NUS Team Wins Third Place in CASEIT Competition 2011
(From left: Dr Pan Shan Ling, Joyce Kay, Lim Wei Yang and Ervin Lim)
A team comprising NUS School of Computing Information Systems undergraduate Lim Wei Yang and NUS Business School undergraduates Joyce Kay and Ervin Lim won third place in the CASEIT 2011 Competition. The event was held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada from 2 to 5 February.
Sixteen university teams including those from Singapore Management University, University of Minnesota, Carnegie Mellon University and University of British Columbia participated in the event. Queen’s University emerged champion, with Indiana University Kelley School of Business in second place.
CaseIT is an annual international undergraduate business case competition with a strong focus in Management of Information Systems (MIS). Each team consisting of three undergraduate students in their senior year of study and a team coach goes though two rounds of presentation, after a 24-hour deliberation period. Participants then present their team’s solution to a judging panel of industry professionals.