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October,
2005
Keeping
members of the OR/MS community informed of innovation in education
Hello fellow INFORM-ED Members,
I hope all of you have enjoyed a pleasant and fruitful summer and are preparing for a productive academic year. INFORM-ED continues to make great progress on various initiatives and activities during this academic year. A short summary of some of these efforts follows:
Our forum continues to be very busy organizing various activities designed to improve ORMS education and assist ORMS educators. Upcoming activities include:
- the 6th annual Case Competition
- the 7th annual Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium
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an extensive sponsored education track for the
2005 INFORMS Conference in New
More details about these and other INFORM-ED activities are provided in the STATUS REPORTS OF ONGOING EDUCATION INITIATIVES below.
Our officers are helping to coordinate many other activities that should be of interest to INFORM-ED members. These activities include:
- Erhan Erkut (Editor-in-Chief) invites you to visit the INFORMS Transactions on Education website (http://ite.pubs.informs.org/) and read a variety of provocative new articles on ORMS education. Erhan also encourages you to submit your article that relates to any aspect of OR/MS education.
- Dave Goldsman and Ken Chelst are again planning to Chair an INFORMS Teachers Program: How to Teach the Teachers session at the annual INFORMS Conference in November. This session, co-sponsored by INFORM-ED and INFORMS' Public Awareness Committee, will provide you with everything you need to "Teach the Teachers" at a local or state math teacher conference near your home. Members of the PAC team that developed the INFORMS materials (available at http://www.hsor.org) will demonstrate how to conduct these workshops at this comprehensive briefing. As a session participant, you will receive the program materials, videos, software packages (with instructions), and Teacher Instructional Modules you need to deliver a program at a state, county, or school district conference. Read their report later in this newsletter for more information.
- The OR/MS Tomorrow staff is pleased to announced that the summer/fall issue of OR/MS Tomorrow, the INFORMS student online newsletter, is now available on the OR/MS Tomorrow website (http://ormstomorrow.informs.org). This issue features:
This is an excellent resource for
ORMS students and educators!
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The 2005 INFORMS Conference in
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Jenny Wagner, VP Meetings for SPRIG (Spreadsheet
Productivity Research Interest Group) has organized a cluster of sessions for
the Fall INFORMS conference in
- The INFORM-ED reception and business meeting will be held on the Sunday evening (November 13) of the conference. The forum will provide snacks, beverages (beer, wine, soda, cheese, crackers, etc.), updates on INFORM-ED's efforts, and a forum for discussion of education issues. Plan to attend and bring your colleagues and graduate students (individuals who are not currently members of INFORM-ED are welcome to attend).
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Ioana Popescu and Armann Ingolfsson are organizing an education cluster for the EURO
06 conference will be held in
- Call for Nominations - INFORM-ED will hold its biannual elections at the forums annual reception and business meeting. Terms for all INFORM-ED offices are two years and begin immediately upon election. Please contact me by October 1 if you are interested in running for an INFORM-ED office.
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Steve Powell, Academic Director of INFORMS
Summer Workshop on Teaching Management Science, organized the 2005 INFORMS
Summer Workshop on Teaching Management Science. The workshop (was held on July
28-31 at the
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Armann Ingolfsson organized an education cluster for the 2005 CORS
(Canadian Operational Research Society) meeting in
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Erhan Erkut organized an education cluster for the 2005 IFORS
(International Federation of Operational Research Societies) meeting in
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Donna Llewellyn (INFORMS VP for Education) and I are organizing a meeting
to discuss 'Issues faced by isolated OR academicians' at the upcoming INFORMS
conference in New
- Denise Troxell has been invited to be the guest editor of INFORMS Transactions
on Education's special issue titled 'Effective use of Software in the MS/OR
Classroom .' This special issue is scheduled to appear in September 2006 issue
of ITE. Submissions are due April 1, 2006. For more information, please review
the call for papers.
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John Fowler (Combined Colloquia Chair) updates
us on his committees' progress in developing the program for INFORMS Combined
Colloquia (the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, Doctoral Student Colloquium,
and Industry Colloquium) for the upcoming annual INFORMS Conference in New
- William Christian (VP - Projects) updates us on his investigation into the benefits INFORM-ED could accrue from participation by corporate trainers/educators.
- Chris Zappe (VP - Publications and past Case Competition Chair) updates us on the state of INFORM-ED publications.
