.org). We’ll inform you as soon as you’ve registered whether you can participate.

We’re looking forward to meet you in the beautiful Black Forest (hopefully in a typical German Winter Wonderland).

Dutch Carnaval Activity Week, Eindhoven

Date: 15 February 2012 to 20 February 2012
Application: 12.January to 05.February 
Participation Fee: around 75 €

Dear ESTIEMers,

Are you prepared for an awesome activity week? Do you want to experience real Dutch culture? Do you want to walk the polonaise with locals? Then join our Carnaval Activity Week from 15th to 20th of February in Eindhoven. Carnaval is a traditional week that is celebrated in the south of the Netherlands. It means a lot of partying, dressing up, going nuts and insane other stuff. You will get to know more about our city and region. You will have parties in our famous bar street Stratumseind and our notorious faculty pub "The Villa". We have arranged a company visit at DAF Trucks (a Dutch truck manufacturer), tandem cycling, pub crawls, hangover swimming and traditional dinners. Moreover, you will visit the capital of the province Noord-Brabant, Den Bosch, to taste a bit of their Carnaval culture!

Be quick to apply, the application period opens on Friday the 13th of January, there are 18 spots available of which six will be for ESTIEMers from Porto as they will have the LG Exchange during the same week! Deadline for this activity week will close on the 5th of February. First come first served!

The participation fee will be 75 euro and covers all costs for food, accommodation, transport, activities and the pub crawl (you won't be able to finish all the beers). So get dressed and sign up for this unforgettable week!

XVIII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Guimarães

Date: 9 July to 11 July 2012
Application: We invite you to submit a full paper till 15-02-2012 

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the XVIII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (ICIEOM 2012) that will be held, for the first time, outside Brazil. ICIEOM 2012 is co-organized by the Brazilian Association of Production Engineering (ABEPRO) and Department of Production and Systems (DPS) of the School of Engineering, University of Minho (UMinho), and will take place in Guimarães (2012 European Cultural Capital), Portugal, between 9 and 11 of July 2012.

Topics:

The main general theme of ICIEOM’2012, but not limited to, is Sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective. Nevertheless, ICIEOM’2012 is a broad conference covering all Industrial Engineering and Operations Management knowledge areas of and we are accepting paper contributions in the following topics: Computer and Information Systems; Engineering Economy; Enterprise Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Global Operations and Cultural Factors; Healthcare Management; Human Factors and Ergonomics; Industrial Engineering & Operations Management Education; Industrial Marketing and Consumer Behaviour; Lean Production and Management; Modelling and Simulation; Operations Research; Operations Strategy and Performance Management; Product Management ; Production Planning and Control; Production Systems Design and Management; Project Management; Quality Management; Reliability and Maintenance; Risk and Disaster Management; Service Systems; Social Responsibility, Environment and Sustainability; Strategic Management; Supply Chain and Logistics.

Selected papers of XVIII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (ICIEOM 2012) will be published in a special issue of relevant journals. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI).

Important Dates:

• 05-01-2012 - abstract submission (250 Words)
• 15-01-2012 - notification of abstract acceptance
• 15-02-2012 - full paper submission
• 15-03-2012 - reviewer comments and notification of acceptance
• 05-04-2012 - final paper submission
• 20-05-2012 - early bird registration fee

More information is available on the conference website.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Guimarães in July 2012!