December 2021 Student Simulation Competition - Contest Overview

1st
Solo
Solo project presentation
Solo team presentation
2nd
Simiolation
Simiolation presentation
Simiolation team
3rd
Simulation Nation
Simulation Nation project
Simulation Nation team
4th
Sarcastic Modeling
Sarcastic Modeling presentation
Sarcastic Modeling team

Overview of Contest:

There are two ways to enter the Simio Student Case Competition. You can either enter directly or through class participation. This contest, we had 17 teams enter directly (38 students) and 41 instructors with 488 teams (1800 students) for a total of 505 teams (1838 students).

We also had representation from the following 16 countries:

  • Canada
  • Chile
  • China
  • Colombia
  • El Salvador
  • Germany
  • Guatemala
  • Mexico
  • Portugal
  • Singapore
  • Sri Lanka
  • Switzerland
  • Thailand
  • Turkey
  • United Kingdom
  • USA

The 1838 students came from these schools:

  • Auburn University
  • Bern University of Applied Sciences
  • Bursa Teknik Üniversitesi
  • Chulalongkorn University
  • Columbus State University
  • Coventry University
  • Embry Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott
  • ESEN (Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Instituto Técnico de México (ITM)
  • Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)
  • Iowa State University
  • IPN ESIME
  • Istanbul Medeniyet University
  • Kansas State University
  • Leuphana Univerisity Lueneburg
  • North Carolina State University
  • Ohio University
  • Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Sichuan University

  • Singapore University of Technology and DesignTemple University
  • Texas A&M University
  • Texas A&M University, College Station
  • Texas Tech University
  • The University of Texas at El Paso
  • Universidad Andres Bello
  • Universidad de Concepción
  • Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
  • Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
  • Universidad EIA
  • Universidad IEU
  • Universidad Panamericana
  • University of Coimbra
  • University of Concepcion
  • University of Dayton
  • University of Houston
  • University of Louisville
  • University of Peradeniya
  • University of San Diego
  • University of Toronto
  • Wichita State University

Summary of the Problem:

The Simio Clinic and Urgent Care (SCUC) is an institution that provides an array of medical services including wellness check-ups, minor trauma aid, lab testing, and orthopedic care. This facility serves patients with unscheduled treatments and patients with scheduled primary care needs. Scheduled patients travel to the clinic for appointments while other patients arrive unplanned when they need medical attention. Unscheduled patients do not require emergency treatment, but they cannot wait days or weeks for an appointment.

The SCUC administration is planning to expand into a new facility and is requesting a team to assist in preparing for the construction and opening of the center. The administration wants to determine staffing levels and schedules to hire employees for the new location. They are also seeking guidance regarding the number and position of rooms for the layout. To acquire this information the team must review historical activity logs to account for patient arrival patterns, treatment times, and patient demographics.

The SCUC would like the team to provide staffing models assessing the tradeoffs between patient satisfaction and cost of operation. Patient satisfaction is gauged by metrics such as the time patients spend in the facility and how many patients leave the facility without being treated. The administration would like to sustain reasonable patient satisfaction levels but avoid overstaffing and empty treatment rooms which increase operating costs. Additionally, the administration is considering investing in new equipment but first would like to determine how it would affect key metrics.

Read the full problem!

Judging Criteria:

The judging was based on:

  • Quality/clarity of the presentation
  • Analysis/use of input data
  • Modeling detail/approach
  • Model internal documentation
  • Verification and Validation
  • Quality of animation
  • Experimentation/exploration of alternatives
  • Analysis of results
  • Quality of the recommendations
  • Overall project quality and Executive Summary

For more detail, see the Contest Judging Criteria.

Judging Panel:

Academic and Commercial:

Mardoqueo Velasquez Mardoqueo Velasquez Randy Allenbach  
Ivan Vilaboa
Professor at Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Mardoqueo Velasquez
Faculty and Researcher at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (Guatemala)
Randy Allenbach
Technical Fellow at Spirit AeroSystems (United States)
 
       
Katy Smith Mustafa Gocken    
Katy Lfkovits
Management Engineer III at Emory Healthcare (USA)
Mustafa Gocken
Assistant Professor at Adana Science and Technology University (Turkey)
   

 

Simio LLC:

David Sturrock Alex Molnar Jason Ceresoli Elizabeth Millar
David Sturrock
Technical Fellow, Academic Program Director
Alex Molnar
Applications Engineer
Jason Ceresoli
Project Engineer
Elizabeth Millar
Applications Engineer
       
Caleb Whitehead Devdatta Deo Dan Muller  
Caleb Whitehead
Applications Engineer
Devdatta Deo
Project Engineer
Dan Muller
Delivery Manager
 

December 2021 Contest Winners

First Place

Second Place

Simiolation
Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Team Introduction Project Video

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Third Place

Simulation Nation
Temple University

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Fourth Place

Sarcastic Modeling
Iowa State University

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Top teams including Honorable Mentions & Semi-Finalists

The top 8 teams out of 505 

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Contest Overview

Contest Overview, Summary of Problem, Judging Criteria and Judges

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