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Keeping members of the OR/MS community informed of innovation in education
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As the newly elected president of INFORM-ED, I would first like to express our collective gratitude to Professor James Cochran for his distinguished service to our organization for the past four years. Building upon the successes of the founding leaders of INFORM-ED, Jim has worked tirelessly with other committed volunteers to grow our membership, enrich our programming, and extend our outreach to members of the OR/MS community since he first assumed the role of president in 2001. We are all very fortunate to have benefited from Jim's hard work and dedication to INFORM-ED over the two terms of his tenure as president. I am personally thankful to Jim for his efforts to bring me into this organization and to facilitate my development as a leader within INFORM-ED. Fortunately, Jim will continue to serve INFORM-ED through his new role as founding chair of the International Education Initiative in the coming years. While I intend to present to you this spring several particular initiatives that I would like to see INFORM-ED pursue during the next two years, I would like to commence my service as president by inviting each of you to let me know exactly what you would like to see this organization do to support your teaching, scholarship, and/or practice of OR/MS in the near future. I urge you to contact me directly at zappe@bucknell.edu or at my Bucknell office (570-577-3495). I truly want to hear your suggestions for how we can better serve your needs and interests. After all, this organization exists to benefit each of you! I am fortunate to have a number of very talented and dedicated colleagues to help me build upon the excellent work of past officers and other volunteers within INFORM-ED for the next two years. Please contact any of the following individuals if you have any questions or suggestions for enhancing the programs and services that we support: Vice President -- Programs: Jill Hardin (jrhardin@vcu.edu) Vice President -- Projects: Mike Racer (mracer@memphis.edu) Vice President -- Publications: John Kros (krosj@mail.ecu.edu) Vice President -- External Relations: Dawn Strickland (stricklandd@winthrop.edu) Secretary/Treasurer: Mary Beth Kurz (mkurz@clemson.edu) "Issues in Education" Column in OR/MS Today: Joel Sokol (jsokol@isye.gatech.edu) INFORM-ED Website: Pinar Kaymaz (kaymapi@auburn.edu) INFORM-ED Newsletter: Matthew Drake (mdrake@isye.gatech.edu) Case Competition Chair: Tasha Inniss (tinniss@spelman.edu)
Best wishes, Chris
Zappe |
President:
Chris Zappe (zappe@bucknell.edu)
Treasurer/Secretary:
Mary Beth Kurz (mkurz@clemson.edu)
Vice President - Programs:
Jill Hardin (jrhardin@vcu.edu)
Vice President - Projects:
Mike Racer (mracer@memphis.edu)
Vice
President - Publications:
John Kros (krosj@mail.ecu.edu)
"Issues in Education" Column in OR/MS Today:
Joel
Sokol (jsokol@isye.gatech.edu)
INFORM-ED Website:
Pinar Kaymaz (kaymapi@auburn.edu)
INFORM-ED Newsletter:
Matt Drake (mdrake@isye.gatech.edu)
Case Competition Chair:
Tasha
Inniss (tinniss@spelman.edu)
Issues in Education - Joel Sokol
San Francisco, California
Winners of the Sixth Annual INFORMS Case Competition (This year, we had two winners)
Timeshare
Exchange Fair
Anton Ovchinnikov, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University
of Toronto
Scott Sampson, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University
Dmitry Krass, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of
Toronto
Reebok NFL Replica Jerseys: A Case for Postponement
Stephen C. Graves, MIT
John C.W. Parsons, McKinsey & Company
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Runners-Up:
Modeling
Co-Development Contracts in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Nicos Savva, Judge Business School
Stefan Scholtes, Judge Business School
Home
Depot in San Juan Capistrano: Multi-Objective Multi-Stakeholder Decision Case
Tianjun Feng, The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine
L. Robin Keller, The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine
Xiaona Zheng, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
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Seventh
Annual INFORMS Case Competition
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INFORMS is pleased to announce its Seventh Annual Peer-Reviewed Case Competition. This competition 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 are due by August 14, 2006. All cases will be reviewed in August and September of 2006 by a panel of judges familiar with the case method. Up to four finalists will be selected and notified by the Chair of the Case Competition by the beginning of October 2006. Finalists will give thirty-minute presentations of their entries at a special open session of the 2006 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. The panel of judges will select the winning entry from these finalists based on these presentations. The winner will be announced at the INFORM-ED Business meeting at the 2006 INFORMS Conference. Finalists must present their cases at the Fall 2006 INFORMS Meeting in Pittsburgh to be eligible to win. Guidelines
for submitted cases are: A
complete submission package will consist of the following: Prizes
include: For more information, please contact Tasha R. Inniss at TInniss@spelman.edu. |
Since the Fall INFORMS meeting in San Francisco,
the leadership torch has been passed within INFORM-ED. Some new individuals
have come on as editors for us. I would like to take this opportunity to express
my sincere gratitude to these individuals who volunteer their precious time
to produce electronic and conventional publications for the benefit of INFORM-ED
and INFORMS in general:
Please know how grateful I am for the important contributions of these three members of INFORM-ED. If you would like to contribute to the development of these INFORM-ED publications in some way, please do not hesitate to contact these individuals or myself. We welcome your ideas and involvement!
In
another very important area to INFORM-ED is our annual Case Competition. Tasha
Inniss (tinniss@spelman.edu)
is the contact person and organizer of the INFORM-ED case competition. I am
sure we will have a very successful round of cases at the Fall 2006 meeting
in Pittsburgh. Please email Tasha for details regarding submissions.
