Collaborative Research: Travel Support for Students to Attend the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC) 2014; Montreal, Canada; 31 May to 3 June 2014

这项合作资助的目的是支持美国学生在2014年5月31日至6月3日在加拿大蒙特利尔举行的工业与系统工程研究会议上传播他们的研究成果，并与国际研究人员进行互动。由于其地理位置不在美国，美国学生很难参加会议。克服这一困难的办法是用这笔赠款部分支持学生与会者的旅费，加上全国各部门和工业工程师协会的其他捐款，以增加学生的参与。这项资助将有助于促进学生的研究活动和积极参与国际会议。通过参加这次会议，学生可以展示他们最近的研究进展，参加辅导课学习先进的研究方法，参加小组讨论，参加学生论文/模拟比赛，并与来自其他大学的学者和学生交流。这些活动将极大地帮助和激励学生探索研究前沿，并考虑加入学术界作为他们的职业道路之一。如果成功，该奖项将有助于美国和国际学生交流和相互学习最前沿的研究进展。它为美国学生提供了一个与潜在雇主建立联系并为他们未来的研究寻找合作者的绝佳机会。这笔拨款还将支持代表性不足的学生参加本次会议。

The objective of this collaborative grant is to support US students to disseminate their research results and interact with international researchers at the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference in Montreal, Canada from May 31-June 3, 2014. Due to its geographical location outside the US, it has been difficult for US students to attend the conference. The approach to overcome this difficulty is to use this grant to partially support the travel costs for the student attendees, plus other contributions from the departments across the country and the Institute of Industrial Engineers, so as to increase students' participation. This grant will help promote student research activities and active involvements in international conferences. By attending this conference, students can present their recent research developments, attend tutorial sessions to learn advanced research methods, join panel discussions, participate in student paper/simulation competitions, and socialize with scholars and students from other universities. These activities will significantly help and motive students to explore research frontiers and consider joining academia as one of their career paths. If successful, this award will help US and international students to communicate and learn from each other the most frontier research progress. It provides an excellent opportunity for US students to network with potential employers and to explore collaborators for their future research. This grant will also support underrepresented students to attend this conference.