Franz Edelman Academy: Class of 2002

FIRST PLACE

Team:
Continental Airlines
Project:
A New Era for Crew Recovery at Continental Airlines
Members:
Continental Airlines
CALEB Technologies Corporation
University of Texas at Austin

FINALIST

Team:
Mars, Inc.
Project:
Combinatorial and Quantity-Discount Procurement Auctions Benefit Mars, Incorporated and Its Suppliers
Members:
Mars, Inc.
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Team:
PSA Peugeot Citroën
Project:
Improving Car Body Production at PSA Peugeot Citroën
Members:
MPSA

Team:
Rhenania
Project:
Optimizing Rhenania's Mail-Order Business Through Dynamic Multilevel Modeling (DMLM)
Members:
Rhenania Group
Westfallsche Wilhelms University
Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung (WHU)

Team:
Schindler Corporation
Project:
Optimizing Periodic Maintenance Operations for Schindler Elevator Corporation
Members:
Schindler Elevator Corporation
ESRI

Team:
Syngenta
Project:
Managing the Seed-Corn Supply Chain at Syngenta
Members:
Syngenta Seeds, Inc.
North Dakota State University
University of Iowa

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