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Mary Beth Kurz (Secretary/Treasurer
and Chair of the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium) updates us on the seventh
annual TEC and explains how you can participate in the 2005 Colloquium (to be
held at the upcoming annual INFORMS Conference in
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Tasha Innis (Case Competition Chair) update us on the sixth
annual Case Competition (to be held at the upcoming annual INFORMS Conference
in
- Julie Swann (VP - External Relations) discusses her progress in developing INFORM-ED's speaker program for Local and Student Chapters.
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Pinar Keskinocak (Vice President - Programs) reports on the INFORM-ED track of sponsored sessions she has
organized for the 2005 INFORMS Conference in
- Joel Sokol (Editor of the "Issues in Education" Column in ORMS Today) previews the next few columns and invites you to contribute to the column.
- John Kros (Webmaster) discusses additions and enhancement to our website.
- Tom Grossman (INFORMS Case and Teaching Materials Editor) discusses the status of the Case and Teaching Materials initiative.
I encourage you to get involved with INFORM-ED! Please contact the coordinator of any INFORM-ED project/initiative or me (at jcochran@cab.latech.edu or 318/257-3445) if you have any questions or suggestions (or would like to volunteer!).
Jim Cochran
INFORM-ED President
President:
Jim Cochran (jcochran@cab.latech.edu)
Treasurer/Secretary:
Mary Beth Kurz (mkurz@clemson.edu)
Vice President - Programs:
Pinar Keskinocak (pinar@isye.gatech.edu)
Vice President - Projects:
William Christian (christwa@jmu.edu)
Vice President - Publications:
Chris Zappe (zappe@bucknell.edu)
"Issues in Education" Column in OR/MS Today:
Joel Sokol
(jsokol@ISyE.GATech.edu)
INFORM-ED Website:
John Kros (krosj@mail.ecu.edu)
INFORM-ED Newsletter:
Mike Racer (mracer@mocha.memphis.edu)
Issues in Education - Joel Sokol
"The OR/MS Today 'Issues in Education' column welcomes contributions on any aspect of OR/MS education, from general to specific. To submit a column (or to get feedback about the appropriateness of an idea for a column), email Joel Sokol, jsokol@isye.gatech.edu." As always, new columns (and new columnists) are more than welcome. If you prefer to bounce an idea off me first before sending in yourcolumn, please feel free to do that as well.
WEBFLASH - John Kros
The INFORM-ED website is updated
with information regarding the Fall INFORMS meeting now scheduled for
Publications - Christopher
J. Zappe
Update on the 6th Annual INFORMS Case
Competition
INFORM-ED is pleased to continue
its co-sponsorship of the Annual Peer-Reviewed Case Competition this fall. This
year's competition, as in the past five years, is jointly sponsored by INFORMS
Education Committee, INFORMS Case and Teaching Materials Initiative, and
INFORM-ED. It is designed to encourage the creation, dissemination, and use of
new, unpublished cases in operations research and the management sciences. All
submissions and supporting documentation were due to the coordinator of the competition,
Professor Tasha R. Inniss
of
Up to four finalists will be
selected and notified by the coordinator within the next several weeks.
Finalists will give thirty-minute presentations of their entries at two special
open sessions of the 2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting in
To learn more about the guidelines for submitting a case to this annual competition in the future, please visit http://education.forum.informs.org//ccomp05.htm
or
contact Professor Inniss at TInniss@spelman.edu.
We look forward to seeing you in
Lone Instructors - David Rader
At the recent INFORMS conference
in
With that in mind, I am interested in starting such a support group. If
you are interested in participating, please contact me at david.rader@rose-hulman.edu.
My hope is that we will be able to meet during the Annual Meeting (perhaps
after the INFORMS-ED meeting) to determine how and where such a group should
proceed.
Again this year, Ken Chelst will be offering a tutorial on bringing OR into the high schools. This is a wonderful section, and wonderful opportunity for each of us.
