Activities
CICMHE sponsors the following major activities for students, teachers, and researchers:
Material Handling and Logistics Classroom Day
CICMHE has partnered with the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association (MHEDA) to offer a special program for students and professors in engineering, technology, manufacturing, operations, supply chain and logistics at the MODEX [4] and ProMat [5] trade shows sponsored alternate years by MHI. Research has shown that "Classroom Day, as a targeted experiential learning event, increased student appreciation, knowledge, and interest in the field of material handling and logistics." [6]
Material Handling Teachers Institute (MHTI)
CICMHE sponsors a Material Handling Teachers Institute [7] every two years for current and future faculty members who engage in material handling education in four year colleges and universities. MHTI 2022 will be held on the campus of the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, August 7-10, 2022. The Material Handling Teachers Institute has been held in the summer at the following locations:
- North Carolina State University (Raleigh, 2024)
- University of Buffalo (New York, 2022)
- Texas State University (Texas, 2019)
- Oregon State University (Oregon, 2017)
- University of Wisconsin Madison (Wisconsin, 2015)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (New York, 2013)
- Auburn University (Alabama, 2011)
- University of Arkansas (Arkansas, 2009)
- Universite Laval (Quebec, Canada, 2005)
- University of Louisville (Kentucky, 2003)
- Lehigh University (Pennsylvania, 1999)
- Michigan Tech University (Michigan, 1997)
- Montana State University (Montana, 1995)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York, 1993)
- New Jersey Institute of Technology (New Jersey, 1991)
- Auburn University (Alabama, 1983)
International Material Handling Research Colloquium (IMHRC)
Since 1990, CICMHE has sponsored an International Material Handling Research Colloquium [8] that provides a forum for academic researchers to both present their work and to interact with leading companies within the industry. The research presented at each Colloquium is documented as a volume in the series Progress in Material Handling Research. IMHRC 2023 will be held in Dresden, Germany, June 21-23, 2023. Like the Material Handling Teachers Institute, the IMHRC Colloquium has been conducted every two-year cycle, with the Colloquium being offered in the summer, alternating between locations in Europe and North America:
- Trondheim, Norway (2025)
- Dresden, Germany (2023) [9]
- Savannah, Georgia (2018) [10]
- Karlsruhe, Germany (2016) [11]
- Cincinnati, Ohio (2014) [12]
- Gardanne, France (2012) [13]
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (2010) [14]
- Dortmund, Germany (2008)
- Salt Lake City, Utah (2006)
- Graz, Austria (2004)
- Portland, Maine (2002)
- York, Pennsylvania (2000)
- Chandler, Arizona (1998)
- S'Hertogenbosh, Netherlands (1996)
- Grand Rapids, Michigan (1994)
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1992)
- Hebron, Kentucky (1990)
Student Design Competition
From 1994 through 2018, CICMHE co-sponsored, along with the Order Fulfillment Solutions (OFS) council of MHI, [15] a team design competition for students interested in the design and analysis of material handling systems. [16] Cash prizes of $2000, $1500, and $1000 were awarded to the first, second, and third place teams, plus $500 for each placing department.
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