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PHALANX Article December 2002MORS Education and Professional Development (Ed&PD) Colloquium to be Held at NPS in 2003Mike Garrambone, Veridian, mike.garrambone@veridian.comIntroduction.
The Military
Operations Research Society has sponsored outstanding Education and Professional
Development Colloquia for the past seventeen years.
These Colloquia have served as informal meetings to exchange viewpoints
and have provided excellent opportunities to conduct seminars on a wide variety
of topics. Each year's program has
been different and highly dependent on MORS presidential guidance, Vice
President (Professional Affairs) perspectives, views of the MORS Board, and the
thoughts and energies of the untiring Ed&PD committee members.
Our military and civilian institutions and educators, MORS Sponsors,
analytical personnel managers, and patrons and practitioners of all types and
varieties have supported the Colloquium over the years.
We have enjoyed the support of our MORS Staff, our superlative hosts, and
the many professional and highly knowledgeable guest speakers. This year we
endeavor to make the Colloquium attractive to an even wider audience.
We will provide a program that addresses a variety of subjects and looks
at new ways of doing things. We are
striving for diversity in presentation topics and an opportunity to engage in
technical and tactical exchanges of information and opinions.
We will challenge our participants, provide feedback to our supporters,
and promise intellectual enjoyment for our attendees. Our educational focus this
year will be on “Military Operations Research for Tomorrow’s Warrior.” Situation. MORS will conduct the 2003 Education and
Professional Development Colloquium, 2-3 April 2003 at the Naval Postgraduate
School in beautiful Monterey, California. The
event is being co-sponsored by Wayne P. Hughes, Jr., FS, Dean of the Graduate
School of Operations and Information Sciences and hosted by the Operations
Research Department, Chairman, Professor James N. Eagle.
Past Colloquia have focused on educational curricula at the various
Service schools, the development of new analysts, presentations of graduate
theses and senior studies, and discussions on the direction and evolution of OR.
Over the years, we have enjoyed tutorials, panel discussions from the
senior members of the Society, and hundreds of symposium-quality presentations
on examples of the art and science of our discipline.
This year we want to do all of this and more. Mission. In keeping with the goals of MORS to enhance the
quality and usefulness of Military Operations Research Analysis, we want to
meet the needs of the future users of military operations research
and support professional interchange. Our
program this year is to educate members on old and new analysis techniques and
approaches, and to provide insightful peer review of developing ideas and
analyses. Not losing sight of our
educators and students, we are planning a program that relates to our
practitioners as well. We are
particularly targeting the analysts who seek to inform and advise DoD
decision-makers. We want to hear
from the agencies who employ young analysts, from organizations who provide
professional development, and from the mentors of tomorrow's OR professionals.
The mission is to bring together all the good people (and their ideas)
who can talk about the potential uses of military operations research, and
encourage consistent, highly professional, outstanding contributions to our the
future needs. Execution. The Ed&PD Committee consisting of: Chairman,
Mr Michael W. Garrambone, Veridian Engineering; Deputy Chair, COL Michael
McGinnis, USMA; Senior Advisor, Dr Andrew G. Loerch, George Mason University;
Committee Members: Prof Rick
Rosenthal, NPS; Mr W. Dean Free, Dean Free & Associates, Inc.; Mr John F.
Keane, JHUAPL; and LTC Michael J. Kwinn,
USMA; and Committee Volunteers, Dr Steven E.
Pilnick, NPS, Dr Priscilla A. Glasow, The MITRE Corporation, and Mr Mark
Sinclair, Veridian Engineering, is putting the game plan together.
The agenda can not comprise all the items listed below, but these
are examples of what we are considering:
Who
Should Attend?
We seek long-standing and new MORS members, Operations
Research, Management Science, Industrial Systems Engineering graduate and
undergraduate students.
We want faculty from all the Service schools and public and private OR
civilian institutions.
We want representation from all the Services and the Office of the
Secretary of Defense.
We extend invitations to all the analytical agencies to send
representatives to speak on their analytical needs.
We want defense contractors to tell us what they do and what they expect
from their new analysts.
We invite members from INFORMS, MAS, SIAM, and other societies who share
our analytical bent.
We look forward to talking with members from the Material Commands,
Personnel Centers, the Training Organizations, the Staff and War Colleges, the
modeling and simulation community, the wargame, exercise and experiment
agencies, and our educational technologists.
We want to hear agency representatives talk about professional
development and continued education, and we are interested in personnel
requirements from our analytical personnel managers.
The program is about education, all facets and for all ages.
If you are interested in hearing about or talking about education and
educational issues, then please join us at the Colloquium. Administrative. The Education and Professional Development Committee falls under the direction of Dr Richard E. Hayes, Vice President of Professional Affairs. For further information on the 2003 MORS Education and Professional Development Colloquium please call the MORS Office at 703-933-9070 or contact Mr Mike Garrambone, Veridian Engineering, mike.garrambone@veridian.com. |
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