Improving the Undergraduate IEOR Programs at Columbia University

哥伦比亚大学的工业工程与运筹学（IEOR）系正在重塑其本科课程，以更好地满足寻求进入市场的本科生的需求，并更好地为寻求从事研究职业的本科生提供服务。该规划补助金的两个主要组成部分是工程管理科学课程的重新设计和引入本科层次的金融工程课程。这些课程的一个关键部分是使用服务学习项目作为课程的一部分。这些项目正在校园内从事服务西班牙裔和非洲裔美国人的现有社区服务组织的帮助下确定。服务学习项目是由一个或两个高年级学生和一些新生组成的团队进行的。高年级学生有机会应用他们所学的知识和锻炼领导能力，而大一学生学习与异质团队合作，并从年长学生的知识和经验中受益。拟议的活动涉及一系列需要改进的重要领域，包括在内容（财务、管理、研究）和教学创新（服务性学习、注重现实问题、主动学习）方面改进课程。该项目的总体好处是，改善学生对未来社会角色的准备，增加这些角色的多样性，提高代表性不足群体的教育参与率。

The Industrial Engineering and Operations research (IEOR) department at Columbia University is reshaping its undergraduate curricula to better serve the needs of undergraduates seeking to enter the marketplace and to better serve undergraduates seeking to pursue a research career. Two major components of this planning grant are the redesign of the Engineering Management Science curriculum and the introduction of an undergraduate level Financial Engineering program. A critical part of these courses is the use of service learning projects as part of their curriculum. These projects are being identified with the help of an existing community service organization on campus engaged in serving Hispanic and African American populations. Service learning projects are being carried out by teams consisting of one or two senior students and a few freshmen students. Senior students have the opportunity to apply what they have learned and exercise leadership skills, while freshman students learn to work with heterogeneous teams and benefit from the knowledge and experience of the older students. The proposed activity addresses a range of important areas for improvement including curriculum improvement with respect to both content (finance, management, research) and pedagogical innovation (service learning, real-world problem focused, active learning). The overall benefits of the project would be to improve students' preparation for their future roles in society, to increase the diversity of those roles and to increase participation rates of underrepresented groups in the education.