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President's
Corner Hello fellow INFORM-ED
Members, I hope all of you had a productive and enjoyable summer
and are getting settled in for the upcoming academic year. INFORM-ED continues to work on various
initiatives and activities. A short summary of some of these efforts follows: UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Our forum is very busy organizing various activities
designed to improve ORMS education and assist ORMS educators. Upcoming
activities include: -
the 5th annual Case Competition -
the 6th annual Teaching
Effectiveness Colloquium -
a sponsored education track for the 2004
INFORMS Conference in More details about these and other INFORM-ED activities
are provided in the STATUS REPORTS OF ONGOING
EDUCATION INITIATIVES below. OTHER ACTIVITIES OF INTEREST
TO INFORM-ED MEMBERS
Our officers are helping to coordinate many other
activities that should be of interest to INFORM-ED members. These activities include:
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I have been organizing three sessions on using sports in the OR classroom
for the INFORM-ED sponsored
cluster at the 2004 conference in -
In a related note, these sessions and the
special issue of ITE will be used
to (hopefully) introduce a new section of INFORMS - OR in SpORts.
In order for this new organization to gain section status with INFORMS, at
least twenty five INFORMS members must sign a petition indicating they intend
to join the new section. If you are interested in joining this new section
(which will have some natural ties to INFORM-ED) click here to download
the petition, then submit the completed petition to Christy Kline at Christy.kline@INFORMS.org.
The OR in SpORts section has planned its first
business meeting and reception for Monday (October 25) from -
Steve Powell, Academic Director of INFORMS
Summer Workshop on Teaching Management Science, is currently organizing
the 2005 INFORMS Summer Workshop on Teaching Management Science. The workshop
will be held on July 28-31, at the -
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. -
Ken Chelst is again planning to Chair an INFORMS
Teachers Program: How to Teach the Teachers session at the annual INFORMS
Conference in October. This session, sponsored by 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. OTHER NOTES OF INTEREST
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John Lawrence resigned as INFORM-EDs' Secretary/Treasurer in August.
John was the forum's inaugural Secretary/Treasurer and served the Forum well
for five years. He made many contributions to the ongoing success of INFORM-ED and was a pleasure to work with.
INFORM-ED appreciates all of John's
efforts on the Forum's behalf. The INFORM-ED
officers have approved the appointment of Mary Beth Kurz of -
Beginning this year at the annual INFORMS
Conference in -
I am the General Chair of the 2005 INFORMS
Conference in STATUS REPORTS OF ONGOING
EDUCATION INITIATIVES
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William Christian (Combined Colloquia Chair
and VP - Projects) 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 -
Chris Zappe (Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium
Chair and VP - Publications) updates us on the fifth annual Case Competition
and explains how you can enter next year's competition. He also posts us on
his progress in developing the program for the sixth annual Teaching
Effectiveness Colloquium (TEC VI) and tells how you can register for this
event.
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Julie Swann (VP - External Relations) discusses her progress in developing
INFORM-ED's speaker program for Local and Student Chapters. -
Pinar Keskinocak (Vice President - Programs) gives a progress report on the
INFORM-ED track of sponsored
sessions she has organized for the 2004 INFORMS Conference in Denver (October
24-27). -
John Kros (Webmaster) discusses additions and
enhancement to our website. 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 Vice President -- External Relations: Julie Swann (julie.swann@isye.gatech.edu) Past President: Tom Grossman (tagrossman@usfca.edu) 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)
Twelve INFORMed Sessions in
Title:Education (INFORM-ED) SPONSORED/INVITED
Chair:Pinar
Keskinocak,Coca-Cola Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Co-Chair:Erhan
Erkut,Professor, University of Alberta School of Business,
Sunday Oct 24, 08:00 - 09:30 : Recent Advances and Thoughts
in Teaching Manufacturing-Related Topics
Chair: Yavuz
Bozer,Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering,
Sunday Oct 24, 10:00 - 1:30 : EDUCATION -S08-Session
Chair: Sam
Savage,Consulting Professor,
Chair: Thomas
Grossman,Associate Professor,
Sunday Oct 24, 16:30 - 18:00 : SpORts in the OR Classroom
I
Monday Oct 25, 08:00 - 09:30 : SpORts in the OR Classroom
II
Chair: James
Cochran,Assistant Professor,
Monday Oct 25, 10:00 - 11:30 : SpORts in the OR Classroom
III
Chair: Christopher
J. Zappe,
Chair: Christopher
J. Zappe,
Tuesday Oct 26, 08:00 - 09:30 : Teaching Pricing and
Revenue Management
Tuesday Oct 26, 10:00 - 11:30 : EDUCATION -S07-Session
Chair: Jane
Ross,source21@telus.net
Tuesday Oct 26, 13:30 - 15:00 : Success strategies for
Learning, Mentoring, and Ethics
Tuesday Oct 26, 16:30 - 18:00 : Evaluating Innovations
in Teaching OR
Chair: Thomas
Willemain,Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Decision Sciences
& Engineering Systems, CII 5015,
Our New Outreach Program - 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!
