Early Bird Registration Fee $80.00 through February 8, 2020.

Late Registration Fee $90.00 begins February 9, 2020.

Fee includes breakfast and dinner on Saturday, Coliseum Tour

To register click here and use code IISE2020. 

The USC Hotel is a great option for attendees to stay. Discounted conference rates are $179.99 plus tax. This price is good through February 18, 2020. For booking, go to USC Hotel, or email at hotelreservations@usc.edu or call at 833-2-BOOK-USC. The reservation code is IISE STUDENT CONFERENCE GROUP

For the complete conference agenda, please click here.

Visit the Space Shuttle at California Science Center

Take a group tour of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

To become a sponsor, please see our sponsorship packet.

We wish to thank you generous sponsors:

2020 IISE Western Regional Conference Undergraduate Student Technical Paper Competition

Sponsored by Lockheed Martin

 The purpose of the competition is to encourage undergraduate students to write and present outstanding technical papers. The principal author must make an oral presentation at the Conference. The first place winner will represent the region competing in the Undergraduate Technical Paper Competition Global Finals at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 30-June 2, 2020 in New Orleans, LA

The criteria of selection includes

• Depth, significance and originality of subject matter
• Excellence of written presentation
• Excellence of oral presentation

The judging is based on 75 percent the written paper and 25 percent oral presentation.

Rules

• Students must be an undergraduate student when the nominated paper is
• Paper can be projects done for a company as part of a course, internship, or other They may be undergraduate research projects done at the home institution.
• Multi-authored papers are permitted, provided the names of all authors are on the
• A faculty member may serve as an advisor on a project, but the work should primarily be done by the
• A faculty member cannot be a co-author of the
• Only IISE members are eligible to
• Each participating university, including the host institution, may submit up to two papers as
• Send the entry form an the submission to usciise@gmail.com
• Prizes are $300, $150, and $50 for the First, Second, and Third place winners

See https://www.iise.org/Details.aspx?id=863 for more information on formatting

Deadline for Submissions: February 21st, 2020