The IISE Annual Conference Volunteering Event is a yearly project started in 2012 where members attending the annual conference volunteer to assist a nonprofit agency in the conference’s host city. The 2022 event took place May 21st at the Southcenter Store of the Habitat for Humanity of Seattle-King County in Tukwila, Washington. 23 volunteers offered their time […]
by Brion Hurley The Sustainable Development division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) holds an annual service volunteer project with a nonprofit prior to each annual conference. For year #7, they decided to take on two nonprofits on the same day in Orlando, Florida on May 19, 2019. Rise Against Hunger – […]
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by Brion Hurley For the 7th year in a row, the board of the IISE Sustainable Development Division has organized a volunteer service project with a local nonprofit prior to the start of the Annual Conference, held for the 2nd year in a row in Orlando. Due to popularity of this event, they added a 2nd nonprofit […]
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Quality professionals possess a unique skill set that can be used to prevent problems outside of their organizations. The author shows how applying quality tools, such as Pareto analysis, failure mode and effects analysis, and quality function deployment, can help solve issues such as homelessness in Seattle, and deaths from diarrheal disease for children under […]
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Twin Cities’ Habitat for Humanity ReStore first opened in 2008 in New Brighton, Minnesota. First, they outgrew their building. Then in 2015, they added Vonigo’s donation pickup software. By 2016, they added a second location and a second truck, and increased their donations by 170% overall. Here’s how they did it. Rapid Growth Made Possible […]
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by Brion Hurley For the 6th year in a row, the Sustainable Development Division of IISE coordinated a volunteer event prior to the annual conference. The event took place at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Orlando, Florida on May 19th, 2018. The group of systems and industrial engineers and lean consultants made progress on key […]
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