Ethics in the Curriculum
- Julie Swann
Are you trying to incorporate ethics in your engineering curriculum to satisfy
the ABET requirements? Are you adding ethics to your management science
classes to avoid future Enron scandals? Do you wish you knew how to teach
ethics but aren't sure where to start??
We want to hear from you! We want to hear what you are doing now or what
you would like to do. We will collect course materials on ethics from
those willing to share them and make them generally available to members.
You are also invited to attend a session in the INFORM-ED cluster that will
have talks related to ethics in the curriculum.
Help all of us improve ethics education (contact Julie Swann at jswann@isye.gatech.edu). It's the 'right'
thing to do.
5th Annual INFORMS Case Competition - Chris
Zappe
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 four 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 Chris Zappe of
Up to four finalists will be
selected and notified by the coordinator by the end September. Finalists will
give thirty-minute presentations of their entries at a special open session of
the 2004 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//ccomp04.htm
or contact Chris Zappe at zappe@bucknell.edu. We look forward to seeing
you in
Sixth INFORMS Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium (TEC
VI) - Chris Zappe
This year's Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium will address several aspects of incorporating and assessing effective teaching techniques in any undergraduate and graduate curriculum. The colloquium will be beneficial to both seasoned and new faculty members at all levels and in all disciplines of OR. Planned sessions include topics such as: Principles of Effective Teaching, Assessing Student Learning, Teaching with Cases, and Incorporating Active Learning.
All Ph.D. granting programs in operations research, management science, and related fields have been invited to nominate faculty members as well as doctoral students preparing for academic careers to participate in TEC VI.
The review of nominations for
this year's Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium is now in its final stage. For
more information about TEC VI, please contact Professor Christopher Zappe;
More on the TEC Colloquium - William Christian
With the 2004 Annual Meeting
around the corner, preparations for the Combined Colloquia are being
finalized. The program includes a list of over two dozen speakers representing
industry and academia. And there will be plenty of opportunity for
attendees and speakers to interact and build new research and social
networks. Check the INFORMS Conference website for more details (http://www.informs.org/Conf/Denver2004/cc.htm)
Although the official deadline has passed, there are a handful of seats
available in the Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium and the Future Practitioner
Colloquium. Masters students will be considered for the FPC.
Spread the word! Nominations will be accepted on a rolling basis until
seats are gone.
WEB FLASH - John Kros
The INFORM-ED website has some new information posted so go take a look at
http://education.forum.informs.org/. For example, information regarding the new
Local/Student Chapter Outreach program is now posted along with details of the
Sixth Annual Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium to be held at the Denver INFORMS
meeting. Traffic over the summer was about as expected. The site averaged
around 150 hits for the months of May, June, July, and August. Traffic did pick
up in August as usual with most campuses and faculty beginning the Fall
Semester. Please email me if you have any additions, corrections, and/or
comments regarding the website. See you in
2005 INFORMS Summer Workshop on Teaching Management Science - Lisa Klose
Save the date: 2005 INFORMS Summer Workshop
on Teaching Management Science
Mark you calendars!
The 2005 INFORMS Summer Workshop on Teaching
Management Science will be held on July 28-31, 2005 at the Harrison Conference
Center in Lake Bluff, Illinois (http://www.harrisonlakebluff.com/)
Workshop objectives include:
-To change the way you think about teaching
management science by sharing recent discoveries about the brain, cognition,
and human learning.
-To teach you practical classroom skills to
actively involve students, enhance their learning, and make teaching more fun.
-To increase your effectiveness delivering
important management science topics.
-To create an ongoing learning community for
stimulating and supporting your growth as a teacher.
For more information on the 2005 workshop
and to access materials from the 2004 workshop, please visit http://www.informs.org/Edu/TMSWorkshop/.
If you have questions or suggestions for the Workshop program, contact Steve Powell at mailto:sgp@dartmouth.edu. If you have questions or suggestions about other aspects of the Workshop, contact Lisa Klose at mailto:lisa.klose@informs.org.
Just a Thought - Interested in a new direction?- Mike Racer
This is my first semester in the
Well, I'd rather not sit back and take this response. What I would like to do is take a look at how you and I might provide some insight and refreshing ideas into the problem, and consider how we might change up this sort of course. How can we strive to teach to the masses, instead of being content with teaching to the middle - losing one tail and boring the other? What technology is available or should be considered? What presentation formats might be considered? How can the course be diversified so as to meet both the needs of the students and the desire to challenge them?
If anyone has given this some thought, or is interested in exploring the opportunity (sounds so much better than "problem"!) further, then please give me a call. Some joint studies and brainstorming might be just the thing we need!
Thanks.
Mike
Ph: 901-678-3285(work)