Theory Applied--Experience Tours at the Naval Postgraduate School
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Authors
Shearer, Robert
Whitaker, Lyn
Subjects
experience tour
thesis
developing analytical skills
teaching with projects
thesis
developing analytical skills
teaching with projects
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Date of Issue
2012-09
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September 2012
Publisher
INFORMS
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Abstract
The Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California educates analysts who are fully capable of conducting independent analytical studies of military problems. Significant to this education is an opportunity to apply theory from the classroom to a problem from the real world. Halfway through the two year program, each student is encouraged to participate in a three to six week experience tour at a Department of Defense (DoD) analytical organization. During this tour students obtain hands-on experience working military operations research problems alongside experienced analysts. They also identify a thesis topic for follow-on research when they return to the NPS. Faculty members supervise the students’ thesis research during the remainder of their time in Monterey. The theses are more than just a graduation requirement, some result in publications in refereed journals and most solve pressing problems for the DoD. We recognize that the unique set of circumstances here at NPS makes this all possible but hold strongly to the idea that applied experience is essential to our graduates and that aspects of our program are exportable to civilian universities.
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Article
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/ited.1120.0094
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Operations Research (OR)
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3 p.
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Shearer and Whitaker: Theory Applied—Experience Tours at the Naval Postgraduate School
INFORMS Transactions on Education 13(1) (September 2012), pp. 28–30
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.