IE student competition team made the finalist for 2020 IISE simulation competition
Posted April 28, 2020
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering industrial engineering seniors Brittany Booten, Stephen Holdenried and Jacob Muenchau have been selected to participate in the virtual global finals of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)/Rockwell Undergraduate Student Simulation Competition.
Booten, from St. Louis, Holdenried, from Edwardsville, and Muenchau, from Freeburg, will attend the IISE Annual Conference and Expo Oct. 31-Nov. 3 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans. The first, second and third place winners will be announced at the Honors and Awards Banquet on Monday, Nov. 2. “We feel quite fortunate to be a part of this experience and to be able to create something that Rockwell enjoyed,” Booten said. “Our solution was a combined visual and logical approach to representing the process of a transportation company’s material and barge movement.
“The key to designing the simulation was a twin-resource utilization used for representing resource needs for space and materials, and non-terminating entities to represent the barges on their trips. We pushed for greater usability of the model to outside disciplines with VBA (visual basic for applications) integration for easier manipulation of simulation states and a 3D graphic interface for more natural visualization.”Hoo Sang Ko, PhD, associate professor of Industrial Engineering, served as the team’s advisor.
“The 2020 IISE/Rockwell simulation competition that is one of the biggest student competitions in national and international IE community,” said Sohyung Cho, PhD, professor and Industrial Engineering program director. “I appreciate Dr. Ko’s time and effort to advise this team. It is a remarkable achievement.”
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"Our solution was a combined visual and logical approach to representing the process of a transportation company’s material and barge movement. The key to designing the simulation was a twin-resource utilization used for representing resource needs for space and materials, and non-terminating entities to represent the barges on their trips. We pushed for greater usability of the model to outside disciplines with VBA integration for easier manipulation of simulation states and a 3d graphic interface for more natural visualization."
