[CCoE Notice] Student Poster Competition on Public Safety Management

[Tekin, Eylem]

Student Poster Competition on
PUBLIC SAFETY MANAGEMENT
SPRING 2014

The Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston is pleased to announce its second annual student poster competition in the area of public safety management (PSM). This poster competition is part of the efforts in promoting the awareness in PSM. Research areas of interest include:

§  Decision making for public safety

§  Operations Control in PSM

§  Evacuation planning and management

§  Environmental health and safety

§  Logistics and transportation security

§  Economics of disaster
The posters should demonstrate innovative applications in one or more of these areas. This competition is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the subjects are directly relevant to the missions of DHS in disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery.

Eligibility
All undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in Spring 2014 at the University of Houston are eligible. Posters can be done individually or as a team effort.  Posters will be evaluated on relevance, quality of research and presentation quality.
Awards
              First Place        $500
              Second Place     $300
Requirements
To enter the competition, email your name, school affiliation, poster abstract and telephone number to etekin at uh.edu<mailto:etekin at uh.edu> by March 24, 2014. If your abstract is accepted for the competition, your poster will be evaluated by an expert panel of judges on April 18, 2014. The size of the poster should be 36" by 48". The time and place will be announced later.

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