THE TEACHERS FORUM - 6 KEY MODELING HEURISTICS

Teaching in one form or another is of vital importance to most of us i n the MS/OR community, whether we are in industry, academia, or consul ting. For the community as a whole, teaching pays many of our bills, i nforms our current and future clients, and trains our successors. Desp ite this, teaching is poorly represented in our journals and professio nal conferences and is often treated as the stepchild of the professio n. Furthermore, our teaching is under unprecedented critical scrutiny and is simultaneously undergoing a revolution in methodology. The purp ose of this column is to provide a forum for the presentation and diss emination of new and effective approaches to teaching MS/OR. I will co ntribute an occasional column based on my experiences in teaching MBA students, and I will also solicit contributions from the many innovati ve teachers around the world who are, for the most part, laboring in i solation. I invite you to submit articles on your own ideas and experi ences, as well as your comments on articles that appear here.