Workshop: Innovations in Teaching Decision Support Systems Development; August 1-7, 2004; Jacksonville, FL

在佛罗里达大学，正在开发广泛的课程材料，向工业工程和运筹学(IE/OR)的本科生和研究生以及商学院学生传授决策支持系统开发技能。决策支持系统(DSS)将数据库、电子表格、模型、分析、优化和模拟结合在一起，并允许用户通过图形用户界面进行交互，目前正在行业中广泛使用。其他大学的几名教职员工也表达了学习这门课程的愿望，并在他们的系里开设了这些课程。为满足这一需要，将举办以下两期为期三天的教师培训讲习班：(1)开发基于电子表格的决策支持系统；(2)从2004年8月1日至8月7日开发启用网络的决策支持系统。讲习班网站www.ise.ufl.edu/dss提供了有关这些讲习班的更多细节。这些讲习班将教授两门课程的主题材料，并将就如何成功教授这些课程提供建议。几名开始学术生涯的教职员工和高级博士生将参加这些研讨会，这笔补助金将支付他们的部分费用。这些讲习班预计将有100多人参加，并将促进在许多大学开展若干决策支持系统开发课程。预计这些课程将成为本科生的必修课。这些课程传授的技能将为他们提供足够的背景知识，以开发基于电子表格或数据库的、具有网络功能的决策支持系统。随着组织在未来几年变得更大和更复杂，决策支持系统将得到广泛的欢迎，知道如何开发这样的系统将使IE/OR和商学院的学生积极参与到改变我们社会的信息革命中。

At the University of Florida, extensive course material is being developed to impart decision support system development skills to undergraduate and graduate students in industrial engineering and operations research (IE/OR) and business school students. Decision support systems (DSS) combine databases, spreadsheets, models, analysis, optimization, simulation, and allow user interactability with graphical user interfaces and are being widely used in industries these days. Several faculty members at other universities have expressed the desire to learn this course material and offer these courses in their departments. To meet this need, the following two three-day instructor-training workshops are being offered: (i) Developing Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems; (ii) Developing Web-Enabled Decision Support Systems from August 1 to August 7, 2004. The workshop website www.ise.ufl.edu/dss provides more details about these workshops. These workshops will teach the subject material of two courses and will also provide suggestions on how to teach these courses successfully. Several faculty members and senior doctoral students beginning academic careers are expected to attend these workshops and this grant will cover part of their expenses. These workshops are expected to be attended by over 100 participants and will facilitate the development of several decision support systems development courses at many universities. It is also expected that these courses will become required courses for undergraduate students. The skills imparted by these courses will give them sufficient background to develop spreadsheet or database based and web-enabled decision support systems. As organizations become larger and more complex in the years to come, decision support systems will gain widespread popularity, and knowing how to develop such systems will make IE/OR and business school students active participants in the information revolution transforming our society.