Congratulations to Management Sciences Three Minute Thesis winners: Cynthia Waltho (1st Place), Burak Yildiz (2nd Place) and Taghi Khaniyev (3rd Place).
These students will go on to present at the University wide competition to present their thesis in three minutes. Well done to all the speakers, and good luck to the winners on your next challenge!
The forecast for data analytics jobs is impressive and encouraging — unless you’re an employer who will be competing for some of that big data talent.
The University of Waterloo, Michelle Pressé spoke to Management Engineering student, Sarb Majumdar last Friday for International Education Week.
Read the full article and find out Sarb's reasons for choosing Management Engineering at Waterloo.
A report released in March 2016 by Statistics Canada suggests "...Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods graduates were the top earners among male and female bachelor's degree holders in 2010."
The Economic Insights report goes on to put Management graduate degrees in the top five earners by field of study.
Read the full Stats Canada report at Earnings of Postsecondary Graduates by Detailed Field of Study
Following up on a statement made in the 2016 presidential campaign trail regarding the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), the NY Times contacted our own Jim Bookbinder for his input on the consequences proposed.
Check out the NY Times article: Donald Trump Trashes Nafta. But Unwinding It Would Come At A Huge Cost.
The Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo has launched a Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics (GDDA). The GDDA equips students with deep quantitative skills and technical expertise that can be leveraged by organizations to create competitive advantage in the era of big data.
Congratulations to the 4A capstone design team of Alex Hayes, Chrstian Gould, Kevin Chu and Srikaja Santhirakumaran, winners of the Spring 2016 Baylis Medical Capstone Design Award for their project "Cancer Care Ontario - MRI wait time". This project was supervised by Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi.
Well done team!
Congratulations to the Management Engineers and Management Science Graduate students for their outstanding achievement at this years Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) conference in Banff.
Congratulations to the 4A capstone design team of Alex Hayes, Chrstian Gould, Kevin Chu and Srikaja Santhirakumaran, winners of the Spring 2016 Baylis Medical Capstone Design Award for their project "Cancer Care Ontario - MRI wait time". This project was supervised by Hossein Abouee-Mehrizi.
Well done team!
In the mainstream media and even within some business meetings, terms like “data analytics,” “data science” and “big data” are used so interchangeably that they might almost seem like the same thing.