INFORMS Education Forum Newsletter #18, November, 2001
INFORMS Education Forum: http://www.informs.org/inform-ed/
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1) INFORMS SESSION SCHEDULE FOR MIAMI
2) INFORMED BUSINESS MEETING IN MIAMI
3) THE BEST SPREADSHEET RESEARCH GROUP AROUND (according to our own Dr. Grossman!)
4) TOM'S RESPONSE TO THE BEST SPREADSHEET RESEARCH GROUP AROUND
5) INFORMED OFFICER SLATE
6) INFORMS MEMBERSHIP-A FRIENDLY REMINDER!!
7) JUST A THOUGHT
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DETAILS
1) INFORMS SESSION SCHEDULE FOR MIAMI
TITLE SESSION DAY TIME Education I
SD43 Sunday 16:00-17:30 Education II
MA43 Monday 08:15-09:45 Education III:
MB43 Monday 10:00-11:30 Spreadsheet Interest Research Group
Education IV:
MC43 Monday 14:30-16:00 Case Competition 2001:
Finalists 1 & 2
Education V:
MD43 Monday 16:15-17:45 Case Competition 2001:
Finalists 3 & 4
2) INFORMED BUSINESS MEETING IN MIAMI
The INFORMS Education Forum Business Meeting will be 5:45pm-6:45pm, location to be published in the program.
3) THE BEST SPREADSHEET RESEARCH GROUP AROUND (according to our own Dr. Grossman!)
This is the best (only?) spreadsheet research group around. They're doing good stuff on spreadsheet errors, error prevention, auditing, etc.
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~cd02/EUSPRIG/
4) TOM'S RESPONSE TO THE BEST SPREADSHEET RESEARCH GROUP AROUND
The INFORMS Spreadsheet Research Interest Group will be launched at theMiami INFORMS Conference, Monday Nov 5, session MB43. The purpose of SRIG isto stimulate and disseminate research, teaching, and discussion on any aspect of spreadsheets, with emphasis on their use in operations researchand the management sciences.
5) INFORMED OFFICER SLATE
The INFORM-ED By-Laws require the officers to nominate a slate of candidates before the Miami election. Based on input from several officers and other interested parties, I propose the following nominations. These candidates have a good mix of experience as well as new energy and ideas.
President............................James Cochran (formerly VP-Projects)
Treasurer/Secretary..................John Lawrence (incumbent)
Vice President -- Programs...........Janet Wagner (incumbent)
Vice President -- Projects...........Pinar Keskinocak
Vice President -- Publications.......Chris Zappe (Chair of Case Competition)
Vice President -- External Affairs...Ken Doerr (Chair of Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium)
The VP-Publications appoints and supports INFORM-ED's editors. The following
individuals have indicated their desire to serve in these important jobs:
Issues in Education Column in OR/MS Today....Robert Nydick
INFORM-ED Website............................John Kros (incumbent)
INFORM-ED Newsletter.........................Mike Racer (incumbent)
I emphasize that the officers will be elected at the Miami business meeting. Editors will be appointed by the VP-Publications. Other nominations may be offered as described in the By-laws, including from the floor. By-laws are here: http://www2.hpu.edu/jkros/bylaws.html
6) INFORMS MEMBERSHIP-A FRIENDLY REMINDER!!!
This is to notify you that membership in INFORMED (INFORMS Education Forum) is now managed by INFORMS rather than by INFORMED. To join INFORMED, you must indicate INFORMED on your INFORMS 2002 Member Renewal Invoice. Annualdues for INFORMED are $10 for members, free for student/retired.
INFORMED supports the following services for INFORMS members:
Case Competition, http://education.forum.informs.org/informs_case_comp_2001.html
INFORMS Transactions on Education, http://ite.informs.org
Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, http://education.forum.informs.org/TEC3.htm
Issues in Education column in OR/MS Today
Education cluster at INFORMS annual meeting
INFORMED website, http://education.forum.informs.org
Email newsletter
Networking
Support for new educational initiatives
Thank you for your ongoing support of INFORMED.
7) JUST A THOUGHT
Our university recently issued a request for proposals for Honors Program seminars. In a nutshell, these are one-hour courses in which the student can be exposed to a topic to which he/she might not otherwise be exposed. In looking at past offerings, I was appalled by the dearth of technical-related courses. Everything was liberal arts. Not even the business school got in the act. To fill the void, I volunteered to offer a seminar - basically "optimization for non-optimizers."
I suppose my point is this. We pride ourselves on our love for teaching, as well we should. And, while we're at it, we should realize that our audience extends beyond our own building on campus - K-12, non-engineers, other faculty members, etc. They all could benefit by knowing just a bit more about what we do.
MEMBERSHIP
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