UPS George D. Smith Prize
Purpose of the Award
Strengthening Ties
Academia and Industry
Deadline for Applications is
Monday, October 29, 2012.
The UPS George D. Smith Prize is created in the spirit of strengthening ties between industry and the schools of higher education that graduate young practitioners of operations research. INFORMS, with the help of CPMS, will award the prize to an academic department or program for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics.
The UPS George D. Smith Prize is named in honor of the late UPS Chief Executive Officer who was a champion of operations researchers at a leading Fortune 500 corporation. UPS has generously underwritten the award in his memory.
The prize will be awarded to an academic program or department. It will include a trophy and a $10,000 cash award. The UPS George D. Smith Prize will be announced at the 2013 Franz Edelman Gala at the INFORMS Analytics Conference.
The application process begins with a summary of the role of operations research in the academic program and why competence in operations research practice is one of the goals of the program, written verification of program success, and a commitment, if selected as a finalist, to give a 30-minute oral presentation at the spring 2013 Analytics Conference in San Antonio, Texas, and, if selected as a winner, to reprise the presentation at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The finalist papers are published in a special issue of Interfaces.
Submissions can be made to dsmith@monmouth.edu.
