Chairing the Mathematical Sciences Department of the 1990s Proceedings of a Colloquium October 27-28, 1989 Arlington, Virginia (1990) / Chapter Skim
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8 Statistics and Operations Research in the 1990s
8 Statistics and Operations Research in the 1990s
Pages 69-82
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Lieberman, Stanford University ISSUES IN STATISTICS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH Jerome Sacks, University of Illinois 69
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The third challenge is coming from sister departments in our universities. There has been a flight of service courses from statistics departments to other academic departments.
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And it means understanding process flow charting, process analysis, and process control and capability. To date, entry level workers have not had the kind of knowledge and skills required.
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Here the semiconductor industry is channeling over $20 million a year into focused university research projects. This has resulted in useful long-term research programs, increased faculty understanding of industrial problems, and students very well prepared for industrial positions.
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industry. At the same time this partnership will address the growing university problem of obtaining long-term financial support.
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The research issues faced by departments in the 1 990s are intricately linked with the doctoral program. Many of us have been fortunate enough to have research support for our graduate students.
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In research we have a shrinking federal research budget for statistics in particular, and for mathematics in general. This has happened in pert because of policy decisions, in part because of the federal budget, and in part because of the failure of the mathematics community to adapt to changing realities, needs, and opportunities.
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Semiconductor Research Corporation is a consortium of about40 U.S. semiconductor companies, each of which contributes, according to a formula, to a fairly sizable fund in the $20 million range.
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Given the concern about basic statistics, perhaps we need to restructure basic statistics courses. Maybe we need our own version of the David report for purposes of clarity on our part about what our priorities are as much as for purposes of promoting a greater sense of community within the statistical sciences.
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