Better and Faster: How to Leverage Award-Winning Operations Management Techniques

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Carrie Beam

Members of the campus community are invited to a virtual presentation featuring Carrie Beam, teaching associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and 2021 INFORMS Edelman Prize Chair. Beam will present the keys of stakeholder engagement, iterative development, and scaled-up implementation of operations management techniques. 

The webinar series is sponsored by the M.S. in Operations Management and M.S. in Engineering Management degree programs.

The presentation will take place Jan. 27 from noon to 1 p.m. CST. Click here to register. There is no cost to attend.   

The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), is an international association for operations research and analytics professionals. 

The INFORMS Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research, and Management Science identifies innovative applications of operations research in fields as diverse as operations management, sewer district management, school bus scheduling, polio vaccinations, and transportation. 

This webinar is hosted via Zoom. Please make sure you have an active account and are logged into Zoom the day of this event. 

If you are unable to join us at this time, please register to receive a link to the recorded webinar to enjoy at your leisure. 

Register for the webinar.

About the presenter: Beam holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkeley, and has taught Introduction to Operations Management, Introduction to Decision Support Systems, Introduction to Analytics, Probability and Statistics, Lean Six Sigma, Maintenance and Reliability, Risk Management, and a variety of other operations management topics since she began with the Department of Industrial Engineering in 2012. She has been teaching online since 2007. She also works as a consultant, specializing in data science and analytics. Her projects use descriptive and predictive analytics that help inform such decisions as market segmentation, direct marketing strategy, customer churn analysis, and coupon/pricing analysis.