Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 1988

FIRST PLACE

Team: City of San Francisco Police Department
Paper: A Break from Tradition for the San Francisco Police: Patrol Officer Scheduling Using an Optimization-Based Decision Support System
Laureates: Stephen Huxley - University of San Francisco
Phillip Taylor - University of San Francisco

FINALISTS

Team: Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Paper: Selecting Optimal Ingot Sizes for Bethlehem Steel
Laureates: James Schierer - Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Kenneth Stott - Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Floyd Wolf - Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Francis Vasko - Kutztown University
Team: Electric Power Research Institute
Paper: EPRI Reduces Fuel Inventory Cost in the Electric Utility Industry
Laureates: Hung-Po Chao - Electric Power Research Institute
Stephen Chapel - Electric Power Research Institute
Charles Clark - Decision Focus Incorporated
Richard Grimes - Decision Focus Incorporated
Peter Morris - Applied Decision Analysis, Inc.
M. James Sandling - Solomon Brothers
Team: Istanbul Chamber of Industry
Paper: N/A
Laureates: Ibrahim Kavrakoglu - Turkiye Sise ve Cam Fabrikalari A.S.
Ali Riza Kaylan
Suleyman Ozekici
Guniz Tamer
Team: Marriott Corporation
Paper: Courtyard by Marriott: Designing a Hotel Facility with Consumer-Based Marketing Models
Laureates:

Paul Green - University of Pennsylvania

Marsha Scarbrough - Marriott Corporation
Douglas Shifflet - D.K. Shifflet & Associates, Ltd.
Jerry Wind - University of Pennsylvania

Team: Texaco Inc.
Paper: OMEGA: An Improved Gasoline Blending System for Texaco
Laureates:

Donald Brenner - Texaco

Calvin DeWitt - Eastern New Mexico University
Leon Lasdon - University of Texas at Austin
Simon Melhem - Texaco
Allan Warren - Cleveland State University

Team: United States Air Force
Paper: An Application of Simulation and Network Analysis to Capacity Planning and Material Handling Systems at Tinker Air Force Base
Laureates: Adedeji Badiru - University of Oklahoma
Bobbie Foote - University of Oklahoma
Lawrence Leemis - University of Oklahoma
A. Ravindran - University of Oklahoma
Larry Williams - Tinker Air Force Base

Interfaces Edelman Award Special Issue

Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Interfaces features the Edelman papers! Read these inspiring examples of major difference-making O.R. projects.

Edelman Award Videos

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