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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Management Science Awards 2020

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.

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.

Management Sciences professor Hossein Abouee Mehrizi was recently featured in an article by the Financial Post on what businesses must do to better weather future unexpected events that have the potential to disrupt at a large scale. According to Prof. Mehrizi, "directors may need to change their advice to companies so the focus shifts “from efficiency to resiliency.”  This could lead to the creation of more “redundant” or local sourcing of supplies and larger buffers when it comes to equipment and personnel."

A team of 4th-year management engineering students were recently awarded $2500 from the Green House Social Impact Fund to support their social innovation startup. Danial Betres, Jonathan Dhanapala, and Victoria Li began working on the project as part of their 4th year capstone design courses. Emre is a cloud-based electronic medical record system that supports medical professionals providing healthcare to poeple in displacement camps.