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OR/MS Education

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  • Irwin Greenberg

    (Decision Sciences Faculty, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, Virginia 22030)

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One might be heretical enough to question the advisability of offering formal educational programs in OR/MS; this thought occurred to me recently while preparing a final examination for an “Introduction to ...” course I was teaching. Using the time-honored pedagogical device of copying questions from the exercises in texts other than the one being used in the course, I happened to pick up the first OR text I ever taught from; Sasieni, Yaspan, and Friedman's Operations Research: Methods and Problems , published by Wiley in 1959. Looking through the book reminded me of what I taught that class 20 years earlier: linear programming, dynamic programming, inventory models, scheduling, simulation, waiting lines, game theory, and reliability. The only topic not in that text that currently finds its way into OR/MS courses is PERT/CPM.

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  • Irwin Greenberg, 1981. "OR/MS Education," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 11(6), pages 105-106, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:11:y:1981:i:6:p:105-106
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.11.6.105
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