With an exciting theme for the upcoming conference, we invite paper and poster submissions on relevant topics, including, but not limited to:
- Lean for improving efficiency of higher education sector/Further Education
- Six Sigma for improving effectiveness in higher education sector/Further Education
- Lean Six Sigma for higher education sector
- ISO 9001 for higher education sector
- Kaizen for higher education sector
- Leadership for higher education sector
- TQM for higher education sector
- EFQM/ MBNQA/Other Business Excellence Models for HE
- Tools and techniques for improving business processes within the higher education sector
- Process Excellence Sustainability Model/Framework for higher education Sector
- Maturity Models for Lean/Six Sigma in higher education Sector
- Design for Six Sigma/Design for Lean Six Sigma and its applications in higher education sector
- Six Sigma and Big Data
- Voice of the Customer Analysis in higher education institutions (QFD, Kano Model, etc.)
- Literature Review on quality related topics in the context of higher education sector
Paper submissions
The basis for acceptance of papers is that they are relevant and make a contribution to the current literature of Six Sigma, Lean Thinking, Lean Six Sigma, Quality Assurance, Quality Management, Continuous Improvement, and Total Quality Management. Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of 300 words or less to the conference chairs. All conference abstracts will be double-blind reviewed by members of a Scientific Committee to ensure their academic rigor, practical significance to industrial arena and value to existing literature. Each abstract should have a separate title page that includes the title of the paper, author name(s), affiliation(s) and full contact details including address, fax, phone and e-mail. Your abstract must include up to five key words that capture the contents of the paper. For multiple authors, please indicate clearly to whom correspondence should be made. Authors must register for and attend the conference if their submission is accepted. We encourage electronic mail submission in Microsoft Word. When an abstract is accepted, authors are encouraged to submit the full paper. Please note that we strongly suggest all authors follow structured abstract. Papers should be typed on standard A4 pages using 12 point Times New Roman typeface or equivalent in MS Word. Final Manuscripts should be limited to 2000 words in length, single spaced with double space between paragraphs. Authors’ names, affiliations and e-mail address should be provided after the title. The title should be bold-faced and centered in upper/lower case. Figures and Tables should be sized to scale and labelled with a caption centered under the Figure or Table. It is preferable to have the figures and tables included in the text but if this is not possible, please place all Figures and Tables at the end of the text (after References) and ensure that a place-mark is inserted in the body of the text (e.g.: “Insert Figure 1 here” or “Insert Table 1 here”). It is strongly advised to use Harvard style of referencing throughout the paper.
Here are some examples:
For books:
Phadke, M.S. (1989), Quality Engineering Using Robust Design, Prentice-Hall International, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
For book chapters:
Bessley, M. and Wilson, P. (1999), Marketing for the Production Manager, in Levicki (Ed.), Taking the Blinkers off Managers, Broom Reim, London, pp. 29-33.
For journal articles:
Montgomery, D.C. (1992), The Use of Statistical Process Control and Design of Experiments in product and process improvement, IIE Transactions, Vol.24, No.5, pp. 4-17.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The organizing committee and technical committee members will encourage selected authors to submit their papers for review to the International Journal of Lean Six Sigma/TQM and BE Journal/Quality in Education.
Graduate Student Poster Session
The conference will accept posters from graduate students to be presented during a poster session at the conference, in a topic that meets the conference topics. Students should submit an abstract that meets the guidelines above and note in the description as a poster submission. Dates for submission will follow the regular conference timeline.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of abstract: 16 December 2016
Notification of acceptance of abstract: 13 January 2017
Deadline for submission of full paper: 17 March 2017
Notification of acceptance of full paper: 14 April 2017
Latest date for submission of conference paper (with final changes): 28 April 2017
Email any inquiries related to submissions to:
- Professor Jiju Antony (Conference Chair): J.Antony@hw.ac.uk
- Dr. Chad Laux (Conference co-chair): claux@purdue.edu
- Dr. Beth Cudney (Conference co-chair): cudney@mst.edu