INFORMS International OR Education Initiative

1. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative The 1stALIO/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)

2. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative Organizers were • Héctor Cancela (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) at cancela@fing.edu.uy (Co-Chair) • James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA) jcochran@latech.edu (Co-Chair) • Carlos Testuri (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) at ctesturi@fing.edu.uy • María E. Urquhart (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) at urquhart@fing.edu.uy)

3. Argentina Canada Colombia Mexico Peru Spain United States Brazil Chile Cuba Panama Portugal Uruguay INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative Attendees from

4. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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

5. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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)

6. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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)

7. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative The 1stORPA/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 (tjstew@stats.uct.ac.za) • Cape Town, South Africa • Joint education initiative of INFORMS, IFORS, EURO, ORPA, and ORSSA

8. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative Organizers were • James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA) jcochran@latech.edu - Chair) • Johan Joubert (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Johan.joubert@up.ac.za • Neil Manson (Monash University, South Africa) neil.manson@infotech.monash.edu • Ozias Ncube (University of South Africa, South Africa) ncubeo@unisa.ac.za

9. Austria Burkina Faso France Italy Nigeria Tanzania Zimbabwe Botswana Ethiopia India Kenya South Africa United States INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative Attendees from

10. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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

11. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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

12. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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

13. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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

14. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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

15. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative The 2ndALIO/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; agcanen@pep.ufrj.br) and James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University, USA; jcochran@latech.edu)

16. Argentina Canada Colombia Guatemala Mexico Peru Spain United States Brazil Chile Cuba Honduras Panama Portugal Uruguay Venezuela INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative Attendees from

17. INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative 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

18. INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative 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

19. INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative 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

20. INFORMS/IFORS/EURO International Education Initiative The 1stAPORS/INFORMS/IFORS/EURO Workshop on OR Education– in the planning stages • December 2009 • Somewhere (TBA) in India

21. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative The 2ndALIO/ INFORMS/ IFORS/EURO Workshop on OR Education The 2ndORPA/I NFORMS/ IFORS/EURO Workshop on OR Education INFORMS Workshops on OR Education The 1stORPA/ INFORMS Workshop on OR Education The 1stAPORS/ INFORMS Workshop on OR Education The 1stALIO/ INFORMS Workshop on OR Education

22. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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 (erwin.pesch@uni-siegen.de) • Program Committee Chair – Woeginger Gerhard (gwoegi@win.tue.nl) • Education Track Chair – James J. Cochran (jcochran@cab.latech.edu) • Deadline for abstract submission: March 1, 2009

23. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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, (irene@dc.uba.ar) • Program Committee Chair – TBA • Education Track Chair – James J. Cochran (jcochran@cab.latech.edu)

24. INFORMS International OR Education Initiative 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 (Patrick.Tobin@acu.edu.au) • Program Committee Chair – May Yee (Janny) Leung (janny@se.cuhk.edu.hk) • Education Track Chair – James J. Cochran (jcochran@cab.latech.edu)

25. 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)

26. INFORMS Transactions on Education 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)

27. INFORMS Transactions on Education 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