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June 2017 | ISE Magazine 59 IISE Tra actio is seeking contributions for two upcoming special issues: one on humanitarian logistics and one on addi- tive manufacturing. Worldwide, disasters claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and led to a loss of $1.5 trillion between 2005 and 2015, according to the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Since 80 percent of disaster relief expenses go toward logis- tics, humanitarian logistics is a key element of helping victims. This special humanitarian logistics issue will tackle emerging themes in that research arena, including controlling the effi- cient, cost-effective flow and storage of goods and materials to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable people. Additive manufacturing, also called 3-D printing, refers to technologies that directly fabricate physical products from computer-aided design (CAD) models by a layered manufac- turing process. It is widely recognized as a disruptive tech- nology that could fundamentally change manufacturing. The goal of this special issue on additive manufacturing is to collect cutting-edge research illustrating how 3-D printing will affect design and manufacturing. The deadline for submitting to either issue is Sept. 1. Au- thors should submit their paper through Scholar One's Manu- script Central online manuscript submission system at http:// mc.ma uscriptce tral.com/iietra sactio s. IISE Tra actio is IISE's flagship research journal and is published monthly. To subscribe, call (800) 494-0460 or (770) 449-0460. For more details on the journal and all IISE publi- cations, visit www.iise.org/publicatio s. One journal: Two special issues IISE Transactions tackles humanitarian logistics and additive manufacturing IISE President Joe Hartman, Immediate Past President Michael Foss and CEO Don Greene represented the institute at April's Public Policy Symposium and Engineering Convocation in Washing- ton, D.C. The first day of the event featured dis- cussions about artificial intelligence, au- tonomous transportation and how they will transform business and society. The second day was a policy forum, with discussion on divergent views on federal investments to spur innovation, produc- tivity and competitiveness in engineer- ing, along with how federal agencies are involved in research and technologies. Speakers included researchers, Trump administration officials and members of Congress. The two-day event included the pres- idents, presidents-elect and executive directors from 44 national engineering societies, representing more than 2 mil- lion engineers. Greene said it's impor- tant that institute leaders stay abreast of technologies, trends and what's happen- ing in the nation's capital. "IISE is proud to represent industrial and systems engineering professionals in these important and informative meet- ings," Greene said. IISE visits D.C. symposium Hartman, Foss and Greene represent institute at engineering convocation