The student internship poster competition is a key student activity held within the annual fall operations conference. The competition was created to benefit both industry visitors as well as students by accomplishing three primary objectives:

1. To demonstrate to industry visitors the caliber of summer projects that Krannert students can complete during an internship within a firm, and to provide an alternative resource for locating student candidates interested in operations and supply chain careers.
2. Provide an opportunity for graduate students to promote their talents and market themselves by visiting with industry and explaining their work experience.
3. Expose undergraduate and 1st-year MBA students to the variety of companies and employment opportunities they might encounter when searching for internship employment themselves.

The MBA Case competition is a key student activity held within the annual spring global supply chain manangement conference. Free and open to every MBA program around the globe, teams of 4 students compete for the prestige and monetary awards associated with this annual competition which has grown in popularity each year.

The first round of the competition occurs through an e-submission of a Power Point case solution. The top six teams (as judged by Krannert faculty) advance to the second round which includes an invitation to compete for top 3 awards at the conference.

Each year, the first round case is based roughly on the theme of the conference; the second round "builds" on the first round case materials.