IEMS Student Wins First Place in Video Contest to Promote ISE Professions

Pantira Ketkaew’s work was cited for its impact to further the introduction of the industrial and systems engineering profession

Above: Watch Pantira Ketkaew's award-winning video.

 

An undergraduate student in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences was recognized for her video to introduce industrial and systems engineering to prospective students.

Pantira Ketkaew won the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) Impact Short Video contest. A third-year industrial engineering student, Ketkaew and her video, titled "Helping Cats and Dogs with ISE," won first place in the contest and was cited for its impact to further the introduction of the industrial and systems engineering profession. 

Pantira Ketkaew

During the video, Ketkaew talks about her summer 2024 internship at the Evanston Animal Shelter Association. As an operations intern, Ketkaew combined her love of animals with her passion for improving processes. In the video, Ketkaew said the experience taught her how powerful industrial and systems engineering can be, even at places like an animal shelter.

“Industrial and systems engineering isn’t just about factories,” Ketkaew said in the video. “It’s about making things better wherever you are.”

Ketkaew is active elsewhere in student life. She serves as vice president of Northwestern’s IISE student chapter, and last fall organized a campus visit by a group of 20 students from the Chicago Math and Science Academy to teach the youngsters about industrial engineering.

Dedicated to the support of the profession, the IISE is an international, nonprofit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial and systems engineering.

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