Recommendations for an Undergraduate Curriculum at the Interface of Operations Research and Computer Science

Hardin, Jill R.; Holder, Allen; Beck, J. Christopher; Furman, Kevin C.; Hanna, Arthur; Rader, David J.; Rego, César

doi:10.1287/ited.1110.0080

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“…This progression is consistent with classic theories of learning (e.g., Bloom et al 1956) and more modern adaptations (e.g., Krathwohl 2002). And the ICS study is not alone in its attempt to identify the needs of students in computation (indeed, Hardin et al (2012) cites a number of complementary efforts within other professional organizations).…”

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“…There is no single standard defining the set of topics, concepts, and skills that are required for an individual to be proficient in computation. However, approximately 10 years ago, the INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) worked to identify key elements of an undergraduate curriculum aimed at the intersection of operations research and computer science (Hardin et al 2012). With a retrospective look that considers the historical development of these fields going back to the 1960s, the ICS divides the relevant base of knowledge into three categories of skills:…”

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Interactive Computing for Accelerated Learning in Computation and Data Science

Alderson

2022

INFORMS Transactions on Education

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This article describes the motivation and design for introductory coursework in computation aimed at midcareer professionals who desire to work in data science and analytics but who have little or no background in programming. In particular, we describe how we use modern interactive computing platforms to accelerate the learning of our students both in and out of the classroom. We emphasize the importance of organizing the interaction with course material so that students learn not only to “think computationally” but also to “do computationally.” We provide details of existing courses in computation offered at the Naval Postgraduate School, and we describe their ongoing evolution in response to increased demand from members of the civilian and military workforce.

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Interactive Computing for Accelerated Learning in Computation and Data Science

Alderson

2022

INFORMS Transactions on Education

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“…Operations research and computer science use tools of mathematics to solve and analyse problems. Students who lack a lucid appreciation for mathematics are limited in their ability to understand and explore the Operations Research and Computer Science interface (Hardin et al, 2012).…”

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Analysis of Exam Results of the Subject ’applied Mathematics for It’

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Rydval

2014

ERIES Journal

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In this paper the exam results of the subject "Applied Mathematics for Informatics" (formerly Methods of Operation Research) from the last 13 years have been analysed. The exam has two parts: written test and oral exam. The grades of the students of the subject have been low for a long time. We would like to know if the low grades are due to the quality of the tests or due to a reducing number of hours of contact teaching. Another reason of low grades can be due to the mathematical character of the subject and to the unpopularity of such kind of subjects. Based on the bad results, students have also initiated a change in the scoring system.This article builds on our paper at the conference ERIE 2013. The main goals of this paper are to find out if the grades have had the tendency to decline during the years and to evaluate the validity, reliability, difficulty, and discrimination power of the tests.

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“…Despite of difficulty to master, employing IT skills to solve mathematical programming is highly attractive to learners because it has become a necessity for an operational manager. For example, in the United States labor market, individuals with graduate degrees in both operational research and computer science are equal attractive to employers seeking operational research analysts (Hardin et al, 2012). In literature, Mandelbaum and Zeltyn (2010) provide an explanation on service engineering course design at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.…”

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“…Considering operational research running at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), it is composed of 8 modules and each module is heavily relied on R-language (Dunning et al, 2015). Hardin et al (2012) summarizes foundational skills, core skills and recommended skills that operational research should train undergraduate students, also, these skills are extensively focused on mathematical modeling and computer science. Lu (2018Lu ( , 2020 proposes a data-driven framework for extracting knowledge from data, of which applicable skills contain data management, data preprocessing, data modeling and business intelligence achievement.…”

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Data-Driven Minicourse Design for Operational Research and Its Practice

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2020

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This paper explores the data-driven minicourse design for operational research at Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences. Situating this article on literature review, numerical simulation and comparison analysis methods, it previously sets the minicourse objectives as "can operate data processing", beyond that "may build mathematics model to optimize real problems in engineering fields, especially in logistics engineering field". Then, this article rearranges course contents into twelve modules and delineates each module in a way of a brief explanation with numerical example. These examples are solved by Matlab or related software. To disseminate applicable skill, we also released these Matlab codes which may be served as templates for secondary development of operational research pedagogy. The data-driven minicourse may be carried out in ways of both offline classroom and online mobile internet classroom, of which some modules are especially suitable to be implemented in flipped classroom pedagogy. Comparing with operational research implemented in undergraduate majors at other universities, our minicourse design is characterized as data-driven style, logistics industry-focused, mini case study pedagogy, rich mobile internet resources, as well as applicable skill training. Learners' feedback confirmed that the minicourse design equipped them with model application and software skills helpful for a successful career.

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Recommendations for an Undergraduate Curriculum at the Interface of Operations Research and Computer Science

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Interactive Computing for Accelerated Learning in Computation and Data Science

Interactive Computing for Accelerated Learning in Computation and Data Science

Analysis of Exam Results of the Subject ’applied Mathematics for It’

Data-Driven Minicourse Design for Operational Research and Its Practice

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