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You want them to remember? Then make it memorable! Means for enhancing operations research education

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In this article I summarize the main points I made in the keynote presentation of the same title I gave at the EURO XXIV conference in Lisbon, Portugal in July of 2010. Each of these points deals in some way with making communications between an operations research professional (academic or practitioner) and a student, client, subordinate, supervisor, or colleague more effective. Furthermore, each point is directly related to some realization (or epiphany) that I have had with regard to communication since I began teaching ORMS in 1984. It is noteworthy that these communications share a common objective; we are trying to facilitate learning. Since I have spent most of my career in academia, my primary emphasis is on communication with students (particularly those enrolled in introductory ORMS courses). However, I have also spent a great deal of time working on operations research problems outside of academia, either as an employee in private industry or as an operations research consultant to corporations and not-for-profit organizations, and I hope as a consequence my discussion is also relevant to those working in the practice of ORMS.

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  • Cochran, James J., 2012. "You want them to remember? Then make it memorable! Means for enhancing operations research education," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 219(3), pages 659-670.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:219:y:2012:i:3:p:659-670
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.11.013
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    1. J J Cochran, 2000. "Introductory business OR cases: successful use of cases in introductory undergraduate business college operational research courses," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 51(12), pages 1378-1385, December.
    2. John F. Chizmar & Anthony L. Ostrosky, 1998. "The One-Minute Paper: Some Empirical Findings," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 3-10, March.
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    3. Martello, Silvano & Pinto Paixão, José M., 2012. "A look at the past and present of optimization – An editorial," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 219(3), pages 638-640.

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