IISE Excellence in Teaching Operations Research Award
The Operations Research Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IISE) invites you to nominate a faculty for its annual award recognizing excellence in teaching operations research.
The award will be presented at the upcoming IISE Annual Conference in Pittsburgh PA between May 20 and May 23, 2017.
Eligibility Criteria:
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The nominee must be a member of IISE.
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The candidate should be nominated for the instruction of an undergraduate course in operations research methods or applications. The course must be offered as part of an academic program in Engineering or Management (i.e., Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, or Civil Engineering, or Management Science among others). Examples of course titles for the nomination may include “Operations Research”, “Linear Programming”, “Optimization Methods”, “Simulation”, “Production Systems”, “Linear Optimization”, “Decision Analysis”, etc.
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Course materials supporting the candidate nomination must have been developed by the nominee.
Nomination package:
Nominations may be made by a faculty colleague or a student who has taken the course for which the candidate is put forward. The nomination package must consist of the following:
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Three letters of support. One from the nominator and two from other individuals. At least one of the three letters must be from a faculty member and one from a student.
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Course syllabus and supporting items such as samples of different instructional materials used in the course.
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Summary copies of teaching evaluations for the course for which the candidate is nominated.
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Curriculum Vitae.
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A one-page reflective statement by the nominee on his/her contribution to the instruction of OR.
We welcome nominations from around the globe! Letters of support, CV, and reflective statements are required in English, while samples of instructional materials, evaluations, and syllabus can be submitted in the language of instruction.
All supporting documents in the nomination package should be submitted in pdf format within a compressed file (zip) to Dr. Rubén Proaño (rpmeie@rit.edu) by March 6, 2017
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Ruben Proano
Associate Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester NY, 16423
585 475-4236
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