Community Prizes and Awards

The focus of the Student Excellence Award competition is the advancement of O.R. methodologies to solve real-world problems. Applicants must demonstrate original research that can be applied to a real-world problem in areas to include energy, health care, information technology, national security, production and distribution, service industries, transportation and logistics.

Encourage discussion and interaction among individuals having interest in the issues facing women and their relationship to the profession of operations research and the management sciences.