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3664. Graduates’ Employability and the Digital Transition: Tuning a Problem-Based Approach and Enhancing OR/MS Courses

Invited abstract in session MC-16: Experienced Routes for the Teaching Students' Problem, stream OR Education.

Monday, 12:30-14:00
Room: 19 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Joao Miranda
ESTGD and VALORIZA/IPPortalegre; CERENA/IST
2. Ana Paula Teixeira
Mathematics, UTAD / CIO

Abstract


Nowadays, the digital transition and related developments on graduates’ employability are key for Higher Education Institutions (HEI), balancing either their fast pace or the impacts multiplicity. For that, a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach is revisited and tuned with digital support, in a manner to better promote the OR/MS learns within a Management Science ‘s graduation program. Specific problems are thus built to promote reasoning, to conjugate both the work context and professional environment, with quantitative approaches and OR/MS methodologies. While addressing typical contents of Decision Aiding/Making, Linear Programming (LP), Integer Programming, and LP special cases, important insights about optimality and uncertainty are treated, and thereafter Forecasting methods are motivated and introduced. In addition, a set of simple problems and study cases is developed in a way to enhance graduates’ analytical and digital skills, and the main outcomes are outlined. Finally, further developments in face of the labor market challenges are also discussed.

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Status: accepted

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