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Date: September 8, 2021 / 1:50pm to 4:30pm via ZOOM
What is OR? Will we ever get to use these tools in real life? What does the practice of OR entail? What are the best practices in teaching OR? What difficulties have students encountered in its study? What would make it more attractive and interesting to learn? What are the career opportunities for people interested in OR?
This webinar starts with an introduction to OR, and then gives practical tips on the practice and teaching of OR. The audience will be given a chance to discuss among themselves and ask questions that have crossed the minds of OR students, practitioners, and teachers.
Program Schedule
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|
01:50 – 02:00 |
Welcome Remarks |
Shella Mariscal |
|
02:00 – 02:35 |
OR: An Express Overview |
Elise del Rosario |
|
02:35 – 03.00 |
On the Practice of OR |
Dennis Beng Hui and Martha Tan |
|
03:00– 03:25 |
On the Teaching of OR |
Alleli Ester C. Domingo |
|
03:25 – 03:55 |
Breakout |
Breakout rooms of 10 participants with Facilitators from Academe and Practice |
|
03:55 -04:10 |
Q&A |
Nestley Sore |
|
04:10 – 04:30 |
Wrap up |
Malu de Guzman U |
Emcee Jed Loma
Zoom Master and Program Chair – Juanito Chan
The Speakers and Session Leaders
Elise Del Rosario
Chief Finance Officer
One Small Step Forward Foundation
Elise is past President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). Elise was an OR analyst at the San Miguel Corporation (SMC). With her as its Manager, the OR Department garnered the 1992 Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) Prize for outstanding and ongoing use of Operations Research in organizational decision-making. She co-founded the Operations Research Society of the Philippines (ORSP).
Upon retirement as SMC Vice President, Elise did OR consulting – mainly pro-bono work with the Philippine government, in her capacity as Chairperson of the ORSP Committee on OR for Public Service (ORSP Corps). She has keynoted national conferences, published papers, and served in the editorial boards of several international OR journals. She is currently CFO of One Small Step Forward Foundation, Inc., a family foundation that helps in educating public elementary school students in Mathematics.
She obtained IE/OR degree from UP Diliman, Master in IE/Mgt from AIT Bangkok, and was an International Research Fellow at the Stanford Research Institute in California. She is an IFORS Fellow and received outstanding alumni awards from PSHS, UP and AIT.
Dennis T. Beng Hui
Managing Director
Technopoly, Inc.
Dennis is a former Chair and Faculty of Industrial Engineering at De La Salle for more than 20 years and currently the Managing Director of Technopoly, a management consulting firm. He is a six sigma master black belt, a certified Lego serious play facilitator, a certified Prosci Change Management Practitioner, and an IC Agile certified professional on business agility. He holds a BS in Industrial Management Engineering and an MS in Industrial Engineering both from DLSU Manila.
Dennis has been involved in building models for strategic and operational decision making in the areas of distribution and logistics, food service operations, and manufacturing.
Martha Tan
Senior Consultant and Engagement Manager
Technopoly, Inc.
Martha is a Senior Consultant and Engagement Manager at Technopoly Inc. Her primary field of experience is in training, coaching and managing process improvement initiatives. She is a certified Lego Serious Play facilitator and a lean six sigma black belt who ushers teams in lean management principles and DMAIC methodology. She has extensive experience in process standardization including implementing quality management systems.
Her special interests include data and analytics. With foundational understanding of statistics, modeling, and coding, she enjoys delving into data wrangling and analysis.
A graduate of Bachelor and Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from De La Salle University, she is a part time lecturer for Operations Management in Ateneo De Manila University.
Alleli Ester C. Domingo
Associate Professor
University of the Philippines – Los Baños
Alleli is Associate Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Baños. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from UPLB and Master of Science in Mathematics from Melbourne University, Australia.
She received the 2004 UPLB Outstanding Teacher Award for the Physical Sciences, the 2009 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award for Teaching, the 2011 UP System Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Award in Education Innovation, the 2019 UP Los Baños Outstanding Extension Personnel Award, and the 2019 Raizalishta Foundation Tribute of Legendary Creativity in Teaching. She was an honoree of Bato Balani Foundation’s “The Many Faces of the Teacher” in 2015.
She chaired the UPLB committee on education paradigm shift, which looked into innovations for effective teaching and learning. She served as Program Development Associate in a unique endeavor of the UPLB College of Arts and Sciences to promote the fusion of science and the arts.
Malu De Guzman-U
Lecturer (on leave)
John Gokongwei School of Management
Ateneo de Manila University
Malu is a lecturer of Operations Research at the John Gokongwei School of Management, Ateneo de Manila. She also taught OR and Applied Math at the University of Asia & the Pacific, and Mathematics at UP Diliman. Her previous work in Dallas as a supply chain analyst, implementor, and trainer has brought her to different U.S. and Asia Pacific cities.
She obtained her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University where she specialized in optimization. Her dissertation entitled “Experiments with Nonlinear Discriminants in the Analysis of Fine Needle Aspirates” won First Place, 1999 Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, given by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) of the U.S. which recognizes the best dissertations in the field of IE across U.S. universities. She finished MS Applied Mathematics major in Operations Research at UP Diliman, and BS Mathematics at the Ateneo de Manila.
Her research interests are nonlinear optimization for breast cancer diagnosis, pattern recognition, combinatorial and heuristic optimization, and complexity.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
• Participants who register and pay will be given the Zoom details of the conference. All sessions will be recorded and will be made available to registered participants.
• Registration fee is waived for active ORSP MEMBERS provided they register by August 31, 2021.
• Other Registration fees: Non Member/Student PhP 100
RESERVATION/PAYMENT METHODS
• Payment may be deposited directly to BDO Account No. 00151 0028 666 under the name of Operations Research Society of the Philippines, Inc. (please do not abbreviate). Please send proof of payment with your registration form.
• If you are an ORSP member, make sure your membership fees are paid for the year.
• Payments may also be made by GCash to 0917 863 4196
• You may choose to apply for/renew your membership to avail of the member rates.
Contact Jenny Alzate, viber +63 917 138 3653, mobile +63 927 877 5219; e-mail secretariat@orsp.org.ph for any inquiries.
• Certificates of attendance shall be given upon request.
