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ACADEMICSPackaging design is no competition for our studentsThe Association of IndependentCorrugated Converters (AICC)announced the winners of theNinth Annual Student PackagingDesign Competition. Over 15 entrieswere received from Cal Poly,Clemson University, Humber College,and Appalachian State University.Packaging Team takesfirst place in competionTeams from the Orfalea Collegeof Business’ Packaging Programplaced first and fourth in theInternational Corrugated PackagingFoundation’s (ICPF)Ninth Annual Careers in CorrugatedInternational TeleconferenceCompetition in February.Beamed live from MichiganState University, the competitionwas attended by 16 schools –Ball State, Cal Poly, ClemsonUniversity, Christian BrothersUniversity, Fox Valley TechnicalCollege, Iowa State, MichiganState, Millersville University(PA), North Carolina A&T University,Pennsylvania College ofTechnology, South Central College(MN), Thaddeus StevensCollege (PA), University ofFlorida, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Virginia Tech, and WesternMichigan University.Cal Poly’s packaging teamswere declared first and fourth inthe competition. The first-placeteam of Jesse Dundon, IndustrialTechnology, Angelica Li,Graphic Communications; andSteve Munio, Industrial Technologyreceived $1,500. Fourthplace and $500 went to EricKvilhaug, Industrial Technology.The packaging programreceived $5,000 for sponsoringthe two teams.Students of all class years wereencouraged to submit packagingdesigns with the following criteria:Category 1: Design to Fit aProblem – Design a structure thataccomplishes a given task whileaccounting for converting challenges.Category 2: Open Design – Designany structure including the die lineand graphics, and print the job.Category 3: Corrugated As Art –Design a one-of-a-kind, non-productionrun, corrugated structure.First-place winners for Category1 were Industrial Technology studentsZach Mena, Troy Nelson,Ethan Stansbury and Chelsey Woodwith “The Perfect Palletizer.”Second place in Category 1 wastaken with “Poly Dental Pallet Display,”by Industrial Technologystudents John McDonald, AlexisRamirez and Kevin Roberts, andGraphic Communications studentKristina Chung.Cal Poly took home first placefor Category 2 with “Poly Pitches,”created by Industrial Technologystudents Sean Ipakchi, Brady Haugand Mark Hesser, and AndreaRaggio of Graphic Communications.Third place in Category 2 wasclaimed by “Poly-Audio,” designedby Industrial Technology studentsFrederick Gonzales and Tim Oman,and Blake Borg and Nicole Dishmanof Graphic Communications.In Category 3, “Chess Board”won first prize for Industrial Technologystudents Walter Fong, J.D.Howard, Eric Meyer and MatthewOates. Second place went to “ImpossiblePuzzle,” created by KyleDesautels and Aric Krasowski, bothIndustrial Technology, and TravisHemenez, Graphic Communications.All winners received a plaqueand a monetary award. The firstplacewinners also received an allexpenses-paidtrip to the AICC 2008Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA.Heather Raymond (left) and Sarah RiviereSimon leads sales studentsto success in national contestMarketing adjunct Lisa Simon sawtwo of her students emerge as winnersin the National Collegiate SalesCompetition at Kennesaw StateUniversity in the spring.Heather Raymond of San Diegoand Sarah Riviere of LeSeur, MNhad the unique opportunity to notonly participate in the nationwidecompetition, but also to catch theeye of multiple recruiters for jobsand internships.There are 104 competitors from53 schools at the competition. At thefinals, each has 20 minutes to “makethe sale” in a role-playing scenario.During the competition and accompanyingjob fair, recruiters from 48companies evaluate students’ drive,personality and technique.“Both Sarah and Heather did agreat job at the competition,” saysSimon. “Although both wished theycould have progressed further, theyare proud and pleased with theirperformances.”Additionally, Sarah – a senior –was subsequently courted by multiplerecruiters for a job.“This competition gave Sarahnational recognition and visibilitythat she would not have otherwisereceived,” says Simon.“Likewise, Heather – a sophomore– has been offered severalinternship possibilities. Opportunitiesoutside of the classroom that can beprovided to our students, such as theNational Collegiate Sales Competition,are invaluable.”40 ❚ ANNUAL REPORT 2007-08
