Dear colleagues and students,
Following the success of the First Online Doctoral Workshop on Supply Chain Analytics (held in May 2020 with > 600 participants worldwide), we are organizing the Second Online Doctoral Workshop on Supply Chain Analytics on June 2nd, 2021. The workshop is free and intended to help OM/SCM/IE/DS PhD students and junior faculty with their career development.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the higher-education, from teaching to research. The workshop invited distinguished panelists and world-class scholars to share constructive advice that helps Ph.D. students prepare for the academic job market and junior faculty with teaching, research and tenure.
The workshop facilitates four panels:
- Job market outlook 2021
- Research preparation and PhD curriculum design
- Teaching innovations
- Research, publishing & tenure
We are excited to have the EIC of Management Science, Professor David Simchi-Levi (MIT), the EIC of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Professor Georgia Perakis (MIT), Dean Eric Johnson (Vanderbilt), Dean Cole Smith (Syracuse), Vice Dean Mor Armony (NYU), Senior Associate Dean Jeff Camm (Wake Forest), Senior Associate Dean Yael Grushka-Cockayne (University of Virginia), Senior Associate Dean Brian Tomlin (Dartmouth), Professor Kris Ferreira (HBS), Professor Jérémie Gallien (LBS), Professor Elena Katok (UTD), Professor Pinar Keskinocak (Georgia Tech), Professor Panos Kouvelis (WUSTL), Professor Jan Van Mieghem (Northwestern), Professor Marcelo Olivares (Universidad de Chile), Professor Michael Pinedo (NYU), Professor Kamalini Ramdas (LBS), Professor Saibal Ray (McGill), Professor Alan Scheller-Wolf (Carnegie Mellon), Professor Kevin Shang (Duke), Professor George Shanthikumar (Purdue), Professor Tom Tan (SMU), Professor Ruxian Wang (Johns Hopkins), Professor Candi Yano (UC Berkeley), Professor Yao Zhao (Rutgers), and many esteemed faculty and colleagues (to be announced upon confirmation) to share their perspectives. PhD students and junior faculty from universities around the world are welcome to join us.
More information about the workshop can be found here:
https://www.business.rutgers.edu/events/2nd-online-doctoral-workshop-supply-chain-analytics
To register, please check out
https://www.business.rutgers.edu/doctoral-workshop-supply-chain-analytics-registration
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop to hear and discuss the future of our profession. Details of the workshop are given below.
Best wishes,
Drs. Mark Rodgers, Rachel Chen, Ling Dong, Burak Kazaz, Adam Mersereau and Yao Zhao
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2nd Online Doctoral Workshop on Supply Chain Analytics
Objective: To prepare PhD students for the academic job market and help junior faculty on teaching, research and tenure.
Format: One day, online, no registration fee.
Organizing committee: Drs. Rachel Chen (UC Davis), Ling Dong (WUSTL), Burak Kazaz (Syracuse University), Adam Mersereau (UNC), Yao Zhao (Rutgers).
Program highlights:
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Schedule
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Topics
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8:50-9am
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Welcome and Opening Remark
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Morning 1st session
9am-10:30am
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Academic Job Market:
- How did the pandemic change higher education?
- With the introduction of vaccines, where is the academic market going this year?
- Perspectives of different types of schools.
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Morning 2nd session
10:30am-12pm
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PhD curriculum design:
- How to choose research topics?
- How to get ready, methodologically, for doing research?
- How to transit from a student to a faculty member?
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Afternoon 1st session
1:30pm-3pm
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Teaching innovations: The pandemic made us realize the more-than-ever strong need to connect our teaching to practice.
- How to motivate and equip students to discover and solve current problems in practice?
- New and effective teaching techniques: online, hybrid, experiential.
- Analytics teaching pedagogy: from problem solving to problem discovery.
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Afternoon 2nd session
3pm-
4:30pm
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Research and Tenure:
- How do editors/referees review a paper?
- My paper is rejected! What is next?
- Potential topics related to the pandemic.
- The importance of referee work and conference participation.
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Mark Rodgers
Assistant Professor, Supply Chain Management
Rutgers Business School
markrodgersphd@gmail.com
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