The Award Ceremony 2006 Speech

Awards Announcement


Faculty members, deans, alumni and my colleagues


My name is Homarjun and I am the president of the INFORMS student chapter. It is my pleasure to share with you the success of the student chapter. The chapter was established 2 years ago and it already has the recognition to be one of the most active chapters in the nation. In the 14 weeks long semester, we have had 5 invited industry seminars, 4 graduate seminars, 4 technical workshops, weekly coffee hour social. There are efforts directed towards creating a alumni database to facilitate networking and maintaining relationship with the alma matter. We have a total 160 student members from 9 different departments now. We are organizing a farewell for the graduating class of spring 2006.

I would like to appreciate and recognize these officers and volunteers. I request to these officers to please stand up when I call their names. We have our elected officers. Ezgi Can Eren Vice President, Joaquin Torres, Secretary, Cesar (Treasurer). We have volunteering officers Panitan, Juan and Diego (Membership and Alumni Secretary) (Zubin Subedar and Bikram Sharda) Workshop Coordinators, Tarun Sharma and Julio (Coordinators: Seminar Series), Jagdish and Laxmi (IT Analysts) . Thanks to all the officers, I hope that you keep up the show going in the coming semester.

Moving on to the awards. INFORMS students chapter has initiated awards to the faculty members, staff, ex-officers of the chapter and student members to appreciate their academic, organizational and service related contribution in the area of OR/MS.

We begin with Appreciation Award – Staff. She has been of tremendous help to every graduate student. She has stood above and beyond the expectations in helping the Student Chapter, providing means and support for communication, gathering information. I request Ms. Judy Meeks to please come on the stage and receive the appreciation award.

Thank you everyone.

Next, we have appreciation award for ex-officers. We have two ex-officers to appreciate this year.

Appreciation Awards: Ex-Officers

Ezgi Can Eren.
Ezgi not only performed her duties rightfully, but went beyond and lead the the chapter in more than one occasions. I have no hesitation in saying that Ezgi single handedly coordinated newsletter and made it successful. I request Ezgi to please come on stage and receive the award.

Thank you everyone.

Burcu Baris Keskin

Burcu is the founder and the first president of the student chapter. Her efforts in establishing the chapter and then making it popular among the student are remarkable. It was Burcu’s leadership that made the chapter as successful as it is today. Traditions set by her will live long after she is gone and we are proud to present her the appreciation award. Now I request Burcu to please come on stage and receive the award.

Thanks

Next we have Student Appreciation Award; we have two student members who are receiving the award this year.

Fatih Mutlu
Fatih has been a graduate student which every professor may want to have. He has presented in almost every informs, was nominated for doctoral colloquium, stood runner up in SCALE conference Florida. Presented a talk in the informs graduate student seminar series. I think it is okay to call him Dr. Fatih Mutlu as he passed his PhD defense yesterday. Dr. Fatih Multu, please come on stage and receive the award.

Jung Jin Cho

Jung Jin Cho works with Dr. Yu Ding, and he participated in QSR paper competition and was among the finalists. He has presented in almost every informs, was nominated for doctoral colloquium. He also helped us organize the LaTeX workshop. I request Jung Jin Cho to please come on stage and receive the award.

"Faculty Appreciattion Award"

Dr. Sila Cetinkaya – Appreciation Award.
Dr. J. Eric Bickel – Appreciation Award.


Thank you very much.

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The awards were be given at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Honors and Awards Banquet held on April 20th 2006.