ACADEMICSCollege celebrates the students welcomed into Beta Gamma Sigma honor societyThe Orfalea College of Business isproud to honor those students whoare inducted annually into BetaGamma Sigma (BGS), the honorsociety serving business programsaccredited by AACSB International.For over 90 years, BGS hasrewarded scholarship and achievementin the study of business administrationby inviting the top sevenpercent of juniors, 10 percent ofMBA students demonstratesolid business ethicsseniors and 20 percent of graduatestudents to join.Inducted into Beta GammaSigma in May 2008 were: SeanHood, senior; Brandon Jernigan,graduated; Jeanette Johnston,graduated; Kyle Kennedy, senior;Dustin King, senior; Ashleigh Lee,senior; Randall Lewis, senior;Shauna Lindahl, senior; MichaelLord, senior; Jennifer Marvin,senior; Brandon Merlo, senior;Chelsea Morris, senior; StevenOcheltree, graduated; CameronPangrle, senior; Kelley Paulick,senior; Joshua Pile, senior; AllisenRussi, senior; Robert Scheffler,senior; Eric Schmidt, senior;Julianne Strom, junior; AmandaSwan, senior; Kamran Tahvilian,senior; Michael Tooliatos, senior;and Inna Treyger, senior.A team of five Cal Poly OrfaleaCollege of Business graduate studentswon the Kerrigan Award asrunners up in the Loyola MarymountUniversity’s National Business EthicsCompetition.The team of Gary Chou (MBA),Matt Fencl (MBA), Marty Flores(MBA) Jeff Mohr (MBA) and NickMiura (MS AERO/MBA) competedagainst 31 other teams (graduate andundergraduate), including teamsfrom Loyola Marymount, UCLA,Dartmouth University, DuquesneUniversity, New York University,University of Arizona, Villanova andthe U.S. Naval Academy.Business leaders from aroundthe nation judged the overall persuasivenessof the presentation, the legal,financial and ethical dimensions, aswell as the students’ presentationskills. Five of the 31 teams advancedto the final round, which includedCal Poly, McGill University, MontgomeryCollege, St. Joseph’s Universityand University of San Francisco.The students presented a compellingcase about transparency inthe retail market for organic foods,addressing in their presentation to apanel of judges the legal, financialand ethical dimensions of this businesspractice, then proposing asolution to the problem.The purpose of the competitionis to help students see that it ispossible to be both ethical andprofitable in business.“As MBA students at Cal Poly,we are frequently asked to look atbusiness cases in terms of ethics inaddition to profitability,” said MartyFlores. “This competition gave us theopportunity to explore in-depth acurrent and controversial topic thataffects millions of Americans.”Cal Poly’s team is proud to haveplaced so well in such a large field ofrespected competitors from aroundthe nation and world.“It’s actually a humbling experienceto witness and learn from somany outstanding research projectsdone by other teams,” said Gary Chou.Sean Martin, an alumnus of theOrfalea College of Business MBAprogram and a member of a previouswinning team of the competition,coached this year’s Cal Poly team.Jeff Mohr described Sean as “anadviser, mentor, and most of all, afriend. He provided us with greatMBA Ethics Team members (from left):Matthew Fencl – B.S., Psychology,University of Kansas; MBA, Cal Poly,June 2008. Martin Flores – B.S.,Agricultural Business, Cal Poly; currentMBA student, Cal Poly. Nicholas Miura –M.S. Aerospace Engineering, UCLA;current MBA/M.S.-Aerospace Engineeringstudent at Cal Poly. Sean Martin –MBA, Cal Poly 2005, now pursuing hisdoctorate at Cornell University. JeffreyMohr – B.S., Biochemistry, Cal Poly;MBA, Cal Poly, June 2008. Gary Chou –B.S., Molecular Genetics, Ohio StateUniversity; MBA, Cal Poly, June 2008.insight and pushed us to do our best.He was a big part of our success.”Overwhelmingly, the Cal Polyteam enjoyed presenting a dilemmathey were passionate about, benchmarkingthemselves against otherprograms, and networking with ethicallylikeminded graduate students.For more information on thecompetition, please visit http://www.ethicsandbusiness.org.ORFALEA COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ❚ 41
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