INFORMS Transactions on Education (ITE) - Salwa Ammar
To start with, we would like to maintain the general structure of the journal, including its special areas of publications and its review process. Regular submissions to ITE should now be made to Armann (Armann.Ingolfsson@ualberta.ca). We are on the look out for a replacement for me as the resource reviews area editor. If you can recommend someone who might be willing and able to take on the task of soliciting reviews of teaching resources (books, software, etc.) to be published in that area of the journal, please let me know. We count on your continuing support in making and soliciting submissions for the journal as well as in promoting its readership. As you know, our publication is author-friendly and, wherever possible, we will continue to work closely with authors to ensure that submissions become valuable contributions to ITE.
As we review potential directions for ITE, it is important to capture and build upon the current strengths of the journal. At the same time we intend to investigate the need and desire to expand the focus. Specifically, we wish to solicit your feedback and opinions regarding the types and mix of articles that should be included in ITE. Papers published in ITE to date cover a wide variety of typical OR/MS topics. A large proportion describes teaching tools and techniques. Some describe innovative pedagogical approaches, while others argue the value of special course content. Many emphasize the use of spreadsheets. There is no doubt that the journal has accumulated a substantial repository of useful information that has had a positive impact on OR/MS teaching. It is also clear that ITE readership and contributors support the type of papers currently published. The capacity to review, select and make available significant teaching knowledge, coupled with the online accessibility of this directly relevant information, is a unique endeavor of ITE that is consistent with the journal's mission, and needs to be preserved and nurtured. However, the vast majority of ITE articles fall under the umbrella of teaching knowledge. There is an obvious absence of teaching articles that present contributions based on traditional empirical research. The question hence remains, how much effort should be devoted to fill this void and to cultivate sources of research submissions on behalf of ITE. Is the inclusion of such articles necessary or desirable?
The mission of advancing OR/MS education includes the responsibility of addressing this question. At this point, we wish to initiate conversations with you and other OR/MS educators. If you have any ideas, opinions, or comments regarding this issue, we would appreciate hearing them. Also, if you wish to propose submissions to ITE that will help explore this and other related issues please let me know. We hope to seek various venues for this discussion among a diverse group of OR/MS educators.
We are working to provide the mechanism, through ITE's webpage, by which we can share the opinions that we collect from you all. Based on the information that we gather, we would attempt to define the type and scope of research papers that can and need to be included in ITE. Therefore, I invite you all to participate in this discussion. We greatly appreciate your help in refining the guidelines for publications in the journal, as well as in developing methods for furthering its mission.
Finally,
I know I speak for Armann as well when I say that we are very excited to get
to work. We know we've got 'big shoes' to fill and we will do our best. Thank
you and I look forward to hearing from you. You can contact me at Ammar@lemoyne.edu.
There is no doubt that the increasing availability of technology in the classroom
has
dramatically changed the way we teach Management Science and Operations Research
(MS/OR). In particular, the software used for topics such as Optimization,
Simulation,
Decision Analysis and Statistics is an integral component of today's MS/OR
classroom.
While the usage of software in teaching has received a growing emphasis over
the past
two decades, a large amount of the related literature focuses on how to select
the software rather than on how to effectively incorporate it in our teaching.
This special issue's main goal is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas
concerning
effective and innovative uses of different software in teaching MS/OR to support
modeling, problem solving and critical thinking. The types of software should
be of
interest to MS/OR educators. We welcome papers providing educational materials
(e.g.,
cases, data sets, computer programs and tutorials) that can be shared with
all the ITE
readers.
ITE contributors' guidelines in http://ite.pubs.informs.org,
and should be sent, preferably via e-mail, to the guest editor:
Denise S. Troxell
Mathematics and Sciences Division
Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02457, USA
troxell@babson.edu
INFORM-ED @ INFORMS 2006, Pittsburgh - Jill Hardin
We would like to invite you to participate at the sessions sponsored by INFORM-ED (INFORMS Forum on Education, http://education.forum.informs.org/) at the INFORMS 2006 conference in Pittsburgh. Please contact Jill Hardin (jrhardin@vcu.edu) if you would like to organize a session or would like to make an education-related presentation. For more information about the INFORMS 2006 meeting, visit the conference website http://www2.informs.org/Conf/Pittsburgh06/.
Jill
Hardin, VP Programs
Update on Outreach - Dawn Strickland
INFORM-ED needs your help introducing OR/MS to students at institutions with no OR/MS programs. INFORMS members who would like to share their passion for the field with math and computer science students from nearby institutions should contact Dawn Strickland at stricklandd@winthrop.edu. We are creating a presentation on the “Science of Better” to be used for these purposes, but any presentation you can make that will expose these students to OR/MS would be a great step towards growing the profession. If you would like to help, please let me know, even if you don't know of institutions near you that would benefit from this type of presentation.
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2006 Teaching Management Science Workshop - Steve Powell
Planning for the third INFORMS Teaching of Management Science Workshop is well underway. The Workshop will be held July 13-16 on the campus of San Francisco State University. Details are available at http://www.informs.org/Edu/TMSWorkshop/TMS06/. Join us this summer for an exciting and stimulating three days in San Francisco!
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INFORM-ED Website - Pinar Kaymaz
As the new website editor, I have been working on a reorganization of the web presence of INFORM-ED. The website includes many useful tools and resources for both students and educators of OR/MS. Our purpose is to provide a more logical and attractive website in order to represent these resources in a more efficient way. As of now, I have designed a new outline and have renewed most of the pages. The plan is to finish the whole site in the upcoming month. The new website will be available for access in the next couple months.
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Every newsletter, we will recognize recent recipients of teaching awards. If you, or anyone you know, have received a teaching award, please let me know at mdrake@isye.gatech.edu. Let's tout our achievements! In this newsletter we are pleased to recognize...
Joel
Sokol, Georgia Tech
Winner of the CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
Criteria for this award were the following:
Congratulations, Joel!
Until the summer....
Matt (mdrake@isye.gatech.edu)