INFORMS International OR Education Initiative

INFORMS Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 22, 2023

INFORMS International OR Education Initiative

The 1st ALIO/INFORMS Workshop on OR Education November 27 – 28, 2006 with the XIII CLAIO (2006 Latin-Ibero-American

Conference on Operations Research) www.fing.edu.uy/inco/eventos/claio06/eng/

Montevideo, Uruguay joint education initiative of INFORMS, IFORS, and the

Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research (ALIO) www.dc.uba.ar/alio/index-en.htm)



Organizers were Héctor Cancela (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

at [email protected] (Co-Chair) James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA)

[email protected] (Co-Chair) Carlos Testuri (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)

at [email protected] María E. Urquhart (Universidad de la República,

Uruguay) at [email protected])


Attendees from

INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative

Argentina

Canada

Colombia

Mexico

Peru

Spain

United States

Brazil

Chile

Cuba

Panama

Portugal

Uruguay



Keynote & Plenary Speakers Carmen Belderrain (Instituto Tecnologico de

Aeronautica), Innovative Approaches for OR Education James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University),

Confessions of an Optimistic Cynic - Using Active Learning to Increase Comprehension and Retention in the Quantitative Classroom (conference wide plenary)

Cesar Jaramillo (Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira), Using Games as a Pedagogical Method for Teaching OR

Donna Llewellyn (Georgia Tech), Establishing and Running a University Teaching Center

Steven Powell (Dartmouth College), Teaching Modeling Skills



Notes: Workshop ran concurrently with the conference Sessions consistently attracted 25-40 participants Discussions were very lively Feedback was very positive Summary in Spring 2007 INFORM-ED Newsletter Article in ORMS Today (Vol 34, No 2, April 2007)



Success of the 1st ALIO/INFORMS Workshop on OR Education led to Commitment by INFORMS for five years (annual

workshops through 2011) Commitment by IFORS to match INFORMS (five years of

annual workshops through 2011) Commitment by EURO to send one speaker to the 2007

workshop Commitment to a 2nd workshop at the 2008 CLAIO in

Cartagena, Colombia Commitment to a joint ALIO/INFORMS conference in

2010 (in Buenos Aries)



The 1st ORPA/INFORMS Workshop on OR Education September 10 – 11, 2007 With the 2007 ORPA/ORSSA (Operations Research

Practice in Africa/Operations Research Society of South Africa - www.euro-online.org/africanOR/) Conference – chaired by Theo Stewart ([email protected])

Cape Town, South Africa Joint education initiative of INFORMS, IFORS, EURO,

ORPA, and ORSSA



Organizers were James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA)

[email protected] - Chair) Johan Joubert (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

[email protected] Neil Manson (Monash University, South Africa)

[email protected] Ozias Ncube (University of South Africa, South Africa)

[email protected]


Attendees from


Austria

Burkina Faso

France

Italy

Nigeria

Tanzania

Zimbabwe

Botswana

Ethiopia

India

Kenya

South Africa

United States



Keynote & Plenary Speakers Jeff Camm (University of Cincinnati, USA), Modeling for

Insights James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA),

Ennoblization through Mobilization: Establishing a Pre-eminent Societal Position for Operational Research (conference wide plenary)

Paul Kruger (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Spreading Knowledge using Spreadsheets

M. K. Luhandjula (University of South Africa, South Africa), Uncertanity Modelling and Applications to Optimization



Keynote & Plenary Speakers Neil Manson (Monash University, South Africa),

Free/Open Source Software Tools for O.R. Education Bryton Masiye (University of Pretoria, South Africa),

Multiple Objective Optimisation through Computational Intelligence Means: Theory and Practice

Graham Rand (Lancaster University, United Kingdom), Teaching the OR Method

Leanne Scott (University of Cape Town, South Africa) & Mario Marais (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa), Using Action Research Projects as a Medium to Teach OR in Development

Alexis Tsoukiàs (Université Paris-Dauphine, France), Public Policy Evaluation



Notes: Workshop started one day before the conference Forty-five registrants (almost half the number registered

for the conference) Sessions consistently attracted 20-35 participants Discussions were very lively Feedback was very positive Summary in current INFORM-ED Newsletter Article to appear soon in ORMS Today



Success of the 1st ORPA/INFORMS Workshop on OR Education led to Commitment by EURO to send at least one speaker

for four years (annual workshops through 2011) Commitment to a 2nd workshop in 2009 in eastern

Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, or Madagascar) Creation of the Network of Operations Research

Educators in Africa (NOREA – contact Neil Manson or visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norea/ for details)

ORPA IV - Using Operations Research to Address Urban Transport and Water Resource Management Issues in Africa (Washington D.C.) in 2008



