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，并与国际研究人员互动。由于位于美国以外的地理位置，美国学生参加会议一直很困难。解决这一困难的办法是用这笔助学金部分资助学生与会者的旅费，再加上全国各部门和工业工程师学会的其他捐款，以增加学生的参与度。这笔助学金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，学生们可以介绍他们的最新研究进展，参加辅导会议以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，并与其他大学的学者和学生进行社交。这些活动将极大地帮助和激励学生探索研究前沿，并将加入学术界作为他们的职业道路之一。如果成功，该奖项将帮助美国和国际学生相互交流和学习最前沿的研究进展。它为美国学生提供了一个很好的机会，让他们与潜在的雇主建立联系，并为他们未来的研究寻找合作者。这笔助学金还将支持代表人数不足的学生参加这次会议。

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.