Designing and Sustaining an Award-Winning Analytics Educational Program: The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University

摘要

In 2016, the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University was awarded the INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize for excellence in preparing students to be effective practitioners of operations research (OR) and analytics. In this article, we describe the philosophy underlying the college's approach to analytics education and the specific ways in which students in both the information systems and public policy programs combine coursework and experiential learning to apply a multidisciplinary problem-solving toolkit on their way to becoming men and women for intelligent action.