I knew.....

I knew all my hardwork finally paid off when my team received this 2 particular emails today.

From: F. Prince, Floyd Bell Inc
For: ISE 532 - Facilities Design

Good Afternoon Dr. Irani,
Thank you for allowing Floyd Bell the opportunity to participate in this quarters’ (Fall 2005) ISE 532 Production System II, Facilities Design course. It has been a great experience.
The teams assigned were frankly incredible! Each team scheduled a primary and secondary time to visit and contacted me by email with our weekly agendas. In the past 10 weeks, I am very pleased to report that there was not one incident of the team not showing up for their allocated time. In fact, my VP of Operations noted that both teams arrived early for their appointments.
These students were professional and respectful. We were please the way they conducted themselves on our manufacturing floor. Our great experience is a really credit to not only the high caliber of The Ohio State Department of Engineering, but to each student as they conducted themselves as Engineers.
It was exciting to work with such enthusiasm about principles and methods for design and analysis of facility layouts, systematic layout planning, production flow analysis, material handling systems, workstation design, and Lean Manufacturing. Upon brief review of their reports they all should be proud of their work.
Each team requested me to contact you. I am happy to report that both teams have turned in their presentations. These results provided will make it easy for me to justify to my management that we should probably hire not just one Industrial Engineer, but a couple for my small engineering department.
Again, thank you so much for the opportunity. I look forward to hosting other courses with you in future.
Sincerely,
Frank Andrew Prince Jr.
Engineering Manager,
Floyd Bell Inc.

From: Dr. Shahrukh Irani
For: ISE 533 - Production Control System Design and Implementation

-----Original Message-----
From: Shahrukh A. Irani [mailto:irani.4@osu.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 4:06 PM
To: 'Michael Koch'; rediger.2@osu.edu
Subject: Would your teams be interested?
Hey guys:
Your teams did a great job with your ISE533 projects. I would like to ask that both teams partner with me to create publications that we could sell commercially with author royalties going into your pockets also. Check out my publications of this type at www.zipedu.com/irani.html. Just know please that it will take time and effort to produce a polished and comprehensive document! Well done.
Thank you.
Dr. Irani

I couldn't help it but smile all day long for we really kicked some ass out there. My team;Andhri, Qini, Mike and I, we built such a very good chemistry and teamwork among us. I have no regret at all taking Industrial & System Engineering as my major. I have no regret at all for the 3-hrs of sleep everyday for this entire week if the results turn out to be this good! I know I can make a very good IE in the future.

We decided to take Dr. Irani's offer to publish our presentation in a form of journal. Hey, we can make money! How's $16.00 sounds for a journal entitle Mixed - Model Assembly Line, huh? Besides, it will look awesome in our resume, wouldn't it?

I'm almost done with the quarter. All left is the 2 final exams, which will be on Tuesday. Despites all the complaints that this quarter sucks, or we gotta do lots of work with so little time, or whatever it is, I myself knew that I learnt a lot of good IE stuff in only 10 weeks.

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