Session Information : Monday
Nov 14,
Title: Tutorial: Bring OR into your local High School:
Mission Not Impossible
Chair: Kenneth Chelst,Chair of Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, 4815 Fourth St., Detroit MI
48201, United States, kchelst@wayne.edu
Abstract Details
Title: Tutorial: Bring OR into your local High School:
Mission Not Impossible
Lead: Kenneth Chelst,Chair of Industrial and
Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, 4815 Fourth St., Detroit MI
48201, United States, kchelst@wayne.edu
Abstract: We present a collection of OR activities that were specifically
designed to enrich the high school math curriculum. The session will provide
guidance as to how to reach out to your local high schools and offer short
workshops built around these materials. The goal of INFORMS is to create a
network of like-minded operations researchers who are interested in outreach
and can nurture this mission. We provide an update of our efforts in
EURO '06 - Armann Ingolfsson
The EURO 06 conference will be
held in
INFORM-ed @ INFORMS,
2005 - Pinar Keskinocak
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Pinar Keskinocak,Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of
Industrial and Systems, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta GA
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Sunday Nov 13, 08:00 - 09:30 : Advances in Teaching
Operations Research and Management Science |
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Matt Drake,Doctoral Student, Georgia Institute of
Technology, School of Industrial and Sys Engineering, 765 Ferst
Drive, Atlanta GA 30332, United States, gtg148k@prism.gatech.edu |
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Sunday Nov 13, 10:00 - 11:30 : New Cases in Supply
Chain Management and Information Technology |
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Eric Johnson,Professor, |
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Tasha R. Inniss,Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Spelman
College, 350 Spelman Lane, SW, Box 320, Atlanta GA
30314-4399, United States, TInniss@spelman.edu |
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Tasha R. Inniss,Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Spelman
College, 350 Spelman Lane, SW, Box 320, Atlanta GA
30314-4399, United States, TInniss@spelman.edu |
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Mary
Beth Kurz,Assistant Professor, Clemson University,
110 Freeman Hall, Clemson SC 29631, United States, mkurz@clemson.edu |
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Tuesday Nov 15, 08:00 - 09:30 : Recent Innovations
in Teaching OR/MS |
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Pelin Pekgun,Georgia Institute of Technology, |
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Judith
Norback, Ph.D.,Dir. of Workforce & Academic
Communication, Georgia Tech Industrial & Systems Engineering, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta GA 30305, United States,
jnorback@isye.gatech.edu |
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Tuesday Nov 15, 16:30 - 18:00 : New Horizons for
Higher Education |
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Don Phillips,drdon@tamu.edu |
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Wednesday Nov 16, 08:00 - 09:30 : Joint Panel
Discussion: Education in OR & Healthcare |
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Allen Holder,Trinity University Mathematics, One
Trinity Place, San Antonio TX, United States, aholder@trinity.edu |
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(Also on the Conference website:
https://informs.emeetingsonline.com/emeetings/formbuilder/clustersessionlist.asp?clnno=740&mmnno=141)
Update on Outreach - Julie Swann
INFORM-ED has recently created a Local/Student Chapters Outreach program.
The program is designed to increase the awareness of INFORM-ED activities and
how the forum can benefit the chapters, as well as to increase the future
participation in INFORM-ED.
The program will match an INFORM-ED member with a chapter that has expressed
interest in knowing more about INFORM-ED. The member will attend the
meeting and talk about what INFORM-ED is, what we do, and what the forum has to
offer members. A presentation will be provided to the member in advance,
along with guidance on its content if desired.
So far we have had several requests and several volunteers, and we look forward
to increasing participation. If you wish to request a visit from INFORM-ED to
your chapter or volunteer your services for this external outreach, please
contact Julie Swann at jswann@isye.gatech.edu. Let's spread the
good word about the Teaching of Better!
Award Winners - Mike Racer
Just a reminder: If you, or anyone you know, have received a teaching award, please let us know. Let's tout our achievements!
Thanks.
Just a Thought - Preparedness - Mike Racer
As you all know, this year's INFORMS
Conference has been moved to
As I'm sitting here putting this newsletter together, I am listening to a symposium from MIT. This symposium considered how disaster response? Two of the lecturers were INFORMS President Dick Larson and INFORMS member Yossi Sheffi. (The video from this symposium can be seen at http://web.mit.edu/katrina/symposia/sept30/)
You and I have some real skills for this sort of situation. How can we help to make our communities better prepared? Whatever your location, there are things to consider. Whether it's hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, or man-made disasters, we need to be prepared. How can you and I help?
In my free time, I spend a lot of time with the Boy Scouts program. Right now, we have two initiatives underway in my District. First, how can we do a better job of helping our families to be prepared, and our communities to be prepared? How can we make sure our Cub Scout Packs and Scout Troops are prepared when they go on an outing? Second, how can we help others after some disaster has occurred?
These are logistics problems. These are systems issues. These are exactly the kinds of things that you and I are good at. I urge each of you to look around for an opportunity to help your community in this regard.
Thanks.
Mike
Ph: 901-678-3285(work)