teaching methods

Teaching Statistics Using Facility Location Modeling: A Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience

  • Abel Sapirstein
  • Lauren Steimle
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Other Topics Tags , , , ,

    There is a growing need to expand and strengthen the industrial engineering/operations research workforce. Undergraduate research experiences are an effective way to build in-demand skills and to attract people to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, such as industrial engineering/operations research. However, the traditional apprenticeship model of an undergraduate research experience limits the number of … Read more

    Social Classroom Seating Assignment Problems

  • Alessandro Hill
  • Steffen Peuker
  • Ioannis Mourtos
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Network Optimization Tags , , , , ,

    University students benefit academically, personally and professionally from an expansion of their in-class social network. To facilitate this, we present a novel and broadly applicable optimization approach that exposes individuals to as many as possible peers that they do not know. This novel class of ‘social seating assignment problems’ is parameterized by the social network, … Read more