Design Competition

The College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) sponsors an annual material handling student design competition for teams of students interested in the analysis and design of material handling systems. Since the first design competition was offered during the 1994-1995 academic year, student design teams have developed material handling system designs for a variety of manufacturing and warehousing operations. Design problems are typically drawn from the case files of designers and manufacturers of material handling equipment and their end users. See the links below regarding the current design competition and the summaries of the past design competitions. The 2011-2012 case was provided by West Monroe Partners.

CICMHE is pleased to welcome the Order Fulfillment Solutions council as a co-sponsor of the 2011-2012 competition. In addition to CICMHE’s existing cash prizes, OFS support has boosted the payouts to $2000, $1500, and $1000 to the First, Second, and Third place teams, plus $500 for each placing department. OFS co-sponsorship will also enable the top three finishing faculty advisors to attend the 2013 ProMat show being held in Chicago, IL, January 21-24, 2013.

2011-2012 Design Competition Case Now Available

The 2011-2012 design competition case description and judging criteria files are now available in the links below. Note that again this year, faculty advisors will need to request the associated case data from Mike Ogle at CICMHE@mhia.org. A link will then be provided to the faculty advisors that they can share with their teams to download the data. Although each team has five weeks to work on the case, team entries are due from the school no later than eight weeks from the time that data is initially downloaded by the school. Faculty advisors must communicate the start and end dates for their team when submitting the team entry.