Success of the 1st ORPA/INFORMS Workshop on OR Education led to Increased interest in an education cluster of sessions

at the 2008 IFORS Conference (Sandton, SA, July 14-18) Interest in this program by

UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

World Health Organization Community of Practice (COP) in Curriculum

Development CURRIKI - a global education and learning community UNITWIN – academic chairs program



The 2nd ALIO/INFORMS/IFORS/EURO Workshop on OR Education September 9-10, 2008 With the 2008 Latin-Ibero-American Conference on

Operations Research (XIV CLAIO: http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/alio/eventos-en.htm#claio)

Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Joint education initiative of INFORMS, IFORS, and the

Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research (ALIO) www.dc.uba.ar/alio/index-en.htm)

Co-Chairs - Alberto Canen, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; [email protected]) and James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA; [email protected])


Attendees from


Argentina

Canada

Colombia

Guatemala

Mexico

Peru

Spain

United States

Brazil

Chile

Cuba

Honduras

Panama

Portugal

Uruguay

Venezuela


Keynote & Plenary Speakers Alberto G. Canen (Universidade Federal do Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil) Contribuições Multiculturais Para o Ensino da Pesquisa Operacional

Marcela Gonzalez (Universidad de Talca, Chile) Experiencias en el rediseño e implementación de los cursos de Investigación de Operaciones en la la carrera de Ingeniería Industrial

James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA), Projects and Cases for Community Service-Based Education - Getting Students out of their Seats and into the Bona Fide Real World



Keynote & Plenary Speakers Fredrik Odegaard (Western Ontario University, Canada),

Bringing the Exciting Real World of OR Into the Classroom

Chris Zappe (Bucknell University, USA) Project-Based Teaching in Operations Research/Management Science Courses



Notes: Workshop started first day of the conference

Interspersed with ten contributed education presentations

Sessions consistently attracted 40-60 participants

Discussions were very lively

Feedback was very positive

Summary in current INFORM-ED Newsletter

Article to appear soon in ORMS Today



The 1st APORS/INFORMS/IFORS/EURO Workshop on OR Education – in the planning stages

December 2009

Somewhere (TBA) in India




The 1st ALIO/ INFORMS Workshop

on OR Education

The 1st ORPA/ INFORMS Workshop

on OR Education

The 1st APORS/ INFORMS Workshop

on OR Education

INFORMS Workshops on OR Education

The 2nd ALIO/ INFORMS/ IFORS/EURO Workshop on

OR Education

The 2nd ORPA/I NFORMS/ IFORS/EURO Workshop on

OR Education



Consider organizing a session or giving a presentation/workshop for the XXIII EURO – the 2009 Conference of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (http://www.euro-2009.de/) July 5-8, Bonn, Germany! Organizing Committee Chair – Erwin Pesch

([email protected]) Program Committee Chair – Woeginger Gerhard

([email protected]) Education Track Chair – James J. Cochran

([email protected]) Deadline for abstract submission: March 1, 2009



Consider organizing a session or giving a presentation/workshop for the INFORMS/XV CLAIO (Latin-Ibero-American Conference on Operations Research)

May/June 2010??? In Buenos Aries, Argentina! Organizing Committee Chair – Irene Loiseau,

([email protected]) Program Committee Chair – TBA Education Track Chair – James J. Cochran

([email protected])



Consider organizing a session or giving a presentation/workshop for the next Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2011, http://www.ifors2011.org/) July 10-15, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia! Organizing Committee Chair – Patrick Tobin

([email protected]) Program Committee Chair – May Yee (Janny) Leung

([email protected]) Education Track Chair – James J. Cochran

([email protected])


INFORMS Transactions on Education

Working to expand awareness, readership, authorship, and editorial contributions to a wider audience by: attending international and large regional conferences

in targeted geographies to promote ITE and recruit authors, referees, and Associate Editors

asking OR societies in other countries to add a hyperlink to ITE to their organization’s websites;

asking OR societies in other countries to allow me to contribute articles on ITE to their newsletters; and

listing ITE on various journal directories (we have already successfully listed ITE in the Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org)



Working to expand awareness, readership, authorship, and editorial contributions to a wider audience by: adding new members to the ITE Editorial Board

Jill Hardin, VCU (AE for Teaching Cases) Vijay Mehrotra, USF (AE for Special Issues) Dave Rogers, U of Cincinnati (AE for Resource

Reviews) Chris Rump, BGSU (AE) John (Fritz) Raffensperger, U of Canterbury (AE) Jan van Vuuren, U of Stellenbosch, (AE & ORiON

Liaison)



Working to expand awareness, readership, authorship, and editorial contributions to a wider audience by: developing a procedure for restricting the distribution

of teaching notes for cases published in ITE getting budget to have ALL ITE articles copyedited revamping the ITE website moving to a Manuscript Central system for managing

manuscripts submissions online Now listed in Cabell’s Directory

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