Franz Edelman Laureates: Class of 1992

FIRST PLACE

Team: New Haven Health Department
Paper: Let the Needles Do the Talking! Evaluating the New Haven Needle Exchange
Laureates: Edward Kaplan - Yale University
Elaine O'Keefe - New Haven Health Department

FINALISTS

Team: Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Paper: Improving the Utility of the Bellcore Consortium
Laureates: Bruce Hoadley - Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Paul Katz - Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Amir Sadrian - Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies)
Team: City of New York
Paper: Improving the New York City Arrest-to-Arraignment System
Laureates: Michael Cahn - Queues Enforth Development, Inc.
Richard Larson - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Martin Shell - Queues Enforth Development, Inc.
Team: Gas Research Institute
Paper: How the Gas Research Institute (GRI) Helped Transform the US Natural Gas Industry
Laureates: William Burnett - Gas Research Institute
Dominic Monetta
Barry Silverman - George Washington University
Team: Merit Brass Company
Paper: The Modernization of Merit Brass
Laureates: A. Dale Flowers - Case Western University
Team: New Haven Fire Department
Paper: Improving Fire Department Productivity: Merging Fire and Emergency Medical units in New Haven
Laureates: Earl Geyer. Sr. - New Haven Fire Department
Louis Goldring - Soros Fund Management
Arthur Swersey - Yale University
Team: Vilpac Corporativo, S.A.
Paper: Mexico's Vilpac Truck Company Uses a CIM Implementation to Become a World Class Manufacturer
Laureates: Benedo Beltran - Centro de Ensenanza Tecnica y Superior
Jose Pablo Nuno - CIM Systems Research Center, Arizona State University
Jose Manuel Padillo - CIM Systems Research Center, Arizona State University
Dan Shunk - CIM Systems Research Center, Arizona State University

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.

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