ASP, Art and Science of Practice: Educating Military Operations Research Practitioners

Abstract

The 2013 UPS George D. Smith Prize was awarded to the Naval Postgraduate School's (NPS) Operations Research (OR) department for "effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics." In the spirit of the prize, this paper shares details about our degree program. The program is closely linked to its military sponsor, the United States Department of Defense, in a unique relationship that ensures NPS students and faculty are focused on critical and important problems facing the military. Our students bring firsthand knowledge of the challenges our organization faces and leave our academic program as OR practitioners prepared to immediately meet those challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA619584

Entities

People

  • Gerald G. Jerry Brown
  • Robert F. Dell
  • Ronald D. Fricker Jr.
  • Walter C. Degrange

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Security
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • Operations Research
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Naval Academy
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • STEM Education