I'm teaching an intro to OR course to college freshmen. Several students, who love the material and are showing real talent for it, are concerned about future job prospects, and are planning to major in an engineering field they think is more robust to AI-based job elimination. They are choosing electrical and computer engineering and mechanical engineering. I'm curious as to what's happing at other universities, and whether OR professionals share the students' view on future job prospects.
Let's discuss.
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Brenda Dietrich
Arthur and Helen Geoffrion Professor of Practice
Cornell University
Ithaca NY
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