INFORMS Comments on Grand Challenges in Engineering
by Cynthia Barnhart, Mark S. Daskin, Brenda Dietrich, Ed Kaplan and Richard Larson
Operations research can contribute significantly to the resolution of many of the grand challenges in engineering that the US and the world will face in the coming century. Most, if not all, of the challenges will require inter-disciplinary teams with experts from a variety of backgrounds each addressing different aspects of the issues. O.R.-trained experts are particularly adept at merging different perspectives and viewpoints and will therefore play a crucial role in the development of solutions to such challenges...
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| Jack P.C. Kleijnen | 10/01/2007 - 04:25 AM |
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Operations research also includes simulation modelling. Examples are provided by models of complex products and processes such as airplanes, automobiles, TV sets, computer chips, chemical processes, etc.---applied in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Computer Aided Design (CAD)---at Boeing, General Motors, etc.; also see Oden, J.T. (2006), Revolutionizing engineering science through simulation. National Science Foundation (NSF), Blue Ribbon Panel on Simulation-Based Engineering Science. | |
| Mary Grace Crissey | 10/05/2007 - 02:07 PM |
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Operations Research can contribute significantly to the resolution of many of the grand challenges in BUSINESS and IT that the US and the world will face in the coming century. OR belongs centerstage on the analytics messages Tom Davenport's COMPETING on ANALYTICS . Did you see the "Business by Numbers" article in The Economist magazine (edition of September 15th-21st)? Amazing how CEOs are only now "discovering" the potential value add we offer !!!!! recent article in the ECOMIST | |
| Suvrvajeet Sen | 10/15/2007 - 12:00 PM |
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The article is very thought provoking, and covers a lot of ground. Nevertheless, I have two recommendations: a) It would be nice if the authors could outline the knowledge gap that must be overcome in order to meet the grand challenges b) Another suggestion is to add some material on how OR may play a greater role in the advancement of science itself (e.g. Bio/Info/Nano sciences). | |
| N.SATHYANARAYANAN | 10/25/2007 - 01:13 AM |
| REQUEST FOR LATEST TRENDS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH & INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT IN HUMAN RESOURCES | |
| Abhijit Gosavi | 11/20/2007 - 07:37 PM |
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The article is very well-written, and clearly a lot of effort has gone into producing it. So wake up INFORMS, and clean this spam! Spamdexing is a real problem everywhere on the internet nowadays, and interestingly they use OR algorithms for it, but we should be able to fight it by placing a filter. The one aspect of OR or industrial engineering (IE) that I really don't like is that it often comes across as something that HELPS make processes better; also OR/IE folks are perceived as people who do not design systems but make systems already designed more efficient; and so they must work in teams … I wonder if this makes OR or IE attractive enough for high-school kids to pursue as a major. | |
| Lei Yao | 05/04/2009 - 05:35 PM |
| Very good article | |
| sreelal sreedhar | 06/26/2009 - 09:13 PM |
| Very good article to read since it gives a wide spread. The use of OR for Systems Analysis in Defence Planning, to study the evolution of 'system-of-systems', concepts technology demonstrator planning to limited series production associated with development of new defence system technolgies appears to have been touched upon implicitly. Does the spread and depth of OR techniques in areas such as health care etc. be form a susperset to the challanges mentioned above? Further suggested reading on this aspects? | |
