Conference rusure::math

875.0. "Ops Research?? Mngmnt Science??" by DPDMAI::OREILLY (Wolfhounds Unite!!) Wed May 18 1988 11:05

    
    
    I'm trying to find out if Digital has anyone with an interst in
    "Operations Research"; mathematically modeling business problems
    to opitimize the desired results (lower cost, higher profit, etc.,
    etc.).                         
                                   
    I graduate Saturday with my M.S. in Engineering Management.  With
    my selection of electives, it's essentially an MBA.  The program
    is administered out of the Dept. of Ops Research/Eng. Mngmnt in
    the College of Eng'g.          
                                   
    For your info., I was a math major my first two years in undergrad.
    (wanted to be an actuary at the time) then switched to Mech Eng.
    I thought you mathematicians out there would appreciate the fact
    that I wanted to go into actuarial science at one time!
                                                                   
    I guess the type of group I'm looking for might also be found under
    the term "management sciences".
              
    I might be interested in joining such a group within Digital.  The
    power of these types of tools used properly and with sound business
    judgement can be enormous.  Seems like Digital ought to have such
    a group?                          
                                                              

    
    
    I should have included that my name is John O'Reilly and I work for DEC in
    Dallas, TX.
    
    Thanks.                                          

    off the topic, but I just read a Boston Globe tidbit about a survey
    that said the least stressful job in the world is an Actuary.

    I saw something similar on the news.  Jobs were rated by stress,
    salary, health risk, ....  The top few were Actuary, Computer
    Programmer, Computer Systems Analyst, and Mathematician.