Management Sciences professors Samir Elhedhli and Hossein Abouee Mehrizi recently participated in an Alumni Speaker Series event on the challenge of delivering the COVID-19 vaccines.
Management Sciences professor Hossein Abouee Mehrizi was recently featured by the CBC on the challenges of vaccine logistics. According to Prof. Mehrizi, the design of a cold supply chain needs to take into account the limited supply of vaccines coming to Canada by having a "really good demand estimation for each reagion".
The Department of Management Sciences recently held a virtual "Ask-Me-Anything" event for prospective graduate students. It featured Profs. Rob Duimering, Sibel Alumur Alev, and Lukasz Golab, and current graduate students Aliaa Alnaggar and Jordan Nickel. Watch a recording of the event here:
, a start-up founded by management engineering alum Chanakya Ramdev (BASc 2015) recently landed a deal to produce 10,000 reusable, waterproof (and sweat free) masks for staff.
This year, along with most other things around the world, our Management Sciences Annual Spring Awards ceremony was abruptly put on hold due to the covid-19 global crisis.
That can't stop Management Sciences from celebrating the achievements of our undergraduate Management Engineers (MGTE) and our Management Sciences graduate students (MMSc, MASc & PhD)!
Help us Congratulate all our winners!
Since the closing of campus in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, University of ݮƵ instructors have pivoted to remote teaching as an alternative mode of instruction. The Department of Management Sciences (MSCI) was quick to react and adapt to this significant change through collaborative approaches and disciplinary strategies.
Last week marked the Spring 2020 convocation week at the University of ݮƵ. in the absence of an in-person convocation, the Department of Management Sciences held a virtual convocation reception for its 2020 graduates.
Professors Fatma Gzara and Jatin Nathwani recently participated in the Post-COVID-19 Reboot Panel Series, a weekly webinar that brings together research experts and representatives from some of Canada’s leading corporations and startups to discuss strategies for emerging from the pandemic and adapting to this “new normal.” This installment of the webinar was titled "Rebooting: Supply chain considerations".
A recent Global News segment featured Jatin Nathwani, a professor in the Department of Management Sciences, who is also the founding director of the . Prof. Nathwani commented on the opportunity that economic recovery from COVID-19 presents for investments in green technologies.
Teachers in Pakistan have an extensive online resource to draw on during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to hundreds of graduate students in management sciences.
The students have spent more than three years building an online library of over 15,000 videos, assignments and exercises that follow the national curriculum by grade and subject.