Outscoring both undergraduate and graduate-level competitors, a team of students from Harvey Mudd College received top honors at the APICS West Coast student case competition sponsored by the Inland Empire Chapter of APICS, the leading association for supply chain and operations professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First-time entrants in the APICS competition, the Harvey Mudd team of senior engineering majors Alexa Le, Joe Sinopoli, Shaan Gareeb and Katherine (Yoo Jeong) Shim won first place in the undergraduate division as well as the overall Grand Prize during the competition, held Feb. 17\u201318 in San Diego. They will represent the APICS Southwest District at the organization\u2019s international conference in October in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Harvey Mudd engineers, advised by Kash Gokli, professor of manufacturing practice, competed against 23 teams from 17 universities\/colleges and three countries. They were given a supply chain problem to be solved using a computer simulation game then developed solutions and presented their rationale for the solutions. Teams were judged on presentation and return on investment from the case simulation. In addition, in the final round, all teams were grilled on their rationale and logic behind solving the given supply chain problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis competition is about leadership, decision making, strategic thinking, creative problem solving and communication. What a great experience for the students!\u201d said Gokli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am especially thrilled because Harvey Mudd is an\u00a0APICS Inland Empire Chapter\u00a0student team,\u201d said APICS Inland Empire President and competition Chair Lisa Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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