Some Thoughts on #ORMS
1)We need to market our discipline better for far too many don’t know what we do and what we’re capable of. Should we write more conference papers? This is something we don’t like to do much, and I have mixed feelings about this. #TuesdayThoughts

2)Some of us do very theoretical work, some very applied, and some are hybrid; regardless we are one happy family that congregates at the huge @INFORMS annual meeting every year.

3) We love math, but we really like to apply it to a specific class of problems and aren’t really mathematicians (although I will admit that going through the steps of the proof of Banach’s fixed point theorem is always inspiring).

4) People from other eng. disciplines, Civil engineers, Mech. & EE engineers like to work with us & find value. We also work with statisticians. I recently worked with a human factors researcher & it was fun, but he is an IE! Is this something we should do more of or less? #ORMS

5) Our courses are often popular on the campus--cutting across disciplines. I’ll just name a few I've taught that became popular: MDPs, Product Management, and Operations Management. Should we work towards seeing at least one of our courses become mandatory in other disciplines?!

6) Most of us are in #IEOR departments, but a large number are also in biz schools, and some like me in Engineering Management departments.

We need to have more #ORMS programs at @NSF if we want our discipline to survive. Comments?