{"id":201,"date":"2007-11-01T04:08:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T08:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2007-11-01T04:08:48","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T08:08:48","slug":"aurelie-thiele-on-operations-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/01\/aurelie-thiele-on-operations-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurelie Thiele on Operations Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/engineered.typepad.com\/aurelie_thiele_small.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"190\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"150\" \/>Aurelie Thiele of Lehigh has a wide-ranging blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/engineered.typepad.com\/\">&#8220;Thoughts on business, engineering and higher education&#8221;<\/a>.  Many of her posts are on operations research.  I particularly liked her thoughtful piece on the role operations research plays in the Grand Challenges in Engineering.  The leadership of INFORMS put together a white paper on the subject, which <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=129\">I wrote about a while ago<\/a>.  Aurelie takes issue with the fragmented aspect of the proposed role:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The applications-driven paper lacks the unifying theme that a focus on information management would have provided, and instead OR comes across as an add-on to other people&#8217;s expertise &#8211; certainly valuable, but not critical. I&#8217;m not sure why anyone would want to be portrayed as jack of all trades but master of none&#8230; The authors also miss the opportunity to portray operations researchers as the center of inter-disciplinary teams bringing scientists from various disciplines together, drawing from their experience in one area to help researchers in another. When I finished reading the paper I wasn&#8217;t particularly excited to be working in the field, but I give the authors credit for trying &#8211; marketing OR is an uphill battle, given the aversion to math of most regular folks, and every little thing helps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been struggling with many of this very issue during my year in New Zealand (since I have had the opportunity to give a number of &#8220;big picture&#8221; talks).  Is OR just a collection of tools that we jealously guard or is there more commonality amongst us?  And are we critical, or just a bit of sprinkle on top of the ice cream sundae?  Of course, I remain excited by the field, and reading the rest of the blog, I think Aurelie does also.<\/p>\n<p>Aurelie has been blogging since March:  I can&#8217;t believe it took me so long to stumble across this excellent blog.  Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurelie Thiele of Lehigh has a wide-ranging blog on &#8220;Thoughts on business, engineering and higher education&#8221;. Many of her posts are on operations research. I particularly liked her thoughtful piece on the role operations research plays in the Grand Challenges in Engineering. The leadership of INFORMS put together a white paper on the subject, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/01\/aurelie-thiele-on-operations-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Aurelie Thiele on Operations Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-challenges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}