American honor society for management
Not to be confused with the unrelated local fraternity at Centenary University.
Omega Rho (ΩΡ honor society for students in the fields ofoperations research andmanagement science . It was established in 1976 and became part of theInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 1998. Omega Rho has chapters in the United States and Mexico.
Omega Rho was founded at the Institute of Management Sciences and Operations Research Society of America (TIMS/ORSA ) joint national meeting inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1976.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] honor society to recognize students in the fields ofoperations research andmanagement science and to support study in those areas.[ 2] University of Southern California .[ 3]
It was admitted to theAssociation of College Honor Societies in 1983 with full membership in 1986.[ 4] [ 3] [ 2] Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 1998.[ 1] [ 3]
In 2012, Omega Rho had an active membership of 181 and a total membership of 8,069[ 2] [ 5] [ 1] [ 2] Catonsville, Maryland .[ 6]
The colors of Omega Rho are blue and red.[ 7] Ad Optimum per ® .
Omega Rho is coeducational.[ 2] [ 2] [ 2] [ 2]
Each fall, the society hosts the Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture at the annual INFORMS Meeting.[ 2] [ 3] Anna Nagurney .
Following is a list of Omega Rho chapters.[ 5] [ 8]
Charter date and range Institution Location Status Reference April 1, 1976 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Active April 1, 1976 Columbia University New York City, New York Active April 1, 1976 George Washington University Washington, D.C. Active April 1, 1976 Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California Active April 1, 1976 New York University New York City, New York Active April 1, 1976 North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina Active April 1, 1976 Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas Active April 1, 1976 State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, New York Active April 1, 1976 University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, Illinois Inactive April 1, 1976 University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Active April 1, 1976 University of Southern California Los Angeles, California Active October 12, 1981 University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia Active November 3, 1981 Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana Active October 25, 1982 United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland Active April 25, 1983 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, California Active April 25, 1983 California State University, Fullerton Fullerton, California Active May 14, 1984 Air Force Institute of Technology Dayton, Ohio Active November 26, 1984 Babson College Wellesley, Massachusetts Active October 27, 1986 George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Active October 27, 1986 Saint Louis University St. Louis, Missouri Active October 27, 1986 University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Active April 27, 1987 University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Active May 1, 1991 University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, Massachusetts Active April 24, 1995 Cornell University Ithaca, New York Active April 24, 1995 Portland State University Portland, Oregon Active December 4, 1995 United States Air Force Academy El Paso County, Colorado Active January 2, 1996 Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México San Ángel ,Mexico City, Mexico Active November 4, 1996 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, North Carolina Active February 9, 2017 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Active April 12, 2018 Georgetown University Washington, D.C. Active January 1, 2022 Bucknell University Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Active [ 9] 2002 Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona Active August 21, 2003 Florida International University University Park, Florida Active September 28, 2005 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana Active 2005 United States Military Academy West Point, New York Active September 27, 2010 University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Active July 28, 2012 Saint Joseph's University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Active [ 1] February 9, 2015 University of Scranton Scranton, Pennsylvania Active November 20, 2019 University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, Texas Active xxxx ?–20xx ? Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? Miami University Oxford, Ohio Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon Inactive xxxx ?–before July 2011 Polytechnic Institute of New York University Brooklyn, New York Inactive xxxx ?–before July 2011 University of Delaware Newark, Delaware Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? University of Maryland, College Park College Park, Maryland Inactive xxxx ?–before July 2011 University of New Haven West Haven, Connecticut Inactive xxxx ?–20xx ? University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas Inactive
Collegiate and faculty members [ edit ] Following are some of Omega Rho's honorary members.[ 10]
Name Initiation date Notability References Russell L. Ackoff 1992 Organizational theorist , consultant, andmanagement scientist Robert Bixby 2007 Professor emeritus ofcomputational andapplied mathematics atRice University Alfred Blumstein 1988 Professor at theHeinz College and Department ofEngineering and Public Policy atCarnegie Mellon University Seth Bonder 2004 Engineer who made substantial contributions tooperations research for the US military Jonathan Caulkins 2014 Drug policy researcher and professor atHeinz College atCarnegie Mellon University Abraham Charnes 1987 Mathematician Erhan Çınlar 2003 Probabilist andprofessor meeritus atPrinceton University David S. C. Chu 1996 US Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness andUS Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis & Evaluation William W. Cooper 1997 Founding president ofThe Institute of Management Sciences Richard Cyert 1985 Economist ,statistician ,organizational theorist , andPresident ofCarnegie Mellon University George Dantzig 1992 Mathematical scientist known for his development of thesimplex algorithm Ralph E. Gomory 1989 Applied mathematician andIBM researcher and executiveStuart L. Hart 2005 Academic, writer, and theorist Karla Hoffman 2013 Professor ofsystems engineering in theVolgenau School of Engineering ofGeorge Mason University Ronald A. Howard 1999 Emeritus professor in the School of Engineering atStanford University Edward H. Kaplan 2000 Professor at theYale School of Management ,Yale School of Medicine , andYale School of Engineering and Applied Science Richard M. Karp 1998 Computer scientist andcomputational theorist at theUniversity of California, Berkeley George Kozmetsky 1984 Technology innovator who co-foundedTeledyne Inc. Gilbert Laporte 2009 Professor ofoperations research atUniversité de Montréal Richard Larson 1998 Engineer andoperations research specialist known for urban service systems anddisaster planning Judith Liebman 2003 Operations researcher ,civil engineer ,mechanical engineer , andprofessor emerita at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign John Little 1997 Institute Professor at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology Robert E. Machol 1989 Professor of systems at theKellogg Graduate School of Management ofNorthwestern University Thomas L. Magnanti 2001 Institute Professor and former Dean of theSchool of Engineering at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology William L. Maxwell Professor of industrial engineering atCornell University Thomas J. Murrin 1983 United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce George Nemhauser 1987 Professor of industrial and systems engineering atGeorgia Tech N. U. Prabhu 1992 Mathematician , known for his contributions toqueueing theory Alan Pritsker 1982 Engineer and one of the founders of the field ofcomputer simulation William R. Pulleyblank 2001 Professor of operations research at theUnited States Military Academy James G. Roche 2002 20thSecretary of the Air Force and executive withNorthrop Grumman Herbert A. Simon 1986 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Robert M. Thrall 1985 Mathematician and a pioneer ofoperations research John A. White 1990 Chancellor of theUniversity of Arkansas and deanGeorgia Tech's College of Engineering
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